The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-27

than, IN be beheaded when it occurred to them to
commit the crime of high treason. Thus itnay be
borne in mind, says the Daily Telegraph. that the var
GUS degrees OF bucherly etiquette scrupulousy
observed in the executions which followed Wyatt's
revolt The Duke of Suffolk was decapitated, but
SIR Thomas hanged drawn and quartered at
Tyburn; whereas the traitors of the meaner sort
were merely hanged and mutilated at the top of the
ACTIVITY called Hay hill. Berkeley square On the
other hand it has been contended that the property
in the head lies either in the Duke of buckingham
aud Chandos i'll the Earl of Stamford
and Warrington, while another enthusiastic anna
teur of CHASTITY sights proposes that the ugly thing
should be placed in glass case for exhibition in
the National Portrait Gallery. At all events il
seems expedient that something dehntive should be
done with the head, and that speedily. For many
years it is stated the sexton or the clerk at the
Church of the Holy Trinity has been i'll the habit of
exhibiting the potential head OF Henry Grey.
Duke of Suffolk, to curious parishoners. 1t has
been kept In a box, and from continuous handling
much OF the hair and beard has been worn away.
AT present it is understood that the church in the
for further extension of the Metropolitan Railway.
In view of this contingency it would certainly be
advisable to find asylum for the head and at least
one proposal marked by common sense has been
made to the effect that the ''relic should
find decent interment in the Church of
st. Peter adj Vincula. the Tower Green. II
any linea descendants of the Duke survive. and
care to rescue the memory OF their ancestor from
oblivion it is quito open to them to seek the per-
mission of Her Majesty to place suitable inscrip
ton tablet the niche where the head found
final seputure. Otherwise there is really great
reason why the present generation should trouble
itself about the Uranium of this decapitated
Duke. There severed heads lying
loose in museums. The Propaganda at Rome
have. had, should have, the head of
Father Garnett, the famous English Provincial
of the Jesuits who was judically butchered in st.
Pauls Churchyard for being prIvy to the Gunpow-
der Plot The head of Fisher, Bishop of Rochester,
who decapitated in the reign OF Henry VIII, has
found it's way, oddly enough, to the Ambrosian Ii
brary at Milan, where is Also not the head, but the
heart, of Lucrezia Borgia the celebrated and mucn
lnaligned consort of Alfonso dEste Duke of Ferrara
The head OF Lord Chancellor Sir Thomas More was
begged by his devoted daughter Margaret
Roper. The relic by her kept many years in q
leaden casket. and was at length buried with in
her tomb Canterbury. Finally. the head OF Lieu
tenant Colonel Francis Towncley, member Of
ancient Lancashire family. who commanded the IA
nous Manchester regiment" in the rebellion of
1745-6, and who WAS executed on bennington Com
mon together with the Jenny" Dawson immor-
tazed by Shensone. and other gallant Jacobite gen.
glass in the drawing room of a London house,
the residence of lineal descendant of tho Inflated
Colonel. This highly interesting head has quite
recently. believe, been reverenty inferred. The
respectful example should be at followed in the
case head Of the Duke of Suffolk Peoples heads
there yet another and very pressing why the
head Of Henry Grey should disappear swiftly
possible from public ken. That truly alarming por-
tent the head of Oliver Cromwell, exhibits fearful
symptoms of coming to the front Already lugu-
brious trumpet has been blown in public, and an
which somebody has got somewhere. and which he
solemnly to be the skull or the Great Pro-
tector. In the way of controversy touching Oliver
Cromwels head madness lies.