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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1937.
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TO-DAY IN HISTORY
The Mystery Of King Charles' Sword
ON the night of April 13, 1010, a 4~|~|~|
man named Moxoh, a porter employed at the Golden Cross Hotel, was walking ncross the road 'nt Charing Cross when he stumbled over 1 heavy metal object. He stooped to pick it up, and found that he was holding in la-hand the sword buckler and straps which had failen from the equestrian statue of Charles I.
The newspapers of the day record that Moxon handed the articles over to a certain Mr. Eyre, a trunkmaker, who kept them for some time before I he received instructions what to do with them from the Board of Green Cloth at St. James's Palace,
a vivid memory.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 13
BORN:
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Stafford, 1593,
Frederick North, Earl of Guild-
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BIRDS that build dance halls for themselves, near Sydney, New South Wales. The bower-bird's dance
paint them, and decorate them with flowers hall was built of sticks, about a foot long wedged into Pres. Taft
the ground. There were two sides, forming on and china; killer whales that helped men to hunt averhead, leaving a rounded space in which the bird Pres. Lincoln ordinary whales because they found that they danced for its anys Mr. Kearton, are painted with Pres, Wilson would get part of them for dinner!
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These are two of the remarkable natural powdered charcoal, mixed with saliva, the paint having history stories that Cherry Kearton, naturalist, been made by grinding charred wood in its bill and then explorer, and maker of wild-life films, tells in a applied by using its bili sa a painter's brush."
The bird decorates the ground in front of the bowler delightful new book, "I Visit the Antipodes" with snail shells, berries, leaves, bits of blue paper, blue (Jarrolds, 88. Gd.).
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The feathered builder and decorator is the from a garden a mile away, bits of broken china, and bower-hird. Mr. Kearton watched a bower-bird at work any bright objects it can find.
wondered," anys Mr. Kearton, "what could have been the origin of this building habit, as it appears that the female is hardly ever present, also la used long before mating. time, so that it is really a male's playground, though why it should want to play alone puzzles me."
take salt take
food?
Do you
with your
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OU eat your egg at breakfast, and most likely take salt with it. Then you rush off to work. It has probably never occurred to you that taking salt with your egg symbolises your daily work.
King, admirable though it was, and After considerable delay the sword forthwith ordered it to be removed. was replaced on the statue, from
The Parliament.sold it to a brazier, which it would appear that official named Rivers, strictly on condition dom was in no hurry to complete the that it should be melted down or accoutrements of the ill-fated least broken up. Rivers, who lived "Morly King, Jacobitism still being near Holborn Conduit, may have been a Royalist and disliked break- ing up the effigy of his King. Or, Commonwealth the sword believing that the About 20 years latér
regime could be only temporary, he disappeared entirely. A writer in a periodical of 1850 comments: "When may have thought there was a pos- did the real sword, which but a few sibility of selling the statue in the years back hung nt the side of the
At all events he kept the statue in- Charles at King
tact. He buried it underground, and equestrian statue of Charing
Cross,
s, disappear?
In this way. You earn your salary by what you do that killer whales helped the whalers. "That the sword was a real one of proceeded to make knives and forks
during the day. The Latin for salt is "sal," and the Latin for
There was a mob of about thirty that period, I state upon the authority with bronze handles which he de of my learned friend, Sir Samuci clared were relleg of the statue.
salary is "salarium." He is said to have made a small
killers, They used to line out for Meyrick, who had ascertained the.
Had you lived in Rome (well back in B.C. days) you might about four miles, like a fortune out of these knives and forks fact, and who pointed out to me its which were bought in large quanti- have received the first type of salary ever paid to man, for if you soldiers, to intercept the ordinary 1038
were a gladiator, you would have received money for salt. That whales as they went north or came correspondent replied to this ties both by Royalists, as a mark of
was the first salary: query as follows: "The sword dis- affection for their King, and by the Roundheads as a memoria! of their appeared about the time of the Coro triumph over Charles. nation of her present Majesty, when some scaffolding was erected around statue, which afforded great facilities for
the mpler- removing
the
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After the Restoration, the statue for such it was; and I also under-reappeared and was bought by the stood that it found its way into the Government and set up in 1071 on
clous the Charing Cross site.
60-called museum of the notorious While the scaffolding was up for Captain D, where, in company with the wand of the Grent Wizard this purpose, Andrew Marvell wrote of the North, and other well-known some marcastic poetry about the articles, it was carefully Inbeiled and statue. One of the stanzas was as
account up- numbered, and a little pended relating the circumstances of its acquisition and removal."
To which the editor added n foot- note, intending to be facetious: "The of chivalry certainly past, age otherwise the idea of disarming o statue would never have entered the head of any man of arms even in hits most frolicsome mood."
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follows:
"Ta comfort the heart of the poor'
Cavalier.
The late King on horseback in here
to be shown,
What ado with your kings and
your statues is here!
Have we not had enough, pray,
aireadh of one?"
erected
A few months before, Sir Robert Vyner
Lord Mayor of London, had
equestrian
statue of A new sword was placed in post- Charles II. at Stocks Market, the tlon, but so little did offelalom still site of the present Mansion House,
There is good reason to bellove care about Charles I. that they that he did this to flatter the second nctually afixed a modern one,
But this sword, too, disappeared- Charles, and to get into his good when is not certain.
ever
graces.
Marvell produced ກ rhyming Light on this second theft, how-
to have been was given in 1924 by Miss dialogue supposed
horses. The Elizabeth Montizambert in her books, spoken by the two
Cross
criticised Charing
horse "Unnoticed London"
Charles the Second for his profligacy, She recorded that while she was in British Columbia she received it and the animal in Stocks Market re- telisted with an attack on Charles I. for his despotic rule.
letter from a stranger who had read her book.
ook, lving Information as to the disappearance of the sword,
The writer the letter declared that he had "Accidentally appro- priated" the article.
In 1807, he said, he was a reporter in December of
on a newspaer Majesty's Theatre was that year destroyed by fire. He was in the crowd when it occurred, and realised. that the pedestal of the Charles 1. statue was a
from which to view the blaze,
Sald the Charing Cross horse: "That he should be styled Defen-
der of the Faith,
Who beileves not a word what the
Word pf God saith!.
Though he changed his religion, I
hope he's so civil,
Not to think his own father, is gone
'to the devil!"
The Stocks Market horse replied;
and altacking Charles I. for supporting
To which the Charing Cross horse
a good vantage ground the surplice, lawn sleeves, the He climbed the pedestal, using the cross, and the mitre. sword for the purpose. The weapon broke off in his hands, and he was about to throw it away when some- one begged it from him to keep as a souvenir.
Further Inquiries failed to elicit the name of the man to whom the sword was given.
came back sarcastically:
"Thy king will ne'er fight unless
for his queens."
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The King Charles statue is thought
to stand on the site of the Queen.
Thus it is possible that swords Eleanor Cross, which gave Charing
from the Charles I, statue are still in Cross its name, and which was.re-
existence somewhere."
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moved in 1647.
The spot was regarded as the cen-
tre of London and road distances
The statue itself has had curious were measured from it. vicissitudes.
The pedestal is said to have been
It was modelled by Hubert Le designed by Wren and decorated by
Socur,
ground
that
n Frenchman, who came to Grinling Gibbons. England about the year 1030, and Referring to the executions was cost to the order of the Earl of took place at Charing Cross after Pepys remarks: Arundel, in 1030 "on a spot of
the Restoration, hard
"There were great shouts of joy. chance to see the It was put in place just before the Thus it was my outbreak of the Civil War. When King beheaded in Whitehall, and to hostilities began, the Roundheads see the first blood shed in revenge
ad Ittle use for the statue of the for the King at Charing Cross,"
by Covent Garden Church."
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If you had lived in Norman times you and your wife would selves. have made most of your furniture, and she would have made all the family's clothes. One thing alone would you have bartered for salt. You could not have done without it.
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"So," It is said,
they Charles I. put a tax on salt in 1643, but there was such a fuss
caught a passing whale one of their about it that he took it off again in 1647. If you taxed a man's number went to the whaling station and attracted the attention of the salt he thought you taxed his freedom.
They men by throwing itself out of
water and bringing Its tail down on the water with the sound of a gun.”
The men then launched their boat and followed the killer, which swam
the front and guided them to place where the other killers were holding up
If a man told you that you were "untrue to salt," then you knew he thought you a bit of a liar and untrustworthy.
So, when you eat your next egg, look at the salt you take with it, and say, "Am I worth my salt?" A big question because it means, "Am I worth my salary?"
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whale by forming a half elrele round it The whale would be harpooned, and eventually the killers would get their share.
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