Medal - Charles I, Dominion of the Sea

Reverse

Warship sailing to right, under full sail and with sailors on deck and in the rigging; on the left, seashore with fortress.

Script: Latin

Lettering: NEC · META · MIHI · QVÆ · TERMINVS · ORBI ·

Translation: Nor is a limit to me that which is a boundary to the world

Engraver: Nicolas Briot

Comment

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 Farington 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).