CHAIR OF CHARLES
RELIC IN A HOSPITAL
The Victoria and Albert Museum has offered <£4so to the More ton-in-the-Marsh Cottage Hospital, Gloucestershire, for the chair in \\ hich King Charles sat during his trial in Westminster Hall.
This chair, elaborately designed a*d beautifully carved, is now in the board room of the hospital It formerly belonged to Archbishop Juxon, who, as Bishop of London, was closely associated with the King and attended him on his execution. After the death of Charles, Juxon was deprived of his Bishopric and bought a house at Little Compton, neur More-ton-in-the-Marsh.
Charles 11. made Juxon Archbishop of Canterbury, and on his death the chair passed into the possession of the Sands-Cox family, who gave it to the hospital some years ago.
Though reluctant to part with tbs relic, the governors of the hospital have decided to sell it and inves. the money so that the Sands-Cox gift can be turned to more practical use.
The trustees of the hospital have not accepted the museum’s offer yet, as they hope t«> secure a trglier price.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 27, 23 April 1927, Page 25 (Supplement)
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178CHAIR OF CHARLES Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 27, 23 April 1927, Page 25 (Supplement)
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