The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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George I of Great Britain (28 May 1660 - 11 Jun 1727)

Crowned 20 October 1714. Previously Duke of Gloucester Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi-org.cyber.usask.ca/10.1093/ref:odnb/10538 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_I_of_Great_Britain Relevant locations: Title (royalty or holy order) Great Britain, Europe
Title (royalty or holy order) Ireland, Ireland [duplicate]
 Relationships: George I of Great Britain was a father of George II of Great Britain (9 Nov 1683-25 Oct 1760)

 References in Documents:
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Vice-Chancellor (MacGregor, ed.) George I.
A Catalogue of the Rarities To be seen at Don Saltero's Coffee-House [1775] 182 The Coat of Arms of King George.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

This reminds me of another Branch of the Curiosities that I begun to collect of late Years, viz. Original Letters, and other Matters of the proper Hand Writing of Persons of all Ranks, eminent in their Generations. It begins with the Kings of England, and contains the Signs Manual of K. Hen. 5, Hen. 6, Edw. 4, Rich. 3, and Hen. 7. K. Henry the 8th, Queen Katharine Par's Letter to the Admiral, K. Edw. the 6th's to the said Queen; the entire Letter of his own Writing, so one of his Sister the Lady Elizabeth's, both delicately writ: Qu. Elizabeth's Original Instructions for the Lord Evre, Warden of the middle Marshes. Mary Queen of Scots, when Prisoner in Yorkeshire; K. James the 6th of Scotland, the same when King of England; his Daughter Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia: K. Charles the Ist's Letter to the said Queen; the Commeatus for Sir John Burrough, Garter: K. Charles II. when in Exile (to the Provost of Edinburgh); and after his Restoration: His Order for erecting a Monument in Westminster-Abbey for K. Edw. 5, and his Brother, whose murdered Corps were then discovered at the Tower. Prince Rupert, James Duke of Yorke, the same when King of England; William-Henry Prince of Orange, King Will. 3. Qu. Mary 2. and her present Majesty Qu. Anne, whom God long preserve; Prince George, Duke of Glocester, and Princess Sophia, to the Bishop of Sarum.