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Introduction: Westminster

All books which deal with the details of the insignia of Royalty in England have been carefully examined; of these, those which have been found of most value, and of which free use has been made, are :- The Liber Regalis, at Westminster.

Rymer's Fœdera.

Sir Edward Walker's The Preparations for His Majestie's Coronation at Westminster, the 23rd of Aprill, 1661. MS.

John Ogilvy. The Entertainment of His Most Excellent Majestie Charles II., etc. London, 1662. Francis Sandford. The History of the Coronation of the Most High Monarch James II., etc. In the Savoy, 1687.

The Ceremonial of the Coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty King George the Fourth. [By Sir George Nayler, Garter King of Arms.] Westminster, 1823. William Jones. Crowns and Coronations. London, 1883. William Chaffers. Gilda Aurifabrorum, a History of English Goldsmiths, etc. London, 1883. J. Wickham Legg. The Sacring of the English Kings, etc. London, 1894. Cyril Davenport. The English Regalia. London, 1897.

E. A. Jones. Old Royal Plate in the Tower of London. London, 1908. Garrard. The Story of Garrards, etc. London, 1911.