2°«i S. V. 125., May 22. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



417 



note ? and also what were tlie antecedfents of Sir 

 Isaac Shard ? who he was, &c. ? R. A. S. 



[[According to Walpole (^Anecdotes of Painters, iii. 723., 

 edit. 1849), the painting was totally destroyed. He says, 

 " Hogarth early drew a noted miser, one of the sherifft, 

 trying a mastiff that had robbed his kitchen, bnt the 

 magistrate's son went to his house, and cut the picture to 

 pieces." Sir Isaac Shard, knighted in 1707, was one of 

 the sheriffs of London in 1731 ; and died at Kennington, 

 Dec. 22, 1739, aged eighty-six. His lady, by whom he 

 had fourteen children, died Nov. 4, 1737. See Hogarth's 

 jyorks, by Michols, i. 412.] 



Great Chancery Lawyer. — It is recorded of 

 Lord Eldon that he once said to George IV. of a 

 great Chancery lawyer, who was a cripple, wrote 

 an illegible hand, and could rarely deliver himself 

 of an intelligible proposition except on paper, 

 " the greatest lawyer in your Majesty's dominions 

 can neither walk, nor write, nor speak." (I^orth 

 British Review, May, 1858.) Who was he? 



Fra. Mewburn. 



rjohn Bell, better known as Jockey Bell, a distin- 

 guished ornament of the Chancery Bar, ob. Feb. 6, 1836.] 



MEDAIi OF THE PRETENDER. 



[In " N. & Q." (!»' S. xi. 84.) a question was asked on 

 this subject, to which a reply was given to the effect that 

 the medal was struck in Italy. A like answer would, we 

 believe, have been given by every medallist in England ; 

 yet (2"'i S. ii. 494.) its accuracy was questioned, and good 

 reasons given to show that the medal, or a like medal, 

 was struck in London, probably engraved in London. 

 The facts stated were new and startling, and considerable 

 curiosity was expressed to know more on the subject. At 

 our request, our correspondent consented to submit, not 

 only the documents to which he referred, but the medal 

 and the die itself, to Mr. Hawkins of the British Museum ; 

 and we are now enabled by the courtesy of both these 

 gentlemen to lay the very interesting and curious result 

 before our readers. — Ed. " N. & Q."] 



There are several medals of Prince Charles, 

 commonly called the Young Pretender ; of four Of 

 these I now proceed to give a description : — 



1. Bust of P. Charles, r. no drapery. Leg. 

 CAROLUS wALLi^as PRiNCEPS, 1745. Rcv. Britannia, 

 holding spear, rests her hand upon her shield, 

 which leans against the globe. She stands upoh 

 the sea-shore, watching the approach of a ship of 

 war. Leg. amor et stEs. £!x. Britannia. Diam. 



2. Exactly similar. Diam. IJ, ar. 



3. Bust similar, no legend. Rev. An old shat- 

 tered, leafless oak, from the root of which springs 

 a young vigorous tree in full foliage. Leg. RE- 

 viRESCiT. £x. 1750. Diam. If. 



4. Bust similar. Leg. redeat magncs ilIe 

 GENIUS BRlTANNiiE. Rev. Similar to No. 1. Leg. 



O mv DESIDERATA NAVIS. L!x. li^ETAMlNI GIVES. 



SEPT. XXIII. j MDccLii. Diam. If, ar. 



5. Bust similar, no legend or reverse, -j-^ X A> 

 au. 



The portraits upon these foiir medals are all 

 copied from the same original, and, according to 

 numismatic tradition, the dies were executed in 

 Italy or France. Such a report might probably 

 be circulated industriously with a view to mislead 

 the emissaries of the reigning lamily, and to put 

 upon a wrong scent those who might be desirous of 

 hunting out the artist and his employers. There 

 is not the name, nor the initials of any artist upon 

 these medals : if they had been executed in any 

 foreign country there would not have been any 

 strong reason for concealing the name, and, indeed, 

 upon other medals commemorative of the Stuart 

 family, the foreign artists have seldom withheld 

 their names. If, however, the artist were residing 

 in England, there Would have been good reason 

 why he should not display his name upon works 

 which would have exposed him to the hostility of 

 the existing government, perhaps to severe punish- 

 ment. In this state of uncertainty respecting the 

 artists who executed these medals, I had recourse 

 to the medals themselves to obtain from them what- 

 ever evidence they might possess ; I carefully ex- 

 amined their workmanship ; and it was also most 

 minutely examined by Mr. Taylor, a very eminent 

 engraver of medals, and a very excellent judge of 

 the style and peculiar manipulation of die en- 

 gravers. From these examinations we are brought 

 to the opinion that Nos. 1. and 2. were most prob- 

 ably executed by some foreign artist ; that No. 3. 

 was certainly executed by Thos. Pingo, and No. 

 4. by some inferior artist, probably an English- 

 man. 



Frorh papers tvhich hate been most liberally 

 and kindly submitted to ttiy inspection by M. O. 

 P. (see "N. & Q.," 2"'* S. ii.494.), it appears that 

 the medal No. 3. was called " The Medal of an 

 Oak;" for with several receipts for payment of 

 the medal, and with all the bills and accounts of 

 receipts and disbursements connected with this 

 medal, are preserved some of the medals and the 

 die of the obverse. The seal affixed to the re- 

 ceipt is a rosette, and under the seal is writtetl 

 " Gt." Mr. John Caryll, the grandson of Pope's 

 friend, appears to have had the management of 

 the distribution in the year 1750. It was executed 

 for a " Society " who met, occasionally at least, 

 " at the Crown-and- Anchor, opposite St. Clement's 

 Church," and each member was entitled to a cop- 

 per medal for each guinea subscribed. The silver 

 medals were charged 11. 4s. 9^rf., the average value 

 of the metal having "been found to be 3s. 9|c?." 

 The value of the gold was also added to the sub- 

 scribed guinea for medals in that metal, and this 

 value varied in each piece, as the blanks were not 

 adjusted to a fixed weight. One medal cost 

 3/. 195., while another cost 41. 4s. 9d. The num- 

 bers struck were: gold, 6; silver, 102; copper, 



