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In Umberto Eco’s novel “The Name of the Rose,” a medieval abbey’s library that houses the lost second book of Aristotle’s “Poetics” burns to the ground.

Dr Trowles said the Bible was originally chained to the bookshelves of the abbey library so it could not be removed.

After the service, members of the Royal Family walked to lay bouquets at the Innocent Victims' Memorial - which commemorates all those who have suffered death, torture and oppression throughout the world - outside the abbey.

Protesters from the anti-monarchy group Republic held up placards reading "not my King" and "down with the Crown" as they gathered outside the abbey ahead of the service.

But legend has it that a secret tunnel runs from the abbey to Tattershall Castle, and that a man vanished while exploring it.