Many are the books to which I am deeply indebted, but especially would I mention, among other works, Dart's "History of the Abbey Church" (1723), Widmore's "History of the Church of St. Peter" (1750), Neale and Brayley on "The History and Antiquities of the Abbey" (1818), and portions of the Chronicles, Matthew of Paris, Froissard, and Stowe. Among modern works Dean Stanley's "Memorials" easily takes the first place, as much for the charm of its style as for its general value and admirable classification; and I am especially obliged to Mr. John Murray, the publisher, for allowing me to use two of the copyright plans from this book. Stanley's "Sermons on Special Occasions" are also so closely connected with Westminster Abbey that I have found them very suggestive.
The Deanery Guide is invaluable, and contains a storehouse of information concisely and correctly tabulated. No one should go round the Abbey for the first time without this excellent little work, and I gratefully acknowledge the assistance it has been to me. I must also include the "Annals of Westminster Abbey," by Mrs. Murray Smith; "Westminster Abbey," by W. J. Loftie; "Westminster," by Sir Walter Besant, and "A Little Guide to Westminster," by E. M. Troutbeck.
For more general information and for biography I have turned to the standard histories, especially to Freeman's "Norman Conquest," and to those most useful lists of authorities given in the "Dictionary of National Biography."
VIOLET BROOKE-HUNT.
45 ALBERT GATE, S.W.
February 1902.
CONTENTS
WITH KINGS AND QUEENS IN THE ABBEY
- [In the Misty Past]
- [The Hallowing of the Abbey]
- [Saxons and Normans at Westminster]
- [Through Seven Reigns]
- [With Kings and Queens in Edward's Shrine]
- [Edward III. and Queen Philippa]
- [Richard II. and Queen Anne]
- [Henry V. and his Chantry]
- [The Wars of the Roses and the Third Royal Builder]
- [The Abbey and the Reformation]
- [In the Chapel of Henry VII.]
- [From the Stuarts to Our Own Times]