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...members have changed many times over, while the regiment retains its organizational identity. In a larger sense, says Dr. Aebersold. the atoms that each human body is made of were once parts of other living things−e.g., dogs, whales, birds. The atoms that made up Plato and Henry VIII are still floating around as parts of people now living...
Laughton, of course, has hacked a large hole for himself in the theatre world, and the Inn's Squire Pengallen is a character comfortably fitted within its boundaries. A bulbous villain with the dining habits of Henry VIII and the heart of Captain Bligh, the Squire lives in opulence while anonymously leading a gang of shipwreckers. Laughton makes him a polished old rogue, who cheerfully entertains his victims with superb and comically obvious hypocrisy...
...stately homes of England, perhaps the stateliest is Chatsworth, a vast Palladian palace set on 50,000 acres of park and woodland, which for generations has been the family seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, whose family name is Cavendish. The first earl, who was one of Henry VIII's bullyboys, began amassing the huge family fortune by taking over some of the prize abbey lands confiscated during Henry's fight with Rome. The Devonshires came to epitomize the British landed aristocracy, and became famous for their arrogant eccentricities...
...temptation to stand there with his shutter hanging open and stare at a prodigious exhibition of facial calisthenics. Laughton smirks, pouts, bug-eyes, belches, quivers his wattles, sleeve-wipes his nose, and generally golliwoggs it to a degree he has not attained since The Private Life of Henry VIII...
Presumably the statue was hidden to save it from the anti-Papists in Henry VIII's time. The Mercers' chapel was in trouble with reformers as early as 1535 because of windows showing King Henry II doing penance for the murder of Thomas à Becket in 1170. To save the statue from the fate of the windows, which were destroyed, somebody hid it underground, thus preserved its Renaissance beauty for the 20th century. Eventually, it will be restored to the rebuilt Mercers' chapel, long since a place of worship for the Church of England...