The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-03-31


rAYIB 'CaskUueHs rake great pride
in our ancestry. Some per
EW.1 sons. know, hold all that to
&a:E Sbe totally un-Solomonliks and
the height of vanity, but they usually
have no ancestors OF whom to be
proud. The man who does not know
who his great-grandfa.her was natu-
rally enough would not care what he
was. TIE Caskodens have pride Of an
ce e- because they know 10th VII.
and what.
We haye. q right 10 he ...--:;d, -.
there - an unbr~'.-.. :-...Ie line For
William thc .-ci.s .uero- down I'll
presei line. In ills ineal t o.
fourtee- 1arons-thA ~ .sp5ed VIZ
Charles l. fe" -.-rIye M ats CT the
Garter a... rorty-seven X .ights Of :, !.
Bath and "ther orders. CaskC .eI
diStingu.s-ed himself - gallant ,erv
ice RAIDER the great .,eT-.an Nv
giv"r rich English ar: ana al
s. on. bride. alber. an .nwL.ing one
: -his reward. y ith This fur, un....-
ns .saxon bricG and her bong plait OF
ye' wv hair go 5 very pretty. pathetic
s. 'ry. which may tell you at some fu-
ture dme .if vow take kindly to this.
A, Caskoa n VS. Sc 'eschal to William
Rufus and I a. she rich, half bar
barrie banquets the first great hall.
Still another was o. Of the doughty
barons who wrested from John the
great charter. England's declaration of
Independence; another was high In the
councils of Henry V. I have omitted
one whom j should not fail to men,
ton. Adjodika Caskoden, who was a
member of the Ounce parliament of
Henry. ~, so called because there
;were- no lawyers in it
I 1t is true that In the time of Edward
~, . Caskoden did stoop to trade. but
it was trade of the most dignified. hon.
orable sort--he was goldsmith. and
his guild. as you know, were the bank
ers and international clearance house
for people, Kings and mobiles
Now, ii has been the custom Of the
Caskodens for centuries to keep a rec
ord of events as they have happened
both private and public. Some are In
the form of diaries and journals. like
those OF Pepys and Evelyn; others in
letters, iikethe PASSIONS: others. again. in
verse and song, Ike Chaucer's and the
Water Poets. and still others in the
more .pretentfous form of memoir and
chronicle. These records we always
have kept jeaiously within our family
thinking it vulgar. like the PASSIONS, tc
submit our private affairs to public
gaze.
There can. however, be no reason why
those parts treating solely Of outside
matters Should be so carefully guard
ed, and have determined to choose fol
publication such portions as do not di
vulge family secrets or skeletons, and
which really rebound to family honor.
For this occasion l have selected
from the memoir Of my worthy ances
tor and .namesake, Sir Edwin Caskoden
grandson of the goldsmith and mastel
Of the dance to Henry WILL. the story
Of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor
sister to the king.
This story is so well known to th'
student Of English history that fea
its repetition will lack that zest whic'
attends the development Of an unfore
seen denouement. but it is of so grea
interest and is so full in its sweet. fierc
manifestation of the one thing insolu
BILE by time-love-that | will neverthe
less rewrite 1t from old Sir Edwin
memoir.