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V.CONCERNING SOME EOETTIE.RS DIES.THE transcripts here printed of documents amongthe Stuart papers at Windsor were originally madefor Sir Wollaston Franks, when he and Mr. Grueberwere preparing the text of Medallic Illustrations of theHistory of Great Britain and Ireland.As they appear to be of some interest to students ofStuart medals, they are now reproduced with one ortwo exceptions, which are noted. The documents donot record the ultimate issue of the dispute betweenthe titular king, James III, and the widow of NorbertRoettiers. 1 It is, however, known that James, theson of Norbert, visited England in 1730-3 with a viewto striking medals from some of these dies (seeB. Nightingale in Num. Chron., vol. iii, p. 57),and somethirty or forty years later Snelling made a list ofothers still in the possession of James Roettiers (ibid.,p. 59 and p. 187 note). Moreover, a number of diesand puncheons were acquired by Matthew Young, who,in 1828, after making some restrikes, presented thedefaced dies to the British Museum (see J. H. Burn inibid., p. 1 86). They were obtained from the descendantsof John Roettiers, and according to most authorities,1Norbert was the son of John Eoettiers, and in 1703 succeededhis uncle Joseph as Engraver-General of the French mint. From1695 he had filled this office to James III at Paris. He died in1727, leaving a son, James, born in 1707, and later known as JacquesEoettiers de la Tour, who became goldsmith to Louis XV in 1737.