William de Colchester, Abbot of Westminster

BY E. H. PEARCE CANON OF WESTMINSTER
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE LONDON: Northumberland Avenue, W.C. New York: E. S. GORHAM 1915


TO J. D. AND H. R. D. WITH AFFECTION




Having had the honour of an invitation to deliver in May last a Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institution on the Archives of Westminster Abbey, I thought it best to confine what I could say within an hour to the career of a single man, preferably one whose record had not hitherto been written. I have here expanded the lecture to some extent, and have added references. I am indebted to Mr. David Weller, the Dean's Virger, for some excellent pictures.