entire against numerous foes, is one charging him with delinquencies,
which his admirers would find it difficult to disprove.
404. R e t o b t u po n L o u is XIY. October, 1695.
Bust of Louis XIY., I., laureate, hair long, in armour, with
lion’s head in front and straps decorated with suns and fleurs-
de-lis on the shoulder, and mantle with embroidered edge
round the breast. Leg. lvd o v icv s magnvs h e x c h b is t ia n is -
SIMVS.
Rev. A monument, &c.; same as the preceding.
2 ’4. Yan Loon, IY. 210.
MB. electrotype from Brussels, At. Extremely rare.
This medal is also by Boskam.
The sarcasm of the parody of the reverse is rendered stronger
by attaching it to the portrait of the great and most Christian
King, whose iniquities it is intended to records
405. R e t o r t u po n L o u is XIV. October, 1695.
A monument, consisting of an obelisk upon a pedestal
having on its front a medallion of a sun and a globe, with the
legend, n e c . p l v e ib v s . im p a r . (Not unequal to many.) The
serpent of Eternity forms the border. On the pedestal, amid
piles of arms, Minerva, holding a Victory, kneels and supports
the medallion, and Fame, holding a trumpet, inscribes the
obelisk lv d . v e e e magno . (To Louis, the truly Great.) The
pedestal is inscribed, in d e l ib a t a m . o e b is . g al . monabchiam .
vnvs in . om n e s . sv s t in v it . mdcxciv . (Alone against all he
sustained the monarchy of the French empire uninjured, 1694.)
Rev. A monument, &c.; same as No. 403.
2‘8. Yan Loon, IY. 210.
MB. M . cast, lead. Extremely rare.
This medal is composed of the reverse of the medal published
by Louis XIV. in 1694 (See No. 328), and the reverse of the
two preceding ones published in Holland as a sarcastic retort
upon it.
A shield with the arms of the Duke of Melfort: 1 and 4, the
Lion of Scotland ; 2 and 3, three bars wavy (Drummond);
surrounded by the Garter; supporters, two lions having collars
charged with thistles; above, a ducal coronet, and behind, a
mantle of ermine; below, on a scroll, the motto, ab . vno ad
o m n e s . (From one to all.)
406. Jeton of the Duke of Melfort.
1 -6. (See Woodcut.)
MB. electrotype.
This piece is octagonal, and is made from a die which was
purchased with many others by Mr. Matthew Young from the
representatives of the Roettier family, and afterwards presented
by him to the British Museum. (See Vol. I. p. 538.)
This die is probably the work of Norbert Roettier, and was no
doubt intended for striking jetons or counters of a form not
unusual in France.
John Drummond, Duke of Melfort, was the second son of
James, third Earl of Perth. He was appointed by Charles II.
in 1684 one of the Secretaries of State, and was continued in
that office by James II., who in April, 1685, created him
Viscount of Melfort, in Argyllshire, and Lord Drummond of
Gilestoun. He was advanced to an Earldom in the following
year, and in 1687, when the Order of the Thistle was revived,
he was constituted a Knight Companion. After the Revolution