Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-02-14
THE OTHER EDWARDS
SIX ENGLISH KINGS BORE GAME
NAME AS NEW MONARCH.
FIVE BURIED IN THE ABBEY
Only One Weakling Among Those Who
Have Ruled the Anglo-Saxons
Their Charcteristics-Natio not
UnIucky In Its Former Edwards
Old Time Ceremonies.

In Westminster abbey, that time
honored pile of magnificence," lie
four OF the six Edwards who have
ruled England, and here they have
been crowned. On coronation day,
while the splendid assembly awaits
the coming of the sovereign, the boom
ing of cannon or the shout Of the pop
ulace tells of his approach; then the
period of waiting is continued while
he makes necessary additions to his
apparel. 1t is an old custom that the
ermine robe should be donned in the
Jerusalem chamber, which is one OF
the most interesting apartments In
that historic structure.
Henry ", who must have felt the
right to wear the crown, once stopped
to pray before the shrine of st. Edward
the Confessor in Westminster Abbey
While engaged in his devotions he
was seized with what proved to be his
last illness and was carried to the
Jerusalem chamber. 1t had been pre-
dicted that he would die in Jerusalem,
and Shakespeare represents him as
asking the name of the room, and
when informed of it he repeats what
had been foretold, adding: I'm that
Jerusalem shall Harry die" 1t Is
characteristic of the English to pre-.
serve all the touching and romantic
incidents of their history, and over the
replace are carved the last words of
the king
ward l., returned from Scotland,
where. though suffering from a painful
wound he had vigorously fought and
conquered his enemies under Sir
William Wallace, he brought with him
as a token of their submission the
celebrated stone of Scone. This
stone is now under the old coronation
chair in Westminster Abbey. 1t has
been claimed that it was used by
Jacob as a pillow and that St. Col
omba when dying rested her head up
on it, A number of Scotch sovereigns
have sat upon it to be crowned, but
the old legends of Ireland say that the
people of the Emerald Isle owned this
stone before the English or the Scotch
had ever heard of it.
Brought From Denmark.
According to this authority, it was
brought from Denmark to Ireland by
those strange folk, the Tautha de
Dannaans, who We're necromancers,
enchanters and sorcerers. There was
nothing wonderful or magical or dia-
bolical these people could not do
from causing their island 20 shrivel up
at the approach of their enemies to
restoring their own soldiers to life as
rapidly as they were slain by their
foes. They enchanted this rock,
which they also used as coronation
stone When the rightful heir sat up
on it to be crowned it moved and
how1ed and Numbered, presumably
with ecstasy; but if in the veins of the
individual flowed no drop of the royal
blood of Scythia the rock was as quiet
as any ordinary piece of sandstone,
One of the fourteen names of Ireland,
INSTALL or Island of Destiny, was
taken from this piece OF rock which
was called stone of destiny, or fatal
stone.
There is an old tale to the effect
that no matter to what land this stone
should be removed in that country
will always reign monarch of the
Milesian race and to prove this state
ment it is shown that Strongbow, an
Anglo Norman, married Eva. daughter
of King Dermot of Scotland and from
that couple descends the present royal
house of England
The first king to be crowned above
the old stone was Edward II, He was
the first English Prince of Wales hay
ing been given the title because he
was born in a Welsh castle. Few
sovereigns began their reigns under
more suspicious conditions. His
father, Edward l., had conquered all
troublesome enemies and, what is bet
ter had left a wise code of laws be-
hind him. The new king was only 2S
years old and he had married "the
most beautiful woman in the world"
Isabella, daughter of Philip lie Bel of
France But the gods evidently wish.
ed to destroy this king. For the love
OF the Gascon youth Pierre Galveston
Edward was willing to sacrifice his
houor and the respect and esteem OF
the English lords and to risk his
throne fayorite which created enemies
who eventually brought about his
ruin
OF Value After Death.
Dying a violent and terrible death
he sleeps under a beautiful canopy in
Gloucester cathedral and the pill.
grimases made to his tomb were at
one time the source OF a comfortable
revenue to the church. SO. though his
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