X. Memoir upon the King's Jewel-House, with an Account of the ancient Rights of its Master and Treasurer, by Sir Gilbert Talbot, Knt.: Communicated by Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. in a Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, K. T. President

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Having already communicated to the Society of Antiquaries, through your Lordship's hands, two Memoirs by Sir Gilbert Talbot upon subjects of English History, I consider his name to be somewhat known to the Society; and shall therefore make but a short introduction to another Memoir from the same pen upon the King's Jewel House, with the ancient rights of the Master and Treasurer. Both of these characters were sustained by Sir Gilbert himself, not only at the time of compiling the Memoir, but also when the celebrated Colonel Blud attempted to steal the Crown, and I have to acquaint your Lordship and the Society, that the particulars relating to that extraordinary theft are preserved in a fourth Memoir by Sir Gilbert, from which the common received Account in our later histories has been taken. This last Narrative (however it may have been pillaged and extracted from) becomes doubly interesting when we learn that the writer of it was in that official station which provided him with the most certain particulars of the robbery.