Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: T orPRoveN? CHAPTER VI THE SOUTH AMBULATORY AND CHAPELS .." J.Tl : "We pass ; the path that each man trod Is dim, or will be dim, with weeds : What fame is left for human deeds In endless age? It rests with God." , The Cbafel of Si Benedict (also called the Dean's Chapel) A DJOINING the South Transept, just at the entrance to the Ambulatory, is the little Chapel dedicated to St Benedict, founder of the great Order to which the Westminster monks belonged. The Benedictine Order was founded at Monte Cassino in A.d. 529, and the monastery was built, like the traditional church of Lucius at Thorney, on the site of a Temple of Apollo. St Benedict's rule, which directed that manual labour and instruction of the young should be added to the religious exercises of the monks, eventually became the model of all western monasticism. It has already been mentioned that the head of St Benedict was presented to the Abbey as a precious relic by Edward III., who is said to have brought it from the Abbey of Fleury in France. In the centre of the Chapel is the fine altar- tomb of Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex and Lord High Treasurer in the reign of James I., d. 1645. The monument of the effigies were erected by Anne, his second wife, who is buried beside him, in " the calm haven which he has reached after the stormy passage of his long life." On the south side is " a monument fixed to the wall, whereon is represented an antient Clergyman kneeling," being the monument of Dr Gabriel Goodman, d. 1601, Dean of Westminster for forty years during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. " Goodman was his name, and goodness was his nature," says Fuller, who also mentions that Dean Goodman caused the Bible to be translated into Welsh at his own cost, that he founded a " School... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.