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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, 1810, a +++÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷|

man named Moxon, a

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employed at the Golden Cross Hotel, was walking across the road at he stumbled Charing Crom when over

a heavy metal object. He stooped to pick it up, and found that lie was holding in his hand the sword buckler and strops which had fallen 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 trunkinaker, who kept them for some time before

he received instructions what to do

with them from the Board of Green Cloth at St. James's Palace.

After considerable delay the sword was replaced on the statue, from which It would appear that official dom was in no hurry to complete the the Il-fated accoutrements "Martyr" King, Jacobilism till being a vivid memory.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 13

BORN:

Thomas Wentworth, Earl of

Stafford, 1593.

Frederick North, Earl of Gulid-

ford, statesman, 1732.

DIED:

George Frederick Handel, com-

poser, 1759.

King, admirable though it was, and forthwith ordered It to be removed.

The Parliament sold it to a brazier, named Rivera, strictly on condition that it should be melted down or at least broken

up. Rivers, who lived near Holborn Condult, may have been a Royalist and distted

break ing up the cigy of

King OT About 30 years later the sword beiteving that the Commonwealth disappeared entirely. A writer in a regime could be only temporary, he 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 at the side of the equestrian statue of King Charles at Charing Cross, disappear?

"That the sword was a real one of that period, I state upon the authority of my learned friend, Sir Samuel Meyrick, who had ascertained the fact, and who pointed out to me its lass."

future.

At all events he kept the statue in- fact. He buried it underground, and proceeded to make knives and forks with bronze handies which he de- clared were relles of the statue,

He is said to have made smalt fortune out of these knives and forks which were bought in large quanti- tes both by Royalists, as a mark of correspondent replied to this affection for their King, and by the

"The sword dis- query as follows:

Roundheads as a memorial of their appeared about the time of the Coro-irlumph over Churies. nation of her present Majesty, when some scaffolding was erected around

the

statue, which afforded great

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* After the Restoration, the statue

facilities for removing the rapier reappeared and was bought by the for such it was; and I also stood that it found his way into the 10-called museum of the notorious

Government and set up in 1671 on the Charing Cross site.

While the scaffolding was up for

the

Captain D, where, in company this purpose, Andrew Marvell wrote with the wand of the

the Great Wizard

some Burcastic poetry about the North, other

ond well-known articles, it was carefully labelled and statue. One of the stanzas was as

follows:

of

A and a little account up-

relating the its acquisition and rcumstances of

TO

hich the editor added a foot- note, Intending to be facellous: "The of chivalry is certainly past, ༠༥༩ otherwise the idea of disarming a statue would never have entered the head of any man of arms even in his most frolicsome mood."

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"To comfort the heart of the poor

Cavalier.

The late King on horseback is here

to be shown.

What ado with your kings and

vour statues is here!'

Have we not had enough, pray,

already of one?"

an

A few months before. Sir Robert Vyner, Lord Mayor of London, bad erected

equestrian statue of A new sword was placed in posi- Charles II. at Stocks Market, the Llon, but so little did offelaldom still site of the present Mansion House. caro about Charles I. that they that he did this to flatter the second There is good reason to belleve actually affixed a modern one.

his good But this sword, too, disappeared Charles, and to get into

Marvell produced TM. rhyming to have been ever, was given in 1924 by Miss dialogue supposed

the two horses. The Elizabeth Montizambert in her book, spoken by

Charing Cross horse criticised Charles the Second for his profligacy,

when

is not certain.

Light on this second theft, how.

"Unnoticed London".

graces.

She recorded that while she was-and the animal in Stocks Market re in British Columbia she received ailated with an attack on Charles I. letter from her book, giving information as to for his

stranger who had rend

the disappearance of the sword.

The writer of the letter declared - that he had "accidentally appro-. printed" the article

despotic rule.

Sald the Charing Cross horse: "That he should be styled Defen-

der

Who

of the Faith, believes

not a word what the

Word of God saith!... Though he changed his religion, I

hope he's so civil,

in 1887, he said, he was a reporter on a newspaper, and in December of that year Her Majesty's Theatre was destroyed by fire. He was in the crowd when It occurred, and realised

the pedestal that

of the Charles 1. The Stocks Market horse replied;

Not to think its

its own father is gone to the devil!"

attacking Charles I. for supporting

statue was a good vantage ground the surplice, lawn sleeves, the from which to view the bluze.

He climbed the pedestal, using the cross, and the mitre."

To which the Charing Cross horse sword for the purpose. The weapon

broke off in his hands, and he was came back carcastically:

about to throw it away when some-

one begged it from him to keep as a Souvenir.

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Do you

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OU ent 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.

"I wondered," says Mr. Kearton, "what could have been the origin of this building habit, as it appears that the female is hardly ever present, also it is used long before mating time, so that, It is really a male's playground, though why it should want to play alone puzzles me."

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was in Twofold Bay, Victoria,

There was a mob of about thirty killers. They used to line out for

In this way. You carn your salary by what you do that killer whales helped the whalers. during the day. The Latin for salt is "sal," and the Latin for salary is "salarium."

Had you lived in Rome (well back in B.C. days) you might about four miles, like a line of have received the first type of salary ever paid to man, for if you soldiers, to Intercept the ordinary were a gladiator, you would have received money for salt. That

whales as they went north or came was the first salary.

south.

Salt has played a great part in the world's affairs. The oldest trade routes were created for traffic in salt. One of the oldest A whaling station was established- roads in Italy is called the "Via Salaria," which might be loosely near Eden, and as time went on the translated as Salt Street.

The only thing they had to Buy

killers realised that man also sought the whales and that, by helping man they would secure food for them-

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.

"So," it is sald, "when they

Charles I. put a tax on salt in 1643, but there was such a fuss about it that he took it off again in 1647. If you taxed, a man's caught a passing whale one of their Balt he thought you taxed his freedom.

They

In ancient times meals taken with salt were sacred. symbolised the bond of friendship. The man who would not take salt at your table was your enamy,

If a man told you that you were "untrue to salt," then you know 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?"

Something to think over in a spare moment.

number went to the whaling station and attracted the attention of the men by throwing itself out of the water and bringing Its tall down on the water with the sound of a gun." The men then launched their boat and followed the killer, which swam in front and guided them to the place where the other killers were holding up a whale by forming a half circle round it. The whale would be harpooned, and eventually the killers would get their share.

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the name of the man to whom the The King Charles statue is thought aword was given.

lo 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.

moved in 1047.

The spot was regarded as the cen- distances ire of London and road

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The sintue 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 Soeur, Frenchman, who came to Grinling. Gibbons. England about the year 1030, and

Referring to the executions that Cross after was cast to the order of the Earl of took place at Charing

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