CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
I.THE FOUNDATION AND BUILDING OF THE ABBEY[1]
II.THE CORONATIONS[20]
III.KING EDWARD THE CONFESSOR: 1042 TO 1066[41]
IV.THE PLANTAGENETS OF THE DIRECT LINE FROM HENRY III TO RICHARD II: 1216 TO 1399[57]
V.THE HOUSES OF LANCASTER AND YORK: 1399 TO 1485[75]
VI.THE HOUSE OF TUDOR: 1485 TO 1603[88]
VII.THE HOUSE OF STUART AND THE COMMONWEALTH: 1603 to 1714[110]
VIII.THE HOUSE OF HANOVER AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY[143]
IX.THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES[168]
X.THE WAX EFFIGIES[207]
XI.THE MONASTIC BUILDINGS[215]
XII.SOME OF THE ABBOTS[234]
XIII.WESTMINSTER SCHOOL[244]