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Title: The greater abbeys of England
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929
Subjects: Abbeys
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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he step of the throne. He thenturned to him and asked him if he had seen everythingand remembered what to write, and on Matthew replyingthat he had taken note of all that had happened, the Kingexpressed his great satisfaction, and added, I beg, andin begging order you, to write fully and expressly aboutall this, and to insert the account in a book, that it mayalways be remembered by posterity. During the abbacy of Richard Ware, in 1268, the pave-ment in the sanctuary was laid down. Abbot Ware hadbeen in Rome in 1267, and it is thought that he probablybrought back with him the material for this work andpossibly also the workmen. To-day a sufficient portionof this beautiful inlaid pavement remains to suggest itsformer splendour. A second mosaic pavement of thedate of Edward I may be seen in the Confessors chapel.The altar reredos is fifteenth-century work and has twodoors to it, which lead to the chapel of the shrine, the ex-quisite base of which was the work of Pietro, citizen of (352)
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WESTMINSTER ABBEY : THE SOUTH AMBULATORY mm WESTMINSTER Rome. The remains of the Confessor were translated tothis new shrine on October 13, 1269. This event is thuscommemorated, the 13th day of October, the King lettetranslate with great solemnity the holy body of SaintEdward, King and Confessor, that before laid in the sideof the choir, into the chapel at the back of the High Altarof Westminster Abbey, and there laid it in a rich shrine. In the year 1296 King Edward I brought to Englandthe regalia of Scotland, with the well-known stone ofScone, used at all the coronations in that latter kingdom.This was placed in the abbey church, and is still preservedbeneath the coronation chair. It is impossible, of course, to detail the events connectedwith the abbey in any sequence, within the narrow limitsof a chapter. Simon Langham became abbot in 1349 onthe death of his predecessor, Symon de Bircheston, duringthe great plague. Westminster was grievously visited bythis sickness. On March 10, 1

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