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 518
ll . l.l.d. ab . normis . sapiens. (Matthew Tin-dall, L.L.D., wise beyond measure.) Rev. An obelisk, surmounted by a Pelican feeding heryoung, entwined by laurel, and inscribed, immortalitati. (Toimmortality.) On one side is a burning lamp ; on the other, asetting sun with human face, inscribed,… … 50. Medal of Matthew Tindall. MB. M. Bodley, M. Very rare. Matthew Tindall was born in 1657. He was educatedat Oxford, and in 1685 became a Doctor of Laws. After abrief lapse into Bomanism during the reign of James II., hereverted to Protestantism, or rather, as events showed, to Ra-tionalism. In…
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