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A letter from a gentleman in the country to his correspondent in the city, concerning the coronation medal, distributed April 11, 1689
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William -- III, -- King of England, 1650-1702 -- Coronation.
Mary -- II, -- Queen of England, 1662-1694 -- Coronation.
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A
LETTER
from
a
Gentleman
in
the
Country
to
his
Correspondent
in
the
City
,
concerning
the
Coronation
Medal
,
distributed
April
11.
1689.
SIR
,
YOU
have
obliged
me
very
much
by
the
account
you
gave
me
of
the
Coronation
:
But
I
have
had
some
Remarques
from
another
hand
,
concerning
the
Truth
of
which
I
suspend
my
Judgment
till
you
inform
me
better
.
I
shall
give
you
the
Relation
in
the
very
words
,
as
I
received
it
.
—
There
was
one
thing
which
much
afflicted
all
true
English-men
,
because
it
is
believed
it
never
hapened
since
William
the
Conqueror's
time
;
which
was
,
that
a
King
and
Queen
of
England
should
make
their
Procession
at
the
Coronation
through
a
treble
Rank
of
Armed
Horse
and
Foot
all
Foreigners
.
It
grieved
us
all
to
see
,
that
for
want
of
some
Interpreters
betwixt
them
and
the
Multitude
,
which
usually
press
upon
such
Occasions
,
an
infinite
of
the
poor
English
,
even
well
wishers
to
the
new
King
and
Queen
,
were
not
only
rudely
treated
with
sterne
Countenances
and
Dutch
Curses
,
but
continually
pushed
back
with
the
Eut-ends
of
the
Soldiers
Musquets
,
or
the
Serjeans
Halbards
,
and
sometimes
received
broken
Heads
,
or
as
dangerous
Bruises
if
they
did
but
endeavour
to
get
nearer
.
I
saw
my self
many
Persons
knocked
and
pushed
upon
the
Breast
with
the
Troopers
Pistols
,
and
pricked
with
their
Swords
for
endeavouring
to
couch
under
the
Horses
heads
;
and
when
any
one
offered
to
get
nearer
through
the
Ranks
of
Horsemen
,
where
they
found
Protection
at
former
Coronations
by
their
own
Country-men
;
these
rude
Strangers
were
sure
to
check
their
Horses
and
make
them
Curvete
or
turn
round
,
which
could
not
be
without
the
hazard
of
breaking
their
Legs
,
or
Bruising
those
that
were
in
the
way
.
I
need
not
mention
the
Tossing
and
Pushing
Men
and
Women
from
Place
to
Place
,
and
Draging
them
through
the
Kennels
,
more
like
Slaves
,
nay
Doggs
,
then
Christians
,
which
made
many
Spectators
Sigh
and
pitty
the
Condition
of
several
Hundreds
whom
they
saw
so
used
:
Whilst
others
were
not
afraid
to
say
,
what
most
I
believe
thought
,
that
this
was
but
the
beginning
,
and
a
light
matter
in
comparison
of
what
the
whole
Body
of
the
English
Nation
(
who
are
not
now
it
seems
to
be
Confided
in
)
must
suffer
under
these
new
Lord-Danes
before
the
King
can
be
so
settled
in
his
Throne
that
he
may
safely
dismiss
his
Foreign
Force
;
nay
some
they
say
had
their
Skulls
broken
and
dy'd
in
the
Crowd
,
though
this
is
endeavoured
to
be
stifled
.
—
Neither
do
you
mention
the
unlucky
Qualm
my
Correspondent
tells
me
the
King
had
;
nor
the
Duke
of
Norfolk's
fall
from
his
Horse
,
when
he
Ushered
in
the
Champion
,
which
were
something
Ominous
.
The
Gold
Medal
you
sent
me
,
the
true
meaning
of
which
you
desire
me
to
explain
,
gave
me
and
some
Friends
of
mine
no
small
Diversion
.
And
to
deal
plainly
with
you
,
I
think
the
Contriver
of
it
hath
done
their
Majesties
little
Service
.
I
need
not
tell
you
that
the
custom
of
Stamping
Medals
(
upon
whose
Reverses
the
Inaugurations
,
Victories
,
or
great
Acheivements
of
Princes
or
Generals
,
were
represented
either
expresly
or
by
some
Emblem
)
is
as
old
as
the
first
Coynage
of
Money
by
the
Grecians
and
Romans
.
Nor
that
in
the
last
Century
and
this
they
have
been
Improved
,
and
many
Ingenious
Devices
invented
suitable
to
the
Noble
Enterprises
which
were
by
those
means
to
be
perpetuated
;
and
are
to
be
found
in
the
Repositories
of
Princes
,
or
published
by
Luchins
and
others
on
that
subject
.
Insomuch
,
that
we
find
even
John
of
Leyden
after
he
had
gotten
entire
possession
of
Munster
,
and
filled
it
with
his
Crew
of
Anabaptists
,
notwithstanding
his
pretended
Sanctity
and
Mortification
,
Coyned
several
Medals
,
which
were
indeed
very
Ominous
to
him
;
for
this
Mushrum
King
,
sprung
from
Holland
,
continued
not
above
six
Months
,
before
he
was
hung
up
in
an
Iron-Cage
,
with
some
of
his
Complices
,
upon
the
top
of
a
Tower
in
Munster
.
I
might
give
you
various
Instances
of
Auspicious
and
Inaugural
Medals
,
but
that
I
intend
this
only
as
a
Letter
.
Therefore
I
shall
proceed
to
the
present
Medal
,
which
,
of
what
nature
it
will
be
,
time
alone
must
shew
;
yet
I
foresee
it
will
give
great
occasion
to
the
Maligners
of
our
new
Crowned
King
and
Queen
to
pass
their
malicious
Censures
on
it
.
One
of
my
Friends
viewing
the
two
Faces
of
the
King
and
Queen
,
said
,
That
such
Conjunctions
in
Medals
,
had
oftentimes
proved
Unfortunate
;
for
he
had
,
not
long
since
,
by
him
the
Medal
made
for
the
two
Dewitts
,
which
much
resembled
this
,
if
the
Head
Attire
had
not
been
different
,
whose
inhuman
Buchery
by
the
Mobilee
of
Amsterdam
,
gave
the
very
first
rise
to
the
then
blooming
Prince
of
Orange's
Greatness
:
And
all
the
World
(
says
he
)
knows
that
King
Phillip
and
Queen
Mary
of
England
,
and
King
Henry
and
Queen
Mary
of
Scotland
,
whose
Faces
and
Names
were
joyned
in
their
Coyns
and
Medals
,
were
not
very
Fortunate
.
But
I
told
him
,
since
the
Parliament
had
joyned
them
in
the
Sovereignty
,
they
could
not
be
dis-joyned
in
their
Coyn
,
and
I
doubted
not
but
their
Fortunes
would
be
alike
,
good
or
bad
.
When
I
received
the
Reverse
,
I
was
heated
into
an
Indignation
that
any
person
should
be
so
indiscreet
,
as
to
choose
an
Emblem
upon
such
an
occasion
,
so
subject
to
mis-interpretation
as
this
would
be
.
For
as
Julius
Caesar
said
to
his
Wife
Calphurnia
,
That
it
was
not
enough
that
she
should
be
Innocent
,
but
that
she
ought
to
be
so
cautious
in
all
her
actions
,
that
she
should
be
free
even
from
Suspicion
;
so
ought
it
to
be
with
Emblems
and
Medals
;
they
ought
to
signifie
and
express
so
clearly
,
the
Worth
and
Greatness
of
those
Princes
Actions
which
they
Represent
,
that
no
sinister
Interpretations
might
be
made
of
them
.
And
this
Indignation
was
increased
by
the
Reflection
which
a
Gentleman
made
,
who
first
look'd
upon
the
Reverse
with
me
.
This
Gentleman
seeing
a
Chariot
,
but
not
understanding
the
Latine
Inscription
,
and
having
heard
the
Town
talk
of
Tullia
,
who
instigated
her
Husband
Tarquinius
to
kill
her
Father
Servius
Tullius
,
King
of
the
Romans
,
that
he
might
succeed
him
in
the
Throne
,
and
,
as
Livy
says
,
Caused
her
Chariot
to
be
driven
over
his
mangled
Body
;
cried
out
,
Is
this
Tullia
's
Chariot
?
This
I
say
shock'd
me
,
and
rais'd
my
anger
against
the
Contriver
,
who
had
chosen
so
ill
an
Emblem
,
which
upon
so
superficial
a
view
,
brought
such
an
odious
History
into
Mens
minds
.
Another
by-stander
seeing
the
Figure
represented
Phaeton
,
whom
the
Poets
feign
to
have
obtained
leave
of
his
Father
Phoebus
to
guide
his
Chariot
for
one
day
,
and
who
by
his
want
of
skill
to
govern
the
Fiery
Horses
,
had
like
to
have
set
the
World
on
Fire
,
had
not
Jupiter
struck
him
dead
with
a
Thunder-bolt
;
Exclaimed
against
the
Emblem
as
full
of
ill
Omens
,
and
said
,
That
the
People
knowing
that
this
King
and
Queen
had
,
not
by
Permission
,
but
by
Violence
,
Ascended
their
Fathers
Throne
,
would
look
upon
this
as
his
Chariot
which
they
drive
,
and
interpreted
Jupiter's
Thunder-bolt
as
a
Sign
of
some
Judgment
of
God
impending
over
our
Gracious
Prince
,
for
this
,
which
he
called
,
An
unnatural
Vsurpation
.
This
made
my
Cheeks
and
Ears
to
burn
,
and
I
told
them
,
they
were
both
extreamly
wide
of
the
Inventors
meaning
.
For
by
Phaeton
he
meant
King
James
,
who
by
Mis-government
had
endangered
the
Destruction
of
this
Kingdom
,
and
that
God
having
Compassion
on
his
Church
and
People
,
had
struck
Him
from
His
Regal
Seat.
But
another
Gentleman
then
present
said
,
That
although
he
verily
believed
that
was
the
Contrivers
meaning
,
yet
there
were
so
many
Exceptions
to
the
congruity
of
that
Fable
with
the
Cicumstances
of
King
James's
Reign
,
that
he
might
as
well
have
offered
the
War
of
the
Gyants
against
Jupiter
,
as
this
,
to
represent
the
Inaugural
Glory
of
our
King
and
Queen
,
which
ought
to
have
been
the
only
Subject
to
be
considered
.
He
said
,
that
Phaeton
could
never
represent
King
James
;
since
the
Throne
or
Chariot
belonged
solely
to
Him
,
as
Hereditary
Lawful
King
;
neither
could
it
be
said
that
He
had
asked
any
ones
leave
to
Guide
it
.
But
that
all
Men
knew
an
Vsurper
was
the
Moral
of
Phaeton
in
the
Fable
,
and
an
Vsurper
in
his
Fathers
Reign
.
Moreover
(
said
he
)
If
King
JAMES
must
be
Phaeton
,
then
King
William
must
be
Jupiter
that
struck
Him
out
of
His
Chariot
,
or
Phoebus
that
re-assumed
it
after
he
had
been
Thunder-struck
;
and
how
disagreeable
this
was
to
the
whole
Scope
of
the
Fable
,
was
obvious
to
every
School-boy
that
read
Ovid's
Metamorphosis
.
Nay
,
he
further
affirmed
;
That
this
Emblem
seems
to
Presage
King
JAMES's
Returning
to
His
Throne
again
,
and
if
so
,
it
would
be
congruous
in
almost
all
its
Curcumstances
.
I
must
confess
Sir
,
I
could
not
heartily
contradict
this
Gentleman
;
but
wish'd
the
Author
had
either
consulted
Books
or
Men
,
for
a
more
significant
and
unexceptionable
Emblem
.
But
since
he
has
been
so
Unfortunate
,
if
not
Malicious
,
if
you
know
the
Person
,
advise
him
to
get
himself
included
in
the
Act
of
Indempnity
;
it
being
a
Crime
,
equal
to
the
Counterfeiting
the
King's
Coyn
,
to
contrive
a
Coronation
Emblem
that
gives
such
occasion
of
Censure
and
Reflection
to
the
Male-contents
,
and
Maligners
of
King
William
,
our
present
Phoebus
,
from
whom
we
expect
a
Wonderful
Deliverance
.
Sir
,
I
am
,
Yours
.
April
the
16th
.
1689.