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Show PAY FABULOUS PIE . TO SEEC011T1 Quotations for Favorable Locations Loca-tions Have. Risen Rapidly in the Passing Centuries. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON; May 13. Fabulous prices being paid .for coronation places Is a latter-day development, buL the Increase has been going on since the lime of William Wil-liam the Conqueror. Prom the coronation of William I., at which, it may be as well to remark, no ladies were present, down to that of Henry III., a good place could be had for the smallest of the base copper coins brought over by the Normans. The procession of Edward I. could be viewed in luxury for half a farthing: ant under his successor tho rate was doubled; and the same price was paid under Edward III. Tho same rata of progress occurred with Richard II. and Henry IV.. and again under Henry V.: and the twopenny scale was maintained down to Honrv VII. Bluff King Hal, Edward VI. and Queen Mary lived In an extravagant ago, and people who wished to sec them going to their crowning were- compelled to spend a groat, and this sum sprang up to sixpence six-pence for Good Queen Bess. For the llrst two Stuarts a shilling was willingly laid out. and for the last two the rate was half a crown. For William and Mary. Anne and Gcorgo I. a. crown was paid: and when George IL was crowned there were lavish patriots who went up to half a guinea. After that the prices rose by laps and bounds. A certain Sir Edward hired a first floor room to see the procession of George III. for 100 guineas. |