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The Duke

Unchanging

A Family excursion.....by BERNARD WICKSTEED

·THE MAN responsible for organising the Coronation is Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel, Baron Maltravers, ' Earl of Surrey, Baron FitzAlan, Clun, and Oswaldestre, Earl of Norfolk, Baron Herries, Earl Lord Lieutenant of Sussex, Chief Butler of England and Hereditary Earl Marshal. It is this last title that carries with it the duty of organising royal marriages, funerals and Coronations....

Executions all along

the family line with a £20-a-year job for ever

M

Fourth day of

THIS CROWNING YEAR

After the death of the next cari marshal, who desn't seem to have conumitted any out- rageous acts of violence or de- flance, the dukedom of Norfolk

ANY people think neither go nor hang." And he and the carl marshaley became

it is odd that didn't. tho Coronation The next king, Edward II, arrangements in thought he would like a more carl marshal, so he Westminster Abbey should friendly be mnde

gave the job to his brother. A by ณ Roman

woman claimed the Catholic the Duke of at the coronation of Richard 11, Norfolk. But It is not half and in 1380 it went to another Earl of Norfolk, who was given

as odd as some of the things that went on when the Duke's predecessors held the job.

The Dukes and Earls of Norfolk have been in the coronation business for

extinct.

The dukedom

was given to one of the Princes in the Tower, but, as you know, the Princes were murdered, and so

It became extinct again.

BATTLE..

the right to carry a gold rod BUT. you can't keep a good

with rings at each end Instead of a plain wooden one.

It didn't do him much good. Ho had the usual row with the

banished, and died. king, was of plague in Venice.

more than 700 years and a promising Ind, but he got mixed

The next carl marshal was more turbulent bunch of

ip in n conspiracy and was barons never crowned i executed without trial of the king. Their story is a pot- age of 19. ted history of England.

An cari called Roger Bigod WOE the first Norfolk to ho marshal, in 1240. He spent out for the half his life quarrelling with Henry VI. Henry III, but never ran coronation because the king outlived him,

The cavalcade of Norfolk carl marshala goes on. The next one missed Agincourt be- cause he was ill, but turned

coronation

MURDER

of

The next carl, also called H was fonguished himself was followed by a duke Roger Bigod, fixed the coronation of Edward 1, Battle of St, Albans, in 1485.

was luckier. He by arriving a day late for the the man who took the Stone

There was a second Battle of of Scone from Scotland

St. Albans Ave years later. Ho put it under his throne.

was in time for that, but left afterwards and went over 10 the other side.

A

PLAGUE

and

FTERWARDS Edward post- ed the earl overseas, but he refused Lo go. "By God, Bigod, you shall either go or hang," cald tho king. "By God, O king," said Bigod, "I shall

This was during the Wars of the Roses. If you remember, and tho wily duko switched from red to white in good time to be on the right side when Edward IV proclaimed himself king at Westminster.

CONTROVERSY... for THIS CROWNING YEAR

Now's the time to put a dragon in the Arms

by SPIKE HUGHES

"Quarterly: lat and 4th, gules, three llons passant guardant in pale of, 2nd, or, a lion rampant within a ́ double treisure flory counterflory gules; 3rd. azure, a harp'or, siringed argent,"

guage of heraldry, is the description of the Royal Arms.

you

her

le, the lons re- mained; with the result that England is represented twies in the Arms to Scot- land's and Ireland's onec.

title down, and if an ex- tinct fish can come to life after 50,000,000

years whol's generation or two to the Dukes of Norfolk?

Д

Tho frst of the Howard family to which the present duko belongs got the title of Richard III. The Old Pala two days before the coronation Act was operating well at the time. The salary for being ear! marshal was Axed in 1483 at 220, and has remained so ever since.

Richard III was killed at the Battle of Bosworth, but Norfolk did not get the chance . at running the next coronation be- cause he was killed in the battle too.

After that the title was taken of them gave the Scols such a away from the Howards, till one beating at Flodden Field that

he was made a duke again. Un- like so many of the Norfolks und Howards, he died a natural death, aged eighty.

He had 11 sons and seven daughters, and couldn't stand Cardinal Wolsey,

The next duko, who was earl marshal at the trial of Anne Boleyn, couldn't stand Wolsey either, and helped to get him thrown out.

Katherine Howard. who married Henry VIII, was the duke's niece, and things looked good till he was thrown in the Tower and his title taken away.

SCAFFOLD

HE

OCTANE DAYS..... by

SILES

"This branded petrol is definitely better than Pool.”

HOW

RED

London Express Servicd

Students who go up

to Oxford from America

are accused of falling

under the Influence of

True or false?

Communists

An Oxonlan goes to investigate

are the Yanks at Oxford?

"0

Oxford. legal existence of Communist .. XFORD Reds lure Yanks"; "Scholars Com- and fellow-travelling clubs In a major university "must come munised says report"; "M.L5 quizzes chief as a shock to the visiting proctor"; "Vice-Chancellor to appear before Un Americans and must seem a American Activities Committce"-here are some of the considerable menace. to Con- record. One evening Henry VIII headlines which could appear in American newspapers if Iessman Yelde.

the startling allegations made the other day by Congress man Harold Velde are proved correct.

E had the nearest escape from the scaffold in the Norfolk

gave the order for him to be executed next morning, and then died in the night himself.

So the order was never carried out, and Norfolk not only got his life back but his title too.

The 42-year-old Congresana-him-

self a former G-man His son was not so lucky. Ha is to head an in

SUTE WEES FOL had been executed at the Tower

vestigation of the ten days before the King died.

young Americans who The same thing happened to come each year to place of

those repetitive and his son, who was carl marshal Oxford along with anachronistle lions.

The Welsh have been willing Elizabeth 1. He made the mis- at the Coronation of Queen partners in the United Kingdom take of wanting to marry Mary much longer than the Scots and

parent Lo

the

There

Howards the duke agalhal

men from many paris

of

of the Commonwealth under the terms the famous Rhodes Scholarships, founded by

Empire-bulider

Ceeli Rhodes.

instance of an American having I could discover only a single

Joined one of the Red organisa

tiona, society for "the improvement of cultural relations with the

by R. M. MacCOLL

USSR. He was not a Rhodes but a private

biking a post-gradunta COLITEC

There is also the view

of, the hood

of

a famous college, who,

incidentally, considers that the general call- bre, of the Asherican

the law, just like all other poll-Rhodes men-always high-hus

And Rhodes must be whizzing tical clubs. I have never head been steadily improving aver about in his grave in the far-off of a Rhodes Scholar being up the last quarter of a century. hills of Africa, because Congress- proached, but it could easily

Ho told me, "In' the "world man Velde contends that not have happened and been zem of today, with its strange set only have some Communists won' ported back to America, these scholarships In the past,

but that the Reds are today. "As for the past, I have not buslly trying to And now recruits heard of any Communists being Emong the 100 American Rhodes

men now in residence, at £500 a appointed to the acholarships." year,

at Oxford.

tournemexts.

Canvassers

who studied at tho

of values, the liberalism” and tolerance for which Oxford has traditionally stood are some- times looked at askance else- where.:

with undesirable ideas from

Not funny

the Irish; the first Prince of Queen of Scots, Elizabeth wasn' Wales, title of the Heir Ap going to stand for that, so

was came another Norfolk head, and Throne, created

609 years ago; they bang went the title again.

wasn't another Duke of have a live, virile language.

Norfolk for 88 years, They have even won the Eng-

when Charles II gave the family a THAT, in the romantic list County Cricket Champion-

new. deal. He made one of the and picturesque lan- ship.

But that Tudor Dragon La

and the made scarcely ever seen outside

another the carl marshal. The reason

he did not give Principality, except on national fogs at Twickenham, and on both honours to the same man the coat of arms of the Pullman was

was that the duke was mad. Those passant guardant, or Car Company.

The Stuarts were touchy about walking past-end-looking-at Would it be a break with their heads and didn't wont a

their lions, for instance, are tradition to include the Welsh manine running

coront- The past? My own Rhodes

The other. day, a Bouth .. themselves a heraldic hangover Dragon in the Royal

Arms? tions.

Scholar contemporaries included

African visitor was complaining from the time when they were No. They are the personal arms

Charles made both tilles much stalwarts ng E.F.F.

that the South African: Rhodon quartered with the fleur-de-lis of the monarch; they have been hereditary, and

Eagan, the Norfolks ("Eddle")

famous of France.

changed before,

for political, never

Lost their stripes again. amateur, heavy-weight Wasserman, from Brocklyn. Oxford. What were thean? Oh, PROBABLY 25-year-old A.A. Echolars were returning home When Wo Jost

family, and geogra

But

who later became "New York 11 they had some narrow France and

phical reasong. They

State Boxing Commfisioner.

Masu escrpes. be changed

The first of the earl marshals Off-hand I would say that chusetts Institute of Technology, their views on racial questions are not in harmony with' those again.

under

among the Rhodes Charles II's new deal was Reds

at and is now in his first year as officially prevailing ing Bouth Put tho dragon

my day. (the mid- a Rhodes Scholar at Lincoln Africa today." passant quies wid a Catholic, and had to appoint Oxford-in

Heading politics, its green back a deputy to do his work of the twenties) were about as plenti

next five three were Catholics, ful as annless wonders in tennis philosophy, and economice, has.

became rather "the thing" for

But later, in the thirties, the answer when he skye:...

"It is rather surprising to And- scrne young men to play footle Communist clubs operating ceivable that in that far-off the campus is American for to smile at all this out in with Communism, and it is con- openly on the campus here ('on ERE in England we may tend seeming me some Americans part of the university); That the America of 1953 m. - Conte have gone home to face couldn't happen back horne gressional Investigation. is apt their Great Depression with now nowadays, I suppose they come to be no laughing matter, unfashionable notions.

around canvassing ...; for. "-now, members and subscriptions at But there is a funny aldo to the start of the academia year, things in the fact that the American newspaper: most ro- nowned for its consistently Had he been approached? anti-British, diitorial! polley, has A Loubies mas near. In 1824 W

and of the Norfolks': THAT about today? Sir Wasserman, dark-haired, hand- been attacking thethodes the Royal Armsto are all Second Ellabeth, has Tudor a special Act of Parliament was ly retired from the Werdenship swarm of fellow come round For being Communist-ainted?

Carleton Allen, who rocent some, and Intelligent, smiled. scholars tooth and siRİLANNE

"Could be. You know, such a ki (we assure ourselves) descended blood in her veins. A red passed allowing them to exercise

of Rhodes, Houso, here from numberless

the Tudor Dragon in her Arms thate office, as earl marshal even Oxford, tells most is quito asking you to join this and that No, no-because it says, that

when you rat

"'come®_kup'.all- Rhodes scholars.”aro? in- Welsh in common with the would – bo correct, consistent, though

· possibile - thab BIDETUD English and the Scots, have and decorative.

And the WORD Catholfen.

Rhodes Oxford for join the univers doctrinated while at Oxford to have done so ever scholae may have been provided the British Isles with

Ance

pagandled by the Communists it) and you are bit bo becorde British agents and wildered, so it's entirely pos- spins, muil; then spend the rest a whole dynasty of monarchs An official of the College of

have

to give and

tato

I have ble that the odd Red may of their liver back in America, the last Arma said: "Wo cannot - come them enlightened, days). If the absolutely no one, by a happy coincidence, ment on the suggestions made current duke lets us have a sect of it, but it could have, the rest.”, was called Ellabeth,

" by Me Hughes, since they ralse docent look at the Coronation happened.)

Power (ual).99 (3 Bring out that Tudor Dragon, questions which are primarily on AV 1 think we migirt brook, egala and, put it in the fourtă political and not purely with tradition, too, and let him quarter of the Royal Arms in heraldic.”

koop his head.

[Scottish

usage

shows the Lion of Scotland in the first

and fourth quarters,

ground. into fourth quarter and you would bring an extra bit of colour Into the scheme (the four quarters would with the three English lions be fields of red, gold,, blue, and tucked away in the top right green). hand corner.]

The Welsh have been given With my own country ro- fioral and vegalable representa presented by a harp or, stringed tion on our coins and stamps; argent, regardless of whether the daffodil and the leek hiva the usage is Scottish or English now become an accepted part gr on the front of my passport, of the general design. But I I have no complaint. But why has been a tardy and reluctant - are the Welsh not included in gesture.

Unlike the Irish,' who

in their Ume, And

who Is

who were not allowed to run coronations, and as were Pro- testants, who were.

The most picturesque of the Protestants was the 11th duke, who could not stand the sight was sober, of doop when ho Fortunately for the caUBO of cleanliness this was not often, and hi servants, used to wash him when he syns drunk.

AND NOW?

may

Under the law just like all the others,"

Born konow have been muling around with working as agents of a foreign

seffter all, there are Come From my own recent knqw- - As Rhodes scholar, WARREN manlet soclube-in Oxford, which ledge of * Amation; #1°z"can", man' remarks, witfules Booms are allowed to carry on under quilo ison thabɛthe open and wo just can't win.