medal
- Museum number
- M.7212
- Description
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Silver medal; cast and chased. (whole)
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Lion sejant, holding sword and lis - crest of Maitland. (reverse)
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Bust of John Maitland, Earl of Lauderdale, left, hair long, in plain falling collar, armour, and scarf across the body. (obverse)
- Production date
- 1646
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 36.000 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Medallic Illustrations 1, published in 1885, states:
Very rare.
John Maitland, second Earl of Lauderdale, was appointed one of the Scottish Commissioners to treat with Charles I at Uxbridge, and was frequently employed as a Parliamentary Commissioner in the subsequent transactions relative to the King. Although a party to the surrender of Charles I to the English army at Newcastle, he assisted in the attempt to rescue the King from imprisonment, and was present at the battle of Worcester, where he was taken prisoner, and confined during the whole period of the Commonwealth. At the Restoration Lauderdale was appointed Secretary of State, and in 1669 High Commissioner of Scotland, and directed the affairs of that country till 1680, when he was deprived of all his offices. He was raised to a Dukedom in May, 1672, and was created a peer of England by the title of Earl of Guildford in 1674. He died 24 Aug. 1682. See also registration no. G3,I.M.544 (Medallic Illustrations p550.208).
See Pinkerton, J., ‘The Medallic History of England to the Revolution’, London, 1790 (fol.), xxv. 6.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Coins and Medals
- Registration number
- M.7212
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: H129
- C&M catalogue number
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MB1 (Medallic Illustrations 1) (328) (169)
