Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1919 — BELIEVED BY MANY BRITISH [ARTICLE]

BELIEVED BY MANY BRITISH

Legend Connects People of the “Tight Little Island” With the Lost Tribes of Israel. There is a small group In England who believe the British are the lost ten tribes. Victoria is said to have been interested in the idea that the reason for her being crowned in a chair under which lay the Stone of Destiny may have stretched directly back to the Son of Isaac. The legend is that before the Scottish kings were crowned -on this stone it was in Ireland, whither it was taken in the fifth century before Christ. This was the stone used by Jacob as a pillow. Norman Hapgood, in Leslie’s Weekly, has the following to say. regarding the subject: “The theory that the British are the lost ten tribes has two coinciding One brings tq Britain the tribes never restored after the Captivity. It Is th« earlier captivity that Is taken to affect the British population as a whole. The ancestors tn this case woulcl be Israel, the northern branch of the Jews. The other line of the legend deals with a later period when the southern branch of the Jews were scattered. There being no male descendants, the crown went through the daughters., Ultimately these turned up in Ireland, and Victoria was descended from y them through the Irish kings. At one time a member of the house of lordS and a colonial bishop of the Church of England were included among the believers. “The principle of these legends is the same that causes most legehds to find the nucleus of any given nation in some wanderer from Troy. Before history became in any waj exact, these attributions, both religious and heroic, flourished everywhere.” , r