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interest in the Club meetings continues quick and helpful, has 

 supplied the following useful information. The celebrated 

 Thomas Simon at this time was retained by Parliament to 

 design the medals of the Commonwealth (1649-1660) ; and the 

 victory over the Scots at Dunbar being regarded as of the 

 greatest importance, he was commissioned to design, for the 

 decoration of officers and men, a small oval medal in gold, silver 

 and copper, bearing on the obverse — " The Lord of Hosts' word 

 at Dunbar, Sept. ye 3, 1650," and on the reverse, a figure of the 

 House of Pai'liament assembled. The gold specimen in the 

 British Museum has a ring attached to it ; and a marble bust of 

 the Protector in armour, with the said medal on his breast, 

 is reported to have been sold at Christie's for £556 10s. The 

 dies of this medal were discovered in a hole in the wall of the 

 mansion-house of Hursley, Hants, the seat of Sir Thomas 

 Heathcote, which at one time had been the residence of Richard 

 Cromwell. Presumably they had been concealed for the sake of 

 safety. 



The village of Spott is now of inconsiderable importance, 

 though at one time it contained a numerous population, and 

 obtained unenviable notoriety for its merciless treatment of 

 witches. Its Parish Church stands on the North side of 

 the high road, and is noteworthy for the possession of an 

 ornamental oak pulpit with a Jacobean canopy, supported 

 on corniced pillars affixed to the wall, and with a 

 baptismal font and a stand for hour-glass attached to it. 

 At a.n early period it formed a chapel ry of Dunbar, and was 

 served by canons of the Collegiate Church there. In the 

 adjoining churchyard were reverently interred, by the late 

 owner of Spott, the remains of many who had fallen in 

 the battle, and whose bodies had been hurriedly disposed of 

 in the Dean below the mansion-house. A tombstone, engraved 

 with a cross and sword, has been regarded as the resting 

 place of a knight templar, or knight of St. John, as templar 

 lands were located in the parish. The members were much 

 indebted to Rev, Lothian Gray, M.A., who kindly acted as 

 their guide, and, after the inspection of the Church, conducted 

 them by a very steep ascent to a point on the road South of the 

 village, whence a charming view of East Lothian and the Forth, 



