Westminster Abbey

• “Froude's favourite places of worship in London were Westminster Abbey during Dean Stanley's time, and afterwards the Temple Church, as may be gathered from his Short Study on the Templars.”

  The Life of Froude

• “And the reason the Ex-Premier was not buried in Westminster Abbey was because he had promised these two women that even death should not separate them from him.”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

• “Westminster Abbey has never witnessed a statelier, costlier funeral than that of “the late man who made himself to be called Protector,” to quote words from one of the most impressive passages in English prose, the opening sentences of Cowley's Discourse by way of Vision concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell.”

  Andrew Marvell

• “Westminster Abbey near Chaucer, and a monument was erected to his memory in 1620 by the Countess of Dorset.”

  A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

• “Thomas de Marleberge (d. 1236), when he became prior of Evesham, gave a large collection of books in law, medicine, philosophy, poetry, theology, and grammar. 4.49 Simon Langham bequeathed seven chests of books to Westminster Abbey (1376).”

  Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages

• “On the first I went to Westminster Abbey to hear Canon Farrar preach.”

  My Memories of Eighty Years

• “I also visited Westminster Abbey and looked upon the graves of poets, statesmen and crowned heads; here the Wesleys, Livingstone and Stanley are deposited.”

  From Slavery to the Bishopric in the AME Church An Autobiography

• “By making a similarly thorough investigation Dr. James has traced about three hundred and twenty-two manuscripts from Bury St.Edmunds. 3.83 Of the Westminster Abbey manuscripts it is difficult to say how many are extant, as the common medieval press marks are absent from the books of this house.”

  Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages

• “So late as 1683, when Purcell had been organist of Westminster Abbey for about three years, he was appointed to be “organ-maker and keeper in the place of Mr. Hingston, deceased.””

  Purcell

• “Hawkins guesses that Purcell was married young, because at the age of twenty-five he was advertising the sale of his first sonatas at his own house; also that, musician-like, he left his family dependent upon the favour of his benefactors, particularly upon the graciousness of his pupil and patroness, Lady Elizabeth Howard, who placed on his tomb in Westminster Abbey the famous inscription often credited to Dryden:”

  The Love Affairs of Great Musicians

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