Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgements xix
5. List of Abbreviations xxi
6. Glossary xxiii
7. Note to the reader xxviii
8. Preface xxx
9. 1 Magnificence and Princely Virtue 1
10. 2 The Jewel House 11
11. 3 The King’s Inheritance 27
12. 4 ‘Heaven Smiles, Earth Rejoices’ 39
13. 5 ‘Defender of the Faith’ 63
14. 6 Royal Banquets 85
15. 7 ‘Rich, Fierce and Greedy for Glory’ 111
16. 8 Thomas Wolsey, Patron of Goldsmiths 131
17. 9 The Field of Cloth of Gold 153
18. 10 Holbein and the ‘Antique’ 175
19. 11 The Family Silver 203
20. 12 Cromwell, the Tower and the Goldsmiths 229
21. 13 Dissolution and Augmentation 259
22. 14 ‘Most Avaricious of Men’ 281
23. 15 ‘Sic transit gloria mundi’: The Fate of Henry VIII’s Plate and Jewels 315
24. Notes 319
25. Bibliography 349
26. Index 355