Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-28


he who had placed the crown on Har-
Odds fallen head, did like Office Tor
the conqueror A saturnine memory.
that coronation Outside, in the
streets of the little village that clus-
tered about the gray walls of the min
lister, the people were gathered &C
cording to the old English custom to
shout their acclaim of their new mas
ter. But the Norman soldier Oh guard
about the fame took the shouts to
mean threat that an attack
was imminent, and that swept down
upon the village and massacred alt
the inhabitants. So that Duke VIII
liam began his new reign with slaugh-
ter and oppression that formed ter
rible climax to the tragedy at SenlaC
So one comes down to the compare
lively civilized browning of Henry
VIII. and his consort, Catherine of Ar
agon, by William Warham, archbish-
OPP of Canterbury, on st. John the
Baptist's day, being also Sunday and
midsummer day of 1909. And after
that came the only crowned queen
regnant of England, the beautiful ana
i'll fated Lady Jane Grey, VINO signed
her accession proclamation on July
8, 1853, and before the month, was out
was prisoner, held fast in Bloody
Mary's" grip. Ten days was the
length of her reign. one of the sad
dest interludes in English history.
Mary, first of that name, was for
mally crowned in Westminster abbey
on Sunday, October 1, by the cardinal
bishop of Winchester. That corona
ton was big with coming events,
professionalism hung in the balance, the
future of the nation, the happiness
of the people Elizabeth followed
Mary, being crowned on January Is,
1853, and if possible the occasion
was yet more portentious than any
that had preceded it. 1t determined
the fate of England 1t marked the
beginning of the English renaissance,
of the budding OF new thought ana
feeling, of the growth of the nations
oversee traffic, and OF the inception OF
that series of bitter shrewd blows a.
the sea power of Spain that ultimate
ly gave England the right TO claim
the supremacy of the ocean.
When John Whitgift, archbishop Of
Canterbury, placed the crown on the
head OF James l. and his consort
Anne of Denmark. on July %, 1863,
in the same historic abbey, it marked
another stage in the development OF
Great Britain. For England had
ceased to be England now, She was
Great Britain and Ireland, just as
later she was to become Great BTU
ain and Ireland and the empire OF
India, and the dependencies over seas.
James /. wore a crown heavier tnah
any OF his predecessors had worn
1t is interesting to note that hen
rietta Maria, consort OF Charles /,
refused to be crowned with him, De-
cause, being a Catholic, she did not
wish 10 be consecrate'd in ceremony
of the Protestant church. One Won
ders IL Charles, as he sat on the
"stone of scone, ~the stone OF des-
tiny" on Candlemas day, 1926, was
able to visualize the scene In West
minister hall, June 26, 1851, when Ar
iver Cromwell sat on that same sea.
and heard himself proclaimed fora
protector with ceremonies almost
equal in splendor to those Of corona
ton.
And so the tale goes on, down
through Anne, last Of the Stuart SOY
ereigns. William and Mary, WHO
were crowned together; the Georges
and the "sailor king" blufi william
w, into the new era that began "hsh
Victoria came to the throne ana n4f
slim, girlish figure, buttressed py Inc
stern visages Of Peel, Wellington ahI
all the other notables who guarded
her youth, stood gracefully erect ~
that spot above the crossing OF We
nave and transept, where the rNieIo
of England take their place, SO Ina
all may see them assume thelr Us
nifty and the responsibilities II 7a'
tails.