At the next Toledan Council, Recaredo presided in all pomp, accompanied by his queen, Baddo. The sovereigns first, then all the converted Arians, bishops, priests, deacons, and lords and leaders, read aloud this act of allegiance to Rome. Recaredo was the first to swear: "I, Recaredo, King, maintaining with my heart, and affirming with my word, this true and holy confession, which alone the Catholic Church professes all over the globe, have subscribed with my right hand, God protecting me." Baddo, his wife, then swore: "I, Baddo, glorious queen, have subscribed with my hand and all my heart to that faith I believe in and have admitted." Followed the oath of each bishop and priest; and then came the turn of the nobles. Imagination readily enough evokes the scene from such dry details, and pictures one of exceptional solemnity, with a touch of barbarism, beginning to borrow undreamed of luxury from a departed civilisation, without taste or tact to render that luxury beautiful. We have only to visit the Musée de Cluny to form some notion of Gothic gold-work by inspection of the Gothic votive crowns discovered in Toledo, and it is easy to picture this rough humanity, from monarch to knight, in their flowing cloaks, grave, impressed, all in deadly earnest, and the mitred and mighty prelates forming an inner circle, in gold and silvered embroideries, bejewelled, and full of glory and contentment. The importance of the nobles we gather from a list of Gothic dignitaries. First came the dukes, counts, palatines of the royal house. Then came the first count, the count of the drinking-cup, _Escansias_; the chamberlain, Count _Cubiculario_; the chief groom, Count _Estabulario_; then the major domos, counts of the patrimony, the counters-in-chief, Count _Numerario_, the count of the viands, Count _Silonario_; knight of the youths, Count of the _Espartarios_, captain of the guard; Count of the _Sagrarios_, keeper of sacred things; Count of the _Sargentarios_, keeper of the treasure. The grandees or _ricos hombres_ were governors of the territories and kingdoms.