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The salt of gold pledged by Richard III is probably the same as that described in the inventory of the regalia and gold plate of Henry VIII, printed in "Ancient Kalendars and Inventories of the Exchequer," vol. iii. It is thus described at page 286:--"Item, a Salte of golde, wt a cover, borne up wt a Moreane, the Moreane havying aboute his necke v course rubyes and vi garnysshing perles, wt one that he hath in his honde; havyng about the foote xij course rubyes and xij garnysshing perles, and about the bordure of the cover vj course dyamontes, vj course rubyes, and xij course garnysshinge perles, weyinge xlvj oz. di." (scant.)
This salt is described in exactly the same terms in the MS. inventory of the goods of Henry VIII, belonging to the Society of Antiquaries, taken in the reign of Edward VI; it was probably supported by a Moorish figure, somewhat in the style of an ancient salt at All Souls' College, Oxford, which rests on the head of a gigantic man. |
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