ROYAL DEATHS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3033, 20 October 1888, Page 2

ROYAL DEATHS.

The New York Star tolls Low some Kings of England (lied as follows iHenry I of gluttony; Ronry 111 naturally; Edward VI of a decline; Charles I on the scaffold; Richard 111 was killed in battle; Henry VIII of carbuncles, fat, and fury; George IV of gluttony and druukonuess; Henry VII mated away as a miser ought; Jamc3l .of drinking and the eft'ects of vico; Charles II suddenly, it is said of appoplcxy; Edward V was strangled in the tower by his uncle, Richard III; William Rufts died the death of the poor stags which ho hunted. Henry II of it brokon heart occasioned by the bad conduct of his children, (ieorgo I from drunkenness which his physicians politely called an apoplectic fit. William 111 of consumptive habits of body, and from tlio stumbling of his horse. Edward 111 of dotage, and Richard II of starvation—tho voryreversc of Georgo IV; Henry VI in prison by means known {ben only to his gaoler, and now only known in heaven, William the Conqueror from enor« mous fat, from drink, and from tho, violeuco of liis passions; Richard Ccpur de Lion, like the animal from whioh his heart was named, died by an arrow from an archer;' Georgo. II died of a rupture of the heart, which the periodicals of that day termed a motion of God; Edward II was - barbarously: and indecently murdered by ruffiaiifc employed, by his owii wife antfe her paramour j ; <

John died, nobody knows how, ( but itia said from chngrin, which wo Bupposo is another terra for a close of heloboro; Henry V is said to have ft "painful affliction," prommuvcly, This is a Courtly term for getting rid of a Kin;;; Edward I is also said lo liavo died of a "natural siolmess"--n sickness which would puzzle oil the college physicians to denominate;. Henry IV is said lo liavo died of " fits caused by uneasiness," and uneasiness in palaces in tlioso times was n very common complaint.