Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1891 — Heads of Two Noted Men. [ARTICLE]

Heads of Two Noted Men.

When the wise and witty Sir Thomas Moore was beheaded his head was stuck on a pole on London bridge, where it was exposed for fourteen days, much to the grief of his daughter, Margaret Roper, who resolved to secure it. “Qne day," says Aubrey, “as she was passing under the bridge, looking at her father’s head, she exclaimed: ‘That head has lain many a time in my lap; wovdd to God it would fall into my lap as I pass under!’ She had her wish, and it did fall into her lap!” Probably she had bribed one of the keepers of the bridge to throw it over just as the boat approached, and the exclamation was intended to avert the suspicion of the boatmen. At all events, she got possession of it, and preserved it with care in a leaden casket until her death, and it is now inclosed in a niche in the wall of her tomb iu St. Dunstan’s Church, Canterbury. Sir Walter Rnleigh's head in a red bag was carried to his wife, who caused it tc be embalmed, and kept it with her all her life, permitting favored friends, like Bishop Goodman, to see and even to kiss it. His son, Carew Raleigh, afterward preserved it with similar piety. It is supposed now to rest in the church of West Horsley, Surrey.—[Gentlemen’s Magazine. Toronto, Canada, proposes to have a rag iinset uniformed in Scotch kilts.