. The roll-call of Westminster Abbey. of that realm be crowned. In the meantime the stone has remained in the Chapelof the English Kings, and has only once been taken outof the Abbey since Edward I. brought it from Scotland,when it was removed to Westminster Hall, and OliverCromwell installed Protector of this realm, enthroned uponthe Seat of Majesty. The only time, up to the presentyear of our reigning King, Edward the Sevenths corona-tion, when, in the memory of this generation, the stone wasremoved from St. Edwards Chapel, was at the first jubilee(1887) of Queen Victoria, and she is the onl
. The roll-call of Westminster Abbey. of that realm be crowned. In the meantime the stone has remained in the Chapelof the English Kings, and has only once been taken outof the Abbey since Edward I. brought it from Scotland,when it was removed to Westminster Hall, and OliverCromwell installed Protector of this realm, enthroned uponthe Seat of Majesty. The only time, up to the presentyear of our reigning King, Edward the Sevenths corona-tion, when, in the memory of this generation, the stone wasremoved from St. Edwards Chapel, was at the first jubilee(1887) of Queen Victoria, and she is the only sovereign,since the days of the Plantagenets, who has ever sat twicein the Coronation Chair. Until Tudor times, while the culte for Edward theConfessor continued unabated, our Kings were wont to usethis chair of state when they took part in the festivalservices which commemorated the days of the saints deathand translation, and would appear before the worshippersseated on the stone, crowned, and holding the rod with the W233fc?!rK.
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