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154 HELEN FARQUHAK.an Inventory of these together with that of the Medals ;and to have owned that y e one was the property of y eCrown, the other not ;If M r . Roettier had thought there wasany distinction. But believing all to be the Kings, he yetmade a List only of y e Medals, because his intention intransmitting that list, was only to get leave to strike moreof the same sort and publish the whole set of them.Quaere Whether when Old Eoettiers the Father went to livein Red Lyon Street, he did not keep all those things hebrought with him from the Tower in some Chest or Cabinetand show them only to the Kings Friends? As to y e8 years after y e Revolution when he lived in the GraversApartment in the Tower and was employed as such therewas no need he should make any Secret of such matters.However the late M r . Roettier often said that thatcollection was for a great number of j^ears kept private,for fear of being seized, and was by that means preserved.And he valued himself particularly for y e Secrecy withwhich he brought them over ;which was altogether needlessif the property had been in his family and not in y e Crown.As to y e private Medals, as they are called it is to bepresumed that they were all struck, by the particularcommand, and at the expense of the Crown. It is certainthat some of them were so ; particularly the Medal ofCol. Strangwick. 13Nor can it be doubted, but the Engraver General when byorder of y e Crown he strikes any Medals is payd all y e chargesof doing so as well for; making y e Puncheons & Dyes asfor working them off & for y e Gold and Silver of which theyconsist.If indeed the Graver makes any to dispose of himself, hehas yeuse of the Dyes but the Metal is ; supplied at his owncharge and in these two;articles and his salary his profitsconsist which I suppose to be the meaning of those wordsin y e Patent, that grant to M r . Roettier all if Proffitt andbenefit of stick Medals. However y e Puncheons and Dyes,not being mentioned in those words cannot be supposed tobe included in them.It would not have been amiss, ify e Memorialist hadannexed an entire copy of that Patent, which might be ofuse to clear up the whole matter.As to what is said about consulting the present Officersof the English Mint, for their decision of y e point, it is13See V, No. 3, struck by order of Charles II.