CHAPTER XX.

THE ROYAL CHAPELS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

A Hard-Hearted Verger.--A Courteous Sub-Dean.--The Wax Effigies.--Mutilated Monuments.--Monuments Denied to Notable Persons.--The Objection to Milton.--General Meigs and President Davis.--The Vindication of Cromwell.--Treatment of his Dead Body.--History of his Head.--His Statue at Westminster, 168