WILLIAM III. — QUEEN ANNE.] HONORARY MEDALS.

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in the “ Royal Sun,” with other ships in the distance, under the words, noxnulla secuta est, and on the exergue, pugn. nav. int. ang. et fr. 21maii 1692. 9 This Medal was also conferred upon John Tupper, Esquire, ofGuernsey, for having opportunely conveyed to Admiral Russell at Spithead,intelligence of the French Fleet being at sea; and the Medal, together with amassive gold Chain attached, is still in the possession of his descendant. * 1

In 1695, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty ordered a gold Chainand Medal of the value of £50 to be given to William Thompson, the masterof a small hoy, of Poole, for having, with only one other man and a boy,captured a French privateer of very superior force; and similar rewards were,about the same time, bestowed upon William Williams, master of a fishingboat, of Whitsand Bay, for having re-captured several coasting vessels, 2 andon Peter Jolliffe, the master of a hoy, of Weymouth, for having attacked anddriven a French privateer on the Island of Purbeck. 3 These cases shew thatthe distribution of Medals for gallant conduct was not limited to the officersand seamen of the Royal Navy.

Queen Anne also rewarded Naval services with Honorary Medals: andit has been stated, that Her Majesty ordered that if any Captain took ordestroyed an Enemy’s Man of War, he should be rewarded with £ 100, or agold Chain and Medal of that value; 4 but no evidence has been discoveredthat any of the Medals which were struck in commemoration of the victoriesof the Army, were conferred either on the officers or privates as personaldistinctions.

On the 11th of October 1702, Admiral Sir George Rooke made a suc-cessful attack upon the French and Spanish galleons, in Yigo Bay; and itmay be inferred that one of the numerous Medals struck in honour of theevent, was conferred upon him, and on the other Admirals and Captains of hisFleet, because the following circumstance proves that Medals were given toinferior officers for their services on that occasion. The “ Torbay,” which bore

9 Metallick History of the Reigns of King William and Queen Mary, Queen Anne and King GeorgeI. Plate xiii.

1 John Elisha Tupper, Esq., of the Cotils in Guernsey, who in 182 6 , obtained permission to bear arepresentation of this Medal and Chain, as an Honourable Augmentation to his Arms and Crest.

• London Gazette, No. 3085, and Campbell’s Lives of the Admirals, Yol. III. pp. 153, 154.

3 Ibid, and London Gazette, No. 3089.

4 United Service Journal for April 1829, p. 408.