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Pilgrimage in Old Servia, by P. Irby and Mackenzie. — 
" The old church still there ; minster of Dcchani ; opposite 
the altar two stalls, one the bishop's, the other the old marble 
seat of the Serbian kings." 
Baedeker's Rhine. — " The Donnersburg dedicated in ancient 
times to the god Thor, called by the Eomans Mons Joyis. 
The upper part a tableland. The Konigs-stuhl, a porphyry- 
rock, on which the Franconian kings and the courts of the 
AVormsorau are said to haye held their tribunals. So also 
near Stolzenfels, on the Ehine, Konigs-sthul. . . . The 
Emperor Maximilian took the oaths when on his way to his 
coronation at Aix-la-Chapelle. . . . Near here, in a d. 
1400, the Ehenish electors depriyed the Bohemian king 
TVenzel of his imperial crown. On the following day they 
crossed the river to the Konigstuhl, and elected the Count 
Palatine Rupert III. in his stead." 
So at Pesth (Murray's Handbook) is the seat of the chief 
judicial tribunals of Hungary : **they are called Konig-liche 
Tafel, or Poyal table and Septemyiral Tafel, because 
originally of seyen members. It is the supreme court of 
appeal in the kingdom. In the field of Pakos, the Diet, the 
great national assembly of the Magyars, was anciently held 
in the open air." 
" Close to Presburg, a hill called Konigsberg, to which the 
king repairs after his coronation, and makes the sign of the 
cross with his sword." 
Eistorij of Germany, by W. Menzel, p. 23. — " The thing, 
or dingstatt, under a great tree, ash or oak, or by enormous 
stones. . . . The centre of union in olden time, not a 
king, but a popular assembly in some sacred spot." 
I haye said that one of the most important eras in the 
history of our land was that year of sensational events which 
followed the death of Edward the Confessor — each party had 
long been waiting for this event, and the silence was like 
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