2-970-777 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Regalia. - 3', c1911. '1. Spiritual Sceptre (William IV); 2. Temporal Sword of Justice; 3. Sword of Mercy (Sheathed); 4. Temporal Sceptre (William IV); 5. Sword of Spiritual Justice; 6. Ivory Sceptre (Anne Boleyn)'. 'The royal swords are thus named: Curtana, or the Sword of Mercy, sheathed; the Sword of Justice to the Spirituality, which is obtuse; the Sword of Justice to the Temporality, which is sharp at the point; and the Sword of State. Of these, the last alone is used in the Coronation, being that with which the Sovereign is girded after the anointing. The others are borne in the procession by certain great officers-of-State'. From "The Portrait Book of Our Kings and Queens 1066-1911", edited by T. Leman Hare. [T. C. & E. C. Jack, London & Edinburgh]