Editing Westminster (section)

===Legendary origin===
The legendary origin<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.choirschools.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/The-Abbey-Fishy-Tale.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808142504/http://www.choirschools.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/The-Abbey-Fishy-Tale.pdf |archive-date=2019-08-08 |url-status=live |title=The Tale of a Fish - How Westminster Abbey became a Royal Peculiar|website=[[Choir Schools' Association]]}}</ref> is that in the early 7th century, a local fisherman named Edric (or Aldrich) ferried a stranger in tattered foreign clothing over the Thames to [[Thorney Island (London)|Thorney Island]]. It was a miraculous appearance of [[St Peter]], a fisherman himself, coming to the island to [[consecration|consecrate]] the newly built church, which later developed into [[Westminster Abbey]]. He rewarded Edric with a bountiful catch when he next dropped his nets. Edric was instructed to present the [[Sæberht of Essex|king]] and [[Mellitus|St. Mellitus, Bishop of London]], with a salmon and various proofs that the consecration had already occurred. Every year on 29 June, St Peter's Day, the [[Worshipful Company of Fishmongers]] presents the Abbey with a salmon in memory of this event.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/fishmongers-company|title=Fishmongers' Company|website=Westminster Abbey}}</ref>