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A Seventeenth-Century Monogram
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
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In the Antiquaries Journal for July 1934 (p. 292) the late Mr. P. A. S. Phillips remarked that some of the plate in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, is engraved ‘with the cipher L. D. under a royal coronet between palm leaves’. He assigned the cipher to James, duke of York, afterwards King James II, adding that all the plate engraved with it must have been given by James, not by Charles II, and that any pieces presented by him as sovereign ‘must have still borne the same cipher’. An editorial footnote comments that ‘there are reasons for supposing that this monogram stands for Lennox and Darnley, and was used by Charles, sixth duke of Lennox, 1639–72’.
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page 137 note 1 Reproduced from an impression in the British Museum by Mrs. Higham, F. M. G., King James the Second, 1934, plate facing p. 96Google Scholar.
page 137 note 2 , Hawkins, , Franks, and , Grueber, Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland, pls. LVI 3, 4, 5, lvii 7, lviii i, lix i: all struck 1672–7.Google Scholar
page 138 note 1 James did, however, possess Anglican books printed after 1672: a copy of the Authorized Version of the Bible (Cambridge, 1674) in the British Museum has a richly embroidered red velvet binding with his royal monogram (Fletcher, W. Y., English Bindings in the British Museum, London, 1895, pl. LIV)Google Scholar; but this was no doubt a presentation copy, like the ‘rich Bible’ which he was given at Oxford in 1687(Bindings in Cambridge Libraries, Cambridge, 1929, p. 153)Google Scholar.
page 138 note 2 I am greatly indebted to my friend F. R. D. Needham, librarian to the duke of Portland, for help and information about these books.
page 139 note 1 See Bindings in Cambridge Libraries, pp. 152–3.Google Scholar
page 139 note 2 For whom see the D.N.B.
page 139 note 3 This explanation was suggested to me by Lt.-Col. W. E. Moss: it is much more plausible than my own theory, given in Thirty Bindings, pp. 52–3.
page 140 note 1 See Bindings in Cambridge Libraries, p. 164: reproductions of the other monograms will be found in the catalogue of English Royal Bindings, already referred to (see B i).
page 141 note 1 Rev. Sheppard, E., Memorials of St. James's Palace, vol. i (1894), p. 75.Google Scholar
page 141 note 2 See Davenport, C., Samuel Meame, Chicago, 1906, pl. 18.Google Scholar
page 141 note 3 See Fletcher, W. Y., op. cit., pl. liii.Google Scholar
page 141 note 4 , Holmes, op. cit., pl. li.Google Scholar
page 142 note 1 i.e. Elizabeth, countess of Dysart in her own right and wife of the duke of Lauderdale, † 1698.
page 142 note 2 i.e. Charles Lennox, 1675-1723; not Charles Stuart, 1660-72.
page 143 note 1 In his English Heraldic Bookstamps, 1909, p. 254.
page 143 note 2 The letter is found with this flourish on the title of Watson's, ThomasA copybook enriched with a great variety of the most useful and modish hands, 1683: reproduced by Sir Heal, Ambrose in The English Writing-masters, Cambridge, 1931, pl. xlvGoogle Scholar.
page 143 note 3 Sir Ambrose Heal has kindly looked through his own collection of writing-books for me, but without result; and my own researches at the British Museum have been equally fruitless.
page 143 note 4 Mrs. , Higham, op. cit., pp. 88 and 111.Google Scholar