SCONE STONE
STORY OF PLOT The Dean of Westminster (Dr. Foxley Nunnis reveals in the new issue of the Church of England Year Book that as recently as two or three years ago there was a plot (“known to the police, but to few others”) to carry back to Scotland the Scone Stone in Westminster Abbey. This stone, which bears the tradition that Jacob slept on it at Bethel, was used for the crowning of the Scottish kings, and was brought to the Abbey by Edward 1., in 1296. The plot referred to by Dr. Norris was alleged to have been inspired by a section of Scottish Nationalists who a Tew years ago conceived a scheme for forcibly removing the stone from its place beneath the Coronation Chair and depositing it with the Lord Provost of Perth. The project was not spoken of in terms of practical joking, but as a serious proposition and with the definite object, of showing that the newlyformed Nationalists meant business. The men were said to number 13. News of their alleged intention reached the police; precautions were taken and nothing further was heard of the plot.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 137, 11 June 1937, Page 2
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