THE CHAPEL . OF OUR LADY OF THE PEW
[To the Editor of the, SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—It may interest your readers,to know that the- Chapel of Our Lady of the Pew still exists in the Abbey Church at Westminster. The hey. H. F. Westlake in his Westminster Abbey (Vol. II., pp. 351-3) has proved that it is the little chapel (often wrongly called the Chapel of St. Erasmus) at the entrance to the Chapel of St. John Baptist in the North Ambulatory. It was, endowed in 1377 by Mary de Saint-Pol, Countess of Pembroke (Foundress of Pembroke College, Cam- bridge) no doubt in memory of her husband Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, who lies buried in the noble tomb near by In the Sacristy rolls there are many records of offerings " ad ymaginem beate manic vocata le puwe."—I am, Sir, &c1
6 Dean's Yard,
Westminster Abbey, S.W. 1. LAWRENCE E. -TANNER.
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