That by vertue of an Order procured by mr Peters from ye Committee for the Kings goods and Jeweils, bearing date the 14th of ffebruary 1648, in presence of two Officers of Colonel Prides Regimt and of Major Bosa and mr Russell I did deliver up into the hands of the said mSuperscript textr Peters All the Books and medalls in St James Librarie committed to my custodie. And particularly by tale 830 medalls of Gold, Greeke and Romane, of wch now 166 are lacking, together wth antient rings of gold silver brass and yron 195, lacking now 22, and Sculptures in severall Stones greate and small 153, lacking now 30, of Silver medalls Greeke and Romane in a little blacke Truncke and in a loose paper 166, of wch 44 are wanting; Att that time I acquainted him that Sr Simond Dewes by a warrt from the late king dated in the Isle of Wight the 19th of October 1648, had borrowed divers of the medalls in gold and restored them all back againe one only excepted, wch shewing him the Warrant I desired him to call for; The rest of the medalls of silver and brass, his occasions would not give him leave to tell; Of wch if the number taken August the 8th 1640 by Comrs appointed by the King sett downe in an Inventorie under mr Pindar the Clerke of the Wardrobe his hand, and by mee faithfully surrendered up unto mr Peters be compared, with that wch now remaineth, the reckoning doth likewisse fall farr short.
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being called of late to view and to make an estimate of Sr Simond D’ewes medalls Greeke and Roman by Sr Thomas Bowes Executor to his will and Testamt I did find there divers of the Kings medalls of Gold and silver. The Rings and Stones were kept from my view, but seen since by the Schoolemaster of Pauls mr Langley, and within theis fiew daies once and again confessed unto me by Sr Thomas himselfe. All well as I am credibly informed Sr Simond, being brought to St James by one verie well knowne, had from mr Peters before his goeing to sea upon what termes he doth best know, unto whome I wish soe much good, that he would give Glorie unto God, in confessing the truth, and expressing ye right number, least the State or Executor suffer wrong. The particular Inventory of all the Kings medalls of Gold taken by mee exactly, wth the inscriptions and sculptures on both sides of each of them, before I did lend out any unto Sr Simond will partly discouer wch in Sr Simonds Cabinett did belong unto the King; And the Rings and Stones when soever they shal be produced will speake if I were silent, and manifest they were taken out of the librarie at St James, being all cutt and published by Gorlaeus in his booke called Dactyliotheca Gorlaei, of whose heires Prince Henrie bought the whole colleccion.' (BL, Add. MS 29547, f.28; Burnett 2020b, pp. 328-9 & 331)
