Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-07-27

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| without a head, which was of solid silver,
and was stolen during the reign Of Henry
VIII. In this same chapel are kept the
| two coronation chairs, and the state
sword and shields of Edward III. The
older CT air was made in the thirteenth
century by Edward 1; 1t is Of oak and
contains under the seat the famous stone
of Scone, which was the emblem OF the
Scottish princes. Edward l brought it
to London in 1897 as a token OF the COM
plete subjugation Of Scotland; since then
every English sovereign has been crowned
in this chair, which is covered with gold
brocade on these occasions.
The new coronation chair was made for
| Queen Mary in 1859 on the occasion OF the
| Joint coronation of herself and her hus-
band, William III. 1t is on the model OF
the old one.
The Henry VII chapel is masterpiece
OF architecture. 1t is reached by flight
of twelve black marble steps, and was
| built by Henry VII as resting place for
| himself and family. Oliver Cromwell and
various members OF his family were also
y
were dug up and renterred in the yard
outside the abbey.
| In the side aisies of the same chapel are
buried Mary Queen OF Scots, Charles II,
William Ill, his wife Queen Mary, aud
| Queen Anne; in the other aisle George III,
Edward VI, Queen Eliza beth and her sis
ter, Queen Mary, who are buried one
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Edward ", who were murdered in the
Tower of London by their uncle, Richard
III. Their bones were found in a chest
under one Of the starcases OF the tower
and brought here.
The tower WAS built by William the
Conqueror as palace and fortress, but it
has almost always been used as state
prison. 1t is now a fortress and govern
ment arsenal, and contains a museum Of
armory. One OF the twelve towers con-
tains the crown jewels. We did not quite
understand why there are SO many big
gold salt cellars nterspersed with the
crowns and sctptres OF the kings. In one
OF the towers Sir Walter Raleigh WAS i'm
prisoned and here he wrote his "EIistory
OF the World"; In another Lady Jane
Grey and her husband were confined, and
in still another Elizabeth was kept pris
oner by her sister Queen Mary until the
latter's death. Macaulay says about the
graveyard here: an truth, there is no
sadder spot on earth than this little GEM
etery. Death is here associated, not, as in
West minister Abbey and st. Paul's, with
Ut ri h mi ia
and with imperishabl BILE renown; not, as in
our humblest churches and churchyards,
with everything that is most endearing in
social and domestic charities; but with
whatever is darkest in human nature and
human destiny, with the savage triumph
OF implacable enemies, with the incon-
sistency, the ingratitude. the cowardice
of friends, with all the miseries of fallen
greatness and of blighted fame"
| Many letters in the handwriting and
with the autograph signature OF many Of
the kings and queens OF England can be
seen at the British museum, and theyiare
very interesting. There are two that we
| noticed particularly are side by
/ side and one is signed Jane the Queene'
, lady Jane Grey, and the other ELIZA
beth r.. Each is written to some dukes
or lords requesting their and their
/ party's support against the OF her.
There are also original letters and man
| uscripts by all the eminent authors, mu-
sicIans and statesmen-.etters in German
from Wagner, iadyn, Mozart, Handel,
Mendelssohn, Beethoven Schiller, Goethe,
Durer and Heine-letters in French from
Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Corneille, Moliere,
Racine, and one in English from Noltaire !;
letters in Italian OF Calico, Rubens, Ii
tian and Michel Angelo, who in letter to
| his father contradicts the rumor Of his
| death and complains that the pope has
not paid him any money for thirteen
months.
| In English there are letters from all the
poets-Lord Byron, Coleridge, Words
worth, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, etc
! One hat made US smile was from Charles
Lamb-it was written to his friend John
| Glare giving him the receipt for cooking
frogs. He says: "Since | saw you last
have been to France and eaten frogs,
the incest little rabbity things you ever
tasted" There is also the original draft Of
Pope's translat ion of the Odyssey; it is
written mostly on the backs of letters
addressed to himself. There is an early
copy Of Gray's "Elegy" by himself, and
enclosed in a letter to friend.
| The museum also owns the earliest ex-
tant Mss. Of any portion of Homer's
Odyssey; it was found in Egypt and must
have been written early in the first CEN
| fury on papyrus.
Aren't the museums and galleries here
extensive? After we had gone through
them all, we had to go over them again
| to straig hten them out in our minds.
There is the South Kensington, the Brit
ish, the National gallery, and the Nation
al portrait gallery, to say nothing OF the
annual exhibition Of pictures at the Royal
academy and various loan exhibitions.
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