Note 157 — JOURNAL OF ELIZABETH LADY HOLLAND (continued 3)
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The Pitt diamond was bought by Mr. Pitt, Governor of Madras in 1702, for about 20,000l. He resold it in 1717 to the Duc d’Orleans, for Louis XV., for 130,000l. It was sent at this time to Berlin, but appeared a few years later in the hilt of Napoleon’s sword of state.