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Inc il 28 years and for my part never found him
(Guilty any dishonesty. My Predecessor Mr. Consul
Barton gave him a very good Character."
It will be noticed that the above docu- m?nts appear to be the result of a commission of inquiry by a Mr. Purnell, acting as Consul in Cyprus. Presumably this Mr. " William " Purnell was a relation of the John Purnell who acted as Consul in Aleppo and Alexandretta between the years 1717 and (abrfut) 1750. Mr. George Barton had evidently retired for a time from the Consul- ship of Cyprus, although he did not die until 1739.
The next document in point of date pre- served amongst the Aleppo papers relating to Cyprus, and signed by a British Consul there resident, is a certificate appointing a " Cancellier " to the Consulate in 1735-6, and signed :
" We Stiles Lupart Esq. Consul for His Majesty the King, &c. in this Island and Kingdom of Cyprus."
Alexander Drummond united the whole
district of Aleppo and Cyprus under one
Consulate, and Irom this time onwards (1750)
the island was considered as only a Vice-
Consulate, as it had been at first.
An interesting copy of the will of John Baldwin of Cyprus, dated 1 April, 1771 r exists amongst the Miscellaneous Corre- spondence at the Public Becord Office. It is attested by William Bashley Turner, who styles himself
"Pro-Consul for his Majesty the Kiijg of Great Britain, &c. &c. Pro- V. -Consul for their I.M., for his Majesty the King of Denmark, for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and for their High Mightinesses- the States General of the United Provinces of the- Netherlands, in this Island and Kingdom of Cyprus."
Seal of the British Chancery of Cyprus is attached. This Mr. W. B. Turner would presumably be the son or some relative of Mr. Timothy Turner, the Consul who seems-- to have died in 1768.
CONSULS IN CYPRUS.
Petro Savioni, Vice-Consul (acting)
Richard Glover, Vice-Consul
1626
1636
Aleppo Court
London Court
B ilthazar Sovran, French Consul (acting)...
Meorge Barton, Consul
Wilhatn Purnell, Consul ...
1693
1730
17321733
Van Bruyn
Documents
Styles Lupart, Consul
1735-1736
- Wakeman, Consul
Alex. Drummond, Consul John Boddington, Vice-Consul (acting) ... Jno. Brand Kirkhouse, Vice-Consul (acting) Timothy Turner, Vice-Consul
1751
17511759
17591762
1762-1763
1763-1768
MaritiV Travels"
William Bashley Turner, Pro Vice-Consul
John Baldwin, Vice-Consul
Nicholas Caprara (acting)
17711776
1776-1781
17841785
Documents
London Kal.
P.R.O.
Michael de Vezin, Vice-Consul . .
17851792
Tomb
- Peristiani, Vice-Consul
17921805
Clarke
- Vondiziano, Vice-Consul
John Lilburn, Vice-Consul
1806-1840
18401843
LOG. inf.
Tomb
Niven Kerr, Vice-Consul...
18431850
Ross
A. Palma, Vice-Consul
18501860
F.O. List
P. Wilkinson, Vice-Consul
H. P. White, Vice-Consul [D. Colnaghi, Vice-Consul]
T. B. Sandwith, Vice-Consul
18601861
1863-1865
18651870
F.O. List
F.O. List
F.O. List
Hamilton Lang, Consul ..
C. F. Watkins, Vice-Consul
18701877
18771878
Omitted F.O. List
F.O. List
Nicosia, Cyprus.
GEO. JEFFERY, F.S.A. ,
Curator of Ancient Monuments.
A ROYALIST CRYPTOGRAM. Mercurius
Melancholicus (1647-9) had three competing
" authors," who sometimes published simul-
taneously. Dr. John Hackluyt, Chaplain
to " Major- General " Massey ; John Crouch,
the printer ; and Martin Parker, the famous
ballad-writer, all professed to be the genuine
Melancholicus in 1648. As a result no
collection of this periodical contains all
the different numbers published, for they
cannot be identified. But I think that
Hackluyt alone was writing the Mercury
at the time when the cryptograms set out
below appeared ; and if so, he must have
been in hiding, for he had escaped from
prison for the third time.
In the Thomason Collection, Mercurius Melancholicus, No. 56, for 18-25 Sept., 1648, commences, like most other numbers, with a line of " printers' flower " as a heading to-
