The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-09-05
NUMBER 81.


night, and that during that night he
watched without while one of his
grooms, accompanied by a notorious as
sassin, entered the sleeping room of the
princes, strified them both with feather
beds and pillows, ard buried their bodies
at the foot of the staircase. The testI-
mony of More is almost contemporaneOus
with the event itself, and is confirmed by
the honors which were certainly conferred
upon the alleged murGerers. In the reign
of Charles III. when alterations were made
IN the tower, there was found at the foot
of an old stairway Cat preseat shown to
visitors) heap of decayed bones, which
proved to be those of two boys The indi-
cations were deemed sufficient that they
belonged to the unfortunate Edward V.
and his brother, and they were removed by
royal command TO Westminster Abbey,
where an inscription, beginning, "Ossa de-
StderatOruRl dlu et mRitiunI QudeSita." was
placed upon the monument. 30 well-con-
cealed matter as the death of the roysi
princes leaves room for paradoxes and his
torlc doubts but It is certain that, though
the name of Edward " stands on the list
of English sovereigns, he had hardly the
shadow of a reign; that under the dark
protectorship of his uncle he went speedily
from the palace to the prison, within whose
precincts he found secret death and burial,
Notwithstanding these corroborationS,
there are many among the English nobili-
ty who still believe the prince escaped,
and one house in Yorkshire claims to be
the direct descendants of Edward V.
THE LAST OF THE sTUARTs.
Henry Benedict Maria Clement Stuart,
Cardinal of York, the last male represent
atlve of the Stuart family, was born in
Rome in 1925, died in Venice in 1907.
Tie was the younger brother Of the Pre-
tender, Charles Edward, (the Prince Char
ley of Scottish song) whom be was pre-
pairing TO aid with a body of French troops
assembled at Dunkirk, when the over
throw of the Jacobites at Culloden ruined
the Staurt cause in Britain. He subse-
quenily took orders In the Roman Calho-
lie Church and in l847 was appointed
by Benedict XIV. a Cardinal On the
death of his brother, in 1888, he assumed
the title of King of England as Henry IX..
gTatlG L)ei, non r0lufGte he8si,sesUI, as the
medal which he caused to bs struck uf
the occasion declared. He was subse-
quently obliged to take refuge fiom Frene. z
invasion in Venics, and during the l..
years of his life he was dependent on
British Court for means of subsisterE
He was the last male Of the Stuart fam
and with his death the line became e.
tinct. Its chief branches in the femals.s
line are the houses of Savoy aud Orleans
and the Duke of Modena, all descended
from Henrietta Maria, daughter of Charles
l., of which king the present Duke of Mo
aeRa is the ineal representative, being
thus, but for the ACT of settlement, heir tn
the crown of England. There are two
families of the name of Stuart on this cun-
tinent tha; claim falsely to be the descend
ants of the Stuarts, and if they be the
descendants they cannot be the legitimate
lineal representatives, because the last
male of the line died priest, and WAS
never married ; and the females, on mar
riage changed their names. One OF these
females resides in jackson, Mo, and the
other in Lensxyille, Canada.-N. Y.
World.