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cortege was crossing the Wash: the jewels were all swept away.
Crown and all were lost so, in 1216.
A lot of crowns have been through vicissitudes. When Richard III.
dead, on Field of Bosworth, its crown was insured at a soldier and
hidden in a bush. Mr. Reginald de Braying discovered him/it, and it restored
it to his/her correct place. But to balance such cases very of the
queens have brought their his/her own crowns to the national treasury.
In 1340 Edward III. busy also the jewels of the queen to pick up money
to fight France.
The same inventory ago mention of certain treasures deposited
to Westminster: the values are tied up to each of these, crowns,
flat, bracelets and so before. Also, with praiseworthy zeal, a
list was kept of other articles stored in an iron chest among that
it is the articles, "a coloured of the liver bathrobe of silk, a lot of old man and value
nothing", and "an old combe of horne, value nothing." A frivolous
scene is described by Wood, when the notorious Republican, Marten,
it had access to the treasure stored in the Westminster. Some of the intelligence
of the period assembled in the treasury and takings of the iron
a lot of chest of his/her jewels, a crown, scepter and bathrobes; these
they put on the happy poet, George Withers "that, being this way
crowned and it really ordered, first it marched on the room with a
grandiose gait, and later, with thousand ridicule and apish
actions, exposed the sacred ornaments to contempt and laughter."
Without doubt the comb" of "olde played an appropriate part in these
pranks,--perhaps you/he/she has been able to also serve as it orchestrates.
A Lord Henry Mildmay, in 1649 it was responsible for the terrible vandalism,
under the Puritanical regime. Among the other actions that he approved it was
the destruction and sale of the marvelous Crown of King Alfred,
to that you/he/she has been done as soon as allusion. In the Will of the Earl of
Pembroke, in 1650 it is this clause that shows as Lord unpopular Henry
you/he/she was become: "Because I threatened Mr. Henry Mildmay, but it didn't do