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Observations Made In A Visit To The Tombs In Westminster Abbey,
sessors , has been so much coveted . Some have waded through streams of blood to attain it . William the First could not succeed ' till he had slain 60 , 000 people . His eldest son Robert had his eyes put out that he mi ght not find his way to it . Stephen gained it with great labour , and kept it with greater . To be seated here , John promised what he never performed . The Earl of Pembroke bravel
y kept it for Henry the Third , while an infant ; and his son , Edward the First , as bravel y kept it for himself . Edward the Second and Henry the Sixth were otisted by their wives . Stafford , Duke of Buckingham , lost his life for placing in it Richard the Third , and Hastings lost his , that he might not prevent it . - To be seated here , Mary the First promised to preserve those lives she afterwards took away .
Dudley , Duke of Northumberland , sacrificed his own family , in endeavouring to place them in this chair . Of all the blessings in heaven , or on earth , the invincible Oliver thought this the first . Much power attends the man who holds possession ; but the Stuarts lost it , by attempting all . One would think , the extreme value for this seat during life was retained after deathfor seventeen of our kings are assembled
, near it . Whoever commands it , commands the prayers of the . righteous . . The supplications of the , whole British church , assisted with the united voice of the sectaries , solicit heaven , that the race of Brunswick may hold it for ever .
CORONATION STONE . Upon the frame ofthe royal chair , under the seat , lies the famous coronation stone , brought from Scootr ; which a Scot , with a serious face , will tell us , was Jacob ' s pillow , on which he lay all nig ht in the open field at Bethel , when he went a wooing to Miss Rachael Labon . —When authors dLagree about a piece of antiquityit is no wonder
, it shoots into fable . Upon this sacred stone , however , all the kings of Scotland were crowned , for more than a thousand years . Its being hard and cold , might very well suit the brawny posteriors of a northern monarch ; but modern luxury , as if to avoid those two insupportable evils , has placed it a foot below the seatto make way for the velvet cushion .
, If I had entertained the least idea of writing this journey , I should certainly have measured it , for it is requisite an author should sometimes be correct . This curious stone , which possesses the same bewitching powers as the chair on which it lies , is called , by some writers , the royal throne of Scotland . Patten calls is a marble chair . The form , if it
would bear the name , is flatfish , about two feet long , one broad , and six inches thick . But it is without form or comeliness ; is jagged in every direction , as if broken ; is of a darkish colour , as every stone must be which has lain five hundred years in the smoke of London ; it is near one hundred weight , and is much like the stones we often see in a rocky field . / As ' the English and the Welch had cut one another ' s ' throats for thirteen hundred years , Edwardthe First wished to promote a union
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Observations Made In A Visit To The Tombs In Westminster Abbey,
sessors , has been so much coveted . Some have waded through streams of blood to attain it . William the First could not succeed ' till he had slain 60 , 000 people . His eldest son Robert had his eyes put out that he mi ght not find his way to it . Stephen gained it with great labour , and kept it with greater . To be seated here , John promised what he never performed . The Earl of Pembroke bravel
y kept it for Henry the Third , while an infant ; and his son , Edward the First , as bravel y kept it for himself . Edward the Second and Henry the Sixth were otisted by their wives . Stafford , Duke of Buckingham , lost his life for placing in it Richard the Third , and Hastings lost his , that he might not prevent it . - To be seated here , Mary the First promised to preserve those lives she afterwards took away .
Dudley , Duke of Northumberland , sacrificed his own family , in endeavouring to place them in this chair . Of all the blessings in heaven , or on earth , the invincible Oliver thought this the first . Much power attends the man who holds possession ; but the Stuarts lost it , by attempting all . One would think , the extreme value for this seat during life was retained after deathfor seventeen of our kings are assembled
, near it . Whoever commands it , commands the prayers of the . righteous . . The supplications of the , whole British church , assisted with the united voice of the sectaries , solicit heaven , that the race of Brunswick may hold it for ever .
CORONATION STONE . Upon the frame ofthe royal chair , under the seat , lies the famous coronation stone , brought from Scootr ; which a Scot , with a serious face , will tell us , was Jacob ' s pillow , on which he lay all nig ht in the open field at Bethel , when he went a wooing to Miss Rachael Labon . —When authors dLagree about a piece of antiquityit is no wonder
, it shoots into fable . Upon this sacred stone , however , all the kings of Scotland were crowned , for more than a thousand years . Its being hard and cold , might very well suit the brawny posteriors of a northern monarch ; but modern luxury , as if to avoid those two insupportable evils , has placed it a foot below the seatto make way for the velvet cushion .
, If I had entertained the least idea of writing this journey , I should certainly have measured it , for it is requisite an author should sometimes be correct . This curious stone , which possesses the same bewitching powers as the chair on which it lies , is called , by some writers , the royal throne of Scotland . Patten calls is a marble chair . The form , if it
would bear the name , is flatfish , about two feet long , one broad , and six inches thick . But it is without form or comeliness ; is jagged in every direction , as if broken ; is of a darkish colour , as every stone must be which has lain five hundred years in the smoke of London ; it is near one hundred weight , and is much like the stones we often see in a rocky field . / As ' the English and the Welch had cut one another ' s ' throats for thirteen hundred years , Edwardthe First wished to promote a union