. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. sence, entered the door; and finding a chestfilled with treasures standing open, he filled hispurse and departed. Avarice prompted a return ;again the little thief came, and began to plunderanew. Hold, boy ! cried the gentle king, youhad better be even content with that you have;for if Hugoline, my chamberlain, should come, youwill certainly lose all, and be soundly whipped toboot. 492 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [The Royal Palace, Tlie particulars of the death of Edward the Con-fessor, which occurred here, are thus touchin
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. sence, entered the door; and finding a chestfilled with treasures standing open, he filled hispurse and departed. Avarice prompted a return ;again the little thief came, and began to plunderanew. Hold, boy ! cried the gentle king, youhad better be even content with that you have;for if Hugoline, my chamberlain, should come, youwill certainly lose all, and be soundly whipped toboot. 492 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [The Royal Palace, Tlie particulars of the death of Edward the Con-fessor, which occurred here, are thus touchingly toldin Mr. Walcotts Westminster, on the authoritycf Ailred, Abbot of Rievaulx :— Upon the Everf Christmas, 1065, the king was seized with afever; and lor three days, superior to nature, and When it was past, he laid his head down uponthe couch, and began to be sorely pained, ^^hilehe lay sick, he forbade his attendants to weep ; andseeing his queen mourning and wailing, Mournnot, my daughter, said he; I shall not die, butlive; and passing from the country of the dead,. CAxroNs nousK, {From an ^- puhJisJtcd in iS;;.) triumphing over the sickness, he bare the orna-ments of majesty, and at the solemn banquetingsat amidst his bishops and nobles Avith what cheer-fulness he might. Ikit on the third day, jK-rceivingthac the time of his call was come, he bade thatthe church [of St. Peter] should be dedicated onthe morrow. The joyous festival of the Holy Inno-cents was dawning, and with the assembled prelatesand all the nobles of the king the solemnity began. verily I hope to behold the good things of theLord in the land of the living. So having com-mended himself wholly unto God, in the faith ofChrist, and the hope of His promise, old and full ofdays, he departed from the world. William the Conqueror, who was crowned atWestminster with his queen, Matilda, says Stow,it is not to be doubted, builded much at thispalace, for he found it farre inferiour to the
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