WESTMINSTER ABBEY AND ITS MONUMENTS. 31 
and remembered in the same solemn abode. We trust that the 
day will never come when it will be possible to say of our country 
that she no longer produces sons worthy of commemoration even 
in so august a temple as the Collegiate Church of St. Peter at 
Westminster. 
In preparing these papers I have been under great obligations 
to several gentlemen, especially to Mr. Robert Thornewill, a past 
president of this society, for the loan of the volume of Dugdale’s 
“ Monasticon” containing the account of Westminster Abbey, to 
Dr Harris Morris for preparing several special lantern slides, and 
to Mr. Micklethwaite, F.S.A., and Mr. W. St. John Hope, who 
both spent a great deal of valuable time in conducting me to parts 
of the Abbey to which access is not easily gained, and in drawing 
my attention to many facts and points of interest of which I was 
previously ignorant. 
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