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Pilgrimage in Old Servia, by P. Irby and Mackenzie. — 
“ The old church still there ; minster of Deck am ; 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 Romans Mons Jovis. 
The upper part a tableland. The Konigs-stuhl, a porphyry 
rock, on which the Franconian kings and the courts of the 
Wormsgau are said to have held their tribunals. So also 
near Stolzenfels, on the Rhine, Konigs-sthul. . . . The 
Emperor Maximilian took the oaths when on his way to his 
coronation at Aix-la-Chapelle. . . . Hear here, in ad. 
1400, the Rhenish electors deprived the Bohemian king 
Wenzel 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 Royal table and Septemviral Tafel, because 
originally of seven members. It is the supreme court of 
appeal in the kingdom. In the field of Rakos, 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.” 
History 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 have 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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