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Show BURIAL PLACE OF KING JOHN Writer Declares Interment of Famous English Monarch Took Place at Worcester. In the American Law Review there appeared an article In which the writer made an allusion to King John of England, and said he went "to his unlamented rest at St. Wolstan's." Now, is this correct? King John was buried at Worcester and in the cathedral ca-thedral there, and his body has slept in that spot until now, unless, like a streak of morning cloud, it has melted into the infinite azure of the past. In 1797, for the purpose of identifying the resting place of the king and his remains, a committee of citizens was appointed to Investigate this matter. The body was identified and all that remained of it placed In a new mausoleum, mau-soleum, where it stands today as one of the objects of Interest in Worcester Worces-ter cathedral. Shakespeare, in his "King John," puts In the mouth of Prince Henry the following words: "At Worcester must his body be interred, in-terred, for so ho willed It." Thus we see King John was buried in Worcester Worces-ter cathedral, and it is therefore inaccurate inac-curate to say he was buried at St. Wolstan's. Wol-stan's. The memory of King John Is not cherished with the feeling that has followed the lives and deaths of some of England's sovereigns, and he will be remembered only as the monarch from whom was extorted the great charter of English liberty, from which this country has received a large part of its valued inheritance. Letter to St. Louis Post-Dispatch. |