[180] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, March 18, 1623.

[181] See p. 209.

[182] Nichols, Progresses of James I, IV, p. 830. A complete list of the jewels removed from the Tower is given in Archæologia, XXI, p. 148.

[183] Nichols, op. cit., III, p. 548.

[184] Devon (F.), Issues of the Exchequer, James I (Pell records), p. 49.

[185] Archæologia, XV, p. 19.

[186] Examples of these jewelled frames are preserved in Mr. Pierpont Morgan’s collection of miniatures. For the information respecting them I am indebted to the kindness of Dr. Williamson, author of the catalogue of that collection.

[187] Les bijoux anciens et modernes, p. 294.

[188] See Connoisseur, XII, p. 81.

[189] Kindly communicated by the late Sir Dominic Colnaghi.