The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-09

died. to Westminster Abbey, where sne
was buried and here, at erch Of the nIne
halts of the coffin the King erected a
memorial cross: of the nine two sun
remain-Waltham and Northampton
CLEARING CROSS.
The. memorial known to all visitors TO
London as Charing Cross was the last
1t was destroyed by order OF the Long
Parliament in 1871, and the stones USED
to pave the street before Whitehall Ihe
magnificent structure in front OF the
Charing Cross Hotel is a fac siEnile OF
the one destroyed. The St. Aiban cross
remained for four centuries intact When
the Black Prince won the battle OF folc-
tiers and captured the French King he
committed his prisoner to this abbey TOR
safc-keepiilg After the Wat Tyler iusur-
rection Richard II. held court in the mon
astery. and several of the rioters We're
here condemned and executed
About 1853 the controversies between ltle
houses OF York and Lancaster began. and
both the battles of this dispute We're
fought near the walls of the abbey, YORK
winning the first and the Lancasteriaip
Queen Margaret the second, defeating
Warwick AMI recovering the King, VINO
was captured IN the first fight; and the
following day the royal family repaired
to the abbey to. return thanks Tor the
, victory.
by Caxton at his own press. in 1886; out
the second edition OF the same work, me
Chronicles of England, was printed III
the monastery
Already in 1850 a devotional biography
had been printed by the monks. or Which
there are three copies still eXtant' ono
in the British Museum
The first treatise on hunting ever
printed was issued from this monastery
in 1aS6, and oddly enough. it was written
by a woman, and she the pr-oress or q
! convent. In 1921 the great Cardinal VOL
scy was abbot of the monastery. ana II
9 $ noteworthy that during his sway no
! printing was done at the abbey. Likely
enough, he shared the opinion OF Gov
ernor Berkeley, of our own coloninl VIZ
einia. who a century and q half later
wrote:
- thank God there are no free schools
nor printing. (.n the colony. and nope
We shall not have them these hundred.
years: for learning has brought disone-
world, and printing has divuised them
and li5els against the best government
God keep us from both.
! sSs KING HENRY'S zPTLLAGE-
| Twice after the fall of Woisey were
abbots chosen. or, rather imposed, Oh,
the monks by Henry VIII. VINO nao
already decided to fill his own pockets
and those OF his followers with the spoil
of the religious houses. and SO IT came
to pass that in 1889 the fortieth and iast
abbot surrendered. as The phrase was;
the monastery, and his Majesty divided
its treasures amid his courtiers-
| After its dissolution the courts OF Ia"
were thrice held within its wails-in lois,
1850 and 1593-;t1ree successive v:stations
Of tbs plague having closed the court. .s
IL London, and an Inscription on one OF
the galleries attests the fact
81 might greatly multiply each incident.
showing how intimately this house IS con-
nected with the story OF England, to .a-.. %.
Thnmas 4 Beckett received his first living
from the abbot OF st. Aiban- Sir John
Mandeuille The pioneer OF English trayei-
ers, IS buried IN the Abbey. Asscrou IN.
scribeds IN the chair formerly contained 3
curious inYocat ton against Owen Glen