Identifier: historyantiquiti02bray (find matches)
Title: The history and antiquities of the abbey church of St. Peter, Westminster : including notices and biographical memoirs of the abbots and deans of that foundation
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854 Armstrong, Cosmo Byfield, John, 1788-1841 Byrne, Elizabeth Douthitt Byrne, John, 1786-1847 Carter, James, 1798-1855 Cleghorn, John Cooke, George, 1781-1834 Le Keux, Henry, 1787-1868 Le Keux, John, 1783-1846 Lewis, J., fl. 1818-1823 Matthews, T Moses, Henry, 1782?-1870 Neale, John Preston, 1780-1847 Radclyffe, William, 1780-1855 Roffe, Robert Cabbell, d. 1839 Roffe, John, 1769-1850 Sands, Robert, 1782-1855 Scott, John, 1774-1827 Smith, W. R., fl. before 1832-1851 Taylor, William Dean, 1794-1857 Thompson, James Robert, b. ca. 1799 Tingle, James, fl. 1824-1850 Varrall, John Charles, fl. 1818-1848 Willement, Thomas, 1786-1871 Woolnoth, W. (William)
Subjects: Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey Abbots Deans, Cathedral and collegiate Architecture, Gothic Church buildings Church architecture
Publisher: London : Published by the proprietor, J.P. Neale, Bennett-Street, Blackfriars-Road and sold also by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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to deliberate on the affairs of the kingdom, which, through Ethelreds pusilla-nimous and tardy conduct, was then nearly overrun by the Danes. Beingdesirous, of appointing a successor who should be approved of by his people,Ethelred requested the opinion of the Council as to whom he should nomi-nate to succeed to the throne. Some recommended Edmund Ironside, on * See Vol. I. p. 36. f This subject has been commonly supposed to have reference to the Trial, and Condemnation tothe hery Ordeal, of Queen Emma, when accused of adultery with Alwin, Bishop of Winchester. Yetthe whole story of that Accusation and of the Ordeal of the nine red-hot ploughshares, seems to havebeen an invention of later times, and rests only on the suspicious authority of Brompton and Knighton.Those historians who lived nearest to the age, as the compiler of the Saxon Chronicle, Florence ofWorcester, Malmsbury, Huntingdon, and Hoveden, make no mention of any circumstance relating tothe presumed miraculous purgation.
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HISTORICAL FRIEZE DESCRIBED. 49 account of his superior bodily strength, whilst others gave the preference toAlfred; yet it having been predicted by one of the assembly that the formeravouM enjoy but a very short life, and that the latter would perish immaturely,the wishes of all concentrated on the child of which the Queen w as thenpregnant; and the King assenting to this election, the nobility took an oathof fealty to the unborn babe*. In the sculpture the Queen is representedstanding in the midst of a large assembly, with her left hand upon her waist:all the figures appear to have the right arm extended upwards, as if in theact of swearing allegiance. 2. The Birth of Edward the Confessor. Edward is supposed to have beenborn ahout the year 1002. His birth-place was Gyslepe, in Oxfordshire, nowIslip, which he afterwards granted to this Church by a Saxon Charter, thatis still preserved in the Bodleian Library, at Oxford, among Dr. Jamessmanuscripts. Bishop Kennet has printed a copy of

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