. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. icient for their main-tenance. courtiers, copied his The plan of thisbuilding was that of a cross, which naturally wasthe pattern and type for church-building throughoutthe kingdom. On the completion of the church,Edward determined to have it consecrated in themost solemn and impressive manner, and with thatintent summoned all the bishops and nobles in thekingdom to be witnesses of the ceremony, whichtook place on Holy Innocents Day (December 28),. \Vestminster Abbey.] DEATH OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. 397 10
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. icient for their main-tenance. courtiers, copied his The plan of thisbuilding was that of a cross, which naturally wasthe pattern and type for church-building throughoutthe kingdom. On the completion of the church,Edward determined to have it consecrated in themost solemn and impressive manner, and with thatintent summoned all the bishops and nobles in thekingdom to be witnesses of the ceremony, whichtook place on Holy Innocents Day (December 28),. \Vestminster Abbey.] DEATH OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. 397 1065. Edward, in order to ingratiate himself with last, in the Palace hard by, and was buried before his clergy, not only confirmed to the monks all the high altar of the new structure, former endowments, but granted them a new charter, During the time of Abbot Laurentius, about in which he recited the account of St. Peters con- the year 1159, extensive repairs were made in the secration, the ravages of the Danes, and the motives out-buildings of the monastery, which had been. THE TOMB OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. which prompted him to restore the sacred edifice toits former splendour, and endow it with more amplepowers and privileges. This charter concludedwith solemn imprecations against all who should, intime to come, dare to deface or to demolish anypart of the building, or to infringe the rights of thepriesthood. Within a few days after the consecra-tion of the new Abbey Church, on the 4th or 5th ofJanuary, 1066, Edwar 1 th-- Confessor breathed his13C— Ill destroyed by fire. In 1220 Heniy HI. laid thefirst stone of a chapel, which was dedicated to theBlessed Virgin, and was called Ihe Lady site was that whereon now stands Henry Queen Eleanor, wife of Henry HI., wascrowned here with much splendour and liberalityon the part of the citizens of London, in spite ofthe discredit and unpopularity of her husband, w honot long afterwards granted a large sum
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