There is an engraving of this medal in Van Loon’s Histoire Metallique des Pays Bas.  It is also imperfectly engraved in Edwards’ Medallic History of England, for the Jesuit is represented kneeling on the shore, and Pinkerton, who furnished the text, calls it “a boy kneeling on the shore.”  The medal is so rare that probably the artist could obtain only a rubbed or mutilated impression to engrave from.  My description is from a {59} specimen, in my own collection, as fine as the day it was minted.

I may add that both Van Loon and Pinkerton have engraved the legend in the collar erroneously, “honi soit qui bon y pense;” it should be “non.”

B. NIGHTINGALE.

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ROGER DE COVERLEY.

In the Spectator’s description of Sir Roger de Coverley it is said, “that his great-grandfather was the inventor of that famous country dance which is called after him.”  To the tune, as printed in Chappell’s English Melodies, is appended a note to the effect that it was called after “Roger of Coverley” (Cowley, near Oxford).

Can any one inform me—­

I. Where any notice of that Roger is to be found?

II.  What is the etymon of “Cowley” (Temple Cowley and Church Cowley)?

III.  If any notice of the tune is to be met with earlier than 1695, when it was printed by H. Playford in his Dancing Master?

W.

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HISTORY OF LANDED AND COMMERCIAL POLICY OF ENGLAND—­HISTORY OF EDWARD
II.

Who was the author of the two following works?—­“Remarks upon the History of the Landed and Commercial Policy of England, from the Invasion of the Romans to the Accession of James I. 2 vols.  London:  printed for E. Brooke, in Bell Yard, Temple Bar, MDCCLXXXV.”

“The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II, King of England and Lord of Ireland, with the Rise and Fall of his great Favourites, Gaveston and the Spencers.  Written by E.F. in the year 1627, and printed verbatim from the original.  London:  Printed by J.C. for Charles Harper, at the Flower-de-Luce in Fleet St.; Samuel Crouch, at the Princes’ Arms, in Pope’s head Alley in Cornhill; and Thomas Fox, at the Angel in Westminster Hall, 1680. (a portrait of Ed. II.)” In the 1st vol.  Harl.  Miscell. it is said that the above was found with the papers of the first Lord Falkland, and is attributed to him.  My copy has Faulconbridge inserted in MS. over the F., and a book plate of Earl Verney, motto “Prodesse quam conspici,” with an escutcheon of pretence.

ANGLO-CAMBRIAN

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THE REVEREND THOMAS LEMAN.

Mr. Editor,—­Amongst the later authorities on subjects of British-Roman antiquity, the Rev. Thomas Leman is constantly referred to, and in terms of great commendation.