]> 2026-04-22T13:09:05+00:00 Thomas Hollis - unknown recipient - 1765-11-02 0 en 1765-11-02Z 2366018.5 I was in close connection with the late Duke of Devonshire, on matters of virtù, for some time before he died, and had just obtained his confidence to so absolute a degree as to have employed it to many noble purposes. I had more than half persuaded him, in the ingenious bagatelle way, to cause dies to be engraven for a series of medals of the Dukes of Devonshire. And in the last conversation I had with him, just before he became stricken, I said to him, that I had found the inscription, though not the subject for the reverse of the medal for the first Duke of Devonshire, DOVBLE OR QVITS, at which we both laughed heartily. For he had feelings, feelings too sensible, and died under them.<br> ...<br> Our meetings past from seven to nine in the morning; had he not made matters easy to me, having not a single bye-view, I could not have given in to the connection.' (Blackburne 1780, vol. 1, pp. 171-3; Burnett 2020b, p. 1645) 14947 English Blackburne 1780, vol. 1, pp. 171-3 Burnett 2020b, p. 1645 medals legends death 14947 Thomas Hollis - unknown recipient - 1765-11-02 Correspondence.png 2023-08-17T13:05:55Z 2460174.0457755 2023-08-17T13:06:42Z 2460174.0463194 false Thomas Hollis - unknown recipient - 1765-11-02 0 0 plainlist leaflet 1 [[:Thomas Hollis - unknown recipient - 1765-11-02]] Thomas Hollis - unknown recipient - 1765-11-02# QUERY8b9541f061df79a143407f60fb76d6cd 0 0 csv 1 [[:Thomas Hollis - unknown recipient - 1765-11-02]] Thomas Hollis - unknown recipient - 1765-11-02# QUERYcd13d54741e3aca385ecd8e56bed38dd