This beautiful signet ring was commissioned by Sir Thomas Gresham, an English merchant and agent of Henry VIII and all three of his children in …
The Grasshopper Ring
Courtiers
THOMAS CRANMER, ELIZABETH I, & SAMUEL PEPYS
ABOVE: Thomas Cranmer by Gerlach Flicke, c.1545 On the 11th October, 1663, Samuel Pepys recorded in his diary: ‘At night fell to reading in the …
