Cast of a commemorative medal. It depicts a female figure holding an olive branch and pair of scales with crown and sceptre in one pan and a scroll in the other, the whole symbolizing liberty and equity. Legend: 'UTRIQUE FIDELIS'. Exergue: 'MDCCLXXVII / KIRK F[ecit]'. This is a probably 19th century pewter cast of the reverse of one of several commemorative medals made by John Kirk to the designs of Isaac Gosset and dated 1777. Their obverses bore the profile portraits of eminent legal figures: the three in the British Museum are of Charles Pratt, Baron Camden; Henry Bathhurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, Lord Chancellor of England, and Charles Murray, Baron Mansfield and Lord Chief Justice. The last is most notable in a maritime context for the 'Somerset judgment' of 1772, which in effect confirmed the legal impossibility of slave-owning in England (i.e. anyone brought to England in that state became free in arrival).