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Identifier: guidetopalaceof00lond (find matches)
Title: Guide to the Palace of Westminster
Year: 1911 (1910s)
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Publisher: London : Warrington
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Hall is ST. STEPHENS CRYPT, the more correct name of which is, or was, the church of St.Mary Undercroft, once a very richly ornamented and still abeautiful building, which has been most carefully restored.This crypt was in former times sadly abused; while the beauti-ful Chapel above was occupied as the House of Commons,part of the crypt was converted into a coal cellar. Another partwas in use as the Speakers State Dining Room. Considerableinterest was excited years ago by the discovery of the embalmed * It may be recalled to mind that when King Charles 1st made thefamed attempt to arrest the Five Members of Parliament in the Houseof Commons. 4th January, 1641-42, he addressed the House, standing onthe step of the Speakers Chair. t Bellingham. who shot Mr. Perceval, the Prime Minister, as be enteredthe Lobby on his way to the House, at a quarter past 5 oclock. I llhMay, 1812. awaited the arrival of the Minister, standing on the spotoccupied by Burkes Statue. R.F.P.D. Paqe Seventy- one.
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GRAND STAIRCASE-HOUSE OF COMMONS body of an ecclesiastic, built into a rough recess in the north-east angle of the crypt beneath the window sill. The bodywas found wrapped in many folds of cere cloth, having a carvedoak episcopal staff lying diagonally across the breast. The in-genious researches of Mr. Pettigrew, the well-known antiquarian,apparently established the remains to be those of Stephen Lynd-wode, Bishop of St. Davids from 1442 to 1446, keeper of thePrivy Seal to Henry VI,, and author of several ecclesiasticalworks. He founded a chantry during his life at St, Stephens,as his will, which still exists at Lambeth Palace, expresses itin bassa capeila, and directed that his body should be thereburied. It has been thought that the position where the bodywas discovered was not that where he was originally buried,but that his descendants either hastily removed his remains tosave them from insult at the Reformation, or that his shrinewas rifled of its ornaments and the body put wher

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