Miscellanies, antiquarian and historical / By F. Sayers.

  • Frank Sayers
Date:
1805
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    who attended the funeral of that celebrated mo« narch, we find the name of Edmund Mortimer.* It ~ * I truft I fhall beexcufed for copying the interefting account of this funeral, given by Holinfhed (vol. 111. P- 584.). | . «¢ His bodie imbalmed and clofed in lead, was laid in a chariot roiall, richlie apparalled with cloth of gold, upon his coffin was laid a reprefentation of his perfon, adorned with robes, diadem, {cepter, and ball, like aking ; the which chariot, fix horfles drew richlie trapped, with feveral ap- | pointments ; the firft with the armes of St. George, the © fecond with the armes of Normandie, the third of king Arthur, the fourth of St. Edward, the fifth of France, and the fixth with the armes of England and France. On this fame chariot gave attendance, James, king of Scots, the principal mourner, king Henrie’s uncle, Thomas Duke of Excefter, Richard Earle of Warwicke, the Earle of March Edmund, the Earle of Stafford Humfrie, the Earle of Mortaigne Edmund Beaufort, the Lord Fitz Hugh Henrie, the Lord Hungerford Walter, Sir Robert Robert Lord Bourchier, Sir John Cornwall, Lord Fanhope, and the Lord Crumwell, were the other mourners. The Lord Lovell, the Lord Audeleie, the Lord Morleie, the Lord Sowch bare the baners of Saints and Aumuries, as they then were called; the Baron of Dudleie bare the ftandard, and the Earle of Longufte the baner. The hachments were carried onelie,by Capteins to the number of twelve, and round about the chariot rode five hundred men at arms, all in blacke armour, their horfles barbed blacke, and they with Y
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