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Ben Jochanan,

Bezaliel,

Caleb,

Corah,

David,

Doeg,

Egypt,

Eliab,

Ethnic-Plot,

Gath,

Hebron,

Hebrew Priefts,

Helon,

Hufhai,

Jebufites,

Jerufalem,

Jews,

Jonas,

Jordan,

Jotham,

Jothran,

Ifhbofheth,

Ifrael,

Iffachar,

Judas,

Ifhban,

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Mephibofheth,

Michal,

Nadab,

Rev. Mr. Samuel Johnfon.
Duke of Beaufort.

Ford, Lord Grey of Werk.
Dr. Titus Oates.

King Charles II.

Elkanah Settle, the city poet.
France.

Sir Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington.

The Popish Plot.

The Land of Exile, more particularly Bruffels, where King Charles II. long refided.

Scotland.

The Church of England Clergy. Earl of Feverfham, a Frenchman by birth, and nephew to Marfhal Turenne.

Hyde, Earl of Rochefter.

Papifts.

London.

English.

Sir William Jones, a great lawyer.
Dover.

Saville, Marquis of Hallifax.
Lord Dartmouth.

Richard Cromwell.
England.

SThomas Thynne, Efq; who was
fhot in his coach.

Mr. Ferguson, a canting Teacher.
Sir Robert Clayton, Alderman,
and one of the City Members.
Pordage.

Catharine, Queen of Charles II.
Lord Howard of Efcrick.

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much juftice as to you? It is the reprefentation of your own hero: It is the picture drawn at length, which you admire and prize fo much in little. None of your ornaments are wanting; neither the landscape of your Tower, nor the rifing fun; nor the Anno Domini of your new fovereign's coronation. This muft needs be a grateful undertaking to your whole party especially to thofe who have not been fo happy as to purchase the original. I hear the graver has made a good market of it: all his kings are bought up already; or the value of the remainder fo inhanced, that many a poor Polander who would be glad to worship the image, is not able to go to the cost of him: but must be content to fee him here. I must confefs I am no great artist; but fign-poft painting will ferve the turn to remember a friend by; efpecially when better is not to be had. Yet for your comfort the lineaments are true: and though he fat not five times to me, as he did to B. yet I have confulted hiftory; as the Italian painters do, when they would draw a Nero or a Caligula; though they have not seen the man, they can help their imagination by a ftatue of him, and find out the colouring from Suetonius and Tacitus. Truth is, you might have spared one fide of your Medal: the head would be feen to more advantage if it were placed on a spike of the

Tower,

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