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Show LINK WITH THE DEAD PAST. Woman Has Handkerchief 8talned with Blood of Charles I. An interesting Derbyshire "link with the past" Is recalled by Mr. J. H. Sharpley of Hatfield college, Doncas-ter, Doncas-ter, in a letter to the Sheffield Telegraph. Tele-graph. He says: "In. 1872, when a boy, staying at Hulland ward, Derbyshire, Derby-shire, I called on an old woman, Elizabeth Eliza-beth Durose, then 97, .widow of a farmer, farm-er, who told me that her grandmother, when a girl, bad known a man a distant dis-tant relative who had witnessed the execution of Charles I. The old woman wom-an then took out of a corner cupboard cup-board an old prayer-book, bound in black leather, which was, I fancy, of the time of Queen Anne, for I remember remem-ber It had a frontispiece picturing a parson in gown and bands, and wearing wear-ing a long wig. Baying prayers in a 'three-decker.' Opening It at the form of service for January 30, she Bhowed me a piece of coarse linen, of the color of a dead loaf, which she said was a portion of a handkerchief which had been dipped In the king's blood, and was given to her grandmother by the above eye-witness. When It first passed pass-ed i. to her possession It was nearly entire, but her children had played with It, and this was all she had managed man-aged to preserve." Derby (England) Telegraph. |