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Melancholy - a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.

Cloister - a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open
to a quadrangle on one side.

Inscription - writing carved into something made of stone or metal

Comprehended - included, compressed

Circumstances - events

Registers of Existence - Records of something being alive

Satire - The use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or
vices.

Memorial - Rememberence, memory

Sounding Names - Long and lavish names that have great meaning

Holy Writ - Bible

Intermixt - Mixed Together

Mouldering - slowly decaying or disintegrating

Composition - the ingredients by which something is made of

Innumerable - Too many to be counted

Multitudes - a large number of people or things

Prebendaries - Clergyman that is paid money

Deformity - a physical blemish or twisting out of a natural shape or condition

Indistinguished - that which cannot be differentiated or separated

Promiscuous - Showing a lack of consideration of the qualities or worth of one thing compared with
another

Magazine - A storehouse especially for firearms and weapons

Quarter - Part

Ancient Fabric - pavement of the Abbey

Extravagant - too much, more than needed, excessive

Modest - Humble, Unassuming


Present War - Queen Anne's War with France for the American Colonies

Daniel - Story of how Daniel used his knowledge of Torah to save a righteous woman from wicked judges
who falsely accused her of adultery.

was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. His name is usually remembered alongside that
of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.His simple
prose style marked the end of the mannerisms and conventional classical images of the 17th century.

London, United Kingdoms (England)

is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and a burial site for English and, later,
British monarchs. Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English and
British monarchs have occurred in Westminster Abbey.

Monuments - Tombs

Uninhabited - Unoccupied, Empty

Erected - Built

Blenheim -

Bosom of the ocean - Heart of the Ocean, Under the Ocean

Perusal - the action of reading or examining something.

Offence - annoyance or resentment, feeling of being insulted

Beau - a rich, fashionable young man

Periwig - a highly styled wig worn formerly as a fashionable headdress

Reposing - lie down in rest

Canopy of state - Cloth of honour, or cloth of state was hung above the seat of a personage of sufficient
standing, as a symbol of authority.

The Scilly naval disaster of 1707 was the loss of four warships of a Royal Navy fleet off the Isles of Scilly
in severe weather on 22 October 1707.

Dutch - His large marble monument in the south choir aisle was sculpted by Grinling Gibbons. Grinling
Gibbons (4 April 1648 – 3 August 1721) was an Anglo-Dutch sculptor and wood carver known for his
work in England.

Michiel de Ruyter - was a Dutch admiral. Widely celebrated and regarded as one of the most skilled
admirals in history, De Ruyter is arguably most famous for his achievements with the Dutch Navy during
the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
Anglo-Dutch Wars - (1652 - 1784) : A series of Naval Battles between England and Netherlands

Infinitely - to a very great degree

Antiquity - Classical Beauty

Rostral Crown - Naval Crown

Naval - Related to Navy

Festoons - a chain or garland of flowers, leaves, or ribbons, hung in a curve as a decoration.

Repository - A place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored

Contemplation - the action of looking thoughtfully at something for a long time

Disposed - Willing to

Apt - have tendency to

Dismal - causing a mood of gloom or depression.

Timorous - showing or suffering from nervousness or a lack of confidence.

Imaginations - Mental attitude

Deep - profound or penetrating in awareness, difficult to understand

Solemn - not cheerful

Terror - Fear

Inordinate - excessive, without a limit

Compassion - sympathetic pity

Vanity - worthlessness

Depose - remove from office suddenly and forcefully

Wits - intelligent and intellectual people

Schism - a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in
opinion or belief.

Sorrow - a feeling of deep sadness

Astonishment - Great surprise

Contemporaries - a person or thing living or existing at the same time as another.


Judgement Day -

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