The Sun.
London, England, 1805-09-11 00:00:00

I?OnY.IL INTER :11E1V

Tnn only Royal Personages buried in St. George's
Chapel, atWindsor, besides the Jate DUKE of GLov,-
OESTER, were HENRY V.I. EDWARD IV. HLxaY
VIII. his Queen JANE, CHAELEi L a Daughter of
Queen Atctiti and a Daughter of the late.DUKE.—
The funeral ceremonies of our ancient King's areless
• recorded than any others by the writers• who were
cotemporary with them ; and except in the books
of the College of Arms, -and in that manuscript ac-
count of the' burial of EDW.:RD IV. which the late
Mr. ASTLE communicated to the Society of Anti-
quaries, I, know not where any research could ais-
coverlmich information upon the F.ubje4E' As our
ancestors aregenerally alloWed to have surpassed us
in matters Of solemnity and grandeur,.. as-much- as
we may exceed them inelegance, the following ex
tracts from the latter account of pariiculars relative
to the burial a EnW.ARD IV. may, perhaps, be ac
eeptable to.your Readers.' '•
After the body had been viewed, accordingto the
jealousy of those times, by the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal then near 'London, and by the Mayor, it
was carried into the Chapel of the Palace of West-
minster, where three solemn masses Were sung. A
watch roll was then formed of Lords, Knights, and.
Esquires, Who watched nightly round the body, for
eight nights that it ternaMed in the Chapel, and at
every mass of requierit the Lord DAcmg, the Queen's
Chamberlain, offered ti,r the QUEEN. On the ninth
day, the body waSeonVeyed into the Abbey by the
Knights and Esquire, of the Body—
" having upon the corps a riche and a large blak clothe of
gold, with a Lrosse of white clothe of gold, and above that a
rich canattyc of clothe imperial trenged with gold and blue
silk, burn by Sir'''. SE-I,NT Lznga, Sir W:PARti, Sir I.
ASTLLEY, and Sir V. Sr oNov ha. Atari at every corner a
I,l4llner, born by a Knight, and ine Load H r,w• nao bere the
lking's banner next betOre.,the corps, having the officers of
[ armez ab,,ut Latin."

On the removal of the body from the Abbey to-
wards NiViiidSot; a great procession was fornied of
Bishops, Lords, And Abbots, and in the hers.c,

" Above the corps, and the clothe of gold abovesaid, then
was a personage like to of the King, crowned,
with the way crow non his head,holdink in one hand a scep-
ter, and in the other a hall or silver, and gil te with s cross-
plate."—" And when the masse was don, and all other so-
and that the Lorries wcr redy fur to ryd.e, titer was
oideyncd a royal char,. covered with block_ velvet, having
above. that a blak clothe of gold, with a white cross•of'gold,
under that a majeste.cloth of blak sarsanet, drawn' Mai six
Coursers. And the Lout tl A W,A aof the King's barterer, rode
next before the fore-horse, baring the Kiaig'S batter upon
courser, trapped with divers scocheoni of the Kin& arirthz,
with his moregyng huddpri his head." • •

tile procession reached Syon that night, where
the corpse was received at the church door .liy
Bishops. The next night it reached Windsor,tfeing
preceded from Eton by the Mettibei-s of th College.
The body was deposited in the choir'Of the _‘..fiewit
church," .and, "'thee, was arete watch that
by grete hordes, Knyghts, Esquires, for the. JR*,
GentilmenUshers, =Luther whose.names ensuen,',!
Here follow the names," concluding with those of
Yeomen USherA, !‘ hy.l4‘l,n,torches. , /Att. the
most striking circumstance of the. cererrteny vas)
that,during the watch of •th 6 night, the Hcfald.S„
Pursui.t..tints, and Knights and Equerries; df the body,

went to the ehtirch Cuef,
" For to resceyve the man or annez, which was Sir Wm.
ARR., armed at tdi peces, s:tvlng he was barehedcd, hiving
an axe it his hand, tti. pOlit ticittnWMa• deedthUtiat-Gornpa;•
tlyad to the cogre dole, where he did:alight. And the iteltyp
'tokb the horse, vv tall was traitlnd with a tic)) trapper of the
King's armez, where the Lord Awlcley and the Led Feirais
received the manni'armez, and foresaid company of knyglints,
Outliers, heraulds and pursyviints accompstlyed him to. his
°Ming, which chow, e v'y tonic in molne) n 6, habits °tired lei
himself, anti aft' thon llIVCr$ other noble knyghte§
cers."
The MS. concludes with the narties of some of the
noble persons who, made offerings upon this oced-
sion, and the writer seems to place- the whole before
us, by saying, with the simplicity of his time, "
cannot ordre how they ()died, :because the prese of
• the people was'so grew. between them and me; but
the ltmghest in astate, or degree, to the corps, began
first.'