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INDEX.

NOTE. Names of persons buried in the Abbey are in italics, as-.
-Anne of Den-·
mark; those who are buried and have monuments are thus distinguished, as
—°Addison; those who have monuments and are not buried in the Abbey,
thus-Anstey, Christopher; those who are in the Cloisters, thus-*Agarde.

ABB

ABBACY, abolition of, 395, 396; rel

vival of under Mary, 399; final
abolition of, 406

Abbey, the, founded by Edward the
Confessor on an ancient chapel of St.
Peter, 14, 17; the building, 22, 23;
first cruciform church in England,
22; the establishment, 23; the dedi-
cation, 25; effects of the Confessor's
character on the foundation of, 28;
connection of with the Conquest, 29,
with the English Constitution, 30,
foundation of Lady Chapel, 106;
rebuilt by Henry III., 105-109;
continued by Edward I., 118; nave
built by Henry V., 127, plan of,
showing tombs as they appeared in
1509, 142; continued by Islip, 335;
Henry VII.'s Chapel, 138-143; first
musical festival in, 420; west towers
built, 476

Abbot, Archbishop, 418

Abbots of Westminster, 329; under the
Normans, 331, the Plantagenets, 333,
the Tudors, 335; their burial-place,
331; Place or Palace of, 354; privi-
leges of, 40; list of, 329-336

Abbott, Peter, his wager, 56 note, 289
note

Actors, the, 283; attitude of the Church
towards, 283

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ARG

Alfonso, son of Edward I., 118
Almonry, the, 147, 353, 393 note
'Altar' of the Abbey- when and how

so called, 494; its history. 494, 495
Amelia, daughter of George II., 169
Ampulla, the, 59

'Anchorite's house,' 361, 383, 398
André, Major, 239

Andrew, St., plan of chapel of, 190
Andrewes, Dean and Bishop, 380; in-

terest in the school, 413

Anne, Princess, daughter of Charles I.,
158

Anne of Bohemia, Queen of Richard
II., 125

Anne Boleyn, coronation, 63

Anne of Cleves, 70, 151; tomb of, 151

note

Anne of Denmark, 72, 157, 502; vault
of, 505, 506

Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, 164, 509
Anne Mowbray of York, 136
Anne of Warwick, 136

Anne, Queen, coronation, 80; children,
166, 509; burial, 166; wax figure,
324, 500

Anne's, St., Chapel and Lane, 354
Anointing in coronation, 35
Anselm, Archbishop, 373, 386
†Anstey, Christopher, 280
'Antioch Chamber,' 357, 374 note
Apollo, temple of, 8

Aquitaine, representatives of Dukes of,
at coronation of George III., 88
Arabella Stuart, 157, 508
Archdeacon of Westminster, his privi-
leges, 329; first, 331

Argyll and Greenwich, John Duke of,
tomb of himself and family, 231, 504,
504 note

ARN

Arnold, Benedict, 239 note

Arnold, Samuel, 290

Arnold, Thomas, quoted, 92 note
Arthur, King, coronation of, 36
Arthur, Prince (son of Henry VII.), 147
Ashburnham House, 396 note, 474
Assembly of Divines, 431-436
Atterbury, Dean and Bishop; appoint-
ment to the Deanery, 455; love for
Milton, 262; interest in the Abbey,
455, in the School, 456, 461; letter
to Pope, 225, 229; interest in the
epitaphs, 231, 260, 261, 262, 268; on
Freind, 296; interest in burial of
Addison, 263, of Marlborough, 225,
of South, 455; plots, 459; exile and
death, 461; buried, 276, 462
Augusta, mother of George III., 168
Aveline, Countess of Lancaster, 117
Aye or Eye Brook, 6, 338
Ayton, Sir Robert, 256

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Bath, Pulteney, Earl of, his funeral,
233

Battle of Ivry,' 195 note

Baxter, Richard, 74, sermon of, 431.
Bayeux tapestry, 29, 32, 37 note

+Bayne, Captain, 238

Beattie, quoted, 314 note
Beauclerk family, 192

Beauclerk, Lord Aubrey, 236
Beaumont, 98, 253

Becket, Thomas, 44, 113, 348

* Behn, Aphara, 264

Belfry at Westminster, 346
Bell of Westminster, 340, 487
Bell, Andrew, 276 note

Bell, Captain H., in the Gatehouse, 344
Benedict, St., 123; plan of chapel of,
202

Bennett, Sir William Sterndale, 290
Benson, last abbot and first dean, 398
Bentley, Dr., 474

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BUC

Berkeley, Sir William, 214
*Betterton, burial of, 284

Bible presented at coronations, 67, 75, 79
Bible, translation of the English, 472
Bill, Dean, 411

Bilson, Bishop, 272 note
+Bingfield, Colonel, 222
+Bingham, Sir R., 195
Birkhead, Anne, 306

Bishop of London, 17, 42, 329

Bishop of Westminster, 67, 396

Black Death' at Westminster, 333

Blagg, Thos., 213 note

+Blair, Captain, 238

Blaize, St., Chapel of, 334, 337, 399
Blake, Admiral, 207, 208
Blessed heretic, the, 476

Blomfield, Bishop, 92 note, 328 note
*Blount, G., 321 note

Blow, Dr. John, 289
Bohun children, 123
Bond, Denis, 208, 430

Bonner, Bishop, sings Mass in the Ab-
bey, 404

+ Booth, Barton, the actor, 88, 285
Boscawen, Colonel, 208 note

Boulter, Archbishop, 276 note, 474

Bourbon, Armand and Charlotte de, 309
Bourchier, Cardinal Archbishop, 351
Bourchier, Humphrey, 179

'Bowling Alley' and gardens, 338
*Bracegirdle, Mrs., 285

Bradford, Dean, first Dean of the
Order of the Bath, 474, 504 note
Bradshaw, John, lives and dies at the
Deanery, 209, 437; burial, 209; dis-
interment, 163

Bradshaw, Mrs., 209

Bray, Sir Reginald, 62, 144

Bridges, Winyfred, Marchioness of Win-
chester, 185

Brigham, Nicholas, 251
Brithwold, Bishop, 15

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Brocas, Sir Bernard, 179, 183

Bromley, Sir Thos., 185

*Broughton, J., 311

Broughton, Sir E., 214

†Brown, Tom, 264

† Brunel, 299

Brydges, Frances, 191
*Buchan, Dr., 296 note

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BUC

+Buckland, Dean, 483, 491

Buckland, Frank, quoted, 256 note, 297
+Buller, Charles, 249

Burgesses of Westminster, 417, 461
*Burgoyne, General, 239

Burke, 287 note; visit to the Abbey,
173, 304 note, 313, 489
tBurleigh, Lord, 187

Burleigh, Mildred Cevil, Lady, and
daughter Anne, Countess of Oxford,
187

Burnet, Bishop, 469

tBurney, Dr. Charles, 290
Burrough, Sir John, 194 note

Busby, Dr., 274, 439, 442
†Butler, Samuel, 263
+Buxton, Fowell, 248
*Byrcheston, Abbot, 333
Byron, Lord, 281, 315

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Casaubon, Isaac, 270, 271, 315
Castlereagh, Viscount, 246

'Cathedral,' applied to Abbey, 54, 67,
396, 406, 407

O Catherine, Princess, daughter of Henry
III., 116

Catherine of Valois, Queen, 60, 128;

her burial, 133; tomb of, 144
Catherine, St., chapel of, 30, 386
Caxton, 147, 251, 393, 524 note
°Cecil family, 187, 191

Celtic races, revival of, 141
+Chamberlen, Hugh, 295

*Chambers, Ephraim, 281 note, 315
Chambers, Sir W., 292

Champion at coronations, 58

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Compton, 467

O Conduitt, John, 294
Confirmations, 484

Congreve, William, 266; monument,
267, 315

Consecration of Bishops in the Middle
Ages, 385 note; after the Reforma-
tion, 396; after the Restoration, 433-
435; in modern times, 484
Constable, Sir William, 207
Constance, Council of, 334

Convocation of Canterbury, 463–473
*Cooke, Dr. B., 290
+Coote, Sir Eyre, 236
Cornbury, Lord, 213 note
+Cornewall, Captain, 235

Coronation, its idea and character, 34-
36, 93; service, 93

Coronations, connection of, with the
Abbey, 37

Coronations of early English kings, 34,

35

Coronation Oath, 35, 39, 45, 68, 73, 77
note, 78, 89, 93

Coronation privileges of Abbots and
Deans of Westminster, 40
Coronation Stone, 49, 56; representa-
tion of, 52

O Cottington, Lord, 203

Cotton, Sir Robert, 380

+Cottrell, Clement, 215

Councils of Westminster, 30, 386
*Courayer, P., 307, 315
Courcy, Almeric de, 300 note

Courtney, Rd., Bishop of Norwich, 179
Covent Garden, 339

Coventry, Earl of, 200 note
Coverdale, Miles, 398

Cowley, Abraham, funeral, 257, 258
Cowper, 248, 480

Coxe, Dean and Bishop, 399, 406
Craggs, his grave, monument, and epi-
taph, 219, 220

Cranmer, Archbishop, 65; address of
at coronation of Edward VI., 68
+Creed, Major, 223, 239 note

DOR

°Crewe, Jane, 233 note
Cripple, legend of the, 20
Crispin, Abbot, 331
Croft, Dr., 290

Crokesley, Abbot, 331, 332 note, 365
Cromwell, installation of, 75; death,
159; burial, 160, 440; disinterment,
161, 212; interest in the Abbey, 206,
207

Cromwell, Elizabeth, 159

Crucifix over High Altar, 336, 388;
in North Transept, 178 note, 388;
in Cloister, 363

Crull the Antiquary, 262

Cumberland, Henry Frederick, Duke of,
169

Cumberland, William Augustus, Duke
of, 168

Cumberland, Richard, 280

Curtlington, Abbot, 333

ALRYMPLE, Wm., 304

DAL

Dante, Divina Commedia of, 116
Darnley, James, natural son of James
II., 509

° Daubeney, Sir Giles, 180
Davenant, Sir W., 257
+Davy, Sir Humphry, 296

Dean of Westminster, his office, 40,
41, 395-397

Dean of the Order of the Bath, 83
Deans enumerated, 411-462, 472-483
Dean's Yard, 354, 438 note, 442, 458, 475
Deane, Colonel, 207

Deanery (see Abbot's Palace or Place),
354, 396, 398, 401, 411, 419; plan of,
435, 437, 438, 445, 458, 459, 476
†De Burgh, John, 193

De Castro Novo, Sir Fulk, 177
Declaration of Indulgence, reading of,
447

'Dei Gratia,' origin of, 35

Delaval, Admiral, 224 note, 301
Delaval, Lord, 301; Lady, 301
Denham, 258

Dickens, 283

Disbrowe, Jane, 159

Discipline of Monks, 388

Disinterment of the Magnates of the
Commonwealth, 209

*Disney, Colonel ( Duke '), 306
Dissolution of the Monastery, 405
Dolben, Dean, 212, 446; Bishoprick of
Rochester first united to Deanery,
446; Archbishop of York, 446
Domesday Book, 380

Doncaster, Charles, Earl of, 163
Dorislaus, Isaac, 206, 209

Dormitory of the Monks, 366; Old
Dormitory of the School, 409; New
Dormitory, 456

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Edmund, son of Henry VII., 146

Edric, the fisherman, legend of, 17

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Edward the Confessor: his appear-

ance, 10, and characteristics, 11, 12,
25, 28; last of the Saxons, first of the
Normans, 13; devotion to St. Peter,
15, 24, 27; veneration for St. John the
Evangelist, 25, 27; journey to Rome
to obtain confirmation of privileges,
ordered by, 21; his vow, 14, 21;
founder and builder of the Abbey, 17,
25; death and burial, 27; his shrine,
built by Henry III., 110; despoiled
by Henry VIII., 148; restored by
Mary, 148; his body believed to have
been last seen, 28 note; translation
by Henry II., 105; by Henry III.,
113; veneration for his remains,
105; last notice of, 167; pilgrims
to, 390

Edward I., coronation, 49; burial and
monument, 119; opening of tomb of,
120; 233

Edward II., coronation, 56; wasteful-
ness of, 120

O Edward III., election and coronation,
57; death, monument, and children,
122

Edward IV., coronation, 61; death,
136; his courtiers, 179

Edward V., 61; his birth, 350; burial,
136

Edward VI., coronation, 67; his funeral,
149; tomb of, 150: vault of, 514-

FLE

517, 521; destruction of his monu-
ment, 429

*Edwin, first Abbot, 23, 330, 371 note

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Egelric, Bishop of Durham, 177, 389
Eleanor of Castille, Queen, coronation,
49; death and tomb, 118

Elia, Lamb's, quoted, 240
Elizabeth of Bohemia, 163, 509
Elizabeth of York, Queen of Henry
VII., 62; death of, 144

Elizabeth, Queen, coronation, 71;
death, funeral, tomb, and inscription,
152, 153; her courtiers, 182-195,
wax figure, 323; her interest in the
Abbey, 406; vault of, 511

Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of Edward
IV., takes refuge in the Sanctuary,

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