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Here follows the book of all such the King’s medals as are I take upon my oath that are as many[?] as I can know until as it until this time were come to my hand from the King or any others where [blank] whereof some are given the King and some collected by his servant van der Doort whereof the particulars of all here following specified as follows that were Prince Henry’s and since our King when he was Prince and now [blank] the Prince’s medals are as it never delivered or come to my hands as I was delivers time did expect it but from time to time still “dilijt” as in Prince Henry’s time as I have understand have been bought were with My Lord Arundel Sir Henry Fanchurch Sir Thomas Challengor Mr Surveyor [Inigo Jones], has been taking and viewing the same and numbering but the cost and keeping thereof did remain in Sir David Murray’s hands and under him his deputy Mr Fleming have been “horelt” [held?] up and our God knows how from Sir David Murray to Mr Fleming from Mr Fleming to his man[?] and then to[?] Queen Anne and her servants Mr John Shirely…from them to…given to the King while he was Prince from the Prince where the cases got the keys in Mr Thomas Carey’s hands to[?] the King since he was Prince the King commanded to deliver them to me but Mr Thomas Carey would never do it or depart from them but answered the King once in my presence “Wrat” [blank] I deliver them in a lump[?] “War” I hearing his unwillingness to depart and I susp[ect] [blank] that man thereof “War schatrt” about I was not very importunate and was never an earnest sitter for them because I perceived that the same said Mr Thomas Carey was very unwilling to depart[?] from them to me but would rather that any other should have them that depended from him or under him or at least of him or he would keep them himself as I perceived by this “War” he keep them in the Schoolchamber in the little room where he would come in several persons to view and show them as partly I myself see that he shut the Schoolchamber when he knew I was in the house that I might not see them or know him[?] he would [blank] them to [blank] to do with as Mr John Karings [Keirincx?], Mistress Karelij[?] and other [blank] and more to me unknown he would bring to them and then[?] since by [blank] when the Schoolchamber and the little room was to be “foijt” for the King’s children he got the key and lock at Whitehall to be “sut” [new?] and by the Privy Lodging keepers and had them removed from St James’s [said?] little room [in?] the Schoolchamber to Whitehall by his footman[?] and such like his servants and then all the while afterwards keep to him in his keeping and removed them in his chamber where his wife and [son?] and his other agents had the [viewing and fingering] thereof but when I came there were “horelt” [held?] away and [hidden] from me and since have found about the time have I found by [bag] sell in the goldsmith shops to sell by [the ounces] silver ones for a [“nobel” the ounce] which [when?] was to procure money to buy [them when?] I came were all bought up so that it was very likely and probable that many are disposed and [dismissed?] so that I not otherwise desire to [blank] but by weight and number because they have been in so many [hand?] upon them “horelt” [held?]

Van der Doort c.1639

Item a grate[?] with some white marble antique statue broken off, given to the King [following this is van der Doort's autobiographical note about difficulty of keeping King's medals inherited from Henry Prince of Wales - see above & Walpole Society scan]

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 155, № 10
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited: 
gift
Location: 
Original Manuscript page number: 
MS. Ash. 1514, f. 143v
Identification certainty: 
Unknown