The brooches and ensigns worn in England at this time mostly depicted Old Testament subjects. In July he gave her a brooch with the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, which had a large diamond table and four rubies, and a girdle of gold friar's knots. He gave other jewels at this time, including a cross set with diamonds and three pendant pearls and a "Jesus" or the initials "IHS" set with diamonds and three pendant pearls, a brooch with the story of Abraham set with a fair table diamond and another Abraham brooch set with 7 diamonds and a ruby, and a tablet or locket with Solomon's temple on one side a portcullis on the other. On 20 July 1546, her father Henry VIII gave her an upper abillment set with 10 table diamonds, 9 rock rubies, and 38 small pearls, with another abillment of rock rubies and fair pearls, and a third abillment of diamonds, rock rubies and pearls. The "abillments" or "billaments" were bands of jewels worn on the coif over the forehead, typically with a French hood. A partlet had 108 fair pearls, and a second partlet was sewn with 71 pearls of the same grade. A lace for her neck had 67 pearls, a "nether abillment" had 33 great pearls, another "nether abillment" had 38 lesser sized pearls, an upper abillment had 40 pearls, and another upper abillment had 80 mean or lesser pearls. Princess Mary had items of costume embroidered with 581 pearls in total. Costume set with pearls Mary I of England, Hans Eworth, NPG, wearing the Mary Tudor pearl Another name that appears in her records is "Raynolds," which may refer to Robert Reynes, who was granted a coat of arms in 1558. Holbeins's friend Hans of Antwerp and Rogier Horton worked for her. Cornelis Hayes, a Flemish jeweler, may have realised Holbein's designs. Two of his surviving drawings feature a ribbon with the inscription, "MI LADI PRINSIS", (My Lady Princess). Hans Holbein the Younger designed jewels for her. John Mabbe, a London goldsmith, mended her jewelry and made her sets of aglets. Mary stored her jewels in a coffer made in 1542 by the craftsman William Green. She also had an "H" with a ruby and a pendant pearl. Mary owned a letter "M" with three rubies and two diamonds and a large pendant pearl. Chapuys reported that Cromwell returned it to Mary after finding its gold content was low and, as a Protestant, he had no use for the relic. Thomas Cromwell ordered that the cross be sent to him. It had a gold cross which contained, according to Eustace Chapuys, a relic of the True Cross. Mary's mother, Catherine of Aragon died in 1536, and bequeathed Mary a gold collar or necklace which she had brought from Spain in 1501. Two surviving drawings feature a ribbon with the inscription, "MI LADI PRINSIS". It was published by Frederic Madden in 1831. The manuscript is now held by the British Library. An inventory of the jewels of Mary I of England, known as Princess Mary in the years 1542 to 1546, was kept by her lady in waiting Mary Finch.
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