Interesting hilt on that bottom right photo. Style of the ribbon and piercings is very much like that often seen on the English Type 87 and Type 91 hilts as AVB Norman calls them, like this one.
There's one of those Prins Anglie swords in the Fitzwilliam collection.
The part of this thread discussing makers names on blades, and someone asking me how long it took to make a single sword (no idea) has made me think, noting the caveat that we don't have that many survivors from the mid C17th, did smiths mark every blade that they made? If not, why only certain ones?
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