Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1918 — Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! [ARTICLE]

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!

One may not be ignorant, perhaps, that French, old French, remains as the language used In certain royal proclamations In England. So when “the king’s assent" is given before the throne in “the painted chamber,” the clerk cries in the language of our fathers, “Le roy le veult” (“The king so pleases”). If the bill that he is asked to approve is a money bill the clerk adde after a profound obeisance: “The king thanks bls good subjects, accepts their benevolence and is pleased.” The proclamation on ascending the throne is preceded by the traditional call Of the French heralds of former times: “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!” Alas, that time has disfigured this old word of our country, and today the phlegmatic 1 English herald cries thrice to the people: “O yes! O yes! O yes!”—-Le Crl de Paris.