The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24

has been the history of many a heart separated from the body for purposes of perpetuity
 When I read the clause of the will of the countess I sat and thought for a while of some other hearts that were dis posed of in a manner similar to the way that she gave order as to her hearts dis posal, and of some of these I now write. For you must not think that the count ess is alone in her strange desire. In- deed, one person went far beyond the countess in that he willed his heart to an individual. This was in 1774. Paul Whitehead, Esq. an author of some note in London died at his home in Covent Garden. and when his will was opened this strange legacy was discovered: "I give and bequeath to Lord Le Dispenser my heart and s50."
 Henry I. of England reigned 35 years and died in 1135, when 67 years old. His life had been one of intrigue, treachery, family sorrows and bloodshed. He had so burdened the nation with taxes that the people counted his death a mercy. He contracted his last illness in Nor 1ildHuys Wiltluti llS Hdu 6ohS tO Ch5oSC v in hunting. He died in seven days from his attack. His heart was torn out of his breast and buried In the Church of St. Mary, in Rouen, which his mother had founded. His body, however, was sliced, powdered with salt and encased in the hide of bull, was transported to Eng land It was entombed In Reading Ab- bey, where it long remained in peace, but finally it was dragged forth and it's par ticles of dust scattered to the winds.
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 Henry IT. of England is best known through the association of his name with that of Fair Rosamond," at least to the popular mind; for all children hear, soon or late, the story of the legendary bower built for Rosamond by Henry. She was the kings favorite and the mother of sev- eral of his children. Henry's life was a stormy one. During his reign there were treasons, rebellions and wars. Even John and Richard, his sons, rose up against him and made his life burden and his crown a misery. When he heard, on his dying bed, that his favorite son, John. had treacherously arrayed himself against his father, he exclaimed Now let every thing go as it will; I no longer care for myself nor for the world' Mortified and dying Henry was taken to the beautiful little city of Chinon. It was then what Windsor became to later English sover eigns At Chinon he died. Immediately upon his death his attendants stripped the body and carried off everything of value After some delay the body was wrapped in a winding sheet and borne away to Fontevraud. On the road to the burial place the kings son, Richard, met the procession. The son stood and looked upon the face of his father whose royal person he had treated with gross indigni- ty. It Is said that as Richard stood by the bier that blood gushed from the nos trils of the dead king, sign that he who looked upon the king was his mur- derer. The body being at the place of in terment the breast was laid bare, a sharp knife was brought, and the heart of the king was separated from It's supporting muscles and lifted from his body. The body was laid in one sepulchre and the heart in another. Heart and body were doomed to come together no more. For hundreds of years among the tom6 of kings and queens the heart of Henry re-