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Peter (PARLEY the French Army)

PARLEY the French Army, and served with distinction during the Franco-Prussian War, being thrice captured by the Germans, and escaping each time. Afterward he lived in retirement in Paris and Geneva. In 1903, King Alexander of Serbia, a member of the Obrenovitch family, rival of the Karageorgevitch dynasty, was assassinated by army of ficers, and Peter was proclaimed ruler in his place. In 1914, he went into the field at the head of his army, and remained PETERHEAD Hereward in 1069, and again burned down in 1116. Its noble church, the cathedral since 1541 of a new diocese carved out of that of Lincoln, was built between 1118 and 1528, and thus, while essentially Norman, offers every variety of architecture down to the Perpendicular. It is 471 feet long, by 202 across the transept, and 81 high. The Early English W. front (1200-1222) consists of three mighty arches. Noteworthy also are the flat painted wooden ceilings of the 12th century, the portrait of "Old Scarlett" the sexton (1496-1594), the blue slab inscribed "Queen Catharine, A.

D. 1536," and the grave for 25 years (1587-1612) of Mary Queen of Scots.

In 1643 Cromwell and his troopers did hideous havoc to monuments, stained ९ glass, and cloisters. Of the abbots may