INTERESTING CEREMONIES.
IN ENGLAND" AND SCOTLAND. THE DUKE PAYS. A correspondent of a London paper contributes the following: I was hearing, this rriorning of an interesting ceremony which takes place at Windsor Castle annually. June 18 is the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, and each vear on this date the Duke of Wellington visits the Castle to ■ pay to the King his yearly rent for Strathfieldsaye, the estate in Hampshire voted to his great ancestor by Parliament in gratitude for the defeat of , Napoleon. The yearly “rent” for Strathfieldsaye is "a little silken banner, a miniature French tricolour. * The ceremony is quite simple. After the Duke, on bended knee, has handed it to His Majesty, the flag, which represent? tho rent, is hung by the Garter King of Arms over the bust of the hero of Waterloo in the Guard Chamber of the castle. . At lunch I mentioned this curious, rent to a friend who is as expert in his knowledge of ancient customs as he is ignorant of racing form. He quoted further examples. For instance, tlie Duke of Marlborough holds the Blenheim estate by the presentation to the King of another little silken banner, a Royal Standard, on August 15, the anniversary of the battle of Blenheim, which his illustrious forbear won. Probably it costs these two noble-
men a few pounds at most to haye these little flags made every year.. But the quit-rents and “service rents on which several famous properties are held make oven smaller demands on the resources of their respective owners. One of them is just a of snow 1 By delivering it annually to a representative of the King at Edinburgh Castle the Laird of Foulis, a rich Scottish estate of thousands of acres, whose name is. pronounced .“Foyls,” - discharges his rent. . .. The owner of another large estate in Scotland, that of Brasheld, holds it on the easy condition that he furnishes water with which the King may wash his hands whenever His Majesty is in the neighbourhood I
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 52, 1 February 1932, Page 2
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338INTERESTING CEREMONIES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 52, 1 February 1932, Page 2
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