Peter Parley's visit to London - Tim And Angi

VISIT TO LONDON. 45
people of former times were misled by the
silly
and ridiculous legends of the darker
ages.
" From Ireland this singular
stone was
carried into Scotland, and placed in the
Abbey of Scone, where the coronation of
the Kings of Scotland usually took place.
One of the Scottish kings caused an inscription
to be cut upon it,
as it was said,
an ancient prophecy,
but more probably an invention
of some monkish chronicler of the time :
< { If Fate speak sooth, where'er this stone is found,
The Scots shall monarch of that realm be crown'd."
"When Edward I. dethroned Baliol, he
sent this celebrated stone, on the possession
of which the Scots set great value, to Lon-