Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-01-23

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 cius-
tered about the gray walls of the min
lister, the people we're gathered &C.
cording to the old English custom to
shout their acclaim of their new mas
ter. But the Norman soldier on guard
about the fame took the shouts to
mean threat that an attack
was imminent, and that swept down
upon the village and massacred all
the inhabitants So that Duke Will
liam began his new reign with slaugh
ter and oppression that formed a 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-
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 and
i'll fated Lady Jane Grey, who signed
her accession proclamation on July
9, 1858, 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.
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mally crowned in Westminster abbey
on Sunday, October /, 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 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 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 l. and his consort,
Anne of Denmark, on July 25, 1909
in the same historic abbey, it marked
another stage in the development o.
Great Britain. For England had
ceased to be England now. She vas
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 I. wore a crown heavier than
any OF his predecessors had worn
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 MOI
wish to be consecrated in ceremony
of the Protestant church. One won
ders If 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 &c, 1857, when Al
liver Cromwell sat on that same sea-
and heard Himself proclaimed lorn
protector with ceremonies almost
equal in splen1or to those of a corona
ton.
And so the tale goes on. down
through Anne, last of the Stuart SOW
ereigns. William and Mary, VINO
were crowned together; the Georges
and the sailor king" bluff William
", into the new era that began wheh
Victoria came to the throne and her
slim, girlish figure. buttressed by 'he
stern visages of Peel. Wellington ana
all the other notables who guarded
her youth, stood gracefully erect !"
that spot above the crossing oil the
nave and transept, where the rulers
Of England take their place, so tns'
all may see them assume their dig
nifty and the responsibilities il en-
tails.