THE MACE AND ITS ANCESTORS
The mace which the' Sergeant-at-Arms has to carry on the Speaker's progress to the Chair of the House of Commons is the third of its line. History has no record of the birth of the first, but it tells hdw on or about the very day when Charles 1. lost his head the House of Commons mace finally disappeared. When Parliamentary proceedings were renewed under the Protectorate, Cromwell ordered one to be made as closely as possible on the model of the original ; and this was tho "bauble" he some years later ordered to be taken away. The second mace, like the first, disappeared from human ken, and the present one was made to order in time for the opening sitting of the Parliament summoned by Charles 11. after the Restoration During the session it is under the personal charge of the Sergeant-at-Arms, and when Parliament rises it is sent to the Tower for sale custody. But it is cheering to know that even if the mace disappears the Heavens and tho Constitution may remain.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 132, 5 June 1915, Page 10
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180THE MACE AND ITS ANCESTORS Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 132, 5 June 1915, Page 10
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