. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. e ofEdward the Confessor. This venerable curiosity,though now much mutilated, still enables us toform an opinion of its former richness and was erected by Henry III. on the canonising ofEdward, King of England, by Pope Alexander III.,who caused his name to be placed in the catalogueof saints, and issued his bull to the Abbot Laurenceand Convent of Westminster, enjoining thnt his Westminster Abbey.^ EDWARD THE CONFESSORS SHRINE. 445 body be honoured here on earth, as his soul isglorified in heaven. The shri
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. e ofEdward the Confessor. This venerable curiosity,though now much mutilated, still enables us toform an opinion of its former richness and was erected by Henry III. on the canonising ofEdward, King of England, by Pope Alexander III.,who caused his name to be placed in the catalogueof saints, and issued his bull to the Abbot Laurenceand Convent of Westminster, enjoining thnt his Westminster Abbey.^ EDWARD THE CONFESSORS SHRINE. 445 body be honoured here on earth, as his soul isglorified in heaven. The shrine was the work ofthe Italian artist Cavallini. Before this shrine wasformerly kept a lamp continually burning, on oneside of which stood a figure of the Virgin, wroughtin silver, which, with two jewels of immense value. done to this and several of the surrounding monu-ments, which were originally enriched with so muchcost and art. The stonework of Edward the Confessors shrineis hollow within, and now encloses a large chest,which, soon after the coronation of James II., was. THE WAX FIGURES IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY were presented as an offering by Queen the other side stood another image of theVirgin, wrought in ivory, presented by Thomas aBecket, Archbishop of Canterbury. At this shrineEdward I. offered the Scottish regalia, and the coro-nation chair, which is still preserved. Alphonso,about the year 1280, offered here the golden coronetof Llewellyn, Prince of Wales, and other jewels,it is painful to witness the damage v/hich has been134—You III. found to contain the remains of St. Edward; forbeing broken (it is said) by accident, upon turningup the bones, a crucifix, richly ornamented andenamelled, was discovered, together with a goldchain twenty inches long, both of which w^ere pre-sented to his Majesty, who ordered the bones to bereplaced in the old cofiin and enclosed in a newone, made very strong. The coffin containing thekings remains is suspended by iron rods,
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