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Title: The roll-call of Westminster Abbey
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Smith, A. Murray, Mrs
Subjects: Westminster Abbey
Publisher: London : Smith, Elder, & Co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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ous churches, notably at York Cathedral, and muchvenerated ; miracles were worked at his grave and pilgrimscame from far and near to visit it. He was first buried atChertsey ; but the universal respect felt for his memoryobliged the man, who was popularly credited with hismurder, Richard, then Duke of Gloucester, now King ofEngland, to remove the coffin to a more fitting royal sepul-chre within St. Georges Chapel, Windsor, close to thecollege which Henry had himself founded at Eton. Acontroversy, to which allusion will be made later on, after-wards raged between Westminster and Windsor, eachfoundation claiming the sacred corpse : Westminster byright of the Kings own expressed desire to lie beside hisforefathers, Windsor by right of possession and a naturalwish to retain the saintly kings body in their own chapel.But although there seems little doubt that the coffin re-mains at Windsor, Henry has every right to take his placein the Abbey Roll-Call, for surely his shade must still haunt
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THE BUST OF HENRV V See p. 60 THE HOUSE OF LANCASTER 67 the aisles where he loved to come during his life, and, withhis hand resting familiarly on the shoulder of Abbot Kyrton,plan out the very spot where he wished to rest in death. After refusing all suggestions either to make room for hisown grave by shifting his noble fathers tomb to one side,or by removing the sepulchre which he had himself erectedto receive the remains of his mother in the Lady Chapel toanother site, he finally selected the place where the chest ofrelics1 then stood, between the shrine and the tomb ofHenry III., and went so far as to have the relics removedto another convenient situation behind the high altar, notto the cupboards prepared for them in the chantry chapelabove. From the day of his coronation (November 16, 1429)when, as a child of eight, he sat in St. Edwards Chair, raisedon a scaffold above his subjects, and regarded the peopleall about sadly yet wisely, to these last visits to the Abbeyduring the g

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