Precious Stones: Their History and Mystery

Nine chapters on what people have believed about jewels — the charms and the poisons, the chaplet of pearls, the ecclesiastical treasuries, and the great robberies they invited.

The Tudors and the Stuarts

18 pages in this part of History and Mystery of Precious Stones.

The Tudors and the Stuarts

HENRY VII. was intensely avaricious, and added to his accumulated hoards of gold and jewels by the most grinding tyranny. He continued…

The Tudors and the Stuarts: Henry

In the picture by Hans Holbein, at Hampton Court Palace, of Henry VIII. and his family, the king is represented with a jewelled dagger, a…

The Tudors and the Stuarts: Mary

The day after the marriage, the king gave her "a ruby two inches and a half long, and as big as a man's finger, hanging by two chains of…

The Tudors and the Stuarts: Germany

Thomas Gresham, the merchant prince, was commissioned by EDWARD VI., in 1551, to treat with the Fuggers of Germany, the richest traders of…

The Tudors and the Stuarts: Bacon

This abnegation of vanity and ostentation was, however, whether feigned or not, but of short duration, for she soon outshone every…

The Tudors and the Stuarts: Elizabeth

In 1582 Sir William Drury presented a "new year's gift" to Queen Elizabeth, "a juell of gold being a pommander, garnished with sparcks of…

The Tudors and the Stuarts: Leicester

The Earl of Leicester in his will recites, "the token I do bequeath unto her majesty is the jewell with three fair emeralds, with a fair…

The Tudors and the Stuarts: Grange

When (as Miss Strickland relates) Mary fled from her capital to begin the disastrous campaign which closed at Carberry, most of her jewels…

The Tudors and the Stuarts: English

About a twelvemonth afterwards, another parcel seems to have been sold to a secret agent of Queen Elizabeth for pound 2,500. Other parcels…

The Tudors and the Stuarts: Parliament

Parliament had given the new regent powers for the recovery of the Queen's diamonds and moveables which had fallen into private hands, and…

The Tudors and the Stuarts: Stuart

Another affecting relic of Mary Stuart is her harp, now in possession of the Stuart family of Dalguise, Perthshire, which was originally…

The Tudors and the Stuarts: Janewarie

GEORGE HERIOTE." "Janewarie, 1605. "Imprimis, on the xxxith of December, one ring set all about with diamonds, with one diamond in the…

The Tudors and the Stuarts: Dyamants

In the "Archaeologia" (vol. xv.) there is "An Inventorie of the Jewelles belonging once to the high and mightie prince Henry, Prince of…

The Tudors and the Stuarts: Jewel

It appears, from Evelyn, that "a great collar of rubies" had been disposed of in Holland for the King's necessities as early as Sept. 10…

The Tudors and the Stuarts: Charles

While all this pawning and selling was going on, Charles patronized the jewellers as liberally as though the royal exchequer was…

The Tudors and the Stuarts: Tower

Among the Harleian MSS. is a long detailed "Inventory of the goods, jewels, etc., sold by order of the Council of State from the several…

The Tudors and the Stuarts: Crown

Immediately after the accession of Charles II., a proclamation was issued commanding all persons holding possession of any jewels or plate…

The Tudors and the Stuarts: Stones

In the first year of the Restoration a new set of regalia became necessary. "The Master of the Jewell-House," says Sir Edward Walker…

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