Peter Parley's visit to London - Tim And Angi

46 PETER PARLEY'S
don, along with the Scottish regalia. In
the following year, the monarch presented
these trophies at the shrine of St. Edward
the Confessor;
and it appears soon afterwards
to have been placed in the coronation chair,
where it has remained ever since.
" Peter Parley has heard that the ancient
prophecy, to which even at so late a period
the more superstitious amongst the Scottish
nation clung, was held to be fulfilled when
James I. ascended the throne of England;
and it is also said not to have been without
a certain influence in reconciling many of
the people to the Union with England.
" But we must not forget the coronation
in Westminster Abbey, in our interest in