Thursday, 2.--Some friends from London met us at St. Albans. Before dinner we took
a walk in the abbey, one of the most ancient buildings in the kingdom, nearly a thousand
years old; and one of the largest, being five hundred and sixty feet in length (considerably
more than Westminster Abbey), and broad and high in proportion. Near the east end is the
tomb and vault of good Duke Humphrey. Some now living remember since his body was
entire. But after the coffin was opened, so many were curious to taste the liquor in which
it was preserved that in a little time the corpse was left bare, and then soon moldered away.
A few bones are now all that remain. How little is the spirit concerned at this!
The Journal of John Wesley
The Journal of John Wesley
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