The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-06-09


serves to recall to mind the Incl
dents that occurred in other
days when British rulers took upon
themselves the regal robes of pow
er. Herewith are given number
Of accounts that history has hand
ed down to the present days.
November s, 1929, witnessed tho
coronation of Henry vi, the first boy
King OF England. Although but
nine years OF age il is recorded than
he was attired in bishops robes. Ac-
cording to the historian the church
services and exhortations We're leng.
thy indeed; at their conclusion he
was arrayed in cloth of gold and
crowned in the shrine of Edward the
Confessor. After the procession a
great banquet was given in his hon
OF in Westminster Hall.
The lad was exceedingly fatigued
says the historian, and took no in
terest in the wild boar's head ano
yenison that formed the chief part
of the menu: suddenly. however, ne
became very animated when the ro-
yal chefs pasty, moulded in the
form of men and animals grouped to
represent historical and scriptural
events, was brought in. He was es.
pecially pleased at a group showing
ST. Louis and St. Edward in armor,
with himself standing between
them.
Henry III was twice crowned
King of England. His first corona
ton was at Gloucester on October
%, 1916, by the Bishop of Winch
ester. The second was held four
years later on May II. at Westmin-
ster Abbey with the Archbishop Of
Canterbury officiating. In the Sec
ond coronation the King was seated
on a double-tiered throne and bore
the sceptre in his right hand and
the model of the church in his lett.
The actual placing Of the crown
or bis bead was done by two pre-
la
= a& Of King Richard
I aH iU'v 6,14S3, is said
to have been Ine most t2a1id ono
UP to that date. SIX ,-aUsaAd gor-
geously attired mobiles Of his court
attended him in state from Bay
nard's Castle to Westminster Palace.
He was crowned in the Abbey by
the Archbishop of Canterbury. In
the procession to the Shrine Of Ed
ward the Confessor where the preli-
miniaries were held, King Richard
and his Queen walked barefoot up
the main aisle of Westminster Alb
hey, preceded by trumpeters. her
aids, priests and abbors. ana roliow-
ed by the Bishop Of Rochester hold
ing aloft great jeweled cross. At
the banquet that followed the Duke
of Norfolk, as Earl Marshal, kept
order in the hall while mounted on
his huge horse which Was draped
u eis<a u goid.
Immediately aner xne defeat OF
Richard Ill ct Bosworth, Henry VII
Gus crowned ON tue uuttlonoiu. So.
defeated monarch had worn his
crown into the battle but had lost
It in the melee. Lord Stanley, =
noble, found It in hawthorn bush.
and in the presence {. TIC entire
army, picked it up and placed it up
on the head of the new King Hen
~. A little more than two months:
later, however, Henry was recrown-
ed in Westminster Abbey. His
queen, Elizabeth Of York. was not
crowned until nearly month after
his coronation.
At the coronation Of Queen Mary,
1853, three crowns were used-that
of Edward the Confessor, the I'M
perial Crown of England, and an
other one made expressly for her.
Each in turn was placed upon her
head. One historian narrates Pc
Culiar circumstance of her corona
ton. She was to have been anoint-
ed, it seems, with oil said to have
been given st. Thomas of Canter
bury by the Virgin Mary; at the last
minute, however, it was feared that
the oil had lost it's efficacy, and a
fresh supply was forthwith conse-
Grated. She also refused to sit Ill
the Coronation Chair, claiming that
it had been desecrated by her Pro-
testant brother, Edward, and used
another one sent by the Pope.
The coronation of Queen Eliza
beth, January Is, 1858, was an I'M
usually unique and stormy one. To
be a prisoner in the Tower one min
ute and the queen Of England the
next is certainly far out of the Or
binary. The entire ceremony was