Show I InS Chairs are ar sometimes like the rare and beautiful old specimens of Sheraton Sheraton Shera Shera- ton and Chippendale celebrated forthe for tor forthe the beauty of oC their thell wor workmanship Tho following chairs owe their interest to the associations connected with them rather than to any particular merit of ot their thell own Two of or them hem are arc content content- con contented entell ent- ent ed ell with the fortunes of or the unlucky Stuart kings of ot England Here Is Js the story of or a u high backed old oak chair The night preceding the thc lie fatal tatal battle of Naseby was spent b by the tho unfortunate unfortunate unfortunate nate Charles I I. I at Lubenham a u. village vil vil- village lage two miles from the Market larket Hart Hal borough II Hw lie endeavored t to snatch a n. afew afew few ew hours' hours rest at nt the manor house the tote ruins of or which are fire still to t tO be seen but was awakened dl dt 2 In the morning morningto to Join the main army at Market Har- Har borough In the church of Lubenham Is preserved preserved preserved pre pre- served the chair used by Charles I I. I during his hurried d visit 1 lt to the village and this Is most highly prized In historical historical historical his his- circles The table at which the royalist cavaliers were C carousing the tho night b before blore foru the tho battle battlo Is 15 still preserved preserved pre pre- served by th the British Museum of ot ills His tor tory Another chair which shows so plain plain- plainly plainly ly Iy its ancient manufacture is a relic associated with the rom romantic career of the the- younger St StUart art prince known as Bonnie Prince CharlIe During the wand wanderings of or this unI unlucky ck prince l through h the Island of ot Sk Skye he took refuge in a C cave cuve ve A farmer called Samuel Martin owned the land thereabouts there there- and a son Of this Martin was wast was t tending his fathers father's cows when by b the chance chanco or design ho he approached Princes Prince's lurking place Charles knowing knowIng knowing know know- ing the fidelity of or the Scotsmen show showed ed cd himself and tho ho boy led d him to the farm where he was fed ted w well 11 on oatcakes oatcakes oit- oit oat oat- cakes and cream and sat in this special special cial chair It 1 Is Is- now the property of ot Martins Martin's descendants nta In Glasgow In the Mayer Free Freo Library at Chester Chester Ches Ches- ter England stands the chair chah In which Robert Burns the great grent poet sat when he wrote The Cotters Cotter's Saturday Night The Tho ch chair lr was presented to the library by Joseph Mayer F F. S S. S A A. who founded the library at Che Chester one of tho ho finest In England i iV V 1 b r V 1 f. f ff i 1 A i j iT Ai f 5 iJ Ir d J. J |