General Sir Thomas Fairfax (1612-1671)

General Sir Thomas Fairfax (1612-1671), 3rd Lord Fairfax, silver Military Reward, 1645, small oval badge, by Thomas Simon, armoured bust of Fairfax left, with plain collar and mantle fastened on left shoulder, rev., MERVISTI 1645, in four lines, POST HAC MELIORA around, 27 x 19mm (MI 318/151; pl. XXVII, 14; Eim. 146b; Platt II, type B, pp. 98-99). Very fine, rare.

A Military reward bestowed by Parliament and the City of London on those who served with Fairfax at the battles of Marston Moor in 1644 and Naseby in 1645.

Provenance: Bt. Lion Passant [Exeter], March, 2001.