Sept 5th
Elders Kimball, Smith, & myself
visited Westminster Abbey
& went through evry appartme
nt of it & saw all the tombs & monuments of the
Kings, Queens, Princes, Lords, & noted men that have
ever been entombed within its walls one part of
the Abbey was built in the year 600 having stood
over 1200 years most all of the Kings & Queens of
England are in this Abbey that have died for the
last 1200 years we saw the perfect likenes of Queen
Elizabeth, Mary, & Ann, Lord Nelson, & Pitt & others
we saw the full coronation dress of Queen Ann. We
saw the chair & sat in it, in which Queen Victoria
was crowned & all the kings & Queens for the last
800 years, this chair is coverd with gold tissue It
contains a stone under the seat upon which all the
Scottish chiefs & kings were crownd since they wer a
people it is reported to be Jacobs pillar [pillow] this chair has
been in use more than 800 years. This Abbey is
composed of Eleven chapels (ownly seperated by walls or petitions)
viz St Benedict, St Edmund, St Nicholas, Henry the Seventh
St Paul, St Edward the Confess, St Erasmus, Abbot Islip,
St John, St Andrew, And St Michael, & these chapels
contain the bodies, tombs & monuments of 13 Kings viz
Edward I, III, V, VI. Charles II. Henry III, V, VII.
James I. George II. Richard II. William III. And Sebert
King of the East Saxons who first built this church &
Died July 616. Also 13 Queens viz Athelgodo Queen
of Sebert who died Sept 13th, 615. And Phillipa. Matilda
Mary I, II, & Queen Mary of Scotland. Elizabeth. Catherine.
Queen Anne, & Editha. Eleanor & Caroline. And of 6
Princies. 11 Dukes. 7 Duchess. 1 Marquis. 7 Lords. 3
Vicount. 8 Countess. 3 Barrons. 16 Earls. 11 Admirals
10 General. 5 Col, 3 Majors. 10 Capt. 4 Lieut. 16 Bishops.
6 Divines. 15 Doct. 52 Sirs. 153 Gentleman And
48 Lady's making 421 persons who have been deposited
in vaults in this Abbey & Monuments erected to their
Memory. Here we see freequent marks of violence from
O. Cromwell in defacing some of the tombs, monuments & brass
work with which some of the Abbey was adorned. Here we beho
ld the art of man with all its combined force & power spun to
the finest thread & expanded to the fullest extent in the building
& finishing of this Abbey as a general whole but more esspecially
that part called Henry Seventh Chapel. And A visit to this
ABBEY is not ownly worthy ot the Attention of all travel-
lors but to occupy A place in the Journal of any Historian
fond of British ANTIQUITY 6 m[iles]
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