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In 1579, Elizabeth re-established Westminster Abbey as a 'royal peculiar' - a church responsible directly to the sovereign, rather than to a bishop - and made it the Collegiate Church of St Peter. That royal connection had largely protected the abbey during the worst excesses of the dissolution of the monasteries in 1534. |
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