NO. 52.— 1903.] DUTCH MONUMENTAL REMAINS. 6.9 



56. 



There is a silver medal in Colombo belonging to a member 

 of the Kriekenbeek family, with the following inscription 

 engraved on it : — 



TER GEDACHTENISSE VAN DE E. HEER THOMAS 

 VAN RHEE COMMANDEUR DER STADT ENLANDEN 

 VAN GALE MATURE ETC. GEBOREN TOT WYCK TE 

 DOORSTEDE DEN 16 EN DECEMBER ANNO 1634 ENDE 

 DES SELES HUISVROUW JUFFR. HENRIETTA VAN 

 KRIEKENBEEK GEB. TER STEDE VOORNOEMT 

 DEN 1 EN OCTOBER 1640, IN DEN HUWELYCKEN 

 STAET BEVESTIGT DEN 7 AUGUSTI ANNO 1661 

 GEGEVEN OP HAAR 25 STE HUWELYCKS JAAR 1686 



Translation. — To the memory of Thomas van Rhee, Com- 

 mandeur of the City and Lands of Galle, Matara, &c, born 

 in Wyk-by-Duurstede, 16th December, 1634 ; and his wife 

 Henrietta van Kriekenbeek, born in the said city (Wyk-by- 

 Duurstede), 1st October,1640, married on the 7th August,1661. 

 Given on the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage. 



On the other side there are engraved the arms of Thomas 

 van Rhee (Plates 9 and 10, L.Z.) and Henrietta van Krieken- 

 beek. 



These latter arms are slightly different from those on the 

 sinister impalement in Plate 9, L.Z. The chief is charged 

 with a fox courant, and what has been blazoned by me as 

 coquilles, I have reason now to believe are ecussons, each 

 charged with a cherry tree issuing out of a stream. Thomas 

 van Rhee died in Batavia on the 31st March, 1701, having 

 come out to the Indies in the ship " Walvisch.''' 



In the Museum van het Bataviaasche Genootschap van 

 Kunsten en Wetenschappen, in Batavia, there is a similar 

 silver medal, which belonged to the estate of one Lanschot. 

 An oval copper medal in the State Collection of Medals at 

 The Hague commemorates the death of Thomas van Rhee 

 in Batavia on the 31st March, 1701, aged 66 years 3 months 

 and 15 days. See Wapenheraut, 34. 



