54 MEETINGS. 



A facsimile of the Tupper medal (belonging to Mr. 

 Sandeman) issued by William and Mary in commemoration 

 of the battle of La Hogue, was exhibited by Mr. J. L. 

 Pitts. The actual medal presented to Captain Tupper was 

 in gold, and was accompanied by a massive gold chain ; the 

 captains of the men-of-war engaged in the battle received 

 a silver medal. Captain Tupper's was probably the last one 

 struck, for there is a serious flaw in it ; it was presented 

 before 1692. The motto means : " No night follows." Louis 

 XIY, had been acclaimed as " Le Roi Soleil," yet when his 

 fleet was destroyed and, as in the device, his sun was setting, 

 no night followed. Mr. Pitts read extracts from letters 

 recording the proceedings of the privateer commanded by 

 Captain Tupper and her consort, in which also a Jersey 

 privateer is mentioned, on a certain occasion before the 

 Battle of La Hogue. 



Mr. Pitts also exhibited the actual medal presented to 

 Jean Breton, the pilot to Lord De Saumarez's squadron 

 when it escaped from the French in 1794. This medal had 

 been carried to America by some descendant of Breton ; it 

 was purchased there by a Guernseyman, who brought it 

 back to the island. Mr. Henry Turner, hearing the circum- 

 stances, has purchased the medal for £5. 



Tokens or medals commemorative of the capture of 

 Porto Bello by Admiral Anson were shown ; also a Roman 

 coin found near the Cast'el Church, a coin with ecclesiastical 

 symbols and a gold coin found in Guernsey, all from Captain 

 Lukis's museum. Hr. H. Marquand passed round for in- 

 spection a pamphlet entitled : " Notes sur l'ile de Guernesey 

 par Messire P. Stafford Carey." Mr. Collenette exhibited 

 photographs of an old picture, which Mr. H. Marquand 

 knows to be in the possession of Miss White; the picture 

 is interesting as it shows the Semaphore at Jerbourg kept 

 by Captain White in 1810, with a watch-tower, not the 

 Chateau of Jerbourg, immediately behind it. 



Mr. De La Mare reported the continuation of the deposit 

 of the pebbles in the road at the Bouette. 



Monthly Meeting held on March 20th, 1901, Mr. W. Sharp, 

 President, in the Chair. 



Specimen of the Rousset rock in Rocquaine Bay, an 

 intrusive vein of felsite brought for the Society by Captain 

 Jones, and a blunt celt found by Mr. Le Lacheur at the 



