Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Each kingdom has its particular-re- galia, consisting of plates of gold and silver and coral necklaces. These ar- — ticles are held in high veneration, and are exhibited to the public at all great ceremonies, especially on the accession of a sovereign to the throne, and when the subjects pay the tenth of their pro- duce ; at which times also they make large presents in cattle. The grandees, as well as the people, are persuaded that the greatest calamities would befal them if any article belonging to the re- galia were to be lost. They believe that the king and his household alone have a right to touch them ; and that any other person who should presume to lay hands on them would drop down *