Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-04-16

~ mean tne herman Il serve have
reference to the sign of that of which
the Three Plumes are an emblem. and
SIGNIFY automatically Your strength"
being the Druidic emblem of the word
OF the Creator. Its mans Is Hu Cadarn.
or lnvnclble Hu pronounced Iica.
and Identical with lu in Jupiter or III
Pater, or Father. In Merliu's London
lieraldic Almanac for 1872 the dove sign
~ shown as worn at tho rim of the
crown Of Great Britain, and resting
exactly on the forehead (spRt of in
tellecD-Almenu---of the monarch. All
TINS VIII be seen to be extremely in
teresting when we come to the connec-
ton of Eward, the Black Prince. Of
Wales with the Three Plumes In the
accompanying Illustration OF the Royal
Arms which has been sent to me by
Mr.. Lee CulletOn, IT will be seen that
down to 1868 the Royal arms of the
monarchy Of Great Britain were
acknowledged by the Royal College of
Heraldry as the Arms of the Prince of
Wales.
II is of deepest interest as to how
came the royal arms OF gallant little
wales to be the arms of the monarchy
| of these isles. The answer is plain
! enough. The ancient Britons were
| highly civilized and had Il splendid
government OLlywodraeth). a Parlia-
ment Uthalth), and trial by jury, even
| when julius Caesar invaded Britain
| half century prior to the Christian
era. Their seats of government, as
| sacred mounds. like the Twynywlad
| the Holy I'm OF the Country, in the CEN
| ter of the Isle Of Man, sim dot the
| land. and there are scores of them, as
| sites of petty courts of the chief
| Rhalth, In Glamorgan alone. The
! name London" itself is a corrupt form
| of the name 'l4lan Din" or the holy
| hill. often called thn White Mount. In
| mo toll, 10 4
Parliament In the modern sense at
tached to the name. The Witenage-
mote of the SaNonS was. IL seems. Il
mere council of war That II did not
| come up to the meaning given to a
representative assembly seems to be
| indicated by the adoption of the name
| parliament" or Talking Place, when
| representative assembly was estab-
| llshed in England upon the ruins Of
| Sa&ondom. But the Normans and
| Saxons agreed to apply the name
| parliament to the great White
Mount u.lan Din) on the summit of
| Parliament Hill, above Kings Cross.
| Then. when the seat of the British
! Rhaith, or Parliament, was removed
from the said Holy White HIN to West
| minister the great authorities of the
realm called the new locality. White
| Hail. in memory of the White Hin be-
| fore mentioned. All visitors to West
minister Abbey are familiar with the
| circular hole there, where the British
! Parliament was held before its re-
| moval TO St Stephens across the road
1t is certain that the SaNons. Jutes
| and Angles possessed neither an all
| phabet nor system of heraldry
| They were simply brave naked saw
| ages from the forests of Germany. etc.
| They We're pirates. robbers and muir
dereis They stole handsome British
| children and sold them into the mar
| Sets of the Continent, especially in
| Rome, as the Venerable Bede wrote in
| the eighth century. II Is true. also
that the Normans Of 1866 entered
Britain. bringing with them some of
the ancient heraldic emblems Of
France. which emblems had survived
the ancient government and clviliza-
| ton of the Gauls. who states Caesar
We're educated by the Britons.
In course of time the Britons of
| England amalgamated with the divers
nationalties which had settled in
England. and the result is the mag
nihcent race of today which goes un-
der the modern name British We
In Wales are less mixed than the in
habitants OF the eastern side of the
Severn. We are the only pure Britons.
and we speak the language of the
Caesars heard In England two thou
sand years ago. and which the Phoeni-
clans heard and spoke In the isles
| afar off, four thousand years ago.
| The Cambria Britons brought over with
| them their holy emblems when the
| bravest of them disdainfully left Eng
| land rather than welcome the Contin-
entail strangers to that part of the
isles, and settled among their fellow
countrymen in Wales and at Strath-
clyde in the north of the island
Down to the relgns of Queen Elizabeth
and King James the people of Wales
md they alone. were called "Britons"
have sought to make the name Eng