90 DORSET TOKENS AN^D MEDALS. 



26. obv: Portrait to the right. "Antonio Comiti de Shaftes- 



bury." (G B. F). (Plate II., obv. only.) 

 rev : View of London and the Tower from South wark. 

 Above, the sun. " Laetamur. 24 Nov 1681." 

 Silver; size, i.6in. By Geo Bower, an engraver at the Mint. 

 Anthony Ashley Cooper, first Earl of Shaftesbury, was born 

 1 62 1. He held several offices of State, and was appointed 

 Lord Chancellor in 1672, The medal celebrates his acquittal on 

 a charge of treason in advocating INIonmouth's claims to succeed 

 the then reigning monarch, Charles II. 



Dryden satirized this memento in some well-known verses. 



27. obv: Profile portrait to the left. "Thomas Sydenham." 



(Moltedo. F.) (Plate II., obv. only.) 

 rev : " Natus Westimenstri. in Anglia. An. MDCXXIV. 



Obiit An. MDCLXXXIX." (MDCCCXXVI 



Durand. edidit.) 

 Copper; size, i'7in. Issued in Paris among an international 

 series. 



The statement that Sydenham was born at Westminster is 

 incorrect, and may be due to the fact that the medal was 

 engraved in France nearly 140 years after the great physician's 

 death. He was born at Wynford Eagle, the home of his 

 forefathers, in the year mentioned, and in his early life served 

 with distinction in the Parliamentary army. Afterwards he 

 studied medicine at Oxford, was married at his birthplace in 

 1655, and then settled down to practise in Pall Mall. A 

 memorial tablet in S. James' Parish Church describes him as 

 "Medicus in omne aevum nobilis," a fitting tribute by the 

 College of Physicians. 



28. obv: Portrait to the right. " Robertus Boylseus. 1690." 



rev : An incuse inscription. " Ingens Angliae Decor," &c. 



Bronze ; size, 2'4in. A medallion cast from an ivory carving, 

 1729. 



Robert Boyle, philosopher and man of science, was a son of 

 Richard, Earl of Cork, and was born in 1627. He owned and 

 lived at the IManor of Stalbridge, his house there being assessed 



