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hoir than the dome. Be this as it may, Wren would have been gratified indeed to have seen the favourite offspring of his genius filled from arch to arch, and to have listened to the clear and melodious high-pitched voice of the great preacher, always articulate, and with an articulation after Wren's own heart that did not drop the last words of the sentences. Wren would have been further gratified to have seen his dome used, in addition to weekday services, three times each Sunday, as he would have been to have worked under those successive Deans--Milman, Mansel, Church, Gregory--who, in conjunction with their Chapters, have loyally endeavoured to put the cathedral to the use he wished from the day he first began to design his short Greek cross; and finally, he would have been gratified at Gounod's statement that the services are rendered to the finest music in the world, and to have seen the free facilities offered to the public for studying his architecture, and would have contrasted the orderly behaviour of the visitors from every quarter of the globe with the old-time swashbucklers and rowdies of Paul's Walk; and any objection to the lengthening westward would have been removed, had he lived to have seen his great cathedral filled from door to door with a congregation of from ten to twelve thousand at the special musical services. This all too short summary must close by recording that the Queen attended the Thanksgiving service in February, 1872 for the recovery of the Prince of Wales; and on Queen Victoria's Day, Tuesday, June 22, 1897, again proceeded in state from Buckingham Palace to St. Paul's, where a Thanksgiving service was held at the West Front on occasion of the Diamond Jubilee, her Majesty returning by way of London and Westminster Bridges. FOOTNOTES: [110] _Tatler_, No. 52. [111] Milman, p. 449. [112] The account in Dugdale (p. 455) from the _London Gazette_ of January 18, 1806, fills more than eight folio pages of small print. [113] A small part of the Surrey side was also in the diocese. [114] Freeman's "Wells," p. 95. APPENDIX A. BISHOPS AND DEANS. * _Archbishop of Canterbury._ # _Archbishop of York._ BISHOPS BEFORE THE CONQUEST. * * * * 314. Restitutus * * * * 604. Mellitus* * * * * 654. Cedd 666. Wine 675. Erkenwald or Ercourvald 693. Waldhere 706. Ingwald 745. Eggwulf 772. Sighaeh 774. Eadbert 789. Eadgar 791. Coenwalh 794. E
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