Re: Codex Argenteus - the Silver Bible

From: Jim Webster (Jim_at_zerospam.mok.net)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 21:07:24 +0100

"Martin Reboul" <martin@spamfukreboul1471.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "Robert Stonehouse" <ew65@bcs.org.invalid> wrote in message
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> > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 04:21:36 GMT, "Martin Reboul"
> > <martin@spamfukreboul1471.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> > ...
> > >All that matters (to me) is doing the right thing. The Greeks, our
great
> friends
> > >and loyal allies for centuries, are rightly hurt by what appears to be
> British
> > >reluctance to return a very important national treasure (what if the
Crown
> > >Jewels were pinched, then sold to a Greek - same thing).
> > ...
> > Incidentally, does anyone know where the Crown Jewels are now? The
> > pre-Restoration ones, I mean: those in the Tower mostly date from the
> > 1660s.
>
> Sadly, most were melted down and broken up by Puritan zealots shortly
after the
> Civil War. At the time this was fiercely opposed by many, and some may
have gone
> 'missing'.

remember there was an army to pay at the time. Armies owed large sums in
back pay are fractious creatures at best

>
> One piece owned by the Crown since 1471 definitely survived, the ring
taken from
> the body of Warwick the Kingmaker after the battle of Barnet (now in
Liverpool
> City Musuem), but that was hardly a 'crown jewel'.
>
> What survived exactly, I have no idea - someone will know. It was a
tragedy, and
> an unconscionable act of vandalism.

hardly that, we didn't need it, but we did have to pay off the army and
demobilise large chunks of it

Jim Webster

> Cheers
> Martin
>