The Jewel House: An Account of the Many Romances Connected with the Royal Regalia: Together with Sir Gilbert Talbot's Account of Colonel Blood's PlotYounghusband, G. J. (George John)
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The Jewel House: An Account of the Many Romances Connected with the Royal Regalia: Together with Sir Gilbert Talbot's Account of Colonel Blood's Plot
Younghusband, G. J. (George John)
Crown jewels -- Great Britain
Three swords with scabbards of cloth £3 0 0
of goulde, at
One old combe of horne, worth nothing, £0 0 0
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Total in the chest, £4 11 0”
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The old Regalia having thus been wantonly destroyed, it became necessary
when the monarchy was restored to make anew the emblems of royalty. This
work was entrusted to Sir Robert Vyner, the Court Jeweller, with
instructions that he was to follow as closely as possible the fashions
of those destroyed.
The order included two crowns, one the Crown of England, known as St.
Edward’s Crown, with which the King was to be crowned, and the other a
State Crown which the King in accordance with ancient custom would wear
on all other State occasions during his reign. Two sceptres also were to
be made, one the Sceptre with the Cross and the other the Sceptre with
the Dove. The Orb of gold set with jewels and surmounted by a cross came
next; then St. Edward’s Staff, which is to guide the King’s footsteps,
and the Armilla[11] and Ampulla.[12] The bill for these, together with
some minor portions of the Regalia, amounted to £32,000, or about
£320,000 at the present purchasing value of the sovereign.
Sir Edward Walker, Garter Principal King-at-Arms in the reign of Charles
II, gives an interesting and detailed account of this restoration of the
Regalia.[13]
“Because through the Rapine of the late unhappy times, all the
Royall Ornaments and Regalia heretofore preserved from age to age in
the Treasury of the Church at Westminster, were taken away, sold and
destroyed, the Committee mett divers times not only to direct the
remaking such Royall Ornaments and Regalia, but even to sette the
form and fashion of each particular: all which doe now retayne the
old names and fashion, although they have been newly made and
prepared by orders given to the Earle of Sandwich, Master of the
Great Wardrobe, and S^r Gilbert Talbott, Kn^t., Master of the Jewell
House.
Hereupon the Master of the Jewell House had order to provide two
Imperial Crownes sett with pretious Stones, the one to be called St.
Edward’s Crowne, wherewith the king was to be crowned, and the other
to be putt on after his Coronation, before his Ma^ties retorne to
Westminster Hall. Also
An Orbe of Gold with a Crosse sett with pretious Stones.
A Scepter with a Crosse sett with pretious Stones, called St.
Edward’s.
A Scepter with a Dove sett with pretious Stones.
A long Scepter, or Staffe of Gold with a Crosse upon the top, and a
Pike at the foote of steele, called St. Edward’s staffe.
A Ring with a Ruby.
A Paire of Gold Spurrs.
A Chalice, and Paten of Gold.
An Ampull for the Oyle and a spoone.
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