Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . incircle of plate, and that Achaius added to tbatplainnefs, iouxjleurs de lis andfour cxo&^qua-tuor lilia aurea, quatuor cum falutiferae crucisaureis fignis faribus intervallis difcretis, liliisfaulo eminentioribus, as Boetiiis his wordsare. (+5) And for the Weftgothick kings in Spain,it is delivered ^ that the firft of them that hadit among the enfigns of royalty, was king Lewi-gild about dlxxx. of our Saviour. Nam anteeum (faith IJi
Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . incircle of plate, and that Achaius added to tbatplainnefs, iouxjleurs de lis andfour cxo&^qua-tuor lilia aurea, quatuor cum falutiferae crucisaureis fignis faribus intervallis difcretis, liliisfaulo eminentioribus, as Boetiiis his wordsare. (+5) And for the Weftgothick kings in Spain,it is delivered ^ that the firft of them that hadit among the enfigns of royalty, was king Lewi-gild about dlxxx. of our Saviour. Nam anteeum (faith IJidore) & habitus & confejfus com-munis ut genti ita ^ regibus erat. (+6) And,I remember, I have y read that the firft crownufed in the kingdom of Lombardy was aboutDxc, and that it vi^as made by queen Theodelinda,and the fame which is fince called the emperorsiron crown, and kept at Millain or Monza. laother chriftian kingdoms of Euro^e that havelater beginning, their crowns (I think) and co-ronations have been equal to their firft eredioninto that title. But the forms of the royal crdwns ufed inmoft (if not in all) thofe nations are difFerent,. France. Sfain. f In this chapter §. lib. 5. cap. 13. That of Spain, fomewhat from the Englijh ;both thefe from the French ; and the Frenchand Sfanijh and Englijh feverally differing muchfrom that of the empire. The circle of theFrench is raifed only into flowers de lis andarches, and hath a flower de lis on the top ;whereas the king of Englands, o£ Sjains, andthe emperors, have a globe and a crofs inthat place : as alfb the crowns of T>enmark andSwethland. But this may not untimely be ob-ferved here that the arched or clofe crown (com-monly in ufe at this day) or that which is calfedimperial (for fo are the arched or clofe crownscalled, and belong only, they fay, ^ to fupremekings) is not of very antient ufe fave onl^in theempire. The antient crowns that remain in thecoins of the French kings are ufually raifedrouud, into fl
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