6 The Very Rev. H. R. Dawson on the 



produced such an effusion of Irish blood. Nor were these memorials confined 

 to the illustrious hero himself, for similar records are also found of his victorious 

 generals, Schomberg and De Ginkle. 



But in connexion with the history of this period, one medal only has been 

 discovered, struck in Ireland, and this bears reference to Van Homrigh, a fol- 

 lower of William's, who settled in Ireland about this period. And as this 

 medal has not been hitherto published, it may be interesting here to describe 

 it, and to show upon what occasion it was struck. It appears from the 

 records of the Corporation of Dublin, that in the year 1688 Sir Michael 

 Creagh was Lord Mayor of the city, and as such was in possession of the 

 parapharnalia connected with his office ; in the following year two persons, 

 Terence Dermot and Walter Motley, held the office, the one for nine, and 

 the other for three months. They, it is supposed, never received the usual 

 ensigns of dignity, but it is certain that in those troublesome times they were 

 either lost or purloined, and to this day it is usual, at the triennial perambulations 

 of the city boundaries by the Lord Mayor and his staff, for an officer to make 

 proclamation that Sir Michael Creagh should appear and restore the collar and 

 its appurtenances connected with the office, which he is alleged to have conveyed 

 away. In the year 1698 William III. presented to the city a new collar of 

 SS., to which is appended the noble medallion I am now about to describe, exe- 

 cuted by James Roettier. Obverse, gulielmus . tertius • d. g. mag. brit. fran. 

 ET . HiB. rex. Bust looking to the right, with flowing hair, in armour, with a 

 scarf over it. Reverse, gulielmus hi - antiquam et fidelem-hiberni^ me- 



TROPOLIN - HOC INDULGENTI^ SU^ MUNERE - ORNAVIT • BARTH VAN HOMRIGH 



ARM. URB. PRiETORE . MDCxcviii. This medallion is an important addition to 

 our series, as few impressions can possibly come under public observation. 



During the reign of Anne, though Croker exerted his talents in England to 

 commemorate the distinguished events of her time, I have been unable to dis- 

 cover any medals immediately connected with Ireland ; and this appears strange, 

 since it is well known that Swift, then possessing great weight and authority, 

 exerted his influence to procure that change in the coinage which called forth 

 those pattern farthings, exhibiting records of remarkable circumstances, and 

 which also have encouraged the preposterous notions so widely diffused respecting 

 their extreme rarity and enormous value. He was a patriot, and it would appear 

 from some memoirs connected with him, to a certain degree, a collector of 



