Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-02-14
THE OTHER EDWARDS
SIX ENGLISH KINGS BORE SAME
NAME AS NEW MONARCH.
FIVE BURIED IN THE ABBEY
Only One Weakling Among Those Who
Have Ruled the Anglo-saxons
Their charcteristics-Nation not
Unlueky in Its Former Edwards
Old Time CeremonieS.

Old ime Ceremonie--
In Westminster abbey, that time
honored pile of masnificence," 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 w., who must have felt the
need of prayer, for he knew he had no
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.
When that wise and great king, Ed
ward l., returned from Scotland,
where, though suffering from a painful
wound he had valorously 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 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 were necromancers,
enchanters and sorcerers. There was
nothing wonderful or magical or dia-
bolical these people could not do
from causing their island to 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 a coronation
stone. When the rightful heir sat up
on it to be crowned 1t moved and
howled 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 a monarch of the
Milesian race and to prove this state
ment it is shown that Strongbow, an
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 hav-
ing been given the title. because he
was born in Welsh castle. Few
began their reigns under
more suspicious conditions. His
father, Edward l., had conquered all |
troublesome enemies and, what is bet |
ter had left wise code of laws be- |
hind him. The new king was only % |
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
I'd to destroy this king. For the love |
Of the Gascon youth Pierre Galveston |
was willing to sacrifice his |
honor and the respect and esteem of |
he English lords and to risk his |
throne favorite which created enemies |
who eventually brought about his |
ruin.
OF Value After Death.
Dying a violent and terrible death |
ne sleeps under a beautiful canopy in |
cathedral, and the pill |
yrimages made to his tomb were at |
one time the source of a comfortable /
revenue to the church. So, though his |
life was marked by broils and quar-
-els, he was permitted to be of some |
use tot the world after the great con-
lueror had laid him low. There is a |
portrait o' this king in bas-
relief in the old cathedral at York. /
with his Norman predeces-
sors. some OF whom wear their boards /
n large curls, Edward II. is grinning
ikeh fiend. though probably the I
sculptor intended to represent an en-
n