Show BODIES OF TWO KINGS FOUND E 1 ll J I i I M. M 1 Lucien Magne the French inspector inspector inspector in in- general of historical monuments monuments I ments has made one of the most remarkable re reo re- re discoveries of recent years In the old abbey ot of That certain of England's kings and queens were burled buried there was well known but it has alwa always s 's been told that the I tombs were rifled rifted man many years ago Henry II and Richard I I. I were buried I there as were the wives of King Bing John and Henry II II The architects who were engaged I In In to n restoring the abbey after digging i down to the original level of the nave navo and demolishing the seventeenth cen tury partition discovered traces of Inscriptions In and paintings in an arched recess of the northwest wall of the transept It would seem that the abbess abbess abbess ab ab- ab- ab bess Louise of Bourbon In redecorating redecorating redecorating ting the cloisters had closed up the opening of or the tombs and hence they had bad escaped being rifled as so many other tombs were in the revolutionary movement of 1 1789 And so they are unearthed today today the the actual remains of Richard the Lion Lion Heart Heart and of his father Here the and other onlookers had before them all that remains of the once fiery Richard The most curious detail however Is that the sixteenth-century sixteenth builders who transferred the tombs of the to this side chapel did not hesitate to bend forward the upper upper up up- per part of Henry Henr II's skeleton down downto to the lower part In order to shorten the tomb so that It might serve to support the vaulted arch designed to I I protect the second pall pair of tombs and he who died of a broken heart through the ingratitude of ot his sons was thus cruelly and Irreverently maltreated I Iatter after atter death It Is believed that the remains remains remains re re- re- re mains of all four sovereigns will be reburied under Its own funeral monument monument ment at the entrance to tho the choir of the re restored newly abbey a I |