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of the two infant daughters of James I. (one of which is made in the shape of a cradle). And to these tombs of these two little girls were brought, in after-days, by King Charles II., the bones of the two young murdered princes (Edward V. and Richard, Duke of York), which in his time were discovered at the foot of the staircase in the Tower. Well might all these princes be mourned and have a place in this Abbey, because many of them, though they died early, showed of what stuff they were made, and that they would have been fit to be kings and to be with kings."

As I copied down these words of Dean Stanley's, I was once more reminded of him, and once more I seemed to hear him telling the children gathered round him in the Abbey some of these stories which I have just been telling you. And as the last words in this book about the Abbey are his words, so the last grave which I want to tell you of is his, and when you some day go to the Abbey you must not forget to see (also in Henry VII.'s Chapel) the place

where, together in one tomb, are buried Arthur Stanley,* Dean of Westminster, and his wife, Lady Augusta.

Dean Stanley knew more about Westminster Abbey than almost any other man; and not only did he know more, but by writing books and by telling stories to his friends as he showed them over the great church, he helped many other people, who but for him perhaps would not have thought much about the Abbey at all to know something of the Church of St. Peter on Thorney Isle.

And it is because I hoped that what interested us as children many years ago might interest others now, that I have tried to remember, and collect, and write down these tales from Westminster Abbey in something the same way as they were told to us by the Dean.

*No. 32 on plan.

THE END.

INDEX.

Africa, Livingstone in, 45-48
Agincourt, battle of, 79, 80

Bayard, the French soldier, Sir
James Outram compared to, 43
Beaconsfield, Lord, 65, 66

Canning, Charles (Earl), 66
George, 66, 67

-, Stratford, 67, 68
Carteret, Edward de, 30

Catherine, Princess (daughter of
Henry III.), 82

Chairs, historic, in the Confessor's
Chapel, 76, 77

Chapels, the, of Westminster
Abbey, 16. See also Plan facing
p. 14

Charles I., 93, 94

Chatham, Lord (William Pitt),
69

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 55

Chumah, one of Livingstone's

followers, 47, 48
Claypole, Elizabeth, 93
Cromwell, Oliver, 93

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