The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1880-02-19

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with a massive mace of silver. The train
was made up of other officers and atten-
dants. Such were the splendid gildings
with which he covered his pretended hui
mility.
The cardinal lived many years in this kind
of splendor, long enough to learn that it
was all vanity. He served tickle and ca
PRECIOUS master. A turning point came in
his fortunes and he sank more rapidly than
he had risen. The crisis in his for
tunes was his remonstrance against the
Kings marriage with Anne Bolyne. The
favor of the King was withdrawn, and a
plot devised for his destruction. Arrested
upon charge of high treason his parks and
palaces, his treasures and revenues, all the
sources OF his priEcely income. was Tor
feited. Crushed and broken in spirit, he be-
came prey to melancholy and disease and
soon descended into the grave. His head
was thus saved from the block.
His fortunes and his fall are thus finely
described by DR.. johnson in his "Vanity OF
Human Wishes ~
In full blown dignity see Wolsey stand
Law in his voice and fortune in his hand,
| To him the church, the realm, their powers con-
| sign;
Through him the rays troy al bounty shine;
Turn'd by his nod the stream Of honor flows;
| His smile alone security bestows;
| Still to new heights his restless wishes towr.
Claim leads to claim and power advances poYr;
Till conquest unresisted, ceased to please,
|
at length his sovereign frowns, the train OF state
Mark the keen glance, and watch the sign OF hate
Where'er he turns. he meets strangers eye.
His suppliants scorn him, nd his followers fly
| Now drops at once the pride Of awful state,
The golden canopy, the glittering plate,
| The regal palace, the luxurious board,
| The liveried army of the mental Lord.
| With age, with cares, with maadies opprest,
| He seeks the refuge of monastic rest;
Grief adds disease, remembered folly stings,
And his last signs reproach the faith of Kings.
The palace has been occupied since the
days of Henry VIII by many remarkable
persons. His son Edward vi was born at
Hampton, where few days afterwards bis
mother, Jane Seymour died. Here Henry
VIII married Catharine Parr. Here Bloody
Mary and her husband, Philip of Spain,
passed their honeymoon. Here the Princess
/ Elizabeth was entertained, and, afterwards
when the potent queen, sometimes assem-
bled her Court. Here James Of Scotland
summoned his famous conference OF bish-
ops and Puritan leaders to confer on the set
t'ementof religion. Here, in 1905. was en-
tertaned Francis, Prince of Vandemois, son
I,f fbo In Of 1arD n.
pany, the Hastings and festivities lasting a
fortnight, and here died in 1918 Anne of
Denmark Charles was imprisoned here
and made his celebrated attempt to escape
from it November II, 1647. During the
plague in London, Charles I and Katharine
of Braganzar fled to Hampton and remained
there until it was over, 6S,00O persons hav-
ing persisted. Here they were when the
great fire occurred, which destroyed eighty.
nine churches, including st. Paul's, and
ground with ruins.
Thinking persons we're all disposed to &C.
knowledge the hand OF God in these judg-
ments, on account of the sins OF both King
and people. But in the midst of justice il
was tempered by mercy, and that which al
the time was dire calamity, has since
proved lasting blessing the ravages ct the
plaques were stayed by the fire, which COM
pletely purified the atmosphere, and the ole
city with its narrow streets being destroyed
way was made for the erection of one more
commensurate with the requirements o
modern times and the mighty city which
excites the astonishment of foreigners, which
is now the emporium OF the commerce o
all nations, and which is justly styled thu
metropolis of the world, arose from tn
great fire of 1866.
Here Oliver Cromwell, the destroyer Q
the monarchy and the founder of the short
, lived Republic, held his court, as we'll a
! aJ Windsor and Whitehall. There his daugh
! ter Elizabeth married Lord Falconberg an
another daughter Lord Rich, heir of tn
Earl of Warwick. Like many modern Reput
: licans, Cromwell courted rather than dsdain
3 ed connection with the nobility. Here b
devised his foreign policy which was so EN-
nently successful, resulting in the defeat {
, the Dutch and the capture OF Jamaica fror
< the Spaniards, events which forced Mazari
4 TO ledge him, and the Venetians an
Swiss to seek his friendship. When wearie
] and worn with the strife Of parties at White
j hall, disappointed in his hopes at home
i and his life made wretched by the COZ
4 slant dread of assassination. he retired bel
d for rest, and to contemplate the mol
l agreeable prospect of his power abroat
where he was both feared and respected
= And here no doubt he saw signs of populs
d WEAKNESS with the 2rotectorate, and ma
6 have feared, without disburdening his sou
D the ruin of his Commonwealth based upor
the bible, and the restoration of the son
> England's murdered King. IL was here th
: lost his favorite daughter, Mrs. Claypol
W no exhorted him on her deathbed to RI
} ira ee his steps and seek forgiveness fro
Go, |. Mrs. c. evidently believed in the {
vine right of kings, and feared that b
J faith ar in seeking to give the English poop
Re publican government was engaged
J the ievl's work. 1t was while he W
} at Ha mpton that the founder Of the Societ
of FIR lends, the celebrated George Fox, vi
tied { !romwell to beg that he would put
stop , 20 religious prosecutions. His Wis
were auch enjoyed by Cromwell, who is l
ported to have said to him on one occasi
before PARTING, ''Come again, George, cor
often, or Ifeez that if thou and I acere {
tener tos NaAer, we should be. nearer to ca
other."
The y s&r 1900 saw be end of the Repu
lie and the restoration of Royalty in t
person 0 { the murdered h tng's son. 1t "
: one of the greatest misiortL mes possible
the English people that Char les Ii ascend
the throne without any restr .'ctlon TO
Royal powe r, and without any securlty
the rights O. the people. The m>'rrle me
+, arch immed lately began his revels at Han
ton Court here he assembled such prot
gate friends as his brother James, BL'ckin
2 ham, iJerml m, Grammont, Rocheste e
own and the ir favoriUes or shameless M