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HISTORY OF
CHAPTER THE FIFTH.
FROM THE REBUILDING OF THE CHURCH BY HENRY III. TO THE
DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERY BY HENRY VIII.
Henry III. being impressed, according to some of the contemporary historians*,
with a pious veneration for the memory of Edward the Confessor, began to
build a chapel, which has been already mentioned, to be dedicated to the Virgin
Mary, called the new work at Westminster, and laid himself the first stone on
the Saturday immediately before his coronation, in the fifth year of his reign,
1220-j-; and twenty-five years after, in consequence of the decayed condition
of the walls and steeple of the church itself, he caused the whole building to
be pulled down, in order to rebuild it in a style of superior stateliness and
magnificence.
* Robert of Gloucester, &c. He was a monk in the abbey of Gloucester in this reign, and
composed a rhyming chronicle of the kings of England, in which he adopted the fables of Geoffrey
of Monmouth : nor would it justify any quotation but of the events of his own time. His work was
printed in two volumes at Oxford, in 1724.
+ Henry III. was first crowned at Gloucester, on the death of his father, by the Bishops of
Winchester and Bath, in the presence of the pope's legate: Westminster, whose abbey was con-
sidered as the canonical place of the coronation of the kings of England, being, at that time, with the
city of London, in the possession of Henry's enemies. But when peace was established, and the
government of the kingdom settled, the king made his entry into London, and was crowned, a second
time, in the year 1220, with all due pomp and solemnity, in Westminster Abbey, and with the same
crown which had been worn on a similar occasion by Edward the Confessor.
HISTORY OF
CHAPTER THE FIFTH.
FROM THE REBUILDING OF THE CHURCH BY HENRY III. TO THE
DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERY BY HENRY VIII.
Henry III. being impressed, according to some of the contemporary historians*,
with a pious veneration for the memory of Edward the Confessor, began to
build a chapel, which has been already mentioned, to be dedicated to the Virgin
Mary, called the new work at Westminster, and laid himself the first stone on
the Saturday immediately before his coronation, in the fifth year of his reign,
1220-j-; and twenty-five years after, in consequence of the decayed condition
of the walls and steeple of the church itself, he caused the whole building to
be pulled down, in order to rebuild it in a style of superior stateliness and
magnificence.
* Robert of Gloucester, &c. He was a monk in the abbey of Gloucester in this reign, and
composed a rhyming chronicle of the kings of England, in which he adopted the fables of Geoffrey
of Monmouth : nor would it justify any quotation but of the events of his own time. His work was
printed in two volumes at Oxford, in 1724.
+ Henry III. was first crowned at Gloucester, on the death of his father, by the Bishops of
Winchester and Bath, in the presence of the pope's legate: Westminster, whose abbey was con-
sidered as the canonical place of the coronation of the kings of England, being, at that time, with the
city of London, in the possession of Henry's enemies. But when peace was established, and the
government of the kingdom settled, the king made his entry into London, and was crowned, a second
time, in the year 1220, with all due pomp and solemnity, in Westminster Abbey, and with the same
crown which had been worn on a similar occasion by Edward the Confessor.