pot where we have buried most of our great
men. To name a few whose monuments you should look for, here are Sir
William Temple, Lord Chatham, Fox and Wilberforce, among statesmen; of
soldiers there are Prince Rupert and Monk; of Indian fame, here are Lord
Lawrence and Lord Clyde; of sailors, Blake, Cloudesley Shovel, and Lord
Dundonald. Of poets, Chaucer, Spenser, Beaumont, Ben Jonson, Dryden,
Prior, Addison, Gay, Campbell. Of historians and prose writers, Samuel
Johnson, Macaulay, Dickens, Livingston, Isaac Newton. Many others there
are to look for, notably the great poet Tennyson, buried here in October
1892.

Read what was written by Jeremy Taylor, a great divine, on Westminster
Abbey:--

'A man may read a sermon, the best and most passionate that ever man
preached, if he shall but enter into the sepulchre of Kings.... There
the warlike and the peaceful, the fortunate and the miserable, the
beloved and the despised princes mingle their dust and pay down their
symbol of mortality; and tell all the world that when we die our ashes
shall be equal to kings, and our accounts easier, and our pains or our
crowns shall be less.'

37. THE COURT AT WESTMINSTER.

Although the Kings of England have occasionally lodged in the Tower and
even at Baynard's Castle, and other places in the City, the permanent
home of the Court was always from Edward the Confessor to Henry VIII. at
the Royal Palace of Westminster. Of this building, large, rambling,
picturesque, only two parts are left, Westminster Hall and the crypt of
St. Stephen's Chapel. When King Henry VIII. exchanged Westminster for
Whitehall the rooms of the old Palace were given over to various
purposes. One of them was the Star Chamber, in which the Star Chamber
Court was held: one was the Exchequer Chamber: St. Stephen's Chapel was
the House of Commons; and the House of Lords sat in the Old Court of
Bequests. All that was left of the Palace except the Great Hall, was
destroyed in the fire of 1834. Very fortunately the Hall was saved. This
magnificent structure, one of the largest rooms in the world not
supported by pillars, was built by William Rufus, and altered by Richard
II. Here have been held Parliaments and Grand Councils. Here have been
many State trials. Sir William Wallace was condemned in this Hall. Sir
Thomas More; the Protector Somerset; Lady Jane Grey; Anne Boleyn; King
Charles I.; the rebels of 1745, Lords Kilmarnock, Balmerino and Lovat:
Earl Ferrer