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If you -are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this eBook. -</div> - -<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: Tales from Westminster Abbey</p> -<p style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:0; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:1em;'>Told to Children by Mrs. Frewen Lord</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Millicent Frewen Lord</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: July 3, 2021 [eBook #65748]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: Benjamin Fluehr and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TALES FROM WESTMINSTER ABBEY ***</div> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i002" style="max-width: 30em;"> -<img src="images/i002.jpg" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"> - -<p class="center">WEST FRONT OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY.<br /> - -<i>After a Photograph by the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Co., Ltd.</i></p> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> - -<h1 style="line-height: 1.8em;"> -TALES<br /> -<span style="font-size: 0.5em;">FROM</span><br /> -WESTMINSTER ABBEY -</h1> - -<p class="center titleSmall">TOLD TO CHILDREN BY</p> -<p class="center" style="font-size: 1.4em">MRS. FREWEN LORD.</p> - -<p class="center titleSmall" style="padding-top: 2em; padding-bottom: 2em;">WITH -VIGNETTE PORTRAIT OF DEAN STANLEY, PLAN OF THE ABBEY -AND GENERAL VIEW OF WEST FRONT OF ABBEY.</p> - -<p class="center titleSmall"><i>SECOND EDITION.</i></p> - -<p class="center titleLarge" style="padding-top: 2em;">LONDON:<br /> -SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY</p> -<p class="center titleSmall"><i>LIMITED</i>,</p> -<p class="center titleLarge">St. Dunstan’s House,</p> -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.</span></p> -<p class="center titleSmall">1894.</p> -<p class="center titleXSmall">[<i>All rights reserved.</i>]</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<p class="center">LONDON:<br /> -PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,<br /> -STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. -</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="figcenter chapter" id="i005" style="max-width: 25em;"> -<img src="images/i005.jpg" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"> -<p class="center">DEAN STANLEY.<br /> -<i>From a Photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company.</i></p> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<p class="center">DEDICATED</p> -<p class="center">to the memory of</p> -<p class="center titleLarge">DEAN STANLEY,</p> -<p class="center">whose walks and talks with children</p> -<p class="center">in Westminster Abbey</p> -<p class="center">can never be effaced from the</p> -<p class="center">grateful recollection of one who as a child</p> -<p class="center">had the happiness of enjoying them.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<p class="center titleHuge">TALES</p> -<p class="center">FROM</p> -<p class="center titleHuge">WESTMINSTER ABBEY.</p> - -<hr class="r5 x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_I">CHAPTER I.</h2> -</div> - - -<p>A great many years ago, when I was quite a -small child, I was taken with some other children -over Westminster Abbey by Dean Stanley, -who was then the Dean of Westminster.</p> - -<p>Some of you may have read a book called -“Tom Brown’s School Days,” and if so you -will remember Tom’s great friend, Arthur, who -began his school life a lonely and home-sick -little boy, but who as the years went on came -to be looked up to and liked almost more than -any other boy at Rugby. “George Arthur” this -boy is called in the book, but his real name<span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</span> -was Arthur Stanley, and when he grew up he -became a clergyman, and was for many years -Dean of Westminster. He wrote a great many -books, and one all about Westminster Abbey; -for he knew every corner and part of this -great church, and was full of stories about the -great people who are buried here, and the -kings and queens who were crowned here. -There was nothing he liked better than taking -people over the Abbey, and any one who had -the happiness of going with him, as I did, and -of hearing him, would always remember some, -at any rate, of the stories he told.</p> - -<p>He died in 1881, and as none of you can -ever see or hear him, standing in the Abbey -surrounded by children, and telling them all -that he thought would interest them, I am -going to take out of my memory, and out of -this book of his,<a id="FNanchor_1" href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> just as much of what he used -to say as I hope will help you to enjoy what -you will see there.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</span></p> - -<p>When one goes to visit any place for the -first time, there is always a great deal that -one wants to have explained; and what I -myself most enjoy is to read or be told beforehand -something about what I am going to see, -and then I understand it much better—I do -not waste so much time in asking questions, -and have all the more time to look about.</p> - -<p>If we go and stand at the great West Door, -as it is called, of Westminster Abbey, and look -down Victoria Street, it is difficult to believe -that this very same place was, hundreds of years -ago, quite wild country. Where there are now -houses and streets and churches, there used to -be only marshy land and forests. Where there -are now endless streams of carriages, carts, and -omnibuses, and people hurrying along, there -were in the far-off time, when the Abbey -Church of Westminster was first begun, only -wild oxen or huge red deer with towering -antlers which strayed from the neighbouring -hills and roamed about in this jungle. It used<span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</span> -to be called “the terrible place,” so wild and so -lonely was it.</p> - -<p>Dotted about in the marsh were many little -islands, one of which was called Thorney Isle, -because there were so many wild thorn trees -growing there, and on this spot Westminster -Abbey now stands.</p> - -<p>For as the forests in this part of London -were gradually cut down, this island looked -so pretty and quiet with the water flowing all -round it, and nothing to be seen from it but -sunny green meadows, that King Edward the -Confessor chose it as the place to build a great -church, which he called the Church of St. Peter. -At that time there were not many large churches -in England, and the Church of St. Peter was -thought to be one of the most splendid that was -ever seen. It took fifteen years to build, but -at last it was finished, and on Christmas Day, -1065, King Edward the Confessor, wearing his -crown, as was the custom in those days on -great occasions, came with all his bishops and<span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</span> -nobles to the first great service in the Abbey -Church which he himself had built. He was -then a very old man, and a few days after the -great service he was taken ill and died, and -was buried in his own church. He is called the -Founder of the Abbey, and you will see, when -you go round it, the shrine of King Edward -and of his queen, who was afterwards buried -at his side.</p> - -<p>Now, there is only one more thing to be -remembered before we begin to look round inside -and decide what are the most interesting things -to see, and that is that this Abbey we are in -to-day is <i>not</i> the actual Church of St. Peter -which King Edward the Confessor built. Of -that church there is now left only a little bit -of one pillar, which perhaps a guide will show -you, within the altar-rail, in what is called the -“Sacrarium.” I do not mean that the church -was pulled down all at once, and this Abbey -built instead, but bit by bit, as years went -on, it was added to and altered. New parts<span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</span> -were built on by different kings—for Westminster -Abbey is a church that has been all built -by kings and princes—and as the new parts -were added, the old were gradually pulled down.</p> - -<p>Of all the kings who helped to build and -beautify the Abbey, Henry III. was the one -who did most, and he spent on it such -enormous sums of money that he is often -spoken of as one of the most extravagant kings -England ever had. He made up his mind that -the Abbey of Westminster was to be the most -beautiful church in the world, and he used to -invite the best foreign artists and sculptors -to come and help to make plans and paintings -and carvings for it. He it was who built the -shrine where Edward the Confessor is now -buried, in the part of the choir behind where -the communion table (formerly the high altar) -now stands. It was when he was growing to be -an old man that he thought the founder of the -Abbey ought to be treated with special honour -and respect, and so almost the last thing he did<span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</span> -in his life was to build this shrine, which stands in -what is called Edward the Confessor’s Chapel.</p> - -<p>The king sent all the way to Rome—and in -those days the journey was a very much longer -and more difficult one than it is now—for the -mosaics and enamels which are still to be seen -on the shrine; the workmen who made it came -from Rome, where the best workmen were then -to be found; and the twisted columns round the -shrine were made in imitation of the columns on -some of the tombs in the great churches in -Rome.<a id="FNanchor_2" href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> - -<p>When it was finished, in 1269, the old king -himself, his brother Richard, and his two sons, -Edward and Edmund, carried the coffin of -Edward the Confessor on their shoulders from -the place where it had been buried in 1065 to -the new chapel, and there it has rested to this -very day.</p> - -<p>Years afterwards a great and magnificent<span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</span> -chapel was added by Henry VII. at the east -end of the Abbey, which was called after him. -He was buried there when he died, and so were -his grandson, Edward VI., and Queen Elizabeth, -and Mary Queen of Scots, and many others -whose tombs you must look at by-and-by.</p> - -<p>It was in the year 1509 that Henry VII. -was buried in Westminster Abbey, just four -hundred and forty-four years after the burial -of King Edward the Confessor. But in these -four hundred and forty-four years the Abbey -had been so much altered, the old parts so -pulled down and rebuilt, that King Edward, -could he have seen it again, would hardly -have believed that this great Abbey, as we see -it to-day, had grown up from his first Church -of St. Peter on Thorney Isle.</p> - -<p>And now, as I have said enough about the -building of the Abbey, we can go inside and -begin to see some of the monuments and tombs -of which it is full.</p> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_II">CHAPTER II.</h2> -</div> - - -<p>This chapter on the <i>geography</i> of the Abbey, as -I call it, has nothing to do with the stories -which begin in the next chapter, and the only -reason that I have written it at all is this. -In the days when I first heard many of the -stories which I am going to tell you now, they -were told to us by Dean Stanley in the Abbey. -As we walked about with him he explained -to us what part of the church we were in, and -pointed out the tomb or monument of the man, -or woman, or child about whom he was telling -us. But some of you may read this little book -before you have ever been to Westminster -Abbey, and others may have been there, but -may not know the names of the different parts -of the church, or where any particular monument -or tomb is.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</span></p> - -<p>So, instead of trying to explain at the beginning -of every story whereabouts we are supposed -to be standing, I am putting all such -explanations in this chapter; and this will, I -hope, help you to find your way about in the -Abbey for yourselves. If you only want to -hear the stories, you must miss this chapter -and go on to the next one.</p> - -<p>Just as we have maps to understand the -geography of countries, so we have maps, which -are called <i>plans</i>, to understand the geography -of churches and houses, and the drawing you -see on the opposite page is a map or plan of -the inside of Westminster Abbey. The picture -at the beginning of this book is a view of -the outside.</p> - -<p>We will now suppose we have just come into -the Abbey at the great west door, the door -between the two towers (see frontispiece). The -name is marked on the plan.<a id="FNanchor_3" href="#Footnote_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> We should -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</span> -then be standing in what is called the nave, -and right in front of us and through those -iron gates underneath the organ is the choir. -That is where service is held every morning -and every afternoon, and where all the -Westminster School boys sit on Sundays when -they come to church, for as Westminster -school has no chapel of its own, the boys -have all their services in the Abbey. Through -the choir gates you can see the communion -table in front of you, and behind that, again, -are all the chapels where the kings and queens -are buried. The nave and transepts are full -of the monuments and graves of great men. -The numbers 1, 2, 3, etc., on the plan mark -those about which you will find stories -later on.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" id="i017" style="max-width: 40em;"> -<img src="images/i017.png" alt="" /> -<div class="caption"> -<p class="center">PLAN OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY.</p> -</div> - -<div style="border: 1px dotted; padding: 1em;"> -<p class="plan"> -A. Chapel of Edward Confessor.<br /> -B. Chapel of St. Benedict.<br /> -C. Chapel of St. Edmund.<br /> -D. Chapel of St. Nicholas.<br /> -E. Henry VII. Chapel.<br /> -F. Chapel of St. Paul.<br /> -G. Chapel of St. John Baptist.<br /> -H. Chapel of St. Erasmus.<br /> -I. Chapel of Abbot Islip.<br /> -J. Chapel of St. John Evangelist.<br /> -K. Chapel of St. Michael.<br /> -L. Chapel of St. Andrew.<br /> -</p> - -<p class="plan"> -1. Lord Shaftesbury.<br /> -2. General Gordon.<br /> -3. Edward Mansell.<br /> -4. Edward de Carteret.<br /> -5. Sir Isaac Newton.<br /> -6. Lord Lawrence.<br /> -7. Sir James Outram.<br /> -8. David Livingstone.<br /> -9. Henry Fawcett.<br /> -10. Sir John Franklin.<br /> -11. Geoffrey Chaucer.<br /> -12. Alfred Tennyson.<br /> -13. Shakespeare.<br /> -14. Handel.<br /> -15. Lord Beaconsfield.<br /> -16. George Canning.<br /> -17. Earl Canning.<br /> -18. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe.<br /> -19. Lord Chatham and William Pitt.<br /> -20. Wilberforce.<br /> -21. Henry III.<br /> -22. Queen Eleanor.<br /> -23. Edward I.<br /> -24. Edward III.<br /> -25. Richard II.<br /> -26. Henry V.<br /> -27. Henry VII. and Queen.<br /> -28. Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary Tudor.<br /> -29. Mary Queen of Scots.<br /> -30. Oliver Cromwell.<br /> -31. Edward VI.<br /> -32. Dean Stanley.<br /> -</p> -</div> -</div> - -<p>And now, if you look at the plan, you -will see exactly where everything is. The<span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</span> -whole Abbey is built on a piece of land which -has the shape of a cross laid upon the ground. -The nave and choir represent the stem of the -cross, and the two transepts form the two -arms.</p> - -<p>In the part of the choir beyond the communion -table are the chapels. Altogether there are -eleven, and they are arranged like a wreath -round the shrine of Edward the Confessor. -They are marked on the plan by the letters -A, B, C, etc., and their names you will find on -the plan, beginning with A, which is the Chapel -of Edward the Confessor.</p> - -<p>One last thing I must explain before we begin -the stories, and that is—how this great church -came to be called an Abbey, and not a Cathedral. -It is not at all difficult to remember when you -have once been told.</p> - -<p>The Church of St. Peter did not stand, as -you may have supposed, all by itself on Thorney -Isle, but was only one part of a mass of buildings -called the Monastery of St. Peter.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</span></p> - -<p>A monastery, as you very likely already -know, was a kind of college for monks. Here -they lived under the rule of an abbot; and the -church belonging to the monastery—for every -monastery had a church, as well as a school -and hospital or infirmary, belonging to it—was -called an Abbey.</p> - -<p>In early days the life of the monks was a -very busy one. They did all the rough work, -such as cooking, and cleaning pots and pans; for -although many of them had been great soldiers -or great nobles, they did not think any work -done for the monastery was beneath them. They -ploughed the land and planted seeds; they cut -down trees for firewood; they nursed the sick; -they fed and looked after the poor who lived -round about them; and they taught in the -school, and watched over the boys who were -sent there to be educated.</p> - -<p>Many boys—not only those who intended to -become monks when they grew up, but those -also who were to go out into the world, or<span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</span> -become soldiers—went to the monastery schools -to be taught. Here the sons of great nobles -sat to learn their lessons side by side with the -children of the poorest people, who were allowed -to come and have as good an education as the -rich without paying any school fees. The -schools were open to all who wished to learn.</p> - -<p>Of course, Scripture was the chief thing that -they were taught, but the monks did not think -that alone was enough, and the boys often -learnt, besides reading and writing, grammar, -poetry, astronomy, and arithmetic. Latin many -of the monks talked almost as easily as their -own language, and very often music and painting -were added to all this. In the cloisters, -or covered walks belonging to the monastery, -the boys learned their lessons, always with a -master near by, and sitting one behind another, -so that no signals or jokes were possible. And -very hard it must have been to keep their -attention on their work in summer time when, -if they looked up, they could see through the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</span> -open archways the sun shining on the grass -in the centre of the cloisters, and inviting them -to come and play there. Something was always -going on in the cloisters. Sometimes the schoolboys -were tempted to waste their time watching -the monks shaving. Once a fortnight in -summer, and once in three weeks in winter, -the monks came out here with hot water and -soap, and the important business of shaving -went on, while on “Saturdays the heads and -feet of the brethren were duly washed.” If -while all these things were going on the abbot -appeared, every one stood up and bowed, and -the lessons and the shaving and the washing -stopped until he had passed by.</p> - -<p>Perhaps the most important part of every -monastery was the library, and an abbot who -cared much for the monastery over which he -ruled tried to collect and preserve and buy as -many books as he could. In those days printing -was not invented, and so every book of -which many copies were wanted had to be<span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</span> -written out by the monks. And this they did -in a most wonderful way, copying them, so -we are told,<a id="FNanchor_4" href="#Footnote_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> “on parchment of extreme fineness -prepared by their own hands,” and ornamenting -them with “the most delicate miniatures and -paintings.” The monks at that time loved their -books more than anything else, and there was -a saying among them that a cloister without -books was like a fortress without an arsenal. -Often they took long and difficult journeys to -see or to copy the books in other monasteries. -“Our books,” said a monk, “are our delight -and our wealth in time of peace, ... our food -when we are hungry, and our medicine when we -are sick.”</p> - -<p>And now, having told you a little about the life -of the monks in those far-off days, we must come -back to these buildings on Thorney Isle, which -as I have said were called the Monastery of St. -Peter. It is not known when this particular -monastery was first founded; but it is said that<span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</span> -St. Dunstan, who lived in the reign of King -Edwy, found there some half-ruined buildings. -He repaired them, and then brought twelve -monks to live in company with him. But -probably the Danes, who were often invading -England at that time, destroyed this little monastery, -for when Edward the Confessor came -to the throne, many years afterwards, it had -almost, if not quite, disappeared; and when he -rebuilt it he added this great church of St. Peter, -about which I told you in the first chapter.</p> - -<p>There is a pretty story told of how this came -about. An old monk was one day lying asleep, -and in his sleep he was commanded by St. -Peter, who appeared visibly to him, to acquaint -the king that it was his pleasure he should -restore the monastery. “There is,” said the -apostle, “a place of mine in the west part of -London which I choose and love. The name -of the place is Thorney.... There let the king -by my command make a dwelling of monks, -stately build and amply endow; it shall be no<span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</span> -less than the House of God, and the Gates of -Heaven.” When he woke up, the old monk -went to the king and told him his vision. -Upon hearing it Edward journeyed to “the -west part of London;” there he found Thorney -Isle, and there he built the monastery and church, -which he called after the apostle.</p> - -<p>And now at last we have finished all the -explanations. In the first chapter I told you -how the Abbey came to be built, and in this -one I have shown you how to find your way -about it. In the next I shall begin telling -you the stories, the first being about Lord -Shaftesbury, whose monument is in the nave, -where you see No. 1 on the plan.</p> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_III">CHAPTER III.</h2> -</div> - - -<p>Very likely you have never even heard the -name of Lord Shaftesbury; but as you will be -sure to read and hear of him by-and-by, I will -tell you a little about what he did, and why -a monument was put up in his memory. He -was born in 1801, and died in 1885, and so was -an old man of eighty-four when he died. He -spent all his long life in trying to make other -people—especially the poorest and most miserable -he could find—more happy and more comfortable. -He was a great nobleman, and very -rich, and he gave most of his time to finding -out the cause of the suffering of the poorest -people in England, and, when he had found it -out, he helped to make laws to improve things -for them, and, if money was wanted, he gave<span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</span> -that too. But he gave away his money wisely -and well; he never was taken in by idle -people and beggars who would not work for -themselves; his motto seems to have been to -“help those who help themselves,” and one -name by which he was known was “The -Working Man’s Friend.” But especially may -he be remembered by all children for what he -did for children. More than fifty years ago, -when first machines (spinning machines and -weaving machines) were invented in the great -cotton factories in England, it was found that -children could work them just as well as men -and women; and as children would not have -to be paid so much as men, the masters of -the mills began to employ them. Quite tiny -children, sometimes not more than five years -old, and so small that they often had to be -lifted up on stools to reach their work, were -made to toil in the mills and factories all -day, and sometimes all night too. They were -treated like little slaves. If they did not work<span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</span> -fast enough, they were beaten and kicked by -their masters; and they spent all their days -in hot rooms, hearing nothing but the whirring -of the machines, and stopping their work only -for about half an hour in the middle of the -day for their dinner, which was generally only -black bread and porridge, and sometimes a little -bacon. They had no time for play, and they -had no time to rest, except on Sundays, and -then they were too tired to move from the -berths (or shelves) where they slept, for they -did not even have proper beds.</p> - -<p>Then, again, there were the children who -worked in coal-mines, who spent all their days -in damp, dark mines, who never saw the sun, -and who had to draw the trucks filled with coal, -or carry great baskets full of it on their backs. -And all this they began to do before they were -six years old.</p> - -<p>When Lord Shaftesbury saw these things—for -he went into the mills and the factories, -and he went down into the mines—he made<span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</span> -up his mind that something must be done -for such children. So he made speeches in -Parliament, in which he told of the cruelty -with which thousands of English children were -treated; and at last laws were made by which -it was forbidden to let such little children work -in mines and factories at all, and by which older -children were given shorter hours to work and -more time for rest and fresh air. All this -and much more Lord Shaftesbury did during -his long life, and when at last he died, this -monument was put up in Westminster Abbey -with these words on it, so that people who had -never known him might be always reminded of -the way he spent his life:—</p> - -<p class="center">LORD SHAFTESBURY,<br /> -BORN 1801; DIED 1885.<br /> -ENDEARED TO HIS COUNTRYMEN BY A LONG<br /> -LIFE SPENT IN THE CAUSE OF THE<br /> -HELPLESS AND SUFFERING.<br /> -“LOVE—SERVE.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</span></p> - -<p>Close to Lord Shaftesbury, there is a monument -to a great soldier, General Gordon,<a id="FNanchor_5" href="#Footnote_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> who -was killed in Egypt in 1885—the same year -that Lord Shaftesbury died. He fought in -the Crimean War and in China, and was often -called “Chinese Gordon.” All the soldiers who -served under him were so fond and proud of him -that they would have done anything for him. -He was very brave, and it was well known -that he would always be in the front rank to -lead his men when there was a battle, and this, -more than anything else, made him popular. He -himself never was armed except with a little -cane, which his soldiers called “the wand of -victory.” Once when he was wounded his men -wanted to carry him out of the battle, but -he would not allow it, and went on leading -them till he fainted from pain and weakness.</p> - -<p>Lord Shaftesbury, the great statesman, died -in England, with all his many friends near -him, and General Gordon, the great soldier, was<span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</span> -killed by savages while he was shut up in -Khartoum, a town in Africa, where he was -besieged; but their two monuments are close -together in Westminster Abbey, and they were -alike in one thing—they both did all they could -to help other people. Of course, Gordon had not -time to do so much as Lord Shaftesbury,<a id="FNanchor_6" href="#Footnote_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a> but -when he was not fighting he lived in England, -and then “his house,” said a gentleman who -knew him,<a id="FNanchor_7" href="#Footnote_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a> “was school and hospital and almshouse -in turn. The poor, the sick, and the -unfortunate were all welcome. He always -took a great delight in children, but especially -in boys employed on the river or the sea. -Many he rescued from the gutter, cleansed them -and clothed them, and kept them for weeks in -his house. For their benefit he established -reading classes. He called them his kings, and -for many of them he got berths on board ship. -One day a friend asked him why there were so<span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</span> -many pins stuck into the map of the world -over his mantelpiece. He was told they marked -and followed the course of the boys on their -voyages; that they were moved from point to -point as his youngsters advanced, and that he -prayed for them as they went night and day. -The light in which he was held by those lads -was shown by inscriptions in chalk on the fences. -A favourite one was ‘God bless the Kernel,’” -which was their way of spelling “colonel,” -for he was at that time Colonel Gordon.</p> - -<p>But I must not stay to tell you more of him -now, for there are many other people I want -you to hear about. “This Abbey,” Dean -Stanley used to say, “is full of the remembrances -of great men and famous women. But it is also -full of the remembrances of little boys and girls -whose death shot a pang through the hearts of -those who loved them, and who wished that -they should never be forgotten.”</p> - -<p>So now, not far from the monuments to these -two great men, we come upon the tombs of two<span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</span> -boys who are buried here: one Edward Mansell,<a id="FNanchor_8" href="#Footnote_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a> -a boy of fourteen, who died as long ago as 1681; -and another Edward, Edward de Carteret,<a id="FNanchor_9" href="#Footnote_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a> a -little boy “seven yeares and nine months old,” -who “dyed the 30th day of October, 1677.” His -father and mother put nothing on his tomb to -tell us about him except that he was a “gentleman;” -but that one word tells us much, for it -means, said Dean Stanley, that “they believed—and -no belief can be so welcome to any father -or mother—they believed that their little son -was growing up truthful, manly, courageous, -courteous, unselfish, and religious.” And if this -little boy had tried to be a “gentleman” in -this true and best sense of the word, it does not -seem out of place that he should be buried in the -Abbey among great men and famous women.</p> - -<p>Close by little Edward de Carteret is buried -Sir Isaac Newton.<a id="FNanchor_10" href="#Footnote_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a> There is on the floor a -plain grey stone with these few words in Latin -on it, “Hic depositum quod mortale fuit Isaaci<span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</span> -Newtoni,” which means, “Here lies what was -mortal of Isaac Newton.” Sir Isaac Newton -was one of the most celebrated Englishmen -who ever lived, and made wonderful discoveries -in science, especially in astronomy, by which -his name is known all over the world. He was -born on Christmas Day, 1642, and lived to be -seventy-five years old. In spite of being so -learned and so famous, he was always modest -about what he knew, and believed that what -he had learned and discovered was only a very, -very little bit of all there was to learn and -discover in the world and about the world. -When he was quite an old man, some one was -saying to him one day how much he had done -and how wonderful his discoveries were, and he -answered, “To myself I seem to have been as a -child picking up shells on the seashore, while the -great ocean of truth lay unexplored before me.”</p> - -<p>Just above the grey stone in the floor there -is a large statue of Sir Isaac Newton, sitting -with his head resting on his hands as though<span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</span> -he were thinking, and a great pile of books by -his side.</p> - -<p>I have already told you about General Gordon. -I now come to the story of another great soldier, -Sir James Outram, who is buried in the Abbey. -The graves of Sir James Outram and of David -Livingstone, a great traveller and missionary, -and of Lord Lawrence, who was the Governor-General -of India, and who did a great deal for -the natives while he lived among them, are all -close together, and there is something interesting -to tell you about all these three men, especially -Sir James Outram and David Livingstone.</p> - -<p>If you have read or heard anything of the -story of the Indian Mutiny, when the native -soldiers of India rebelled against the English -who governed them, and killed hundreds of -men, women, and children, you must, I think, -have heard the names of Lord Lawrence and -Sir James Outram.</p> - -<p>During the years he had lived among them, -the natives of India had grown so fond of Lord<span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</span> -Lawrence,<a id="FNanchor_11" href="#Footnote_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a> that when the mutiny (or rebellion) -broke out, the men of the Punjaub (which was -the part of India he then governed) said they -would be true to the man who had been good -to them, and so they fought for England with -the few English soldiers who were then in India, -and helped us to conquer the rebels. Lord -Lawrence has been called the “Saviour of India,” -because he came to the help of his fellow-countrymen -with these Indian soldiers just when -he was most terribly needed.</p> - -<p>Later on, in the same war, came the siege of -Lucknow. Lucknow was one of the chief cities -of India, but the streets were long and narrow -and dirty, and most of the houses were poor -and mean. Among them, however, were some -magnificent palaces and temples. The Residency, -the house where the English governor of Lucknow -lived, was built on a hill above the river, -and all round it were the offices and the -bungalows of the English who were living there.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</span> -When the mutiny broke out, it was soon seen -that the native soldiers would attack the English -in Lucknow, and the people at once set to work -to make as many preparations against them as -they could. To begin with, Sir Henry Lawrence, -who was in command of the soldiers -both English and Indian, and who was the -brother of Lord Lawrence, of whom we spoke -just now, ordered all the women and children -to come and live in the Residency, which was -supposed to be the safest place in Lucknow. -Then guns, powder and shot, and food were -brought in and stored in the cellars. At last, at -nine o’clock on the evening of the 30th of May, -1857, when the officers were quietly at dinner, -nearly all the native soldiers in Lucknow suddenly -rose against the English. They loaded -their guns, and fired at every one they could see; -they broke into the houses, and, after stealing -everything they could, set fire to them; and all -night there was nothing to be heard save the -savage yells of the rebels and the firing of the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</span> -guns, and nothing to be seen but fighting men -and burning houses. About five hundred of the -native soldiers were true to the English, and -they stayed with them and fought against -their rebellious countrymen through all the long -siege of Lucknow. For though the rebels were -beaten at their first rising by the English, yet -in a month or two they rose again, and then -every one, including the soldiers, was driven -by the enemy into the Residency, which was -the last place of refuge.</p> - -<p>Some day, perhaps, you will read a poem -by Lord Tennyson called “Lucknow,” which -describes all the terrible things that happened -during the “eighty-seven” days the English -and the faithful natives were shut up in the -Residency, on the topmost roof of which, as -he says, the “banner of England blew” during -the whole siege, though it was shot through by -bullets, and torn and tattered, and faded in the -hot Indian summer sun.</p> - -<p>One of the first things that happened was<span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</span> -that Sir Henry Lawrence was killed. He was -lying on his bed one morning talking to an -officer, when a shell was fired from a cannon into -his room. It burst as it fell, and some of its -fragments wounded Sir Henry so terribly that -he died the next day. Almost the last thing he -said to the other officers was to beg them never -to give in to the natives, but to fight as long -as there was an English man left alive. Lord -Lawrence, his brother, who died some years -afterwards, was buried, as you remember, in -Westminster Abbey; but Sir Henry Lawrence -was carried out of the Residency while the -fighting was going on, and the bullets were -falling like rain, and buried side by side with -some private soldiers who had also been killed -by the rebels. On his gravestone they put these -words, which he himself had asked should be -written there, “Here lies Henry Lawrence, who -tried to do his duty.”</p> - -<p>This was on the 4th of July, and Sir Henry -Lawrence had said he thought it would be<span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</span> -possible to defend the Residency for a fortnight. -But as time went on the English grew fewer -and fewer; every day more soldiers were killed, -and every day many died of their wounds, while -those who were left alive had to fight day and -night. The English ladies nursed the sick men, -and cooked the food, which they used to bring -out to those who were fighting; and they looked -after the children, very many of whom died too. -For it was the hottest time of the year in India—a -time when English children are sent away -to the hills to get fresh air—and, besides suffering -from the heat, they missed all the comforts -they were accustomed to; they had no milk and -very little to eat, and they were terrified by the -noise of the firing and all the confusion.</p> - -<p>But still the fighting went on day after day, -long after the fortnight was over, and day after -day the enemy saw the English flag still flying -on the roof of the Residency, and began to -think they never would conquer this brave -little band of Englishmen.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</span></p> - -<p>All this time, however, though they did not -know it in the Residency, Sir James Outram<a id="FNanchor_12" href="#Footnote_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a> -and Sir Henry Havelock, with more English -soldiers, were fighting their way to Lucknow.<a id="FNanchor_13" href="#Footnote_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a></p> - -<p>They had both been for many years in India, -and were two of the bravest and best men who -could possibly have been sent to the relief of -the little band who had been besieged for so -many weeks. On the 23rd of September, nearly -<i>twelve weeks</i> after the day Sir Henry Lawrence -died, it was heard in Lucknow that Sir James -Outram and Sir Henry Havelock were close -by, and on the 25th the Highlanders were in -the city and fighting their way through the -narrow streets to the Residency. Then from -every window and every balcony and every roof -the rebels fired down on them. Many were -killed and more were wounded. A story is<span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</span> -told, by Mr. Archibald Forbes,<a id="FNanchor_14" href="#Footnote_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a> of two Irishmen -who were in the Highland regiment. -“They were great friends, named Glandell and -M‘Donough, and in going through one of these -narrow streets M‘Donough’s leg was broken by -a bullet. He fell, but he was not left to die, for -his friend who was by him took him on his -back and trudged on with his heavy burden. -Although he was carrying M‘Donough, Glandell -determined to fight at the same time, so when -there was a chance to fire a shot, he propped -his wounded comrade up against a wall and -took up his rifle instead; then he would pick -up M‘Donough again and stagger cheerily on till -a place of safety was reached.”</p> - -<p>At last the gate of the Residency was in sight -of the relieving force, and then the besieged -people looking out saw through the smoke -officers on horseback—Outram with a great cut -across his face, and one arm in a sling, on a -big white horse, and Havelock walking by his<span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</span> -side (for his horse had been shot), and the -Highlanders in their kilts and for the most -part in their shirt-sleeves, with no coats on. -“Then,” wrote some one who had been all -these weeks in the Residency—“then all our -doubts and fears were over, and from every pit, -trench, and battery, from behind the sand-bags -piled on shattered houses, from every post still -held by a few gallant spirits, even from the -hospital, rose cheer on cheer.” Sir James -Outram’s horse shied at the gate, but with a -shout the Highlanders hoisted him through; Sir -Henry Havelock followed, “and then in rushed -the eager soldiers, powder-grimed, dusty, and -bloody, ... and all round them as they -swarmed in crowded ... the fighting men of -the garrison, and the civilians whom the siege -had made into soldiers, and women weeping -tears of joy, and the sick and the wounded -who had crawled out of the hospital to welcome -their deliverers. The ladies came down -among the soldiers to shake their hands, and the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</span> -children hugged them.” “We were all rushing -about,” said a lady, “to give the poor fellows -drinks of water, for they were perfectly exhausted; -and tea was made, of which a large -party of tired, thirsty officers partook without -milk and sugar, and we had nothing to give -them to eat. Every one’s tongue seemed going -at once with so much to ask and to tell, and -the faces of utter strangers beamed on each -other like those of dearest friends and brothers.” -So ended the siege of Lucknow. Sir Henry -Havelock had not been wounded, but he had -suffered much from hard work and from having -so little to eat. “I find it not so easy to -starve at sixty as at forty-seven,” he said one -day. At last, in November, he became very ill, -and when Sir James Outram went to see him -in the common soldier’s tent which he had -always used since he had been in Lucknow, he -told him that he was going to die; “but I have -for forty years so ruled my life that when death -came I might face it without fear,” he added.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</span> -He died on the 24th of November, 1857, and -was buried just outside Lucknow, under a -mango tree, and even now the letter H, which -was carved in the bark—for no other monument -could be put up to his memory in those days -of war and disturbance—can just be seen, more -than thirty years afterwards.</p> - -<p>Sir James Outram was nursed in Dr. Fayrer’s -house in Lucknow until he was well, and three -years afterwards, in 1860, he left India and came -back to England. Then he had many honours -shown him; but, like Sir Henry Havelock, he -felt the effects of all he had gone through in -India, and gradually he became more ill, and was -at last sent to the south of France, where he -died on the 11th of March, 1863. His body was -brought to England and buried in the Abbey -under the grey stone which you will see in the -nave, and on it were written these words—</p> - -<p class="center">LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR JAMES OUTRAM,<br /> -BORN JAN. 29TH, 1805; DIED MAR. 11TH, 1863.<br /> -“THE BAYARD OF INDIA.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</span></p> - -<p>I remember, in one of the sermons which he -used to preach to children, Dean Stanley spoke -of this grave of Sir James Outram, and said, -“There was a famous French soldier of bygone -days whose name you will see written in this -Abbey on the gravestone of Sir James Outram, -because in many ways he was like Bayard. -Bayard was a small boy—only thirteen—when -he went into his first service, and his mother -told him to remember three things: first, to -fear and love God; secondly, to have gentle -and courteous manners to those above him; -and thirdly, to be generous and charitable, -without pride or haughtiness, to those beneath -him; and these three things he never forgot, -which helped to make him the soldier without -fear and without reproach.” And it was in these -three things that Sir James Outram was supposed -to be so like the French soldier, Bayard.</p> - -<p>One more thing I must tell you before we -pass on to David Livingstone. On the morning -of the day when Outram was to be buried, some<span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</span> -Highland soldiers came to his house and asked -to be allowed to carry the coffin on their -shoulders down to the Abbey. They were -some men from the 78th Regiment—the very -same men who had fought under him at the -relief of Lucknow, and who had been with him -when Sir Henry Havelock was buried under -the mango tree; and they came now hoping to -carry the body of Sir James Outram to his -burial. Unfortunately, they were too late, and -were told, much to their disappointment, that -this was impossible because other arrangements -had been made.</p> - -<p>We come now to David Livingstone,<a id="FNanchor_15" href="#Footnote_15" class="fnanchor">[15]</a> the -great traveller and missionary. He was born -in Scotland in 1813. His father and mother -were very poor, and when he was ten years old -he was sent to work in a cotton factory. He -grew up to be a very extraordinary man, as you -will see, and he certainly was a very unusual -boy. He saved up his wages, and the first thing<span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</span> -he bought was a Latin grammar, from which he -used to learn in the evenings after he left -his work; and so interested was he that he -often went on till twelve o’clock at night, when -his mother took away the book and sent him to -bed, for he had to be at the factory at six every -morning. When he grew up he became a -missionary, and went to Africa, where he made -many discoveries, travelling into parts of the -country where no one had ever been before, -and teaching the natives, who were quite -ignorant and wild, but who grew very fond of -this “white man who treated black men as his -brothers”—for so one native chief described him—and -who cared for them, and doctored them -when they were ill, and gave up all his life to -them. He had all sorts of adventures. Once -he lived for some time in a place which was full -of lions, who used to come and kill the cattle -even in the day time. The people made up -their minds to try to kill one lion; for if one -of a party of lions is killed, the rest generally<span class="pagenum" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</span> -go away. Livingstone went out with them, -and they found the lions on a little hill covered -with trees. Some of the men fired, but did not -hit any of them. Presently Livingstone “saw -one of the beasts sitting on a rock, behind -a little bush”—these are his own words—“about -thirty yards off. I took a good aim -at his body through the bush, and fired at -him. The men then called out, ‘He is shot—he -is shot!’ others cried out, ‘He has been -shot by another man, too; let us go to him.’ -I did not see any one else shoot at him, -but I saw the lion’s tail erected in anger -behind the bush, and, turning to the people, -said, ‘Stop a little till I fire again.’ When in -the act of ramming down the bullets I heard -a shout. Starting and looking half round, I -saw the lion in the act of springing on me. -I was upon a little height. He caught my -shoulder as he sprang, and we both came to -the ground together. Growling horribly close -to my ear, he shook me as a terrier dog does<span class="pagenum" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</span> -a rat.” It was wonderful that Livingstone did -not seem to feel any pain or fear; he said he -seemed to be in a kind of dream, but knew quite -well all that was happening. Of course, in -another minute he would have been killed, had -not some of the people fired again at the lion -and this time killed it. But Livingstone never -afterwards could use quite easily the arm which -the lion had crushed. During his travels he -discovered Lake Nyassa, which you can find -marked now on every map of Africa. Before -he went there all that part of the country used -to be marked “unexplored.”</p> - -<p>For more than thirty years Livingstone lived -in Africa, always travelling about, and finding -new tribes of natives, all of whom he got to -know, and all of whom became fond of him; -and at last, when he died in a little hut which -his black servants had built for him in the -middle of one of these great African forests, -Susi and Chumah, two of his followers, who had -been with him for many years, came all the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</span> -way to England with the body of their dead -master. On the day when he was buried, the -Abbey was crowded with people who came from -all parts of England and Scotland; and among -all the white faces were seen two black ones, for -the faithful servants stood close by the grave; -and Dean Stanley, who read the service, said -afterwards that he had never seen two men -seem more broken-hearted. On his tombstone -you will read of one more thing which he did -for the natives whilst he lived among them; -and that was, to help to abolish the slave-trade -in Central Africa. He was sixty years old -when he died, and he had worked all his life -to raise the lives of thousands of African savages -into something better and happier.</p> - -<p>Many other great men I have no time to -tell you about, but there are two more, of -whom I particularly want you to hear a few -words—Henry Fawcett and Sir John Franklin. -Henry Fawcett<a id="FNanchor_16" href="#Footnote_16" class="fnanchor">[16]</a> was not a soldier, nor a great<span class="pagenum" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</span> -traveller, but he was known for many years -all over England as the “Blind Postmaster-General.” -He was not born blind, and why -I want to tell you about him is to show you -what a brave man can do when such a terrible -misfortune as becoming blind happens to him. -He was born in 1833, and died in 1884, -and for twenty-six years of his life he was -quite blind. He lost his sight in this way. -He was out shooting one day with his father, -who fired at a bird without noticing that -his son was close by. Suddenly he saw that -some of the shots, instead of hitting the bird, -had hit his son in the eyes. Henry Fawcett -was wearing spectacles, and a shot went -through each of the glasses, making a little -round hole in them, and then going on into -his eyes. From that moment he never saw -again. His first thought, he afterwards told -his sister, was that he should never again see -the lovely view, and the colours of the autumn -leaves on the trees, as he had seen them a<span class="pagenum" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</span> -moment before; his second thought was to try -and do everything he could to comfort his -father, who must need comfort almost as much -as he did himself. So, at twenty-five years of -age, Henry Fawcett, who had made up his mind -to work hard as a barrister—for he was very -poor—and make enough money to go into -Parliament, which had been his great wish -ever since he was at school, suddenly found all -his plans and all his hopes upset. But his -courage never gave way; he determined that -his blindness should not make him a helpless, -disappointed man. “In ten minutes after the -accident,” he said some years later, “he had -made up his mind that he would stick to what -he had meant to do.” And so he did. He -had been a great rider, a great skater, and a -great fisherman, and all these things he kept -up. He skated with his friends, holding on to -a stick by which they guided him; he rode, he -fished, he walked, behaving in all things as -though he were not blind. He was obliged to<span class="pagenum" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</span> -give up being a barrister, but he became a -professor at Cambridge. He wrote in papers -and magazines (of course some one had to do -the actual writing for him, but he dictated it), -and at last, when he was thirty-two years old, -that is to say, seven years after the accident, -he achieved his object, and became member of -Parliament (the Blind Member, he was sometimes -called) for Brighton.</p> - -<p>It would take too long to tell you of all -the work he did for his country after he was -in Parliament, but he was always trying to -improve things; he was never idle, and at -last, when he was made Postmaster-General, -he hardly ever had time for a holiday. He -was a favourite with every one, and, when he -was ill, telegrams and letters used to come -from all parts of England to ask after him. -He always took a great interest in other -blind people, and was fond of saying to -them, “Do what you can to act as though -you were not blind; be of good courage, and<span class="pagenum" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</span> -help yourselves.” And to his friends, and all -who had blind friends or relations, he was -never tired of saying, “Do not treat us as -though you pitied us for our misfortune; the -kindest thing that can be done or said to a -blind person is to help him as far as possible -to be of good cheer, to give him confidence -that help will be afforded him whenever -necessary, that there is still good work for -him to do, and, the more active his career, the -more useful his life to others, the more happy -his days to himself.” These are his own -words. They are brave words; but Henry -Fawcett was, as you have seen, a brave man, -and fought and conquered all the great difficulties -with which his blindness surrounded -him, with as much courage as Sir James -Outram showed when he fought his way into -Lucknow, or David Livingstone when he -journeyed through the deserts and forests of -Africa. And that is why a memorial of him -was put up in Westminster Abbey by the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</span> -people of England, who subscribed for it, so -that the heroic life of the Blind Postmaster-General -should never be forgotten.</p> - -<p>Sir John Franklin<a id="FNanchor_17" href="#Footnote_17" class="fnanchor">[17]</a> was a sailor and a great -Arctic explorer, who made many expeditions, -and went nearer to the North Pole than any -man had ever been before. He and his companions -endured every kind of hardship in the -ice and the snow of the Arctic regions. He -died on his third expedition, just two years -after last leaving England, and was buried in -the far-away cold North amidst the snow under -slabs of ice. On the monument in Westminster -Abbey, which was put up in his memory by -his wife, Lady Franklin, are written the words -“O ye frost and cold, O ye ice and snow, bless -ye the Lord: praise Him, and magnify Him -for ever.” The story of the expedition is a -very sad one, for, during the winter after Sir -John’s death, it became clear to the sailors -that the ships were so fast in the ice, which<span class="pagenum" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</span> -had closed in and frozen all round them, that -they would never be able to move again. So -at last, nearly all the provisions being exhausted, -the men abandoned their ships, and -with boats and sledges, which they carried -or dragged over the ice, set out to walk southwards -in the hope that they might at last reach -the unfrozen sea and meet a ship. But this -they never did, for they were starved and ill, -and although another expedition had been sent -from England to look for them, it was too late -to save them. The only traces ever found of -them were their skeletons, and the boats and -sledges, containing many books and papers -which Sir John had written, saying how far he -had been, and what he had done on this voyage -from which he never returned.</p> - -<p>His epitaph, written by Lord Tennyson, is -one of the most beautiful in the Abbey—</p> - -<p> -“Not here! the white North has thy bones; and thou,<br /> -<span class="indent1">Heroic sailor-soul,</span><br /> -Art passing on thine happier voyage now<br /> -<span class="indent1">Toward no earthly pole.”</span><br /> -</p> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_IV">CHAPTER IV.</h2> -</div> - - -<p>In Westminster Abbey are the graves of many -poets—so many that one part of the church (the -south transept) is always known as Poets’ Corner.</p> - -<p>Geoffrey Chaucer,<a id="FNanchor_18" href="#Footnote_18" class="fnanchor">[18]</a> who wrote among other -things a book called the “Canterbury Tales,” -and who died as long ago as 1400, was one of the -first English poets buried in Poets’ Corner; and -the last was Alfred Tennyson,<a id="FNanchor_19" href="#Footnote_19" class="fnanchor">[19]</a> who died in 1892, -and was buried close beside Chaucer, just four -hundred and ninety-two years afterwards.</p> - -<p>When I was telling you the story of the -Indian Mutiny, I spoke of a poem called “Lucknow,” -which described in a wonderful way -the sufferings of the people who were shut -up in the Residency during the long siege.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</span> -This poem and very many others were written -by Alfred Tennyson, the great poet, who was -made by the Queen Poet Laureate of England, -and then, many years afterwards, Lord Tennyson, -by which name you will always hear him -spoken of.</p> - -<p>There is a story told of how the first verses -Alfred Tennyson ever made were written. His -father was a clergyman, and Alfred and his -brothers and sisters lived all their lives in the -country, running wild in the woods and the -fields, and learning all about birds and flowers, -until they were old enough to go to school. -One Sunday morning, when every one but -Alfred, who was then very small, was going to -church, his elder brother Charles said he would -give him something to do, and told him he -must write some verses about the flowers in the -garden. When they came in, Alfred appeared -with his slate covered all over with his first -poem. He was very fond of story-telling, and -he and his brothers and sisters would combine<span class="pagenum" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</span> -to make up long and exciting tales which sometimes -lasted for months. When he went to -school he began to read a great deal, especially -poetry. If he found any he particularly liked, -he would try to imitate it in poems of his own, -and in this way he and his brother Charles, -who was with him at school, used to spend a -great deal of their spare time.</p> - -<p>It would take too long, and it would not -be interesting, to tell you the names of even -the chief poems which Lord Tennyson wrote. -By-and-by you will read many of them for yourselves, -and two I am sure you will specially -enjoy. One is the “Siege of Lucknow,” which -we have so often spoken of; and the other is -the “Revenge,” which is also a story of fighting—but -a sea-fight in the time of Queen Elizabeth. -Lord Tennyson, like most poets, was more fond -of the country than of towns, and most of his -life he lived either in the Isle of Wight or in -Surrey. He used, until quite the end of his life, -to enjoy taking long country walks, and he<span class="pagenum" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</span> -never lost his love for flowers or birds, or failed -to notice them; and this in spite of having all -his life been very short-sighted. It was said of -him that “when he was looking at any object -he seemed to be smelling it,” so closely used he -to hold it to his eyes.</p> - -<p>And yet, with this difficulty, he noticed “more -than most men with perfect sight would see. -I remember his telling me,” so wrote a friend of -his, “<i>if you tread on daisies they turn up -underfoot and get rosy</i>. His hearing, on the -other hand, was exceptionally keen, and he held -it as a sort of compensation for his blurred -sight; he could hear <i>the shriek of a bat</i>, which -he always said was the test of a quick ear.”</p> - -<p>Lord Tennyson was eighty-three when he -died, and when he was buried in Westminster -Abbey the great church was crowded, not only -during the funeral service, but for many days -and even weeks afterwards, by hundreds of -people, who came to see, and lay flowers on, his -grave.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</span></p> - -<p>Although so many poets were buried in the -Abbey, yet there were many others who when -they died were buried in the country, or in -other churches in London, and, when this was the -case, monuments were often put up in the Abbey -in memory of them. For instance, Shakespeare,<a id="FNanchor_20" href="#Footnote_20" class="fnanchor">[20]</a> -the greatest of all our great poets, was buried at -Stratford-on-Avon, where he had lived for the -last part of his life, and where he died.</p> - -<p>There is not a very great deal known about -his life. He was the son of a country shopkeeper, -who was very poor, but who managed -to send his son to the grammar school at -Stratford-on-Avon, where they lived. When he -was fourteen he was taken away from school, -and had to earn his own living. It is sometimes -said that he was first a butcher’s boy, -and had to carry out the meat, but no one -knows exactly what he did after he left school -until he was about nineteen. Then he went -to London, and began to write poetry and plays.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</span> -He had at this time hardly any money, and was -thankful to earn a penny whenever he could -by holding horses, or making himself useful in -any way he could think of, and was nicknamed -by his friends “Jack-of-all-trades.” At last he -got employment as a writer of plays for the -Globe Theatre. This Globe Theatre was very -different from the theatres of nowadays. It -was a round wooden building with no roof, -except just over the stage, and there it was -covered in to protect the dresses of the actors -and actresses in case of bad weather. Gradually -it became clear that this William Shakespeare, -who had come to London quite a poor and -unknown man, was a great poet, his plays -began to be talked of, and many great and rich -men became his friends. In a few years he -was no longer poor, and had begun to save -money to buy himself a house at Stratford-on-Avon, -where he had been born. To do -this had always been a dream of his: for a long -time his wife and children had been living there<span class="pagenum" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</span> -while he worked hard for them in London, and -when at last he had bought his house, which -was called New Place, he left London and went -home to them.</p> - -<p>Many years passed away, and Shakespeare, -who had written great plays such as <i>Hamlet</i> -and <i>The Merchant of Venice</i>, which you will -all know and perhaps see acted some day, lived -quietly in the little town of Stratford-on-Avon, -making friends of all the people round him, -both rich and poor, and seeing his own plays -acted in a great empty barn near his house, for -in those days there was no theatre in Stratford.</p> - -<p>“Master Shakespeare,” as he was called, was -buried in the churchyard of the little town -he had been so fond of all his life; and many -years afterwards, when his name had become -known all over England, and his plays and -his poems had become famous as they had -never been during his lifetime, a monument was -put up to his memory in Westminster Abbey -close by the graves of two other poets, Spenser<span class="pagenum" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</span> -and Drayton, who had been his friends: on -it are written these words out of his own play -of <i>The Tempest</i>—</p> - -<p> -<span class="indent1">“The Cloud-capt Towers,</span><br /> -<span class="indent1">The Gorgeous Palaces,</span><br /> -<span class="indent1">The Solemn Temples,</span><br /> -<span class="indent1">The Great Globe itself,</span><br /> -<span class="indent1">Yea, all which it inherit,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Shall dissolve;</span><br /> -And, like the baseless fabric of a vision,<br /> -<span class="indent1">Leave not a wreck behind.”<a id="FNanchor_21" href="#Footnote_21" class="fnanchor">[21]</a></span><br /> -</p> - -<p>Among all the poets who are buried in the -south transept, there is one great musician, -George Frederick Handel.<a id="FNanchor_22" href="#Footnote_22" class="fnanchor">[22]</a> Dean Stanley says -that “Handel, who composed the music of the -‘Messiah’ and the ‘Israel in Egypt,’ must have -been a poet no less than a musician, and therefore -he was not unfitly buried in Poets’ Corner.”</p> - -<p>Handel was the son of a German doctor, and -was born in a little German town. As a boy -he was very fond of music, but as his father<span class="pagenum" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</span> -meant him to be a lawyer, he would not let -him hear any for fear that he would want to -be a musician. Once,<a id="FNanchor_23" href="#Footnote_23" class="fnanchor">[23]</a> when George was seven -years old, his father went to visit another son -who lived at the court of the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels. -The little boy, who had most -likely heard his brother speak of the court -concerts, begged to go too, but of course he was -told that it was impossible. His father drove -off, but still George determined to go. He -managed to slip out, and ran as long as he could -after the carriage. At last he was seen and -taken in, and as there was no time to bring -him home, he went with his father to the -court. He soon made friends among the duke’s -musicians, who let him try the organ. One -day after the service he was lifted on to the -organ-stool, and played so wonderfully that the -duke, who was in church, asked who it was. -When he heard that it was the little seven-year-old -Handel, he sent for his father, and told<span class="pagenum" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</span> -him that his son would one day be such a great -musician that it would be quite wrong to make -him a lawyer. So from that day George was -regularly taught music. When he was older he -came to England, and here he lived most of his -life, and here he wrote most of the music which -is known almost all over the world. He used -to give concerts at the English court, to which -the Prince of Wales, the son of George II., and -the princess, and many great people came. -Sometimes at these concerts ladies would talk -instead of listening to the music, and then -Handel quite lost his temper. “His rage was -uncontrollable,” so we are told, “and sometimes -carried him to the length of swearing and -calling names; whereupon the gentle princess -would say to the offenders, ‘Hush, hush! Handel -is angry;’ and when all was quiet the concert -would go on again.” Handel, when he was old, -became quite blind, but he still played the -organ up to the very end of his life. He died -on Good Friday, April 13, 1759, and was buried<span class="pagenum" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</span> -in the Abbey, and on his monument are written -the words, “I know that my Redeemer liveth,” -from the Book of Job, which he had set to most -beautiful music, and had asked to have written -upon his tomb.</p> - -<p>I have only spoken to you of Geoffrey -Chaucer and of Alfred Tennyson, the first and -the last poets who were buried in the Abbey; -of Shakespeare, the greatest of all English poets, -and of George Frederick Handel, the musician; -but very many others are remembered in Poets’ -Corner. And when you some day walk round -the Abbey you will see there the graves or -monuments of most of the great English writers.</p> - -<p>The north transept is full of the graves and -monuments of statesmen. A great many of -them you must have heard of, and some of you -perhaps belong to the Primrose League, which -was founded in 1881 in memory of Benjamin -Disraeli,<a id="FNanchor_24" href="#Footnote_24" class="fnanchor">[24]</a> Lord Beaconsfield, whose monument is -in the Abbey. He was twice Prime Minister<span class="pagenum" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</span> -of England, and when he died the Primrose -League (the badge of which is a primrose, and -which was chosen because it was said to be -his favourite flower) was started to band people -together to carry on the work and help on the -political party to which he had belonged. -Then there are monuments to three members -of one family—the family of Canning—who -were all great statesmen. George Canning,<a id="FNanchor_25" href="#Footnote_25" class="fnanchor">[25]</a> -who was born as long ago as 1770, became -known as a wonderful orator. When he was -quite a small boy at school he used to say that he -meant some day to be a member of Parliament, -and at Eton he helped to start a debating society -which was modelled on the House of Commons. -Here his speeches soon became famous among -the boys. He lived to be not only a member -of Parliament, but Prime Minister of England. -His youngest son Charles,<a id="FNanchor_26" href="#Footnote_26" class="fnanchor">[26]</a> who was also a great -man, became Earl Canning and first Viceroy of -India.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</span></p> - -<p>“The third great Canning” was Stratford -Canning<a id="FNanchor_27" href="#Footnote_27" class="fnanchor">[27]</a> (a cousin of Charles), who has been -called “the greatest ambassador of our time,” -and who before he died was made Lord Stratford -de Redcliffe, by which name he is best known. -Each of these three great men gave all his -time and all his strength to work for the good -of his country. Two of them, George Canning -and his son, the Viceroy of India, are buried -in one grave here in the Abbey. Lord Stratford -de Redcliffe, although his statue stands side by -side with the monuments to his uncle and -cousin, is buried in the little country churchyard -of Frant, in Kent.</p> - -<p>Lord Stratford de Redcliffe was an old man -of ninety-three when he died. He had done so -much, and known so many great and interesting -people, that the story of his life is a book you -will all like to read some day. One of the first -things he remembered was how, when he was -a little boy at school, he had seen Lord Nelson.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</span> -It was at Eton, and Nelson, “with all his -wounds and all his honours”—for so Lord -Stratford describes him—came down to see the -boys, and asked that they might have a whole -holiday. More than eighty years afterwards, -when Lord Stratford de Redcliffe died, there -was found in his room a little picture of Lord -Nelson, which he had kept ever since those far-off -school days.</p> - -<p>I remember Dean Stanley telling us that -when Lord Stratford de Redcliffe was a very -old man he remembered quite clearly what he -had learnt and done when he was a little child -at home. “Not long ago,” the Dean said, “I -was visiting this aged and famous statesman, and -he repeated to me, word for word, the Evening -Hymn beginning ‘Glory to Thee, my God, this -night,’ as he had learnt it, he told me, from his -nurse ninety years before.”</p> - -<p>I must not end this chapter without telling -you the names of three more great statesmen. -You will often hear the two Pitts and William<span class="pagenum" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</span> -Wilberforce spoken of, and I should like to say -a few words about all three before beginning -the stories of the kings and queens.</p> - -<p>William Pitt<a id="FNanchor_28" href="#Footnote_28" class="fnanchor">[28]</a> was Prime Minister of England, -and was made Lord Chatham by King George -III. He and his son, the younger William Pitt,<a id="FNanchor_29" href="#Footnote_29" class="fnanchor">[29]</a> -are as well known to all Englishmen as George -Canning and his son Earl Canning, about whom -I have told you. Lord Chatham was, like -George Canning, a great orator, and even when -he was very old and very ill, he would come -down to the Houses of Parliament and make -wonderful speeches, which sometimes lasted as -long as three hours and a half, but which were -so interesting that they were listened to in -perfect silence; “the stillness,” it is said, “was -so deep that the dropping of a handkerchief -would have been heard.” When he died he -was buried in the Abbey; and in the same -grave, twenty-eight years afterwards, was buried -his son William, the second Pitt, who was an<span class="pagenum" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</span> -even greater statesman than his father. This -William was, when quite a little boy, astonishingly -clever. “The fineness of William’s mind,” -wrote his mother, in the old-fashioned words of -those times, “makes him enjoy with the greatest -pleasure what would be above the reach of any -other creature of his small age.” He was too -delicate to be sent to school, but he was made -to work hard at home till he was old enough to -be sent to Cambridge. Although a very young -man when he became a member of Parliament, -his first speech in the House was a great -success. “It is not a chip of the old block,” said -some one who heard him—“it is the old block -himself;” meaning that this speech of young -William Pitt was as good as any his father -had made. When he first became Prime Minister -he was only just twenty-four years old, and from -that time until he died (twenty-four years afterwards) -he was one of the most illustrious -men in Europe. He and Wilberforce,<a id="FNanchor_30" href="#Footnote_30" class="fnanchor">[30]</a> the last<span class="pagenum" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</span> -of the statesmen about whom I must tell -you, were both very much interested in one -thing—and this was the abolition of (or doing -away with) slavery. The name of Wilberforce -will never be forgotten, for he it was who -first thought and said that slavery ought to -be put an end to, all over the world, wherever -Englishmen were the rulers. Wilberforce -and William Pitt were once staying together -in a country house not far from London, and -sitting together one day under an old tree -in the park, they began to talk about slavery, -and to say how terrible a thing it was that -the lives of hundreds and thousands of men -and women and children were made full of -misery by cruel masters who worked their -slaves far harder than they worked their horses -or their oxen. “I well remember,” wrote -Mr. Wilberforce in his Diary, “after this conversation -with Mr. Pitt I resolved to give notice -in the House of Commons of my intention to -bring forward the abolition of the slave-trade.”<span class="pagenum" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</span> -And not long afterwards Wilberforce made a -great speech in the House of Commons about -slavery, and in the end a law was passed to -do away with the slave-trade. Wherever the -English flag was flying there should be no -slavery, and a slave who could once set foot on -any land held by Englishmen became a free man.</p> - -<p>When Pitt died Wilberforce was one of those -who carried a banner in the great funeral procession, -when he was buried, as I have told you, -in the same grave with his father, the first Pitt. -Many years afterwards Wilberforce too “was -buried there amongst his friends,” and in -another part of the Abbey there is a large -statue of him, as an old and bent man, sitting -in an armchair. When you go round the -Abbey you must look for this monument, for it -is said to be very like him during the last part -of his life.</p> - -<p>But we can spend no more time now in -telling stories of statesmen, and must in the -next chapter go on to the kings and queens.</p> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="CHAPTER_V">CHAPTER V.</h2> -</div> - - -<p>We now come to the kings and queens who are -buried in Westminster Abbey, and this will be -the last chapter of my book.</p> - -<p>You remember my telling you how Henry III. -built a new shrine for Edward the Confessor. -Three years after this Chapel of Edward the -Confessor (as it is called) was finished, King -Henry III.,<a id="FNanchor_31" href="#Footnote_31" class="fnanchor">[31]</a> who had reigned for fifty-six years, -died, and was buried in the Abbey which he -had loved so long. His son Edward, who now -became Edward I., was just starting home from -the Holy Land with his wife, Queen Eleanor, -who always went with him on all his journeys, -when his father died, and he brought with him -from the East the marble for the tomb.</p> - -<p>I expect you will all remember having heard<span class="pagenum" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</span> -of this Queen Eleanor, the wife of Edward I. -She was so brave and so fond of him that she -would go with him when he went on his crusade -to the Holy Land; and when people told her -that it was dangerous, and that she might be -killed, and tried to persuade her to stay at home, -her only answer was, “The way to heaven is as -near from Palestine as from England.”</p> - -<p>She was not killed, or even hurt; but there -is a story told of how, while they were in the -Holy Land, Edward was wounded by one of his -enemies, who stabbed him in the arm with a -poisoned dagger. This would certainly have -killed him, if Eleanor had not at once sucked the -poison out of the wound, and so saved his life.</p> - -<p>Edward I.—Edward Longshanks, as he was -called, for he was more than six feet high—and -Queen Eleanor were crowned King and -Queen of England in Westminster Abbey when -they came back from the Holy Land. After -the coronation a great banquet was given, to -which Edward and his brother Edmund and all<span class="pagenum" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</span> -their nobles and attendants came—five hundred -of them, riding on five hundred magnificent -horses. When they dismounted, the horses were -let loose in the crowd, and anybody who succeeded -in catching one was allowed to keep it.</p> - -<p>When, after having been Queen of England -eighteen years, Eleanor<a id="FNanchor_32" href="#Footnote_32" class="fnanchor">[32]</a> died at Hardby, in -Nottinghamshire, her body was brought to -Westminster, to be buried in the Abbey. From -Nottinghamshire to London was a long journey -in those days, and it had to be done by -stages. Wherever the funeral procession stopped, -Edward ordered a cross to be put up in memory -of the queen. They were called the “Eleanor -Crosses,” and there were altogether twelve of -them. The last was in London, at Charing -Cross, which was the final halting-place before -the procession reached the Abbey.</p> - -<p>Edward I. was a great soldier, and gradually -he “filled the Confessor’s Chapel with trophies -of war.” One of these trophies you must<span class="pagenum" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</span> -specially notice when you go over the Abbey. -At the west end of the Confessor’s Chapel stand -two chairs. One is a plain, very old-looking -wooden chair, much scratched and battered, and -underneath it is a rough-looking bit of stone. -This old stone is called the “Stone of Scone,” -and on it all the Kings of Scotland had been -crowned at Scone, which was the capital of -Scotland up to the time when Edward I. -became King of England. Edward I. and -Alexander III., King of Scotland, were always -at war; and when the English at last conquered -the Scotch, Edward took away this ancient -treasure, the “Stone of Scone,” and brought it -to Westminster Abbey, that our kings might be -crowned upon it, as Kings of England and Scotland. -The wooden chair was made by his orders, -and the stone put underneath it, and there it has -been ever since, for nearly six hundred years.</p> - -<p>The other chair was made long afterwards -for the coronation of William III. and Mary. -Between the two are the sword and shield of<span class="pagenum" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</span> -Edward III., which he is said to have used in -all his many wars against France. The sword -is seven feet long, and weighs eighteen pounds.</p> - -<p>Edward I.,<a id="FNanchor_33" href="#Footnote_33" class="fnanchor">[33]</a> “the greatest of the Plantagenets,” -was buried close by Queen Eleanor, but his tomb -is quite plain. There is no figure on it, and no -carving, as there is on the tombs of the other -kings and queens. Dean Stanley explained, -when he showed us the Abbey as children, -that, for many years after Edward I. died, -there was a kind of belief that, although -the king was dead, yet, if another war broke -out with Scotland, he would once again lead his -army against the enemy, as he had so often done -before. And so from time to time they would -come and lift off the great marble slab which -covered his tomb, and which was easily moved, -and look in to see if the king was still there.</p> - -<p>The first of our kings who was crowned on -the “Stone of Scone” was Edward I.’s son, -Edward II. He was crowned in the Abbey, but<span class="pagenum" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</span> -was not buried there. The next king who was -buried there was Edward III.,<a id="FNanchor_34" href="#Footnote_34" class="fnanchor">[34]</a> whose sword -and shield we saw just now.</p> - -<p>Richard II.,<a id="FNanchor_35" href="#Footnote_35" class="fnanchor">[35]</a> the grandson of Edward III., -is sometimes called the “Westminster King,” -because he was crowned and married and buried -in the Abbey.</p> - -<p>He was only eleven years old when he became -King of England. For a week before his coronation -he had lived in the Tower of London, -which was the custom in those days for all -kings and queens before they were crowned. The -procession from the Tower to the Abbey was one -of the most splendid that had ever been seen. -But the service was very long, and the sermon -was longer, and before it was over the king was -carried out fainting. After this there was a -great banquet, at which he had to appear again, -and then at last the long day was over.</p> - -<p>Five years later he was married in the Abbey -to Queen Anne. After reigning for twenty-five<span class="pagenum" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</span> -years, he was deposed by Henry of Lancaster, -and murdered at Pontefract Castle in Yorkshire -by his enemies—for he had made many during -his life. He was buried in Hertfordshire. When -Henry V. came to the throne, he ordered that -Richard’s body should be brought to Westminster, -and then at last it was laid in the -same tomb in which, many years before, his -wife, Queen Anne, had been buried. Henry V.<a id="FNanchor_36" href="#Footnote_36" class="fnanchor">[36]</a> -when he was a boy was so wild that he was -called “Madcap Harry.” But he was particularly -fond of the Abbey, and although most -of his reign was spent in fighting with France, -he did a great deal to improve and decorate -his great church, and when the English won -the battle of Agincourt (of which you may -have heard or read), his first thought was to -order a Thanksgiving Service to be held at -Westminster. He had always said he wished -to be buried in the Abbey; so, when he died in -France his body was brought to England. “The<span class="pagenum" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</span> -long procession from Paris to Calais, and from -Dover to London, was headed by the King of -Scots, James I.... As it approached London -it was met by all the clergy. The services were -held first at St. Paul’s, and then at the Abbey. -No English king’s funeral had ever been so -grand. His three chargers were led up to the -altar, behind the effigy (a wax model of the king -carried outside his coffin), which lay on a -splendid car, accompanied by torches and white-robed -priests innumerable, ... and at the extreme -eastern end of the Confessor’s Chapel -was deposited the body of the most splendid -king that England had to that time produced.”</p> - -<p>Above his tomb, on a bar which stretches -across the steps leading out of the chapel, are -hung his helmet and saddle. The helmet is -probably the very one which he wore at the -battle of Agincourt, and which twice saved -his life on that day; it is much dinted, and -shows the marks of many sword-cuts.</p> - -<p>Henry VI. was crowned king when he was<span class="pagenum" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</span> -only nine years old, and on the day of his coronation -it is said that he “sat on the platform in -the Abbey beholding all the people about sadly -and wisely.” But as he was so young the -service was shortened and he had much less to -endure than the last boy-king, Richard II.</p> - -<p>There is a story told of how, toward the end -of his reign, King Henry VI. used to come and -wander about in the Abbey between seven -and eight o’clock in the evening, when it was -growing dusk. He generally came quite alone, -and only the abbot who carried a torch went -with him round the dark and silent church. -One night he went into the Confessor’s Chapel, -where he spent more than an hour, wondering -if room could be, by-and-by, made for his own -tomb. “It was suggested to him that the -tomb of Henry V. should be pushed a little on -one side, and his own placed beside it; but he -replied, ‘Nay, let him alone; he lieth like a -noble prince; I would not trouble him.’ But -close beside the shrine of the Confessor there<span class="pagenum" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</span> -seemed to be room for another tomb. ‘Lend me -your staff,’ he said to Lord Cromwell, who was -with him that evening; ‘is it not fitting I -should have a place here, where my father and -my ancestors lie, near St. Edward?’ And then, -pointing with a white staff to the place indicated, -he said, ‘Here, methinks, is a convenient place;’ -adding, ‘Forsooth, forsooth, here will we lie; -here is a good place for us.’” Three days afterwards -the tomb was ordered to be made; but -it was never even begun, for Henry was deposed -by Edward IV. and died in the Tower, and from -there his body was taken and buried in the -Abbey of Chertsey.</p> - -<p>Close by all these great kings and queens -are several tombs of children. Among them is -a monument to a little deaf and dumb girl of -five years old, the Princess Catherine, daughter -of Henry III. “Close to her, as if to keep her -company, are buried her two little brothers, and -four little nephews.”</p> - -<p>So far I have told you principally of kings<span class="pagenum" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</span> -who are buried in Westminster Abbey, but now -we come to the tombs of some of the Queens of -England.</p> - -<p>You remember that Henry VII. had built a -great and magnificent chapel which was called -after him. The first queen buried there was -his wife, Queen Elizabeth, who was the mother -of Henry VIII.</p> - -<p>She had had a life full of adventures. She -was the daughter of Edward IV., and sister of -the two poor little princes who were murdered -in the Tower by their uncle Richard.</p> - -<p>Princess Elizabeth was born in Westminster, -and christened in the Abbey, but she lived -afterwards in the country at the palace of -Sheen. When she was four years old, her father, -Edward IV., was defeated in battle, and King -Henry VI. was made King of England in his -stead. The queen, the Princess Elizabeth, and -her two baby sisters had to leave Sheen and -come back to Westminster, where they were -hidden in a place of safety while all these wars<span class="pagenum" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</span> -(the Wars of the Roses, as they were called) -were going on. After two years, however, her -father was victorious. Henry was deposed, and -Edward IV. was once more King of England. -To celebrate the victory, a great ball was given -at Windsor Castle, and the little six-year-old -princess, who was a special pet of her father’s, -came down and danced first with him, and then -with some of the great nobles. When she was -nine years old, her father and Louis XI., the -King of France, decided that, as soon as she -was grown up, she should marry the Dauphin, -his eldest son, who, if he lived, would in time -become the King of France. Then began a busy -time for the little princess who might one day -be Queen of France. Besides all her English -lessons, she had to learn to speak and write -French and Spanish, and she was always called -“Madame la Dauphine,” even while she was a -little girl in the schoolroom. At last she was -old enough to be married, but when the time -for the wedding came, the King of France said<span class="pagenum" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</span> -he had found another wife for his son. Edward -IV., who had set his heart on seeing his -favourite daughter the Queen of France, was so -disappointed and angry that he became very -ill, and died. Then it was that Elizabeth’s little -brother Edward became Edward V., and the day -was fixed for his coronation in the Abbey. A -great banquet was arranged, and all the guests -were invited; but before the day came, the -little king and his younger brother, the Duke -of York, were both killed by the order of their -uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who then -made himself King Richard III. of England. -Now began a sad time for Princess Elizabeth, -who was first taken away from her mother and -sisters, and afterwards kept a prisoner in a -lonely old castle in Yorkshire.</p> - -<p>Meanwhile, during the time she was shut up -here, many things had been going on about -which she probably knew nothing.</p> - -<p>Richard III. was hated by every one, and two -years after he had become king, Henry, Earl of<span class="pagenum" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</span> -Richmond, one of the greatest nobles in England, -decided to try and depose him, and set free -Princess Elizabeth. So he got together an army -and marched to Leicester, where the king was -then living. On the evening of a summer day -the two armies camped at a place called Bosworth -Field, and there the next day a great -battle, the Battle of Bosworth, was fought, -and Richard III. was killed. It is said that the -crown of England had, at the beginning of the -battle, been hidden in a hawthorn bush, and -when afterwards it was found by a soldier, the -Earl of Richmond was at once crowned King -Henry VII., and all the soldiers who had been -lying down, resting after the long fight, stood up -round him and sang the <i>Te Deum</i>.</p> - -<p>When Princess Elizabeth, in her far-away -lonely castle, heard cries of joy from the people -who came crowding to the doors of her prison she -guessed that something had happened and that -a better time might be coming for her. And soon -came a messenger from the king, who had been<span class="pagenum" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</span> -sent straight from the field of battle, with orders -to set the princess free and bring her to London.</p> - -<p>The end of this story is really almost like the -end of a fairy tale, for her many troubles were -now over, and the next year she married Henry -VII., and so became Queen of England. And -when after many years she died, she was buried—as -I told you at the beginning of this story—in -the Chapel of Henry VII. in Westminster -Abbey. Some years later the king was buried -beside her; and inside the bronze railings surrounding -the tomb (which stands behind the -altar) you will see the figures of Henry VII.<a id="FNanchor_37" href="#Footnote_37" class="fnanchor">[37]</a> -and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, lying side by side.</p> - -<p>Three other queens who are buried here are -known to all of you. Two of them were -sisters, Queen Mary<a id="FNanchor_38" href="#Footnote_38" class="fnanchor">[38]</a> and Queen Elizabeth,<a id="FNanchor_39" href="#Footnote_39" class="fnanchor">[39]</a> the -daughters of Henry VIII.; and the third was -their cousin, another Mary—Mary Queen of -Scots,<a id="FNanchor_40" href="#Footnote_40" class="fnanchor">[40]</a> who was beheaded by the order of Queen<span class="pagenum" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</span> -Elizabeth, because she was afraid that Mary -wanted to make herself Queen of England in -her stead. Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, -though they were sisters, had all their lives been -enemies. They differed about everything, but -especially about their religion, for Mary had been -brought up a Roman Catholic, and Elizabeth -and their little brother Edward (who afterwards -became Edward VI.) were Protestants. Elizabeth -and Edward were very fond of one another, and -it is said that Elizabeth used to spend a great -deal of her time when she was quite a little girl -in doing needlework for her brother. On his -second birthday she gave him for a birthday present -a little shirt which she had made for him all -herself, though she was then only six years old.</p> - -<p>Both these queens, when little girls, were -made to do a great many lessons, and were -taught Latin and Greek with their brother, as -well as French and Italian and Spanish. Queen -Mary was always very fond of music, and there -is a story told of how, when she was only three<span class="pagenum" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</span> -years old, some friends of her father’s (King -Henry VIII.) came down to see her at Richmond, -where she was then living. The little -princess—for this was a long time before she -became queen—was not in the least shy: she -welcomed her visitors, and after talking to them -“and entertaining them with most goodly -countenance”—for so one of the gentlemen who -was there wrote about her afterwards—she -played to them on the virginal (a kind of -piano), after which strawberries and biscuits and -wine were brought in, and the baby princess had -nothing more to do but enjoy herself. These -three children, Mary, Elizabeth, and Edward, -became in turn Queens and King of England.</p> - -<p>When Henry VIII. died, Edward, the youngest -of the three, became King Edward VI. But he -had all his life been very delicate, and when -he had been king just six years, and was -sixteen years old, he died, and then Mary, his -eldest sister, became queen. The reign of Queen -Mary—Bloody Mary she is sometimes called—was<span class="pagenum" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</span> -a terrible time in England, for, as I told -you, she was a Roman Catholic, and so determined -was she that all English men and women -should be Roman Catholics too, that she ordered -those who were Protestants to change their -religion and become Catholics; and if they -refused, they were burnt alive. Hundreds of -people were killed in this cruel way; and Queen -Mary became at last so much hated, that when -she died, and the Princess Elizabeth became -queen, there was rejoicing almost all over -England. For in spite of all the queen had -done to make England a Roman Catholic -country, by far the greater part of the people -had remained Protestants, and now once again -had a Protestant queen to reign over them.</p> - -<p>Almost the last time a Catholic Mass (or -service) was held in Westminster Abbey was at -the funeral of Queen Mary.<a id="FNanchor_41" href="#Footnote_41" class="fnanchor">[41]</a> The procession, led -by the monks, who knew that this was most<span class="pagenum" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</span> -likely the last service in which they would -ever take part, came from St. James’s Palace, -where she died, down to Westminster, and at the -great West Door of the Abbey were waiting four -bishops and the Abbot of Westminster in all the -magnificent robes which Catholic priests wear.</p> - -<p>The body of the queen was carried into Henry -VII.’s chapel, and all night the Abbey was dimly -lighted by the hundred wax torches which were -held and kept alight by the soldiers of the -Queen’s Guard. The next day she was buried, -and the Catholic Bishop of Winchester preached -before Elizabeth, who, although she hated the -religion, did not refuse to come to the funeral of -her sister, as Queen Mary had done years before -on the death of their brother Edward, when, -rather than come to a Protestant service in the -Abbey, she ordered a separate funeral mass to -be said before her in the Tower.</p> - -<p>A little more than a month after this, Queen -Elizabeth was crowned in the Abbey, and for -the next forty-five years “good Queen Bess,”<span class="pagenum" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</span> -as she is often called, reigned over England, and -did much that was wise and good. One thing -she did, however, that was neither wise nor good, -and that one thing I spoke about when I told -you that two Queen Marys were buried here, -one of whom was Mary Queen of Scots, the -cousin of Elizabeth. The story of Mary Queen -of Scots is a long and very sad one. You will -some day read about her, if you have not already -done so, and when you hear how she was imprisoned -in Fotheringay Castle, and at last beheaded, -you will perhaps feel that in some ways -Elizabeth could be as cruel as her sister Mary.</p> - -<p>These three queens are all buried in Henry -VII.’s Chapel—Elizabeth and Mary together in -a white marble tomb, on the outside of which -lies the statue of Queen Elizabeth, and on which -these words in Latin were written by James I.: -“Consorts both in throne and grave, here rest we -two sisters, Elizabeth and Mary, in hope of our -resurrection.” And not far from them lies Mary -Queen of Scots. After she had been beheaded -at Fotheringay Castle her body was buried in<span class="pagenum" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</span> -Peterborough Cathedral, and from there it was -brought to Westminster by her son, James VI. -of Scotland, who was also James I. of England, -“that the like honour,” so he wrote, “might be -done to his dearest mother” as had been done to -Queen Elizabeth and the other Queen Mary.</p> - -<p>We are now coming to the end of these stories, -and I must only mention in a very few words some -of the other graves in this chapel of Henry VII.</p> - -<p>Oliver Cromwell<a id="FNanchor_42" href="#Footnote_42" class="fnanchor">[42]</a> who, after Charles I. had -been beheaded, made himself Protector of England, -was buried here among the kings and -queens. It is said that his funeral was more -magnificent than any king’s had ever been, and -that an immense sum of money was spent upon -it. Close by him was buried Elizabeth Claypole, -his favourite daughter, and many of his soldiers -and followers.</p> - -<p>Three years afterwards his body was dug up -and taken to Tyburn. There his head was cut -off, on the 30th of January, the anniversary of -the day Charles I. had been beheaded, after<span class="pagenum" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</span> -which his body was buried under the gallows, -instead of in Westminster Abbey.</p> - -<p>“Here are also buried,” says Dean Stanley, -“some of our young princes and princesses. -There was that wonderfully gifted boy, Edward -VI.”<a id="FNanchor_43" href="#Footnote_43" class="fnanchor">[43]</a> (of whom we have already spoken), “who -was only sixteen when he died, and who before -that time had by his diligence and his honesty -made himself beloved and trusted by all about -him. There is the good Prince Henry, eldest -son of James I., who when his foolish attendants -provoked him to swear because a butcher’s dog -had killed a stag that he was hunting, said, -‘Away with you! All the pleasure in the world -is not worth a profane oath.’ Then there was, -again, that other Henry, Duke of Gloucester, -who sat on the knees of his father, Charles I., -on the day before his execution, and who when -his father said to him, ‘They will try to make -you king instead of your elder brother,’ fired up -like a little man, and said, ‘I will be torn in -pieces first!’ Then there are two small tombs<span class="pagenum" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</span> -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.”</p> - -<p>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<span class="pagenum" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</span> -where, together in one tomb, are buried Arthur -Stanley,<a id="FNanchor_44" href="#Footnote_44" class="fnanchor">[44]</a> Dean of Westminster, and his wife, -Lady Augusta.</p> - -<p>Dean Stanley knew more about Westminster -Abbey than almost any other man; and not only -did he <i>know</i> 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.</p> - -<p>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.</p> - -<p class="center titleSmall" style="padding: 2em">THE END.</p> - - -<div class="footnotes chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak">FOOTNOTES:</h2> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_1" href="#FNanchor_1" class="label">[1]</a> “Memorials of Westminster Abbey.”</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_2" href="#FNanchor_2" class="label">[2]</a> The Basilicas of St. John Lateran, St. Paul, St. Lorenzo, -and St. Clement.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_3" href="#FNanchor_3" class="label">[3]</a> The west door is hardly ever used now as an entrance for -visitors, and if we were really coming to the Abbey we should -enter by another door, called Solomon’s Porch, close by St. -Margaret’s Church. But as soon as we had got inside we -should walk straight down to the great west door, and imagine -we had just come in that way.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_4" href="#FNanchor_4" class="label">[4]</a> Montalembert, “Monks of the West.”</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_5" href="#FNanchor_5" class="label">[5]</a> No. 2 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_6" href="#FNanchor_6" class="label">[6]</a> Gordon was fifty-two when he was killed.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_7" href="#FNanchor_7" class="label">[7]</a> See Mr. Hake’s “Life of Gordon.”</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_8" href="#FNanchor_8" class="label">[8]</a> No. 3 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_9" href="#FNanchor_9" class="label">[9]</a> No. 4 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_10" href="#FNanchor_10" class="label">[10]</a> No. 5 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_11" href="#FNanchor_11" class="label">[11]</a> No. 6 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_12" href="#FNanchor_12" class="label">[12]</a> No. 7 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_13" href="#FNanchor_13" class="label">[13]</a> Sir James Outram was born on the 29th of January, 1805, -and Sir Henry Havelock was born on the 5th of April, 1795; -so at the time of the siege of Lucknow Sir James was fifty-one, -and Sir Henry sixty-two years old.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_14" href="#FNanchor_14" class="label">[14]</a> See “Havelock,” by Archibald Forbes (“English Men of -Action Series”).</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_15" href="#FNanchor_15" class="label">[15]</a> No. 8 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_16" href="#FNanchor_16" class="label">[16]</a> No. 9 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_17" href="#FNanchor_17" class="label">[17]</a> No. 10 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_18" href="#FNanchor_18" class="label">[18]</a> No. 11 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_19" href="#FNanchor_19" class="label">[19]</a> No. 12 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_20" href="#FNanchor_20" class="label">[20]</a> No. 13 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_21" href="#FNanchor_21" class="label">[21]</a> This is the actual inscription on the monument. The -last line as written by Shakespeare reads, “Leave not a rack -behind.”</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_22" href="#FNanchor_22" class="label">[22]</a> No. 14 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_23" href="#FNanchor_23" class="label">[23]</a> See Sir George Grove’s “Dictionary of Music.”</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_24" href="#FNanchor_24" class="label">[24]</a> No. 15 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_25" href="#FNanchor_25" class="label">[25]</a> No. 16 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_26" href="#FNanchor_26" class="label">[26]</a> No. 17 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_27" href="#FNanchor_27" class="label">[27]</a> No. 18 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_28" href="#FNanchor_28" class="label">[28]</a> No. 19 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_29" href="#FNanchor_29" class="label">[29]</a> Also No. 19 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_30" href="#FNanchor_30" class="label">[30]</a> No. 20 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_31" href="#FNanchor_31" class="label">[31]</a> No. 21 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_32" href="#FNanchor_32" class="label">[32]</a> No. 22 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_33" href="#FNanchor_33" class="label">[33]</a> No. 23 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_34" href="#FNanchor_34" class="label">[34]</a> No. 24 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_35" href="#FNanchor_35" class="label">[35]</a> No. 25 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_36" href="#FNanchor_36" class="label">[36]</a> No. 26 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_37" href="#FNanchor_37" class="label">[37]</a> No. 27 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_38" href="#FNanchor_38" class="label">[38]</a> No. 28 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_39" href="#FNanchor_39" class="label">[39]</a> Also No. 28 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_40" href="#FNanchor_40" class="label">[40]</a> No. 29 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_41" href="#FNanchor_41" class="label">[41]</a> The last Catholic funeral service was held in the Abbey -a few days later, when by the order of Elizabeth a requiem -mass was said for the Emperor Charles V.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_42" href="#FNanchor_42" class="label">[42]</a> No. 30 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_43" href="#FNanchor_43" class="label">[43]</a> No. 31 on plan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_44" href="#FNanchor_44" class="label">[44]</a> No. 32 on plan.</p> - -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="transnote chapter"> -<p><strong>TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE</strong></p> -<p> -On the Plan diagram (facing Pg 14), Geoffery Chaucer changed to -Geoffrey Chaucer. -</p> -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TALES FROM WESTMINSTER ABBEY ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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