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
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e back-ground. 7. The Drowning of the King of Denmark, as beheld in a Vision by KingEdward. At the time of the feast of Pentecost, in a certain year, the Con-fessor, whilst celebrating high mass, with his principal Nobility, was observedto laugh at the time when the Eucharist was administered to him. Beingasked, after the conclusion of the ceremony, the cause of this seeming impro-priety, he related the following particulars of a Vision which he had justseen. The King of Denmark had assembled an army for the purpose ofinvading my kingdom, and commanded his ships to be got ready. Provisions,and arms, and men, were already on board, and the wind, this day, favouringhis expedition, he prepared to embark; but at the instant when my coun- * Ail. Riev. ubi supra, col. 389. Brompton gives a somewhat different account of the vision:he says, that the holy wafer itself was converted into the figure of a boy, who conferred his bene-diction first on the King, and then on the Earl. Ibid. col. 949.
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HISTORICAL FRIEZE DESCRIBED. 53 tenance became more cheerful, that unjust Sovereign, Avho had gotten into aboat in order to go on board his ship, fell over the prow thereof into the seaand perished; and as when the head is cutoff all the members in consequencebecome unfit to perform their respective functions, so their leader being thusdestroyed, the army is now disbanded and dispersed. These are the circum-stances, with which by Divine revelation, I was made acquainted; and whichgave occasion to that hilarity of countenance which you remarked. Theprecise time having been distinctly noted, it was subsequently found, says thehistorian, on due inquiry, that all these events had happened at the day andhour, and in the manner in which they had been revealed to the King*.In the fore-ground of the sculpture, a knight in complete armour is repre-sented as having fallen out of a small boat into the waves: behind is a largevessel full of armed men; and on the right, at the top, are some fallin

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