The Children's Story of Westminster AbbeyTroutbeck, G. E. (Georgina E.)
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The Children's Story of Westminster Abbey
Troutbeck, G. E. (Georgina E.)
Westminster Abbey
Then later on, after Edward IV’s death, when Richard III was trying to
get the crown for himself, Elizabeth Woodville again took shelter in the
Sanctuary at Westminster, and brought her five daughters and her second
son, the little Richard Duke of York. Edward V was already in the Tower.
Richard III sent to Westminster, and insisted that his young nephew
should be allowed to join Edward in the Tower. He dared not take him out
of Sanctuary by force, but he made the Archbishop of Canterbury persuade
the poor Queen to let the boy go. She was dreadfully grieved, and tried
all she could to keep her son safely with her, but in vain. They parted
with tears, and she never saw him again.
A little daughter of Edward IV, Margaret Plantagenet, is buried in a
tiny tomb in the Confessor’s Chapel. In the Islip Chapel is the grave of
Anne Mowbray, daughter of the Duke of Norfolk. She was betrothed to
Richard Duke of York when they were both little children of only five
years old.
Anne Neville, the unhappy wife of Richard III, and daughter of Warwick
“the Kingmaker,” lies in a forgotten grave in the South Ambulatory.
We see, then, how much there is in the Abbey to remind us of the Houses
of Lancaster and York, and of the Wars of the Roses, besides the great
wars in France.
But further, we shall now find that it was becoming more and more the
custom for the famous men of the age to be buried in the Abbey.
Richard Courtney, Bishop of Norwich, a great friend of Henry V, is
buried there. He died just before the Battle of Agincourt, and was
nursed by the King in his last illness. In St. Paul’s Chapel is the fine
tomb of Ludovic Robsert, Lord Bourchier, who fought at Agincourt and was
afterwards made the King’s Standard Bearer. Sir Humphrey Bourchier, who
died fighting on the Yorkist side at the Battle of Barnet in 1471, is
buried in Edmund’s Chapel. Sir Thomas Vaughan, Treasurer to Edward IV
and Chamberlain to Edward V, is buried in the Chapel of St. John the
Baptist.
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