May. 1912. 



kxo\vli:dge. 



183 



210. John 

 after the 



Koelticrs Gold Medal in honour of Giles btraiifjwaj's, of Melbury, Dorset, 

 Restoration, by order of Charles II. Only two examples of this 

 Medal are known to exist. 



>[:irtin. Penn, Lane and 

 Bourne. It ended near 

 tlielsleofW'igliton I'eh- 

 ruary iOtli. when Hlake, 

 reinforced by the arrival 

 of the remainder of 

 the fleet, " re-engaged 

 with great desperation, 

 and after a most valiant 

 light drove the enem\- 

 hi'fnre him and cap- 

 tured or destroyed 

 eleven ships of war 

 and sixty merchantmen. 

 Fifteen hundred men 

 were killed and seven 

 hundred taken prison- 

 ers." Mr. H. Parker, 

 in his '■ Naval Prints," 

 mentions four small en- 



29 Aug.. 1659, aetat 



59," and the lines : — 

 Thy name 



Was heard in thunder 

 through th' affrighted 

 shores 



( )f pale Iberia, of submis- 

 sive Gaul 



And Tagus trembling to 

 his utmost source 



O ever faithful, vigilant 

 and bra\e, 



Thou bold asserter of 

 Britannia's Fame 

 Unconquerable Blake. 



The battle off Port- 

 land was fought on Feb- 

 ruary IS-ibth. 1653. 

 The English admirals 

 engaged were Blake, 

 Deane, Lawson, How- 

 ett. Monck, Peacock. 



FiGUKi; -Ml. 



One of the complete series of six Duke of Monmouth Medals, in the collection 

 of A. M. Broadley. 



Figure 21: 



A very rare anti-Jacobite Medal of 16S8, ridiculing the birth of the Old 

 Pretender, the legitimacy of whom it calls into question. 



gravings of this engage- 

 ment, but I have 

 succeeded in discovering 

 a large contemporary 

 Dutch line - engraving 

 measuring fifteen and a 

 (|uarter inches b\' twenty- 

 "iie and a half inches. 

 It is surmoimted by por- 

 • raits of Blake, Penn and 

 . an Tromj). encircled 

 .', ith laurels. In order 

 to avoid possibility of 

 error the rocksintheback- 

 ground are lettered Port- 

 land. (See Figure 207.) 

 Nearly every county 

 has its historic medals, 

 Dorset being particularh- 



