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John Dart

Westmonasterium, or, The history and antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peters, Westminster : containing an account of its ancient and modern building, endowments, chapels, altars, reliques, customs, privileges, forms of government &c. with ye copies of ancient Saxon charters &c. and other writings relating to it : together with a particular history of the lives of the abbats [sic], collected from ancient MSS. of that convent and historians, &c. : the lives of the deans to this time : and also, a survey of the church and cloysters, King Henry 7ths chappel with the monuments there, which, with several prospects of ye church & other remarkable things, are curiously engraven by the best hands : in 2 vol. / by John Dart to which is added Westminster Abbey, a poem, by the same author.