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REPLY1850

Boduc

By ANTINEPHELEGERETA. (Oxford)

Your correspondent "P." (No. 12, p. 185.) seems to consider the "prevailing opinion," that *Boduc* or *Boduoc* on the British coin must be intended for our magnanimous Queen Boadicea, to be merely a "pleasing vision," over which he is "*sorry* to cast a cloud." Yet his own remark, that the name Budic (a mere difference in spelling) is often found among families of the Welsh in Brittany, and that the name was once common in England, serves only to confirm the common opinion that *Boduoc* on the coins was intended as the name of the British Queen. Dio expressly writes her name in Greek Boudouica…

Topics: British Coinage, Welsh Genealogy, Historical Names

Locations: Brittany, England, Cornwall, Oxford