Note 38 — THE ROYAL MINT. (continued 2)

In Evelyn’s “Discourse of Medals,” 1697, p. 224, occurs the following passage:—“Mr. Slingsby, to whom I suggested the Decus & Tutamen out of a Viniet in Cardinel de Richlieu’s Greek Testament, printed at the Louvre, hindering his intended Addition (in armis), which neither would have become the impress, nor stood gracefully in the circle.”