A JACOBITE RITE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 22 March 1928, Page 10

A JACOBITE RITE.

SERVICE -or REMB*riAircE,

WHITEHALL STATUE Olj' CTTAItT.Tr«

THE FIRST.

(Fro?n Our Own Correspondent.) ; ■ LONDONi February -15. . -There are still Jaoobites amongst; us. A small band, it is truei but making up in enthusiasm what ft lacks in numbers, as does the faithful remnant in New Zealand. They keep King Charles I.'s memory green, and to-day they gathered round his statue tit Sharing Cross to commemorate the 'anafrersary of his death in 1010, to hold ? a service of remembrance. -

Members of the Ro?&Martyr Church Union, . by whom the, : -service was arranged, wallced "to 'the - spot in procession after assembling in the-crypt of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. They w&e by Pipe*, Duff, who played 'The Flower* of the Forest." Sflii! statue <tthers;&Md% gAtf&Qgfwhich »o*nbered some hundreds ofpeople. £ . ■*!»*.. eervicei : was conducted by the of the Union, the Rev. and the Rev. T. B. Woodd, >,descendant..-of Colonel Basil Wood<L the Btoyalist officer who attended $855 & the The word •remember" was conspicuous in the-aer- £{<*» also Included theffoUctfMV Lord, In Whose sight the death of Thy saints is precious; we magnify Thy name for Thine abundant grace bestowed upon our martyred Sovereign; by which he was enabled so cheerfully to follow the steps of his blessed Master and Saviour, fn a constant meek suffer-' ing of all barbarous indignities, and at last resisting unto blood and even then according to the same pattern, prayinir for his murderers." K

On behalf of the Union, Captain Wheatly-Crowe, the president, placed a wreath at the foot of the statue, bearing the inscription: "In respectful remem- ™ intern 1 ® 8 ' in & and Martyr, Jan. 30, 1649. Remember. "

Wreaths were sent, too, by the Royal Stuart Society, represented by Lord Mostyn, the Society of King Charles the Martyr, the Chelsea Cycle of the Order of the White Rose, and the Royalist Club. J . Captain H. S. Wheatley-Crowe, presiding later at the annual meeting of the Royal Martyr Church Union, stated that King Charles' name was omitted in the Prayer BoMc Kalandar in 1859, by a printers error, and that 1700 names had been put to a petition to restore it. "If the bishops are not fit people to prepare our new Prayer Book, who are?" he asked. A woman during the discussion of the new Prayer Book declared that it Wne' 4 change of doc-

Among those present were:—Major Francis Skeet, Mr. G. H. T. Watson, Mr. r t e9 ' r - Sholto Mr. H. L. Littler, the Rev. G. W. Horner (representing Miss C. M. Phillimore, honorary secretary of the Union, who is ill) and Mr. H. COllett. ''

. J h ® ?tatue of Charles has hitherto lit ™£ B< : T M ion u P° n it, but the Union XJT'U 11 * ®° St of a metal tablet which, with the sanction of the Office of t0 m pedestal. The tablet bears the following words:— King Charted I. 1626-1649. The bronze statue was made in 1633 for Lord Treasurer Westonby Hubert le Sueur It was acquired for the Crown and set up k'j* A in , 1675'I 675 ' the carved work of the pedestal being executed by Joshua Marsnail.