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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
+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
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
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,
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
°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
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
Edmund, son of Henry VII., 146
Edric, the fisherman, legend of, 17
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-
517, 521; destruction of his monu- ment, 429
*Edwin, first Abbot, 23, 330, 371 note
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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