Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-01-29

Westminster, lowering owe the tombs
of soldiers and statesmen of the past.
They are part Of the heritage Of that
Saxon England bequeathed to the gen.
erations that followed her, part of
the memories of Harold, the son of
Goodwin, whose eye was pierced by
a Norman arrow Just before the
shield wall broke and Saxon England
passed. d.
Slaughtered People Who cheered.
On Christmas day of that same
year, or less than IL months later.
another coronation was held in West
minister abbey, when Aldred Of York,
he who had placed the crown on Har-
ODDS fallen head, did like Office for
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 on guard
aoout ~ hdhO4~GOOh ZIG ohouto "
a threat that ar attack
was imminent and that swept DOWN
upon the village and massacred all
the inhabitant& So that Duke viii
liam began his new reign with slaugh-
ter and oppression that formed q ter
rible climax to the tragedy at Senlac.
So one comes down to the compare
lively civilized GROWING Of Henry
VIII. and his consort, Catherine Of Ar
agon, by William Warham. archbish-
op Of Canterbury, on st. John the
Baptist's day, being also a Sunday and
midsummer day Of 1909. And after
that came the only crowned queen
regnant Of England, the beautiful and
Ill fated Lady Jane Grey, who signed
her accession proclamation on July
8, 1853, and before the month was out
was a prisoner, held fast in Bloody
Mary's" grip. Ten days was the
length Of her reign, n 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,
1859, and II possible the occasion
was yet more portentious than any
that had preceded 1t. 1t determined
the fate Of England. 1t marked the
beginning Of the English renaissance,
Of the budding Of thought and
feeling. Of the growth of the nations
oversee traffic, and Of the inception OF
that series of bitter shrewd blows at
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 /. and his consort,
Anne Of Denmark. on July rs, 1903,
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 Brit
ain and Ireland and the empire of
India, and the dependencies, over seas.
James l. wore a crown heavier than
any Of his predecessors had worm.
1t Is interesting to note that Hen
rietta Maria, consort of Charles l..
refused to be crowned with him. be-
cause, being a Catholic, she did not
wish to be c~onsecrated In a ceremony
of the Protestant church. One won
ders II Charles. al he sat on the
stone Of scone,' the stone Of des.
tiny" on Candlemas day. 1895, was
able to visualize the scene I'm West
minister hall. June 26, 1857, when AL.
liver Cromwell sat on that same seat
and heard himself proclaimed lord
protector with ceremonies almost
equal in splendor to those Of a corona
ton.