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Updated: June 9, 2025
This considerable place was under the lordship of the abbots of Westminster. It had been a royal manor when Edward the Confessor came to the throne; he gave it to his new great abbey. This half-hide gave him his approach to the platform of chalk on which he designed to build. He began his work quickly.
The city itself presented one scene of gladsome bustle and excitment: flags were suspended from every "turret, dome, and tower," rich tapestries hung over balconies, which were filled with females of every rank and grade, vying in the richness and elegance of their apparel, and their coquettish use of the veil and fan, so as to half-hide and half-display their features, more or less beautiful for beautiful as a nation, the Spanish women undoubtedly are.
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