Frederick V (1596-1632), Count Palatine, Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662) of Bohemia and their son Prince Henry Frederick (1614-1629), oval silver portrait medal by Simon de Passe, circa 1616, signed SP (in reversed monogram), busts of the Count, his wife the Princess and the infant Prince, all with lace collars, the Prince with lace bonnet, she with jewels in hair and with necklace, rev., two shields supported by lions, helm and two-tailed lion crest above, motto below SVPERATA TELLVS SYDERA Donat, legend around, EFFIG ILLUST PR FREDERICI DG CO PAL ET ELIZABETHÆ PO PR IAC MAG BRITT REG FILLIA, VNA CVM SERO PR FERDERICO EORU FIL PRIMOGENIto, 64 x 51 mm (MI 218/69; Stemper 161; Exter II, 368, 102u). Ex Swiss Bank Corporation 3 May 2001, lot 787.

James I, silver oval portrait medal by Simon de Passe, circa 1616, in imitation of engraving, signed signed SP (in monogram) fe, in border cartouches to left and right, bust of the King three-quarters right wearing high lace ruff and Collar of the Garter over ermine robe, in cartouche above a crown dividing I - R and on scroll below "Jacobus DG Mag Britt Fra & Hybe Rex", rev., crowned Royal shield with lion and unicorn supporters, helm crested with crown and lion above, motto in scroll below, "BEATI PACIFICI", IACOBVS DEI GRATIA MAGNÆ BRITANNIÆ FRANCIÆ ET HYBERNIÆ REX, 55.5 x 43mm (MI 214/61; Farquhar I, 159; H&P pl 27,10). 

TUDOR. Henry VIII. 1509-1547. AR Medal (50mm, 54.68 g, 12h). Commemorating the King’s Assumption of the Title “Supreme Head of the Church of England”. By Henry Bayse (or Basse), chief engraver. Dated 1545. HENRICVS OCTA ANGLIÆ FRAN CI ET HIB REX FIDEI DEFENSOR ET/IN TERR ECCLE ANGLI ET HI BE SVB CHRIST CAPVT SVPREMVM (Henry, eighth king of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, and on Earth, supreme head of the Church of England and Ireland under Christ), bust right, wearing a jeweled cap, ermine robe and jeweled collar; crowned Tudor rose above; crowned harp to left; crowned portcullis to right; crowned lis below; quadrate stops in legend / H R/האינריכוש/שמיני ג מלך באמונה/גוז ובעדת אנגליאי/וחיבירניאי מתחת משיח/ראש עליוז/ΕΝΡΙΚΟΣ ΟϘTΔΟΟΣ TPIΣ/ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ • ΠΙΣΤΕΩΣ ΠΡΟ= /ΣΤΑΤΗΣ • ΕΝ ΤΗ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ/ΤΗΣ ΑΓΓΛΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΙΒΕΡΝΙ-/ΑΣ • ΥΠΟ ΧΡΙΣΤΩ • ΑΚΡΗ/• (rosette) Η ΚΕΦΑΛΗ • (lis) •/• Londini 1545 • in thirteen lines; rosette and lis flanking ראש עליוז. MI (Hawkins) 44 and pl. III, 6; G. F. Hill, “The medal of Henry VIII as Supreme Head of the Church,” NC (1916), pp. 194-195; R. Bishop, “Hebraica Veritas,” Spink Auction Insider (Winter 2009-2010), pp. 18-21 = Eimer 26 and note and pl. I, 26a (this medal referenced and illustrated). An original striking with a fine late portrait of Henry VIII. The first coronation medal in the English series. Ex Spink and Son, London.

TUDOR. Henry VIII. 1509-1547. AR Medal (50mm, 54.68 g, 12h). Commemorating the King’s Assumption of the Title “Supreme Head of the Church of England”. By Henry Bayse (or Basse), chief engraver. Dated 1545. HENRICVS OCTA ANGLIÆ FRAN CI ET HIB REX FIDEI DEFENSOR ET/IN TERR ECCLE ANGLI ET HI BE SVB CHRIST CAPVT SVPREMVM (Henry, eighth king of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, and on Earth, supreme head of the Church of England and Ireland under Christ), bust right, wearing a jeweled cap, ermine robe and jeweled collar; crowned Tudor rose above; crowned harp to left; crowned portcullis to right; crowned lis below; quadrate stops in legend / H R/האינריכוש/שמיני ג מלך באמונה/גוז ובעדת אנגליאי/וחיבירניאי מתחת משיח/ראש עליוז/ΕΝΡΙΚΟΣ ΟϘTΔΟΟΣ TPIΣ/ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ • ΠΙΣΤΕΩΣ ΠΡΟ= /ΣΤΑΤΗΣ • ΕΝ ΤΗ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ/ΤΗΣ ΑΓΓΛΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΙΒΕΡΝΙ-/ΑΣ • ΥΠΟ ΧΡΙΣΤΩ • ΑΚΡΗ/• (rosette) Η ΚΕΦΑΛΗ • (lis) •/• Londini 1545 • in thirteen lines; rosette and lis flanking ראש עליוז. MI (Hawkins) 44 and pl. III, 6; G. F. Hill, “The medal of Henry VIII as Supreme Head of the Church,” NC (1916), pp. 194-195; R. Bishop, “Hebraica Veritas,” Spink Auction Insider (Winter 2009-2010), pp. 18-21 = Eimer 26 and note and pl. I, 26a (this medal referenced and illustrated). An original striking with a fine late portrait of Henry VIII. The first coronation medal in the English series. Ex Spink and Son, London.

Charles, Prince of Wales, oval silver portrait medal, by Simon de Passe, dated 1616, in imitation of engraving, signed Si: Pa: fec. On obv., armoured bust of the Prince three-quarters right wearing lace ruff, sash and Garter badge on ribbon, "Carolus Princeps walliæ", rev., crowned shield within Garter, ILLUSTRISS ET POTEN PR CAROLUS PRINCEPS WALLIÆ DUX CORN YOR ET ALB ETC, 55.5 x 43mm. (MI 216/66).

Charles, Prince of Wales, oval silver portrait medal, by Simon de Passe, dated 1616, in imitation of engraving, signed Si: Pa: fec. On obv., armoured bust of the Prince three-quarters right wearing lace ruff, sash and Garter badge on ribbon, "Carolus Princeps walliæ", rev., crowned shield within Garter, ILLUSTRISS ET POTEN PR CAROLUS PRINCEPS WALLIÆ DUX CORN YOR ET ALB ETC, 55.5 x 43mm. (MI 216/66).

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. Gold Medal (60mm, 79.05 g, 12h). Dominion of the Seas. Original; cast and chased by Nicolas Briot in London. 1639. CAROLVS · I · D : G · MAG · BRITANN · FRAN · ET · HIB · REX · (lozenge and double lozenge stops), Bare-headed bust of Charles I to right, his hair long and with ‘lovelock’ on his left shoulder, wearing a decorated cuirass with the plain collar of his shirt falling over it, and the St. George of the Order of the Garter suspended on a ribbon from his neck; on shoulder truncation, 1639 (barely visible); behind near the edge, BRIOT / NEC · META · MIHI · QVÆ · TERMINVS · ORBI · (Nor is a limit to me that which is a boundary to the world), War ship sailing to right, under full sail and with sailors on deck and in the rigging; on the left, seashore with fortress. Cf. MI 285/97 (unlisted in gold and with date on truncation of shoulder); Eimer 136a corr. (no date on truncation of shoulder in gold); P. C. Godman, Itchingfield, Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County 41 (1898), pp. 95-158, and especially pp. 118 ff. and pl. 7 (facing p. 118, this medal); Jones 174 (in silver). Unique and of the greatest historical importance. This medal was the personal property of King Charles I and was given, as a keepsake, to Bishop William Juxon during the last few weeks of the King’s life. It has passed by bequest and descent until 2010. Provenance: Made for Charles I by N. Briot in 1639 and kept by the King until he gave it to Bishop Juxon in 1649; from Juxon as a gift to his niece Elizabeth Merlott c. 1649, by descent in the Merlott family to Charles Merlott Chitty in 1815, then by descent from him to William Ffarington Chitty in 1867, who, in turn, left it to Percy Sanden Godman in 1878, by descent within the Godman family until 2010, from whom it was loaned for display in the Pepys Library of Magdalene College, Cambridge (1986-2009).

STUART. Charles I. 1625-1649. Gold Medal (60mm, 79.05 g, 12h). Dominion of the Seas. Original; cast and chased by Nicolas Briot in London. 1639. CAROLVS · I · D : G · MAG · BRITANN · FRAN · ET · HIB · REX · (lozenge and double lozenge stops), Bare-headed bust of Charles I to right, his hair long and with ‘lovelock’ on his left shoulder, wearing a decorated cuirass with the plain collar of his shirt falling over it, and the St. George of the Order of the Garter suspended on a ribbon from his neck; on shoulder truncation, 1639 (barely visible); behind near the edge, BRIOT / NEC · META · MIHI · QVÆ · TERMINVS · ORBI · (Nor is a limit to me that which is a boundary to the world), War ship sailing to right, under full sail and with sailors on deck and in the rigging; on the left, seashore with fortress. Cf. MI 285/97 (unlisted in gold and with date on truncation of shoulder); Eimer 136a corr. (no date on truncation of shoulder in gold); P. C. Godman, Itchingfield, Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County 41 (1898), pp. 95-158, and especially pp. 118 ff. and pl. 7 (facing p. 118, this medal); Jones 174 (in silver). Unique and of the greatest historical importance. This medal was the personal property of King Charles I and was given, as a keepsake, to Bishop William Juxon during the last few weeks of the King’s life. It has passed by bequest and descent until 2010. Provenance: Made for Charles I by N. Briot in 1639 and kept by the King until he gave it to Bishop Juxon in 1649; from Juxon as a gift to his niece Elizabeth Merlott c. 1649, by descent in the Merlott family to Charles Merlott Chitty in 1815, then by descent from him to William Ffarington Chitty in 1867, who, in turn, left it to Percy Sanden Godman in 1878, by descent within the Godman family until 2010, from whom it was loaned for display in the Pepys Library of Magdalene College, Cambridge (1986-2009).