. Walks in London . Scone, within Scotlad grond,Sittyng vpon the regal stone full sound,As all the Kynges there vsed had afore,On Sainct Andrewes day, with al joye therefore.** After Edward I. had defeated Baliol near Dunbar in 1296,he is said, before he left the country, to have been himselfcrowned King of Scotland upon the sacred Stone at this may be, on his return to England he carriedoff as trophies of his conquest, not only the Scottishregalia, but the famous ** Fatal Stone, to create in theScots a belief that the time of the dissolution of theirmonarchy was come.§ Placing t
. Walks in London . Scone, within Scotlad grond,Sittyng vpon the regal stone full sound,As all the Kynges there vsed had afore,On Sainct Andrewes day, with al joye therefore.** After Edward I. had defeated Baliol near Dunbar in 1296,he is said, before he left the country, to have been himselfcrowned King of Scotland upon the sacred Stone at this may be, on his return to England he carriedoff as trophies of his conquest, not only the Scottishregalia, but the famous ** Fatal Stone, to create in theScots a belief that the time of the dissolution of theirmonarchy was come.§ Placing the Stone in the Abbey of • Pennants Tour to the Hebrides. ? Wintowais Chiuuikil* X Buchanans History of Scotland. ) See Kapins History of England, i. 373. VOL. II. X 3o6 WALKS IN LONDON. Westminster, l^.e ordered that it should be enclosed in achair of wood, for a masse priest to sit in.* Variousapplications were afterwards made for the restoration of theStone to the northern kingdom, and the immense importance. The Coronation Chair. , which the Scotch attached to it is shown by its having beenthe subject of a political conference between Edward David II. King of Scots. In 1328 Edward III. actuallyagreed to deliver it up:f the Scottish regalia was sent back,but when it came to giving up the Stone, * the people of * Chronicle.\ Ayliiles Calendars^ p. 58. THE CORONATION CHA2R, 30; Ix)ndon would by no means allow it to depart from them-selves. The Stone (which, geologically, is of such sandy sieniteas may be foimd on the western coast of Scotland) isinserted beneath the seat of the chair, with an iron handleon either side so that it may be lifted up. The chairis of oak and has once been entirely covered with gildingand painting, now worn away with time and injured by thenails which have been driven in when it has been coveredwith cloth of gold at the coronations. At the back a stronglenc will still discover the figure of a king, seated on acushion diapered with
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