Minting these new sovereigns began in 1817.

When the revolution of 1688 set William and Mary on the throne, Brokesby refused to take the oath to the new sovereigns.

Under the new sovereigns elderly widows had no place at court, although she was graciously received by King James on his arrival in England.

Through family influence Grenville retained the revenues of his preferment for a time; but when he declined to take the oaths of allegiance to the new sovereigns he was deprived of them from 1 February 1691.

This he filled as full of new sovereigns as it would hold; labelled it outside, Pickled Mushrooms; 'for doesn't it grow in the earth without any seed?'

Citizens were jailed, but then Andros was recalled to England in 1689, and the new British sovereigns, William and Mary, issued colonists another charter.

If it did not, you would have seen one Europe, one Arabia world, instead of new born sovereigns like that of Southern Sudan.

After that, the nobles and the subjects would hail their new sovereigns with cries of 'hurray' three times and paying homage.

The new sovereigns were not really wealthy enough at that stage to do full justice to the grandeur required for such a majestic British event.

The new sovereigns exacted tribute from Sidon, along with every other Phoenician city.