World to which from all its Dominions the knowledge of the greatest and most renowned Actions came and were examin'd must needs be of the greatest Credit and Estimation I have only one more to mention highly deserving for what he has lately published on this Argument and that is the Learned Mr. Walker whose Book tho' printed some Years after this was first written might well have answer'd all that was necessary to the knowledge of this Science had not this been engag'd to the Stationer and in the Printer's Hands before There now remains those of the Modern whereof Luckius is one of the first who set forth his Sylloge of many Illustrious Persons of the last Century Typotius Molinet and Bossier Medals of the Popes Cardinals and Ecclesiasticks Iaques de Bie la France Metalic to him add the Iesuite Menestrier But none who have taken any considerable notice of Countries and States Comparable to what is wanting besides the Abbot Bizot and his Continuator in that of the Republic of Holland by a single instance and of which we have already given a large Account Some others there may be but these I suppose may suffice to furnish the Metalic Library and serve for Direction in the mean time as to the rest such as travel abroad will not neglect visiting the several Cimeliarcha and Repositories of those Noble Persons and others whose Curiosity and Genius has inclin'd them to to the Cultivation and Adornment of so gentile a Study and Diversion taking along with them the Advice and Directions of the Learned and Industrious Patin with Sir George Wheeler and Dr. Spon's Voyage into the Levant who has given the Publick an Account of the Royal Gazas and Pricely Treasures to be any where met with of this kind thro' all Europe For such Eminent Collectors have been Charles the Fifth Rudolphus and indeed all the German Emperors since to this Day Frederick King of Denmark Queen Christina of Sweden the late Charles Prince Elector Prince Leopold of Florence and all of the Medicean Family Ranuccio Farneze gathered by the Cardinal Alexander his Unkle the Cardinal C. Barberini the Counts Soderini de Maximis Mascardi Morosini and Garzoni Lazara at Rome Venice Verona Padoa c. as indeed ever great and learned Person in Italy who have to their Libraries Cabinets richly furnished with Medals and the like Antiquities So in France especially among the great Officers and Ministers of State not for Ostentation but some of them as Knowing as Curious such as Lomenie Count de Brienne Secretary of State Harlaeus Procurator General Chancellor Seguire the late Monsieur Colbert the Abbe Seguin with others innumerable which has caused the French King who is doubtless Master of the greatest and best Collection of Medals in Europe among other his indeed laudable Munificences for the encouragement and promoting of Letters to erect an Academy where the Medalists Autiquaries and Virtuosi meet and confer at his Palace of the Louvre Now albeit among our own Country-men we are but somewhat thin of Writers on this part of Erudition yet had we and still have many Worthy and Illustrious Persons both Knowing and Curious whose Collections have done Honor to themselves and to the Nation Thomas Earl of Arundel and Surrey Earl Marshal of England that Great Mecaenas of all the politer Arts and boundless Amasser of Antiquities had in that richly furnished Cabinet I mentioned as rich a Collection of Medals gathered by Daniel Nisum the like had the Great Duke of Buckingham the Marquis afterwards Duke Hamilton Sir William Paston Grandfather to the present Lord Yarmouth who I suppose is still in possession of them as of other his Choice Collection of Rarities Sir Simon Fanshaw of Ware Park Sir Thomas Hanmer of Hanmer whilst he lived my most worthy Friend the late Ralph Sheldon of Weston Esquire now in the Hands of his Virtuous Kinswoman Mrs. Frances Sheldon late Maid of Honor to the now Queen Dowager Iohn Harvey Esquire late Treasurer to her Majesty the Queen Dowager Sir Iames Long of Draicut Elias Ashmole Esquire both lately deceased and amongst our more liminently Learned Antiquaries Sir Robert Cotton Grandfather to the present Sir Iohn Cotton who persisting in the steps of that Illustrious Person is still augmenting the unvaluable Treasure of Medals and Manuscripts obliging the Learned World by his Generous Communication of what has been so left and is so improv'd by him What singular Use our Learned Cambden whom next I am to mention made of his Collection Notae ad Brit. Numis s to justify and adorn his Britannia is to be seen every where in that Glorious Work as also in that of Mr. Speed Add to these Sir Henry Savil and Spelman Sir Simon d Ewes our Learned Selden Sir Iohn Marsham Mr. Iohn Greaves Mr. Brerewood c. and at present living the Right Honourable Earl of Peterborough Dr. Sharp Archbishop of York the Right Honourable Sir William Trumbal late Ambassador at Constantinople and now Principal Secretary of State Sir Edward Sherburn my most Honoured Learned and Worthy Friend and now Old Fellow-Traveller Thomas Henshaw Esquire Abraham Hill Esquire Mr. Falkner Dr. Iohnson the Learned Mr. Laughton of Trinity-college in Cambridge inferior I am told to few Mr. Guillhard cum multis aliis And that even the Ladys may not be defrauded of the Honor due to the Favourers of this Noble Diversion the Lady Ann Boynton Daughter to Iohn late Earl of Rochester who I am told has not only made a Curious Collection of Medals but is herself very Knowing in them There are doubtless many others whom I have not the Honor of being known to and should have enrich'd this Catalogue with their Names and Merits always reserving a more distinguishing Recognition with infinite and particular Obligation to the present Earl of CLARENDON whose most ample Collection of the most Noble Medals and Glorious Medalions both for Number and Choice together with what of Modern he has contributed to the Type here exhibited is worthy the being reckoned amongst the most Illustrious and his Lordship for many other singular Favours to be ever mentioned by me with the greatest Regard Nor may I on this account forget Mr. Charleton of the Middle-Temple without signal Ingratitude and want of discernment who has besides a Glorious Collection and Universal Series of the Rarest Medals a Cabinet of other Natural and Artificial Curiosities far exceeding for Choice and Perfection any that I have met withal Abroad or believe will easily be found in Europe besides To which let me add not only his extraordinary Knowledge of the Treasure he possesses but the Obligingness and great Civility of a most Generous Person I conclude this Recension where indeed I ought to have begun when I mention'd the Great and most Illustrious Persons of England emulating the most celebrated Cabinets of the Greatest Princes of other Countries namely that Royal Collection of Medals at St. Iames's begun by that Magnanimous and Hopeful
Iohn Tate who made excellent White Paper so long since for Iohn Caxton here in England The Invention of the Rolling-Press how certainly I know not is ascribed to the Learned Iustus Lipsius but I believe it was long before To these add Ioannides Iac. Mesius Lippersein Vitellio Gravius Galilaeo Sir Paul Neile c. all of them contending to have been the first Inventors or who wrought or brought * 〈◊〉 Anno 1300. Spectacles Perspective and other Optic and Telescopic Glasses to that perfection we now have them and see their Effects as in that prodigious System reducing the irregularities of Saturn with other wonderful Discoveries Here come in Leeuwenhoek Swammerdam c. Discoveres of such Wonders and Magnalia Dei in Minimis by their Microscopes after our Sagacious Dr. Hook had shewed the way To these add Paulinus Bishop of Nola who 't is said invented Bells or rather brought them first in use to Congregate the People Stirrups to Saddles are modern so is the polishing of Armour mill'd Lead and sheathing of Ships with it drawing of Wire and slitting Steel and Bords by Mills Refining and indeed Inventing Sugar and other such like Works as making of Hats improving Paper and Figuline Ware by Palissy's White Glaze with the great Improvements of that antient and useful Art by our Mr. Doit the finding out of several sorts of Stuffs Calandring and Chambletings Cements Vernishes Pasts and Lackers artificial Marbles and the way of staining and colouring it The Monks who brought out of Persia into Europe the first Eggs of the Silk-Worm to Iustimian and other faelicitates hujus Saeculi as one calls them which may be reckon'd among the Nova reperta of the latter Ages in number and use far superior to any of the former Cornelius Drebble was Famous for his perpetual Motion the Noble Hunniades Inventor of the Scarlet-Bow Die since the loss of the antient Purple Stevinus who besides several Geometrical Instruments framed the Veliferous Chariot celebrated by the Learned Grotius Baniger who made a sailing Plow and built a Vessel to row it self and another to pass under the Seas nor must Guil. Buchildius be omitted who Anno 1347. found out the way of Curing Herring bringing in that immense Wealth to those of Holland that the Great Emperor Charles the Fifth went on purpose to where he lay obscurely buried and caused a Noble Monument to be erected over him Our Baylie for his Engine to deepen obstructed Rivers does here come in those also who have of late perfected the way of Diving and Urination carrying Light Writing sending Letters and Working under Water in the profoundest Seas by which great Treasures and Wrecks have been recovered And here Cola Pesce the Famous Sicilian is not to be forgotten Those who likewise first excogitated or improved Calculations of Automata The Equated Isocrone Motion of the Weight of a Circular Pendulum in a Paraboloeid and as applied to Clock-Work who brought them to repeat the Hour and added the Spring-Balance to Watches The Laws of Motion and Geometrical streightning of Curvelines are due to Sir Chr. Wren and Mr. Neile and what we have mentioned above to the Famous Oughtred Hugens of Zulichum Dr. Hook Mr. Barlow c. As formerly to our Robert Norman and W. Burrows the finding out of the Variation and Inclination of the Needle To our Harriot the Area of Spherical Triangles and Quantity of Solid Angles The Periphery of Right Tangents and Secants which we have of Regiomontanus and Napper were shewed us by Erasmus Reinhold c. The Detection of the way of Ephemerides unknown to the Antient is ascribed to Purbachius and Ludovicus à Culen is Famous for his Geometrical Problem And now what New and Nobler Flights our Learned Newton has made in these sublime Studies worthily Advancing him to the Trust he is in and where without Envy he may stamp his own Medal Torrecellius and Otto Geric claim those useful Experiments about the Air. Among the most Ingenious Mechanicks may be reckoned Gil. Norrison who about Thirty Years since made that Famous Clock of St. Iohns at Lions in France with whom we would compare our present Coventry Black-Smith and Richard Wallingford Son also of another Black-Smith who made such another Master-Piece almost Four Hundred Years past as our Chronicles tells us William and Thomas Bleau Iohnson Sanson Of Antient Inventors see Plin. Hist. Lib. VII Cap. 56. Tavernier and other Excellent Composers of Maps Charts Globes Spheres c. Our Mr. Blagrave both Inventor and Maker of his Mathematical Iewel The Plowing Sowing Setting and Harrowing Corn at one time with several more Ingenious and useful Inventions which we shall hereafter speak of deserve a mention Among these may come in the Diligent and Curious * Such as those of the Dukes of Brandenburgh at Munic of Saxony Bavaria c. Collectors of both Artificial and Natural Curiosities Types Models Machines c. such as were Favi Adrovandus Imperanti Mascardi Septalius Wormius Paule Contant Calceolarius Piso Caval Pozzo Ferdinando Gospi Io. Tradescant and above them all the worthy Mr. Charleton c. And now whilst we speak of Heads and Pourtraits the most celebrated Modern Painters Sculptors and Architects◠challenge their Place such were the great Restorers Cimabue Geddi Giotto Mich. Angelo Buona Roti Raphael d◠Urbino Titian Iulio Romano Paulo Veroneze Leonardo Da Vinci Pet. Perugino Correggio Caraccio Polidoro de Caravagio Parmegiano Bassano Georgione Rosso Andr. Mantegna Del Sarto Perin del Vagua Gentile a Son of Bellino Famous for his Journey to Constantinople to draw the Picture of Mahomet the Second and the Reproof that Tyrant gave him for leaving a Neck too long and out of proportion in a Piece of the decapitation of St. Iohn Baptist by taking off the Head of a poor Slave before him to shew him a demonstration of his Error To these add Iulio Clovio Scavoni Salviati D'Arpino Dominichino Baroccio Palma Bandinelli Zucchero Tintoret Lanfranc Cortone Peruzzi Porcellus del Piombo Pordonon Franco Mazevoli Guido Rhene Pantormo Salviati Beccafumi Lomasius Pet. Testa Vannius Dolci Maratti Albert Durer Holbein Luc. Van Leyden Breugel Udine Rubens Van Dyke Morus Le Brun Poussin Bourdon Lely Bronkhorst Culemberg Gentilescus De Crete Florus Honthorst Meytens Polenburgh Syndere Paul Brill Snellinx Vosterman Rimbrand Brower Bavor Boll Dankers Eilcheimer Eix Eyck Iohn and Hubert especially who invented the Use of Oyls in Colours Anno 1410. Guttembergh Hemskerk Kessel Levins Reysseus Van Ort Peters Segars Swarts Voerst c. Nor was all the praise due to Men alone as of old were celebrated Timarete Irene Calypso Lala c. Famous Pictrices in and near our times were Artimisia Gentileschi Christina Poppinch Marietta Tintoreta Magdalena de Pas Susanna de Sandrac Lucretia Mirandulana Propertia of Bononia the Abbess Plautilla the Learned Anna Maria à Scurman and another Anna of Nieuburg Phonisba of Cremona and Propertia Rossi who was both Pictrix and Sculptrix
vide Tribute D. DANE Crown 34. Character 317. Darie 14 20. Debasement and Diminution of Coin 9. Vid. Mint Decorum 201. Defender of the Faith vide Title 89. Deformity no sign of Vice 305 307 308. Deities 14 56 57 249 c. Denarius 6 14. Des Cartes 264. Devise 6. Diadem 26 29. Diamond when first Ingraven by modern Artists 240. Dido 20 194. Dignity vid. Offices Discoveries of the English 162. Dispositions imprinted in Mens Countenances 320. Vide Passions Divi 31. Divination by Physiognomy 298 301 302 303 304 324 334 335 337 c. Divines 258. Dogs of cold Constitution 317. Difference in their Sagacity 295. Shape of their Heads advantagious in Men 295. Dominus by whom first us'd 183. Dove why Symbol of Venus 56. Drachmae 18. Dragoon-Missionaries 25. Drake Sir Francis 158. Dudly Earl of Leicester recall'd from the Low-Countries his Medal 97 98. Duke of Monmouth's Defeat and Decollation Medal 149 150 c. Duke of Norfolk Munificence to the Royal-Society 42. Duke of Savoy's Medal how answered by Henry IV. of France 25. Collection of Medals and other Antiquities 42. Duke of York Vid. King James II. E. EAGLE 33 35 56 63. Vide Symbol Ears 298. East-India Company 87. Edge-Hill Battel III. Education alters Nature and disposes to different Inclinations 306 316. Its Effects 293. Edward Confessor 21. Edward IV. 89. Edward VI. 228. Effigies in Medal 15 36 45. Resembling the Originals ibid. Vide Heads Statues how they create Emulation to brave Actions 66 67. In Taille-douce how they relate to Medal 257. Catalogue for a Collection 257 c. Effigies of the Blessed Virgin Saints c. 288. Not permitted every one to stamp their Effigies in Medals 36. When first to the Roman Emperor and others 37. Effigies of famous Persons desirable and useful 44 45. On common Sign-Posts reproved ibid. Elagabalus 12. Medal how to distinguish from those of Antoninus 202. Electrum 9. Elizabeth Queen how Learned 264. Reforms Money 12. Assists the Low-Countries 92 97 98. Defeats the Spanish Armada 94 95. Is offer'd the Sovereignty of the United Netherlands 96 97. Emblems 6 156. Vide Symbol Emperors and Empresses 131 180. English defective in Medals of Ancestors 44 84. Medals of their late Kings from Edward III. Henry V VII VIII seq 86 87. King James IV. of Scotland 77 78. Henry VIII Vide Kings Sovereigns of France 85. English Inventors of many useful things 163 164 166â— Expeditions and Exploits worthy the Honour of Medal 159 160. And to be painted in Palaces Courts and Rooms of State rather than the Fictions of Poets 159 160. Enumeration of famous English 163 265. English over-reach'd in Treaties 321. Character of English 323. their Happiness and what wanting 324. English formerly and now living celebrated and meriting the Honour of Medals 341 342. Enthusiasts 170. Epochs exact in Greek Medals 51 185 187 189. Erudition in Medals 51 168 c. vide Reverses Essex Earl first General in the late Civil War of England Med. 115. Europeans Character 314. Example 69. Externals how a Physiognomist is to judg by them 294 309. Eyes signification in Physiognomie 298. their wonderful Power and Effects 301 302. Vide Aspect F. FACE 27 294. of Augustus c. describ'd by Suetonius agreeable to his Medal 45 46. Abuse in other Medals not so in the Antient ibid. Wonderful Variety of Mens Faces and Importance of it 335 336. Faces resembling one another v. Twins and Countenances Faith vide Defender Fairfax General of the late Rebellion 116. Families 39 54. Famous Persons besides Emperours and Heroes of both Sexes 257 ad 292. Farthings 223. v. Tokens Fascination 301. V. Eyes Looks Feature V. Beauty Figure 6 26. How many allowable in one Medal 200 201. v. Group Effigies Image Statue Figures intire in Med. 27 59. Flatterers of Princes how pernicious 14 59 77 81 83. In their Statues 46. Fleets v. Ships Navigation Flood vide Noah Florens whence called 4. Follis 8. Fore head 278. France-Metalique 77. France Climate different from Spain 315. French their Character 315 316 321. Adulation Vain-glory Tyranny Cruelty Perfidy Persecution 77 ad 83. French King when first using a Crown 34. and Effigies in Stamp 41. Prisoner in Englandâ— and Ransom 85. Present King's Cabinet of Medals â—51 Abus'd by Flatterers 81 82 83 184 188. In what commendable 226 244 286 316. Friends and Friendship 277. Fronti nulla fides when 307 309. G. GALEATA Roma 14. Garlands 29. Garments vide Robes Garter 143. vide Knighthood Gelotoscopy 337. Geography in Med. 52 168. Geometry 50. Germans Character 311 317. Medals struck upon sleight Occasions 289. Gigantes 14. Gods 31. Dii Majores Minores Tutelares Genii c. 35. Godfry Sir Edm. Medal 171 172 173 c. Gold when first used among the Rom. 7 14. Not always eligible for the Matter in Medals but for the most part 20. especially the Greek 201. Golden Age 24. in England when 110. Government how balanc'd 322. Gratia Dei 197. v. Title Gravers 28 237 238 240. None save the most exquisite formerly employ'd 28 44 47. Emulation among them 239. v. Sculpture Greek and Grecians Medals 16 19 28. Exact in Epoche 185. Character 315. Gr. Tongue worn out by the Lat. 53. Deplorable Condition of that Nation at present whence 232. Greenwich Marine College a most Royal and necessary Foundation worthy of Medal 128. Groats 10. Group what 200. v. Painters Gun-powder by whom invented 279. Treason Med. 76. H. HABITUDES 307. How corrected and regulated 332 338. Habits 26. Vid. Robes Hair v. Beards Hands in Med. 35. Hasta Pura 58. Head of the Church of England in Med. 89. Heads 26 39 47 57. Of Illustrious persons vide Heroes How resembling 28 29 c. To whom Concession of Stamping Heads in Medals and Coins was granted 36 37. Heads of one Emperor carved out of another 216. Heads in Med. how to place in the Cabinet 249. Heads their various Coverings 33. Two or more Heads in the same Medal 27 37. Heads join'd 38. Heads of the French King 34. v. Crown Heads without Ornament 29. Heads horned 30 33. v. Moses Heads in Taille Douce relating to Medals 256. Conjectures from Heads 311 319 325. Vid. Capita No Heads in Med. of Roman Colonies 52. Heart known by God only 310. How discovered by the Countenance 338. Henry VIII his Medals 89. Henry IV. of France in Countenance resembling King Charles II. 306. Henry Prince of Wales's Medal 103. Hercules imberbis 47. Heresiarks 276. Herring Fishing and Inventor of Curing how honored by the Emperor Charles V. 281. Heros Heroines and renouned Persons 43 269 278 286 ad 292. Hieroglyphics vide Symbol History advanc'd by Knowledge in Medals 56 158 182 243. Historians 260 273. Historical Columns 162. Vid. Columns Hollandia Metallica 73 ad 77. containing the History of that Repub. 97 98. Holbein 87 159. Vid. Painters Horns 30 31. By whom born not always reproachful 33. Moses painted with Horns 30. Where yet to