STUART EXECUTION
fd)NDON MOURNERS. LONDON, February I. Among (hose who this week in Tra - falgar Square. London, commemorated the 290th anniversary of the execution of Charles 1., was a New Zealander, Count Potocki of Montalk. A well-known London character, the Count walked through the streels in a flowing fourteenth century robe and affixed a poem to the plinth of the King Charles statute. He did so, ho said, because he was “a great rovalist.”
Every year a group of people honour the memory of the Stuart King by holding a. service hear the scene of his execution. Typical of (he inscriptions on the wreaths placed round the statue this year was (his:
“In proud memory of the Earl of Derwent water. Lord Widdinglou and other English cavaliers and Jacobites who suffered in the Stuart cause.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 March 1939, Page 12
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