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two Buff Doublets, which, I have reason to believe, came 
out of Tamworth Castle, and a third found on the field of 
Naseby. 
On Monday, the 10th of July, 1643, the Queen Henrietta 
Maria, went from Walsall to Kings Norton; from there, on 
Tuesday, the 11th, to Stratford-upon-Avon, where Prince 
Rupert met her, New Place, where 27 years before, 
Shakespeare died, having been assigned as her residence. 
On Thursday, the 13th, she went from Stratford to Wroxton, 
meeting the King at the foot of Edge hill, in Kineton Field, 
about four o’clock in the afternoon. On Friday, the 14th, 
she went to Oxford. On the Meeting at the foot of Edge 
hill, two copies of verses were written, preserved in manu- 
script amongst the private papers of Sir William Dugdale, 
and printed at Birmingham, with an introduction by the 
late Mr. Hamper, a distinguished Warwickshire Antiquary. 
On the occasion, a silver medal was struck, now in the 
Staunton Collection at Longbridge; long considered to be 
unique. The obverse represents the King and Queen, seated 
in chairs, trampling down the hydra of rebellion. Round 
the verge IVNCTI CERTIVS PYTHONEM. On the reverse, 
XIII. IVL. 
CAROL. ET. H. 
M. B. F. ET. H. 
eT 
IN. VALLI. KEINTON. 
AVSPICAT OCCVRRENI 
ET. 
FVGATO IN OCCIDENT. 
REBELLIVM. 
VICT. ET. PAR OMEN 
OXON 
MDCXLIII. 
