Amongst the less valuable articles sold are mentioned three swords with scabbards of cloth of gold, which were disposed of for £1 each. Here again somebody secured a great bargain, for these three swords would in all probability be those sent to Henry VIII by the Pope, when he bestowed on that monarch the title of “Defender of the Faith.” These three swords were reproduced from ancient drawings at the Restoration of Charles II, and are now preserved in the Jewel House. They are the swords of Justice, Temporal and Spiritual, and the Sword of Mercy. The point of this latter sword has been purposely broken off about six inches, as an emblem of mercy. The ultimate fate of three original swords is not known. Only a short time ago, however, three swords very like these were dug up at Mitcham when the foundations of a house were being prepared. This spot has long been known as the site of an ancient Anglo-Saxon settlement, and it is probable that there was still a hamlet here in Cromwellian days. It is, therefore, quite possible that someone bought or acquired the swords at the great dispersal, that their history got lost sight of, and that they were lost and buried amidst the natural decay which ordinary buildings suffer in the course of centuries. One of the King’s military emblems, St. George’s Spurs, are mentioned as having been sold for £1 13s. 4d., they had always been held to be of pure gold, but were sold as silver gilt. Last of the list comes an almost pathetic article, to wit, one old home comb “worth nothing.” This was probably the comb which may have been used for centuries, and by many Kings, to rearrange their hair after the Archbishop had perchance disturbed it when anointing His Majesty’s head at the coronation. A list of the chief portions of Regalia, broken up and sold by order of Parliament, with the prices realised, mentioned in _The Crown Jewels of England_,[10] may be of interest:— “A true and perfect Inventory of all the plate and jewells now being in the upper Jewell-house of the Tower, in the charge of Sir Henry Mildmay, together with an appraisement of them, made and taken the 13th, 14th, and 15th daies of August, 1649: The Imperial crowne of massy gold, £1110 0 0 weighing 7 lbs. 6 oz., valued at The queenes crowne of massy gold, £338 3 4 weighing 3 lbs. 10 oz., A small crowne found in an iron chest, £73 16 8 formerly in the Lord Cottington’s charge (from other accounts this appears to have been the crown of Edward VI.), ——the gold, the diamonds, rubies, £355 0 0 sapphires, etc., The globe, weighing 1 lb. 5-1/4 oz., £57 10 0 Two coronation bracelets, weighing 7 £36 0 0 oz. (with three rubies and twelve pearls), Two sceptres, weighing 18 oz., £60 0 0