The place of its deposit

Structural details of the Jewel

The name of Alfred upon it

Question what this name imports

Other persons bearing this name

The perfection of the Jewel suggested doubt

The firm judgement of Dr. George Hickes

Nevertheless, the question must be kept in view throughout this Essay

The forms of the lettering

The Syntax of the Sentence:

Other time-indications in the Epigraph

Quotation from Alfred’s Prologue to his Pastoralis

Similarity between the Prologue and the Epigraph

The Epoch of the Discovery—The Royal Society

The persons who first were conversant with the new-found object—Colonel Nathaniel Palmer

Dr. Hans Sloane—The British Museum

Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford

First published notice of the Jewel—Dr. William Musgrave

Hickes’s Thesaurus

Variety of opinions about the Jewel

Francis Wise—Samuel Pegge

Mr. Philip Duncan

St. Neot and St. Cuthbert

Abortiveness of these attempts

Bishop Clifford

The handle of a choirmaster’s wand

Identical with the ‘Æstel’?

Given by Alfred to Athelney Abbey and there kept to Henry VIII’s time

This theory inapplicable to the Jewel

The Ring of Alfred’s father

The place and manner of its discovery

The Ring of Alfred’s sister

The manner of its discovery

The Ring of Æthred

Runes intermixed with Roman lettering

The artist bears a Saxon name

Fine workmanship no longer an objection

Early cumulation of evidence

Evidence added since

Rejected theories

The Cynehelm theory

The unity of the work makes for Alfred of Wessex

Outline of the Symbolism

The fondness of king Alfred for imagery

The Simile of the Waggon

The Jewel illustrated by the Writings of king Alfred

The Jewel probably records a Crisis

At what Epoch designed?

Double process of investigation

Date of Alfred’s return from Rome

The nature of Probable Evidence

Conclusions from the above data

Appendix A. The First published Notice of the Alfred Jewel (to pp. 25 and 144)

Appendix B. St. Neot and St. Cuthbert (to pp. 29 and 74)

Appendix C. The Two-sceptered Figure in the Book of Kells (to p. 78)

Appendix D. The British Origin of the Enamelled Figure (to p. 91)

Appendix E. Athelney Abbey (to p. 115)

Appendix F. North Newton Church (to p. 139)

Appendix G. The Presentation of the Alfred Jewel to the University of Oxford (to pp. 140 and 145)

The Alfred Jewel in four aspects, with separate Figure of Enamel