. The roll-call of Westminster Abbey. eased his sovereign,and his successor, Dean Atterbury, of whom we shall speaklater, officiated at the funeral service which, by order of thenew King, George I., was performed with all the pomp andceremony consistent with a private burial ; it took placeat night, like Williams, three weeks only after the Queensdeath. Thoresby, the antiquary, who had already seenthe opening of the vault, where lay the velvet coffins ofCharles II., William and Mary, and Prince George, andcommented on the fact that there was only just roomfor the huge unwieldy casket which con
. The roll-call of Westminster Abbey. eased his sovereign,and his successor, Dean Atterbury, of whom we shall speaklater, officiated at the funeral service which, by order of thenew King, George I., was performed with all the pomp andceremony consistent with a private burial ; it took placeat night, like Williams, three weeks only after the Queensdeath. Thoresby, the antiquary, who had already seenthe opening of the vault, where lay the velvet coffins ofCharles II., William and Mary, and Prince George, andcommented on the fact that there was only just roomfor the huge unwieldy casket which contained QueenAnnes remains, was present at the funeral, and falls tomoralising over the last sovereign of the royal name ofStuart that was ever destined to wear the regal garlandof this realm. He was perhaps the only ordinary personat the service who could boast of having seen in his youth in one balcony six of them that were afterwards Kingsand Queens of Great Britain, all brisk and hearty, but allnow entered on a boundless THE WAX EFFIGY OF QUEEN ANNE See /. 216 CHAPTER XVI THE CHILDREN OF THE ABBEY WE have lingered long amidst the dust and dry bonesof Kings and Queens, of courtiers and court ladies,of statesmen and warriors, but we may well turnaside for a while and go back to the memories of those littleones who have from time to time found sepulture here. Every year on the 28th of December, the Holy InnocentsFeast, a day which is marked in the Abbey annals as theanniversary of the consecration of the Confessors church,a throng of children may be seen pressing round the doorsand thronging the aisles of Westminster Abbey. Uponthat festival year by year a childrens service, first insti-tuted by Dean Stanley, and kept up ever since by his suc-cessor, is held here, and a sermon, addressed especially to theyoung, is preached by the Dean. Thus, although no childrenare buried and only a few privileged infants are baptizedin the historic Abbey at the present time, it is p
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