Lethaby, William Richard: Westminster Abbey and the antiquities of the coronation (London: Duckworth & Co., 1911)

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In the palace the first act of the
Coronation ceremonies was accomplished
in the raising of the King-elect on to the
King’s bench. The clergy, having come
from the Abbey bearing relics and the
regalia of St. Edward, the coronation

Fig. 2. Plan of the Palace of Westminster in the twelfth
century


procession then returned to the church
along a prepared course.
The name Westminster makes it
evident that the monastery preceded the
palace, and the latter occupied a site poor
and narrow, squeezed in between the
Abbey buildings and the river. How-
ever, it seems to have been Edward the
Confessor’s favourite residence, and here
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