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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
Having purchased the curious Gold Seal of Prince Edmund, second son of King Henry the Third, as king of Sicily[a], in compliance with your request I have made some enquiry into the events produced in England by the grant of the kingdom of Sicily to that prince, and shall submit to you some remarks upon the Seal itself; which I desire you will be pleased to lay before the Society of Antiquaries.
page 195 note [a] This Seal is mentioned by Speed and Sandford; was formerly in the collection of Edward earl of Oxford; and afterwards in that of James West, esq. It weighs eight penny-weights.
page 196 note [b] Rapin says, “Among the many Historians of Naples and Sicily whom “I have read, I find but one that mentions, en passant, the grant made by the “Pope to a son of the king of England; and the author is mistaken in the name “of the prince.”
page 197 note [c] The notary executed his instructions by an Act dated Prid. Non. March, 1254; and, upon the 2d of the ides of May following, his Holiness issued two Bulls; the one empowering the archbishop of Canterbury to borrow money for the service of Sicily; and the other confirming the notary's grant of the kingdom to Prince Edmund. Rymer's Foed. vol. I. p. 502. 512.
page 198 note [d] Rymer's Foed. vol. I. p. 535.
page 198 note [e] The original instrument is still extant in the Cottonian Library, Cleopatra E. I. and is printed by Rymer in the Foedera, vol. I. p. 893. The title is in these words, “Conditiones sub quibus regnum Siciliae conceditur Edmundo filio “Henrici regis.”
page 200 note [f] This Parliament met in the chapter-house at Westminster on Friday before Midlent Sunday, A. D. 1256. The writ of summons is preserved in the Annals of Burton, p. 371. and is eight years before the first given by Sir William Dugdale.
page 202 note [g] In the month of October the king amerced every Sheriff in England 5 marks, for omitting to collect the knighthood money as directed by his proclamation, M. Paris, p. 804. This knighthood money was often exacted by our kings, and was not abrogated till 16 Car. I.
page 203 note [h] Rymer's Foed. vol. I. p. 607.
page 203 note [i] Ibid. p. 608. On the 15th of February, 1256, the king prohibited all his Ecclesiastical subjects from going to Rome before they had taken an oath that they would not solicit against the king in the affairs of Sicily.
page 203 note [k] Rymer's Foed. vol. I, p. 611.
page 203 note [l] This parliament met at London 1258, and sat till the Sunday after Ascension-day, when it was adjourned to Oxford.
page 204 note [m] Vide Orig. in Bibl. Cotton. Cleopatra E. 1.
page 204 note [n] About this time Pope Urban the Fourth appointed for his legate in England, Guido, Cardinal of St. Sabine, who, being arrived at Paris, was menaced with death by Leicester if he set his foot within the kingdom; however, the legate advanced as far as Bologne, where he manifested his resentment against the Earl and his adherents; but, not thinking it safe to trust his person in England, he returned to Rome, where he was soon after elected Pope by the name of Clement the Fourth.
page 205 note [o] One of these commissions is printed in Brady's Appendix, vol. I. N° 210.
page 205 note [p] Their names appear in Dugdale's Summons to Parliament, p. 1. and 2.
page 206 note [q] Rymer, vol. I. p. 815.
page 207 note [r] De Magno Sigillo fabricando pro Regno Siciliae.
“Innocentius Episcopus, servus servorum Dei, carissimo in Christo filio “ Regi Angliae illustri, salutem & apostolicam benedictionem. Ut eo simus “quod tibi sit cordi, negotium quod in persona carissimi in Christo filii nostri “Edmundi, Regis Sicilie illustris, natu tui, assumpsisse dinosceris, certiores quod “idem rex, assumptae dignitatis fastigio, reddiderit de tuo bene placito se insignem; “desideramus & volumus regalem magnificentiam attente rogantes, quatinus protinus “jubeas, quod idem rex statim “sigillum regium faciens fabricari, nobis “infra Festum Beati Michaelis proximo venturum, quod assumpto negotio ex “presse consentit, significet suis patentibus litteris regiis bulla aurea communitis; “tuque similiter infra eundem terminum super hoc, & quod id de tua voluntate “procedit mittas nobis tuas patentes litteras in quibus nomines ipsum regem. “Dat. Asisii octavo kal. Junii Pontificatus nostri anno undecimo”
Vide Rymer Foed. vol. I. p. 513.
page 207 note [s] Vol. I. p. 720.
page 208 note [t] Several of these Seals are of exquisite workmanship. Some of them are engraved in the Foedera.
page 209 note [u] This piece hath been exhibited at the Society of Antiquaries, and my friend the Reverend Mr. Beauvoir of Canterbury informs me by letter, “that, “by a crease on one part of the edge, it seems as if it had been joined together: “it doth not ring, but sounds as if hollow.”
page 209 note [w] The Reverend Mr. Pegge. See his Dissertation read before the Society, May 20, 1773.