were completed by the end of the year 1558. (See Labanoff,
“ Lettres de Marie Stuart,” Yol. I. p. 17.)
6. M ary, Q u e e n oe S o ots . Circa 1553.
The letter M, crowned, between two thistles also crowned.
Leg. MARIA . DEI . G . SCOTOR . REGINA.
Rev. Shield of Scotland, crowned, &c.; same as the preceding.
1 *15. Cardonnel, PI. vii. 2. Lindsay, PI. 8. fig. 182.
MB. At. Bibl. Paris, At. M. Duleau, 2E. Bare.
The same observations as to size and weight apply to this
piece, which has been considered a half-testoon. It is of French
workmanship, and that it was a counter is the more probable
from its occurring in brass as well as in silver..
In fact, the question as to these two pieces is completely
set at rest by an entry in the register of the “ Cour de la
monnaie ” preserved in the Imperial Archives of France, and to
which our attention has been obligingly called by Baron Pichon.
On the 3rd January, 1553-4, the following permission is recorded—“
A Nicolas Emery graveur, de graver une pille et ung
trousseau a fere gectons, aux armes de la royne d’Escosse du
coste de la pille, et du coste du trousseau y a une devise, qui
est une F et une M lassdes ensemble qui sont romaines, et
deux soleils au coste de ladite devise, et autour du dit trousseau
est escript Diligite Justiciam 1553 et autour de la pille est
escript Maria D. G. R. Scotorum.” This entry does not
exactly describe either of the pieces, the device having perhaps
been modified slightly before it was finally engraved. (See
Proceedings of Soc. of Ant. of Scot. IX. 506.)
7. J ohn L asco. Left England, 1553.
Bust of Lasco, r., in cap and clerical dress, i. d . (J.
Dassier.)
Rev. Inscription, jo a n n e s a lasco po lo n u s r e l ig io n is Ch r is t
ia n .® APUD POLONOS PROMOTOR OBIIT AN . 1560 . JET. 59. (John
a, Lasco, a Pole, the promoter of the Christian religion among
the Poles, died in 1560 at the age of 59.)
MARY. 1558. 67
1’1. Mazzuchelli, I. PI. lxvii. 8.
MB. At. M.
One of Dassier’s series of the Protestant Reformers.
John Lasco, or a Lasco, a Polish nobleman of high rank, born
in 1499, resided for some time with Erasmus at Basle. He
adopted the tenets of Zuinglius. At the invitation of Cranmer
he paid a short visit to England in 1548. He returned to this
country 13 May, 1550, and was appointed superintendent of the
German and other foreign congregations in London. In 1552
he was one of the commissioners to frame ecclesiastical laws for
the kingdom. After the accession of Mary he embarked at
Gravesend 15 Sept. 1553, with 175 of his congregation;
having in vain tried to settle in Denmark, they were, after great
hardships, received at Emden. John Lasco returned to Poland,
and ultimately died at Frankfort 13 Jan. 1560, after a short illness.
8. P e t e r M ar ty r . Left England, 1553.
Bust of Peter Martyr, r., in cap, ruff, and clerical dress,
i . d . (J. Dassier.)
Rev. Inscription, p e t r u s martyr jt a l u s f l o r e n t in u s t h e o -
LOGUS SACRARUM LITTERARVM JN ACADEMIA TIGURINA PROFESSOR
OBIIT TIGURI. AN. d . 1562. ® t . 63. (Peter Martyr, an Italian
of Florence, theologian, Professor of the Holy Scriptures in
the University of Zurich, died at Zurich in 1562 at the age
of 63.)
l 'l . Yan Mieris, III. 191. Mazzuchelli, I. PI. Ixviii. 2.
MB. JR. M.
One of Dassier’s series of the Protestant Reformers.
Peter Martyr Yermigli was born at Florence 8 Sept. 1500.
He became a monk of the Augustine order at Fiesole, and, after
occupying several important posts, he adopted the views of the
Reformers, and went to Switzerland, and thence to Strasburg.
At the invitation of Cranmer he came to England in Dec. 1547,
and was appointed in 1549 Professor of Divinity at Oxford,
and 24 Oct. 1550, Canon of Christchurch. After the accession
of Mary he retired to Strasburg, where he arrived 3 Nov. 1558,
and thence to Zurich in 1556. During the reign of Elizabeth
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