Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851 — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
"A.D. 1686. The dean of the deanery of the city of Norwich was
committed to custody, on one occasion, by the itinerant justices, for
exacting _hallidays toll_ by his sub-dean in too high a manner; but on
his proving that he took of every great boat that came up to the city
on a holiday 1d. only, and of each small one a _halfpenny_; of every
cart 1d., and of every horse or man laden an _halfpenny_; and of all
bakers, butchers, and fishmongers, that sold their commodities on a
holiday, 1d. each; and that his predecessors always had immemorially
taken it, he was discharged.--Something of the same kind is related, in
T. Martin's MS. history, respecting the dues exacted by the rural dean
of Thetford. Dr. Sutton's MS. Letter."
E.A.D.
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MEDAL STRUCK BY CHARLES XII.--RUDBECK'S ATLANTICA.
Although no numismatist, yet, being resident at Stockholm, I have taken
steps to enable me to reply to L.'s Query (Vol. ii., p. 408. of "NOTES AND
QUERIES") respecting Charles XII.'s medal in commemoration of the victory
at Holowzin.
No copy of the medal exists in the cabinet of the Royal Museum of
Antiquities; but in that belonging to the National Bank, there is a very
fine example of it in copper, and the inscriptions are as follow:
On the Reverse:--"_Silvae. Paludes. Aggeres. Hostes. Victi._"
In the Exergue:--"_Moschi ad Holowzinum victi A. 1708 3/14 Jul._"
And round the margin the verse from Lucan in question:
"_Victrices Copias Alium Laturus In Orbem_:"
with the substitution of _copias_ for _aquilas_, recorded by Voltaire and
criticised by L.
The same inscriptions are given in Bergh's _Beskrifning oefver Svenska mynt
och Skaedepenningar_, 4to., Upsala, 1773; only he adds, that the inscription
in the margin is only found on some copies.
I may transcribe Bergh's description in full:
"Slagetvid Holofsin.
'119. Konungens Bild och hamnunder Armen NAT. 17. JUN. 1682, SILVAE.
PALVDES. AGGERES. HOSTES. VICTI. En Wahl-platz pae hoilken staer en Rysk
Trophe; och twenne faengar derwid bunden. I exerguen: MOSCHI AD
HOLOFZINUM VICTI. A. 1708 3/14 JUL.
"Pae naegra exemplar aer denna randskrift: VICTRICES COPIAS ALIVM LATVRVS
IN ORBEM."
Could any of your readers obtain from the British Museum answers to the
following Queries respecting Rudbeck's _Atlantica_, for the use of a
Swedish friend of mine.
_British Museum.--Biblioteca Grenvilliana--Olof_
_Redbeck, Atland sive Manheim._
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