George North (numismatist) of by William Herbert. North drew up sale catalogues for the coin collections of the Earl of Oxford (1742) and of Richard Mead (1755); he also catalogued, in 1744, James West's series of Saxon coins and Ducarel's English coins. A paper on Arabic numerals in England, written by North in 1748, was published by Richard Gough in "Archæologia" (x. 360). George North (numismatist) George North (1707–1772) was an English cleric and numismatist. The son of George North, citizen and pewterer, who resided in or near Aldersgate Street in London, he was educated at St Paul's School. In 1725 he entered
Collect for Purity Collect for Purity The Collect for Purity is the name traditionally given to the collect prayed near the beginning of the Eucharist in most Anglican rites. It appears in Latin in the 11th-century Leofric missal and was part of the preparation prayers of priests before Mass. Thomas Cranmer translated the prayer into English and from there it has entered almost every Anglican prayer book in the world. In the Leofric missal and the later Sarum Rite, the original Latin prayer occurs as one of the prayers said before Mass: A version appears as the introduction to the 14th Century anonymous