TITLEHistorical Memorials of Westminster AbbeyThis is a scanned copy of the original book containing both search able text and the original graphics. It is provided as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file, you can search for names, places and items which may not be in the index. It can be purchased:
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AUTHORArthur Penrhyn Stanley (13 December 1815 - 18 July 1881), |
PUBLISHEDJOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, 1868 |
DESCRIPTIONPreface: THE following work
was undertaken, in great measure, in consequence of the kind desire
expressed by many friends, chiefly by my honoured colleagues in the
Chapter of Westminster, on occasion of the Eight Hundredth Anniversary
of the Dedication of the Abbey, that I would attempt to illustrate its
history by Memorials similar to those which, in former years, I had
published in connexion with Canterbury Cathedral. Such a proposal was
in entire consonance with my own previous inclinations ; but I have
undertaken it not without much misgiving. The task was one which
involved considerable research, such as, amidst the constant pressure
of other and more important occupations, I was conscious that I could
ill afford to make. This difficulty has been in part met by the
valuable co-operation which I have received from persons the best
qualified to give it. Besides the facilities rendered to me by
the members and officers of our own Capitular and Collegiate
Body, to whom I here tender my grateful thanks, I may especially name
Mr. Joseph Burtt, of the Public Record Office, whose careful
arrangement of our Archives during, the last three years has given him
ample opportunities for bringing any new light to bear on the subject;
the lamented Joseph Robertson, of the Register House, Edinburgh,
who was always ready to supply, from his copious stores, any knowledge
bearing on the Northern Kingdom ; the Rev. John Stoughton, of
Hammersmith, who has afforded me much useful information on the
Nonconformist antiquities of the Abbey; Colonel Chester, a laborious
antiquarian of the United States, who has undertaken to edit and
illustrate the Burial Registers, and who has lent me his kind help in
making use of them; Mr. Thorns, the learned Editor of ' Notes and
Queries,' and Sub- Librarian of the House of Lords; Mr. George Scharf,
Keeper of the National Portrait Gallery; and my valued friend Mr.
Grove, who has assisted me in compiling the Index, which for a work of
this kind is more than usually indispensable. For such inaccuracies as
must be inevitable in a work covering so large a field, I must crave,
not only the indulgence, but the corrections of those whose longer
experience of Westminster and whose deeper acquaintance with English
history and literature will enable them to point out omissions and
errors which have doubtless escaped my notice in this rapid survey.
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LANGUAGE: English |
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