The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-07-06

flung from the bridge Of straubing into INC Do
nube, by his order The poor YOUNG OoauyI Ha y,
who had unwllugly become q duchess, ,a Iose W
the surface and struck out for the shore, scIoesh
ing for help; bat there was none 20 help Usr.
The durai executoner was there, but only 70
satisfy his masters pride and thlrst tor ven
gosnce As she neared the bank hepBssed his long
pole through her iuxuriant hair, ferced het nm
der The water by It, and held her there I'LL she
One of the most curious errors with which We
are acquainted is that in the last volume OF the
"ArchWologia," In which IL is said shat this poor
Due hess Agnes was drowned by order OF her own
instead Of her husbands father. Tho latter was
the murderer by the hands Of his own hangman'
Perhaps the hangman was made Freiherr ior
bis manly work. In our own country an IDEA
has alwny prevailed that an CXecutioner who be
headed q State criminal for high treason became
| by the fact an esquire. The mistake arose from
| Brooke, York Herald, having made out a coat
| of-arms for "Grpgory Brandon gentleman, tue
| hangman of Charles rs days. York palmed the
| arms on Garter who negligeniy confirmed them
| but both hcralds were imprisoned-one for the
| hoax, and the other for not finding 1t out. Inc
hoax gave rise 70 the old popular error.
! In old days in this our England, All noble
men, by whatever title they we're known, were
barOns. The Council dc Baronage,' included
peers Of every dignity. In the reign OF Henry
man could SIT In Parliament without writ of
| summons. Nor was new peer considered ac-
tually possessed of hisdgnty till he had under
]
Bernard Burke has fallen into singular error
for king of arms 10 make. "ln oden time,
he says "it was deemed necessary to invest with
robes the newly created baron in open Parlia-
urent and so lately as the era OF King James /,
| that monarch in person solemnly mduCted the
barons created by patent in the fifteenth year OF
his reign, by enrolling each peer IN scarlet with
| q hood furred with mnver; but in the same
! year il was determined to discontinue those ccre-
monies in furure, the legal advisers OF the crown
having declared that the delivery of the lettert
patent constituted a sufficient creation" Never
thcless IL is certain that investiture was in prac
tice no late as the reign of Charles H. "ln thC
Bauuueting House" writes Pepys (20th of April
i6Gll, ''saW the king create my lord chaRcelld
| and several other earls, and Mr., Crewe ant
several others barons, the first being led up BY
heralds and five old earls 10 the king, aud ther,
the patent is read, and the king puts on hi
i | vest and sword and cOronet, and gives him th
patent and then he kisses the kings hand, ant
l rises ard stands covered before the king. ANT
the same for each baron, only he is led up b.
4 three old barons, and they are girt with sword
: before they go to the king" Coronets were no
8 wora by barons previous TO this reign. Charle
. conferred this honor, as Elizabeth had done, ol
= Viscounts. AS connected with this matter, W
: may observe that peers robes cost about tloOO
= but lust previous to George Tvs coronation, MI
: WAITE offered to supply them for that occasion
) Mt E220 and to take them back at $50, which lei
ample profit for their use.
, On the subject of creation of peers, VIC vii
y here mention the exceedingly pretty custom
q which was once in force in France. In the tim
,of the old Parliament, a duke and peer on hi
q nomination, and even if he were a prince of IN
y 1 blood. was Obliged in the spring next after hi
nomination, to present tribute Of roses 10 tn
0 + Parliament This was called the Ceremony o
+ the Roses" The new duke, moreover, was &C
|. | cnstomed to decorate the hall IL which the Par
! | lament sat, and every adjacent chamber, with
9 u profusion Of flowers aad foliage. Previous 70 hi
; Il Introduction, he gave a magnificent bIeaktas
!" 4 On his introduction, pages preceded him Deal
i I'M violet
4 J which were presented to the president. Th
u I pretty ceremony could not be avoided. In Jun
:, i54l the parliament decreed that Louis des Bou
's bon Montpensier, created duke and peer in FRI
Tnary, 1888, and Francoisae Cleves, create
"a Duo de Nevors' in January Of the same yea
u should present the fiowery tribute, and that Lon
" de Bourbon though the last in date Of creatiO
- - should bring his roses and violets first.