New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-09

OONnIdI
LAYING" JANE sEYMouRS GHOST.
In England Hampton Court Palace has long
enioyed the reputation OF being haunted by the
ghost of one or the other Of the numerous wives
Of King Henry VIII Indeed the official records
Of the corporation Of the City OF London SNOW
that the Lord Mayor and Aldermen ordered
during tho reign of King James ii twelve thou-
sand masses TO be said for the repose OF the
soul Of Queen Jane Seymour, with the OBJECT
OF laying" her ghost, which was won't ac-
cording 10 popular belief to wander about the
corridor rear the room where Queen Anne 80
leyn caught her sitting on the Kings knee
Fifteen years ago the inhabitants OF the palace,
which is now used ~ residence Tor the WIDOWS
Of distinguished officers Of the army ard navy
as well as OF members OF the Queens house
hold were alarmed almost out OF their wits by
the sound of the whirring OF spnnnS-whee'
at night and in Difference to their urgent en-
treaties the Government Office Of Works insti-
tuted an investigations which resulted In the
discovery OF bricked-up and until then unsus-
pected chamber containing an ancient spinning
wheel showing marks OF recent use reference
to the old records 81 the palace showed TINS
room 20 have formed one OF the private apart
ments Of Queen Jane. Both the late Lady East
lake and Mrs Cavendish Boyle, residents oil
the palace, have vouched on oath Tor the APP
pcarance a few years ago Of Whitehead spec
ire believed to have heen that OF Queen Cath'
crime Howard. near the Queens great staircase
and have graphically des cTibed the snasty ioof
of desrair upon her face and Che b'ood-curoilns
sounds Of her screams. and only three years age
/ there was wholesale exodus from the palace
not only of the servants employed there, but
| likewise Of widowed wcncn Of rank. owing
TO the antics of yet a third ghost, who, for some
reason or other is believed to be that OF Queer
! Anne Boleyn II is all very well 10 laugh al
/ this But servants do not give up good places
nor do titled women Of limited means relinquiss
so highly priced privilege as free apartment!
| in a royal palace with free fuel lighting, wate
and repairs. for the sake of mere fancy or mag
! nation.
! Empress Frederick Of Germany. the eides
! daughter Of Queen Victoria, acknowledge
even by her most bitter inveterate and lifelong
enemy the late Prince Bismarck to be one O
; the clcverest and most leve-hoaded women II
E,uropp TO have downed him in many n tussl'
and TO have been the chief factor in bringing
about his final downfall Yet she herself vouche
in the most positive manner for the fact tina
certain portions Of Windsor Castle are haune'
by the ghost of Queen Elizabeth. She insist
that she has seen the apparitcn OF the Nirgii
Queen pass through the library when she ha
| been sitting there and the same appariiion ha
since then been witnessed once by Mr.. Holmes
the aged and learned librarian OF Queen Vic
tora, and likewise two years ago by the office
! Of the guard who was reading at the time il
the library In the latter instance the inciden
| bath ;cia al and multi
Then. too the wife Of the Lord Bishop of Win
chester who is herself the daughter Of Arch
bishop TAFT of Canterbury, says she has seel
on the anniversary of the decapitation OF KIM
Charles his ghost p7omenading al ou. the clos
of St Georges Chapel, in the vaults beneatl
which his remains repose. Mrs. Davidson de
clarcs that she witnessed this apparition he
she was still living within the precincts o
Windsor Castle. adjoining the chapel, prior t
the elevation Of her husband from the office O
Dean OF Windsor to that Ct Lord Bishop O
| Winchester
THE LORD CHANCELLOR SCARED.
Another very level headed parsonage is Lor
Ualsburv. the Lord High Chancellor of England
,ha Keener of the Sovereign's Conscience an
the dignitary who outranks all aymen, save tn
princes Of the blood besides being the highes
legal functionary Of the British Empire. he
the last person in the world whom one wou'
credit with superstition. while joking IS as foi
eirn to his character as romancing yet ne
deeply in earnest about the following lnciden
which took place n year ago ut 81. Boswells
Scotland which he had leased from Mr.. an
Mrs Erskine one afternoon Lady Halsbur
was lying down with a headache when sh
heard a carriage drive up. She looked out
the window ard saw a rather old-fashioned looF