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TIL the Coronation Chair used by English & British monarchs, since 1308, for their coronation ceremonies has graffiti on due to Westminster schoolboys and visitors carving their names on it during the 18th & 19th centuries. One tourist carving reads "P. Abbott slept in this chair 5-6 July 1800".

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