ENTRANCE TO THE TOMB OF HENRY VII. AS SEEN ON OPENING OF THE VAULT IN 1869. FROM A DRAWING BY CEORCE SCHARF ESQ.. 1875, March 22. The Abbey of Westminster hath been always held the greatest sanctuary and randevouze of devotion of the whole island: whereunto the situation of the very place seems to contribute much, and to strike a holy kind of reverence and sweetness of melting piety in the hearts of the beholders' HOWELL'S Perlustration of London (1657), p. 346 ΤΟ HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OF LOYAL AND RESPECTFUL GRATITUDE Is Dedicated THIS HUMBLE RECORD OF THE ROYAL AND NATIONAL SANCTUARY WHICH HAS FOR CENTURIES ENSHRINED THE VARIED MEMORIES OF HER AUGUST ANCESTORS AND THE MANIFOLD GLORIES OF HER FREE AND FAMOUS KINGDOM AND WHICH WITNESSED THE SOLEMN CONSECRATION OF HER OWN AUSPICIOUS REIGN ΤΟ ALL HIGH AND HOLY PURPOSES |