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kn()\\ij:I)C.i: 



Mav. V)\2. 



rich in this ri'spcct. Tlic 

 large Straiifjways' gold 

 medal (see I'igiiro 210) 

 does great credit to the 

 abilitv of John Roettier. 

 its designer. Copies u 

 gold are in jiossessioii 

 Giles Strang\\a\s' lU ^ 

 scendant, the liiarl of 

 Ilchester. and tlie present 

 writer. The legends on 

 it are siifficientl\' legible. 

 An account of Giles 

 Strangways, and the part 

 he took in helping the 

 fugitive King during his 

 concealment at Trent 

 (Sept.— Oct.. 1651) will 

 he found in the '" Royal 

 .Miracle." This medal, 

 executed after the Restora- 

 tion, was one of an 

 intended series ordered by 

 Charles II in honour of 

 distinguished sufferers in 

 the royal cause. The 

 design on the reverse of 

 the medal — "the White 

 Tower of London sur- 

 mounted by the Ro 

 Standard, with 

 the sun bursting 

 from behind a 

 cloud," was per- 

 sonally suggested 

 by the Sovereign, 

 (jiles Strangwa\s 

 was born at Mel- 

 bury in 1615. 

 commanded a 

 regiment of horse 

 in the King's ser- 

 vice in the West, 

 was persecuted by 

 the Parliament, 

 heavily fined, and 

 imprisoned in the 

 Tower with tiis 

 father. .Mr. Hawkins omits 

 all mention of his generous 

 behaviour in 1651 and subse- 

 quent prosperity. George 

 Bower's medal in honour of 

 the Earl of Shaftesbury (1681 

 also relates to a Dorset worthy, 

 whose lineal descendant and 

 successor still flourishes in 

 the county and holds high 

 office in the State. The 

 design of reverse bears a 

 strange resemblance to that 

 wavs" medal. In Figure 21.) 



l''u;iKi; -Mi. (.l■.,r,^•e Bower's SilvcT Mctlal. struck in 1681 

 to celebrate the Rejection by the f.rantl Jury of a Bill for 

 the Indictment af^ainst .\ntbony Ashley, ICarlof Shaftesbury, 

 for High Treason. The subject of Drvden's Poem, ''The 

 Medal.- 



FiGCKIi 

 Cardinal 



215. Portrait Medal of 

 Henry of York, the last 

 of the Stn.-irts. 



.\ Medal of 17 

 Hanoverians 



if the Strang- 

 ' ha\e a view of 



London from Southwark; 

 the Tower in the distance, 

 and above, the sun bursting 

 froin behind a cloud. 

 Dryden made this medal, 

 'I lick at the instigation 

 • the popular ]jarty, who 

 . . Icbrated Shaftesbury's 

 acquittal November 24th. 

 IbiSl, with great rejoicings 

 and many bonfires, the 

 subject of his well-known 

 satirical poem. The Medal. 

 In describing it he says : 



" One side is fill'd with title 



and with face ; 

 .\nd. lest the King should 



want a regal place. 

 On the reverse a Tower the 



town surveys, 

 ( )'er which our mounting 



sun his beam displays 

 The word, pronounced aloud 



by shrieval voice, 

 l.cetainur, which, in Polish, 



is rejoice." 

 and 



■■ Five days he sat for every 

 cast and look. 



Four more than God to finish 

 .■\dain took." 



In the si.x medals 

 connected with 

 the fate of the 

 Duke of Mon- 

 mouth we find 

 some curious side- 

 lights on the state 

 of English politics 

 in 1685. The 

 tragedy of Sedge- 

 moor began by 

 the landing of 

 Monmouth at 

 Lymeof -the. King 

 in Dorset in June 

 of that year. It 

 was within the 

 confines of the 

 same county that 

 as effected after 

 in Somerset on 

 Out of these 

 six medals (examples of the 

 whole of which are in the 

 collection of the writer) five 

 ridicule somewhat timidly and 

 obscurely his attempt to gain 

 the crown. The first medal 

 described by Hawkins is the 

 work of Jan Smeltzing. In 

 this we have a bust of the 

 Duke, with long and alnuidant hair, wearing a 

 breastplate decorated with the fulmen. On the 



FlGUKIi 210. Portrait Medal of 



Princess Louise, the sister of the 



Old Pretender. 



his arrest 

 lis defeat 

 luiv 6th. 



