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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;shallow_ocean_spectre, post: 1213254, member: 142&quot;][USER=210]@Marko[/USER] - I&#039;m seeing James II being held by Charles I, his Father, perhaps commemorating the 300th anniversary of James&#039; birth in 1633.&nbsp; James II is oftimes pictured with the fleur de lys owed to his French Wife - Henrietta Maria.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=31]@Bookahtoo[/USER] - Yes, well, as the last Roman Catholic monarch of united Britain - when the Parliaments refused to pass his measures regarding Catholic tolerance, and he tried to enact them by Royal Decree, and was ultimately removed for that reason - one supposes that the prevailing Protestant faction might well have seen him as a pig.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not certain that these really count as &quot;finds&quot; rather than as simple windfalls:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]214504[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Three index tabs, hiding in plain sight in a fourteenth century liturgical manuscript - heavily smoke-darkened and initially quite unreadable, fashioned from a mid-fifth century manuscript, in a fine Italian Scriptio Continua lapidary hand, the text of which hasn&#039;t yet been identified.</p><p>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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