CHARLES I.]

HONORARY MEDALS.

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His Majesty, and of Prince Charles; for which purpose the following warrantwas issued to the Wardens of the Mint. The Registers therein mentioned donot appear to exist:

“ Charles R.

“ Trusty and well-beloved, we greet you well, whereas we have receivedinformation that those soldiers which have been forward to serve us in theForlorn-hope, are not looked upon according to their merited valour and loyalservice. We do therefore require, that from henceforward the Commander-in-Chief, both of Horse and Foot, which lead up the Forlorn-hope, upon whomalso we mean to bestow special tokens of our princely favour, do signify inwriting the names of those soldiers whom they find most forward in serving us,their King and Country, that care may be taken to reward their deservings, andmake them specially known to all our good subjects. For which end we havethought fit to require Sir William Parkhurst, Knight, and Thomas Bushell,Esquire, Wardens of our Mint, to provide from time to time certain Badges ofsilver, containing our Royal image, and that of our dearest son Prince Charles,to be delivered to wear on the breast of every man who shall be certified underthe hands of their Commanders-in-Chief to have done us faithful service in theForlorn-hope. And we do, therefore, most straitly command, that no soldier atany time do sell, nor any of our subjects presume to buy, or wear, any of thosesaid Badges, other than they to whom we shall give the same, and that undersuch pain and punishment as our Council of War shall think fit to inflict, if anyshall presume to offend against this our Royal command. And we furtherrequire the said Commanders and Wardens of our Mint, to keep severalRegisters of the names of those and of their country, for whom they shall givetheir certificate. Given at our Court at Oxford, the eighteenth day of May1643 .

“ To our trusty and well-beloved Sir William Parkhurstand Thomas Bushell, Esquire, Wardens of Our Mintat Oxford .” 6

6 This Warrant was obligingly communicated by Edward Hawkins, Esq. of the British Museum,together with some of the other facts mentioned in the text. It was sent to Mr. Hawkins with one ofthe Medals supposed to have belonged to a person who had served in a “ Forlorn-hope,” which hasthe effigy of the King on one side, and of Prince Charles on the other. There are also several similarBadges of King Charles in that learned gentleman’s collection ; namely, one of silver gilt, on bothsides of which are the heads of the King and Prince in profile, inscribed car. rex. m. b. f. et