Tudor New Year Gifts, Marchpane, New Books and Lost Castles
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Hello fellow history lovers and Happy New Year! I ended up having a nosey around the gifts that Elizabeth I received for new year 1588-89 and there were some beauties. The Countess of Cumberland gifted the queen ‘a a peire of braselets, conteyninge eight peeces of gold, sett with sparks of diamonds and rubyes, and knotts or rundells of small pearles betwene them, threded’. Sounds lovely. And then Mr Captain Crosse gave her ‘a faire large looking glasse set in frame, corded with crimson velvett, bound with a passamayn lace of Venis gold.’ Perfect, except then the clerk added the note: ‘The glass broken’. Oops.
Tudor New Year Gifts, Marchpane, New Books and Lost Castles
Tudor New Year Gifts, Marchpane, New Books…
Tudor New Year Gifts, Marchpane, New Books and Lost Castles
Hello fellow history lovers and Happy New Year! I ended up having a nosey around the gifts that Elizabeth I received for new year 1588-89 and there were some beauties. The Countess of Cumberland gifted the queen ‘a a peire of braselets, conteyninge eight peeces of gold, sett with sparks of diamonds and rubyes, and knotts or rundells of small pearles betwene them, threded’. Sounds lovely. And then Mr Captain Crosse gave her ‘a faire large looking glasse set in frame, corded with crimson velvett, bound with a passamayn lace of Venis gold.’ Perfect, except then the clerk added the note: ‘The glass broken’. Oops.