assist the Prince Frederick in the charge of the captured ships.
The two prizes contained treasure to the amount of £800,000,
which was conveyed to the Tower in forty-five waggons on the
1st and 2nd October.
The obverse is copied from a silver vase presented by the
proprietors of the privateers to Sir George Lee, their advocate
in the prize court, and which is still preserved at Hartwell, the
seat of the family.
247. D ea n Sw i f t . D i e d , 19 Oct. 1745.
Bust of Swift, r., hair short, in canonicals.
No reverse.
1-55.
MB. lead. Rare.
This is an unfinished medal executed by William Mossop,
Junr. In 1818 Mossop published a prospectus of a series of
medals commemorative of illustrious Irishmen of past and
present times, who had advanced the literary, civil, and military
reputation of the country. The series, to consist of forty
medals, and to be struck in gold, silver, and bronze, was never
completed.
Jonathan Swift, the greatest of modern satirists, born at
Dublin, 30 Nov. 1667, was educated at Trinity College, and
became Secretary to Sir William Temple. Upon Temple s
death, in 1698, Swift was appointed Secretary and Chaplain to
Lord Berkeley, one of the Lord Justices of Ireland, from whom
he obtained some Church preferments, including the vicarage
of Laracor. In 1713 he was made Dean of St. Patrick’s, and
he died, bereft of all his mental faculties, 19 Oct. 1745.
248. D e a n Sw i f t . Died, 19 Oct. 1745.
Bust of Swift, three-quarters, I., head towards r., hair long,
in canonicals. Leg. io n a t . sw if t s . t . p . e t d . st p . in
mb. (Jonathan Swift, Professor of Theology and Dean of St.
Patrick’s in Ireland.) Below, n o n p a r e il . (He has no equal.)
No reverse.
3-05 by 2-3.
MB. iron. Very rare.
This medallic portrait is cast in iron, and the letters of
the legend are polished. The reverse has the incuse of the
obverse, but below are stamped the letters i. p. f . (Isaac
Parkes fecit.) This piece, which may probably have been intended
as an ornament for the lid of a box, was made by Parkes
about the year 1825; the portrait and legends are copied from
an engraving by Vertue.
249. D ea n Sw i f t . Died, 19 Oct. 1745.
Bust of Swift, three-quarters, I., in canonicals. Leg. i . s
d d d s . p . D. (Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick’s,
Dublin.)
No reverse.
•5.
Royal Irish Academy, Æ. Extremely rare.
This is a small medallic portrait executed early in the present
century, and probably intended to be set in a ring.
250. Cam pa ig n o f 1745.
Bust of Louis XV., r., hair long, head bound with fillet, no
drapery. Leg. l u d . xv . r e x c h r is t ia n is s . Below, f . m .
(François Marteau.)
Rev. Victory, beneath a palm-tree, is seated, r., upon the
shields of Oudenarde, Ostend, Nieuport, and other towns of
Brabant, and with an arrow inscribes upon another shield, d e
a n g l is AUSTRiAcis e t . (Over the English, Austrians, &c.)
Leg. v ic t o r is c e l e r it a s e t co ns ta n t ia . (The expedition and
perseverance of the Conqueror.) Ex. p r æ c ip u æ b e l g i i a u s t
r ia c i u r b e s su b a c tæ MDCC.XLV. (The principal cities of the