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VIII.—New Light on St. Edward's Crown

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2011

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One of the best-known documents in the possession of our Society is perhaps our MS. No. 108, with its detailed valuation of the Crown Jewels in 1649, and its uncompromising footnote ‘The foremenciond Crownes since ye Inventorye was Taken are accordinge to ordr of Parlamt totallie Broken and defaced’. We have seen it cited, in whole or in part, in various works on history in general and the Crown Jewels in particular, we have taken for granted certain conclusions from it, and we have perhaps been less ready to accept certain other conclusions drawn from it by other people. We think, in short, that we know it pretty well, and have seen all it has to show us; yet after all, this list of pieces of jewellery, with weights and valuations, may yield something more to us when we compare its information with thatsupplied by earlier inventories.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1959

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