CHARLES THE “ROYAL MARTYR."

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 185, 3 May 1933, Page 7

CHARLES THE “ROYAL MARTYR."

A recent resolution carried iti the Lower House of Convocation of Canter bury, proposing that the name of King Charles I should be restored to the Prayer Book Calendar, will doubtless cause great satisfaction, among the admirers of Charles I. whom some speak of as the ‘•Royal Martyr." For many years there has been an agitation in favour of replacing the Stuart King’s name in the revised Prayer Book. In this connection it is noteworthy that King Charles's name is said to have been left out not by an order, but through a printer’s error. In 1915 the Lower House of Convocation resolved that the name of Kins Charles I should be added to the Church of England Calendar of Saints. But this resolution does not make the king a saint, as the resolutions of Convocation must be legalised b.v Parliament or given a Royal License. In the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. sermons were preached on January 30. the date nf King Charles I’s execution, in memory of the “Blessed Martyr King Charles.”