*At the age of ten, Edward found the scepter of England committed to his hand. Three swords representing his three kingdoms were about to be carried before him at his coronation. "There lacks yet one," said Edward. When his nobles asked in perplexity what he meant, the lad replied, "The Bible. That book is the sword of the Spirit, and is to be preferred before these. It ought in all right to govern us: without it we are nothing, and can do nothing. He that rules without it is not to be called God's minister or a king." And so the Bible was carried along in the procession.
*Thanks to Dr. David Rodgers for this exert from one of his many history books: Stories of the Reformation in England and Scotland by Ruth Gordon Short, which he included in a kind note following "The Prince and The Pauper".
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