1888.] Gil Westminster Ahheij. 219 



empire, and of natives of India — alike of Churchmen and of Noncon- 

 formists, The very "jumble and chaos" of monuments of which 

 visitors sometimes spoke had its interest. In the nave, in which all 

 was comparatively modern, Pitt, with outstretched arm, looked over 

 a Jacobite Dean's grave on his right, and his rival Fox's monument 

 on his left. Before him were the gravestones of an Irish Archbishop 

 and a Nonconformist missionary, of sailors, soldiers, engineers, and 

 architects, of Newton, and of Darwin. Far to the east lay in the 

 same vault the first of our Welsh and the first of our Scottish Kings. 

 By a fortuitous juxtaposition Darnley's effigy knelt with its face fixed 

 on the tomb of his wife, Mary Queen of Scots. Behind him knelt 

 his brother, gazing with folded hands on the vault that holds the 

 ashes of his daughter Arabella Stuart. So again, by an ill-considered 

 removal, the tablet of Major Creed, who fell at Blenheim, had been 

 taken from the spot where his mother had placed it, next to the 

 memorial of two gallant officers who faced death in Lord Sandwich's 

 flag-ship, and by which he had so often stood to read their inspiring 

 story. 



The lecturer said a few words of the periods of danger as well 

 as of growth through which the actual fabric had passed. It was 

 at this moment once more in peril. He had entire faith that a 

 monument of national history which stood alone in the world would 

 not be suffered to decay and falL 



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