yS The History of the Spur 



In the British Museum there is a spur, to which I have 

 referred elsewhere, which has every characteristic of the seventeenth 

 century spurs, but which has a short prick point springing 

 from the centre of a conventional flower, instead of a rowel, 

 much the same as in these St. George's spurs, and which I 

 have some reason to believe were a design of James I. It is 

 possible that these spurs were taken from this design of 

 James I., always supposing that he did design the pattern of 

 the spurs I refer to. But I prefer to think that Sir Robert 

 Vyner designed these coronation spurs to illustrate by their 

 various characteristics a long period of English history. 



I am indebted to the kindness of Messrs. Garrard for 

 the sketch from which the illustration which forms the 

 frontispiece of this book was taken. 



