CHAPTER III

EARLY SPECULATIONS ABOUT ITS DESIGN AND MANNER OF USE 22–30

The Epoch of the Discovery—The Royal Society 22 The persons who first were conversant with the new-found object—Colonel Nathaniel Palmer 23 Dr. Hans Sloane—The British Museum 24 Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford _id._ First published notice of the Jewel—Dr. William Musgrave 25 Hickes’s _Thesaurus_ _id._ Variety of opinions about the Jewel _id._ Francis Wise—Samuel Pegge 27 Mr. Philip Duncan 28 St. Neot and St. Cuthbert 29 Abortiveness of these attempts 30