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Medallic illustrations of the history of Great Britain and Ireland to the death of George II (1885)

Hawkins, Edward, 1780-1867, Franks, Augustus Wollaston, Sir, 1826-1897, Grueber, Herbert A. (Herbert Appold), 1846-1927 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees of the British museum · leaf 678

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lief, of good but peculiar workmanship, and struck inHolland. Britain retained the two daughters of James II.,Mary and Anne, so two eaglets are kept in the nest, but anotherbird, a gosling, is rejected, as a type of the young Prince,here considered a changeling. 74. Abdication of James II. 11 Dec.… … 74. Abdication of James II. drawing three crowns reversed and the name of iacobvs ; theother is playing with the fragments of a broken fasces ; beneaththe globe are three sceptres : ship in the distance. Leg. qviavnvs abest. (Because one is absent.) Ex. Britannia. 646 james ii. 1688. 2-3. (See…

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