A WOMAN'S DEVOTION.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1926, Page 4

A WOMAN'S DEVOTION.

* LONDON. Jan." 20. Miss Catherine Mary Rhillinore, sister of Lord Phillimore, the lion, secretary of the Royal Martyr Church Union, will carry a wreath of laurels and white flowers to the statue of King Charles the First, which stands in the roadway a Charing Cross. W.C.. on Saturday. She will wear suspended from her neck an antique silver medallion of the King, and will lay down the wreath at the service which is being held by the union to commemorate the 278th anniversary of the execution of the King. When a reporter visited Miss Phillimore yesterday at her residence, Shiplako House, near Henley-on-Thames, she told how she was first moved at the ago of 12 by the injustice of the treatment of Charles the First, when her father, the late (Sii- Robert Philimore, the judge and Privy Councillor, read to her the account of the King’s life and death in Clarendon’s history. “The injustice of his treatment then moved me deeply. and all through my life I have felt just as T did then (she said). 1 have devoted my life to the attempt to reinstate him in public ( oiiiion. 1 am glad to say that with the spread of historical knowledge more people are realising the truth ; 1 have fought three battles lor the King. 1 11 1873, when I was about 22, 1 wrote an account of his captivity in ( arisbrooko Castle, under the l title of “ibe Kings Namesake.’’ Later, in 1879, I helped to prove that he was indeed the real author of “F.ikon Basilike,” which wa,s his own account of some of the chief events of his reign. In more recent years, as honorary secretary, 1 have helped the Royal Martyr Church Union in its fight, to restore King Charles’ name to the Calendar of the Church of England. from which it was removed hv a printer’s mistake in 1809, when the special service for use on King Charles’s Day was removed. \V« wish this service also to he restored. THE KING’S DESCENDANTS. Saturday's service will he taken by the Rev. D. 11. Kothoringham, vicar of Charing, Kent, the chaplain the union, assisted by the Bet'. lietoi Basil AYoodd. and the Rev. Charles Hampden AA’oodd, both descendants of Col. Basil AA’oodd. who attended the King on the scaffold, and to whom he gave the star of the mantle of t lie Order of the Garter, which is still preserved by the larnily.