"Princeps Dei Imago Lex Principis opus
Finis Legis Justitiâ."
Can any of your learned correspondents clear up the nature and extent of
these fear-stricken flights to the old abbey? Was it the Commons, or
Westminster Hall, or the Convocation, or all together, avoiding the
plague? I may observe that our ancestors seem to have put to some
_practical_ use the vast space of an abbey-church on extraordinary
occasions; and I would humbly suggest that we too of the nineteenth
century might take the hint, and employ the many unoccupied naves of
our ecclesiastical buildings for _religious_ purposes on ordinary
occasions.