Talk:Royal Maundy
I suspect that "... of All the Britons" is a wrong expansion of the abbreviations, and that it would really come out as "... of All Britain". Kinship is the Celtic approach, but the one prevalent in the UK is geographical. The Archbishops of York and Canterbury are Primates of England and All England respectively, not of the English. And so on. PML.
Possibly. In full I think it's BRITTANNIARUM, but it's 30 years since I did Latin, so I've forgotten my declensions! I have some vague thought that the OMN may imply "all its posessions". -- Arwel 00:33 Mar 19, 2003 (UTC)
Here's a source [1] but I don't know how accurate it is. It might be just a pronunciation issue. *grin* - Hephaestos
- Sigh! It's a good site - I've only spotted a couple of places where I disagree with them, but for BRITANNIARUM OMNIUM , abbr to BRIT(T) OMN it gives "King of all the Britains", and for BRITANNIARUM REX it gives "King of the Britains". However, if you go near the bottom of the page and click "George V inscriptions" it gives BRITT OMN / BRITANNIARUM OMNIUM as "of all the Britons". You can't win, y'know! -- Arwel 02:00 Mar 19, 2003 (UTC)
- Okay, a weird question: I happened to visit the Tower of London and go through the Crown Jewels exhibit on Maundy Thursday, 1991. In one of the cases was a label for a Maundy Thursday foot-washing basin, and a second placard saying that it was in use, in place of the basin. If the monarch hasn't washed feet in centuries, who uses the basin, and for what? Vicki Rosenzweig
- Maybe the Governor of the Tower had dirty feet! Arwel
- I'm guessing it was off for maintenance; that's common in museums. Hephaestos
Until 1820 ordinary silver coinage was used for the Maundy money, but from 1822 special coins were minted in values of 1, 2, 3, and 4 pence.
Now I'm curious.
- What happened in 1821?
- I know there used to be a silver 1d in general circulation, was this change related to its discontinuation? (Or is my conception of the timeframe of its discontinuation way way off?)