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 us. V.JUNE 15, 1912.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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medal to be struck, bearing on one side this inscription, Ugonotiorum Strayes, 1572 ; and on the other Gregorius XIII., Pont. Max. An. II. Misson, in his ' Travels ' in Italy, mentions having seen the medal, and Sir William Cockburn, of Bath, has one in his possession, a lithographic copy of which he has placed as a frontispiece to his work ' The Massacre of Saint Bartholomew, a Concise History (&c. ).' From this print we have borrowed our representation of the medal given on the following page."

An illustration accompanies, showing both obverse and reverse of the medal.

W. B. H.

Bronze medals to commemorate the Massacre of St. Bartholomew at Paris, 1572, are still struck at the Papal Mint at the Vatican, and sold there ; and when in Rome & few years ago, I procured one, which I still possess. It is of very hard, excellent bronze, the size of a florin. The design is well drawn and ably executed, and is so raised that, when on a flat table, it rests on the design, not on the rim. The rim is unmilled -and plain, and the inside edge is finished with a neat cable design.

On the obverse is an excellent portrait bust of Pope Gregory XIII., in whose reign the Massacre took place, and who went in state to the church of St. Louis to chant a sent Cardinal Orsino to advise Charles IX., King of France, to persist in his endeavours. He commanded a picture of the assassina- tion of Admiral Coligny to be painted in a Vatican hall, and caused a medal to be struck in its commemoration, of which mine is a specimen. Round the bust is the legend
 * Te Deum ' for its accomplishment, and

CREGORIVS * XIII PONT ' MAX ' AN ' I ' In

the exergue is ' F p * I conclude the minter's initials. On the reverse is a winged, helmeted figure, holding a sword in the right, and a Latin cross in the left, hand ; three dead bodies lie on the ground, while a female in the background stands with up- raised arms, as if about to strike an undraped man, near a decapitated head. Above is the leg nd VGONOTTORVM STRAGES 1572 <" slaughter of the Huguenots ").

The lines are all very sharp and fine, and my specimen looks quite new. Vide an excellent engraving of this historical medal in Isaacson, ' Story of the Later Popes,' 1906, pi. v. p. 122. I believe it has been often engraved. I enclose a rough rubbing of the two sides.

Other medals were struck to celebrate this event. Charles IX. struck two in 1572, of which good engravings will be found in Wright, ' Protestant Dictionary,' 1904, pi. iv.

p. 272 ; and also in ' Medailles francaises,' 1892, Nos. 35, 36, Charles IX.

I should think examples of these three are to be found in the British Museum Medal Room. D. J.

If I remember right, I saw one of these medals in the Museum at John Knox's House, Edinburgh. P. A. McEiAVAiNE.

In the Knox Club Publication Xo. 29, " Illustrations of Antichrist's Rejoicing over the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, with a pre- fatory note by D. Hay Fleming, LL.D., Edinburgh, the Knox Club, 1912," a photo- graph of the medal is given, showing, on the obverse, the bust of Gregory XIII., his designation, and the year of his pontificate, and on the reverse the murdered Hugue- nots, charged by an angel with a cross in the left hand and a sword in the right, the inscription being " Vgonottorvm strages [the slaughter of the Huguenots], 1572."

ALEXR. THOMS. [MR. F. C. FROST also thanked for reply.]

' THE GENTILE POWERS ' (11 S. v. 390), by Capt. C. Orde Brown, 1882. I cannot give any information as to this book, which I cannot find in any catalogue ; but I am told that perhaps an application to Mrs. Orde- Brown, 11, The Paragon, Blackheath, S.E., would result in information.

WM. H. PEET.

LOGIC (US. v. 390). The story of Cyrus, the two boys, and the two overcoats is given in Xenophon, ' Cyropacdia,' I. iii. 17.

E. LEVERS.

DAVID LLOYD, WINCHESTER SCHOLAR (11 S. v. 327). By " Bodwell family" I presume MR. WAINEWRIGHT means Bodi-cl family. Bodvel is a small mansion now only a farmhouse near the main road between Pwllheli arid Xevin in South Car- narvonshire. It was at Bodvel, in 1742 (or was it 1741 ?), that Mrs. Piozzi (formerly Mrs. Thrale) was born ; and she visited the place, having Dr. Johnson as one of her companions, in 1774.

Rhosgill, where David Lloyd was bom, was a small mansion in the parish of Llan- armon, also in South Carnarvonshire. In Bryncroes Church, in the promontory of Lleyn, Carnarvonshire, there is^ a mural monument, on which we read of " Margaret daught r to Humphrey Lloyd of Rhosgill fawf in Fionudd Gentl'm : she died about y e yeare 1653, aged 45 years." Here, I