Notes and Queries, Number 04, November 24, 1849 by Various
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it has baffled all commentators and collectors of medals. The windmill
(indicative of the poplar fable that the Prince was the son of a miller), and the Roman Catholic symbols, are well understood. There is an engraving of this medal in Van Loon's _Histoire Metallique des Pays Bas_. It is also imperfectly engraved in Edwards' _Medallic History of England_, for the Jesuit is represented kneeling on the shore, and Pinkerton, who furnished the text, calls it "a boy kneeling on the shore." The medal is so rare that probably the artist could obtain only a rubbed or mutilated impression to engrave from. My description is from a {59} specimen, in my own collection, as fine as the day it was minted. I may add that both Van Loon and Pinkerton have engraved the legend in the collar erroneously, "honi soit qui _bon_ y pense;" it should be "_non_." B. NIGHTINGALE. * * * * * ROGER DE COVERLEY. In the _Spectator's_ description of Sir Roger de Coverley it is said, "that his great-grandfather was the inventor of that famous country dance which is called after him." To the tune, as printed in Chappell's _English Melodies_, is appended a note to the effect that it was called after "Roger of Coverley" (Cowley, near Oxford). Can any one inform me-- |
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