The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-04
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mon. and there was offered cloth of gold
and velvet, and odur thynges. After The
Mass was done, her Grace was carried I'D
10 the chapel that King Henry the VII
bylded, with BISHOPS mitred. and all the
| officers vent to the grave, and after they
broke their stayftes and cast them into
the rave"
The accounts of Elizabeth's funeral are
rather meagre. She died March a. 1903,
and was buried in Westminster Abbey,
April %. Stowe has left 1t on record that
the city of Westminster was surcharged
with pultitudes of all sorts of people, in
! the streets, houses, windows. leads, and
cutters. who came to see the obsequy AID
when they beheld her statue or effigy, lying
on the coffin, set forth in royal robes.
having crown upon the head thereof
and ball and sceptre in either hand
there was general signing grooming. and
weeping, as the like hath not been seen
or known in the memory of man, neither
doth any history mention any people, time
or state to make like lamentation for the
death of their sovereign"
These wax figures, the "pyctur," eftigy
or statue of which mention is made so
often, were carried in procession at the
funeral OF great personages, placed upon
the hearse and afterward upon the tombs
of the deceased, who were represented in
| lifelike form, often in the actual robes Of
state which they had worn. The effgies
| OF several English sovereigns from Eliza
! beth to Anne, which figured at their OBJ
| sequies, may stin be seen in room above
I Abbot lslip's chantry at Westminster Alb
| hey. The death masks OF Elizabeth and
| Charles II are very striking. and the
verger seldom forgets TO draw your at
| tention 10 the hands of Charles which
were nodded after death and show by
! their contortion the pain in which the
I merry monarch died.
Obsequies of Charles i.
| Charles l was carried TO the grave at
! Windsor and buried by Bishop Juxon
without any pomp. His body was carried
/ into a room at Whitehall. where for
many days it was exposed to the public
I view. u vas then embalmed and carried
! TO st. Jafnef where, again, it lay for sew
eral days. Finally, ii was arranged that
. the King should be buried at Windsor. in
decent manner. provided that the whole
expense should not exceed G500," and the
body was taken there privately. When a
place for burial had to be chosen the
church was found to be so altered that
the Kings friends knew not where they
were" But "a fellow of the town"
showed them vault in which he said
King Harry the Eighth and Queen Jane
Seymour were inferred" and there the
body was laid, without any words. or
other ceremonies than the tears and s CHS
of the few beholders-"
The Protector was buried at Westmin-
ster with much state. vault was pre-
pared in Henry WIS chapel and the body
lay there till 1861, when /. was dragged TO
Tyburn and buried under the gallows on
which it had been hanged.
Charles II went TO the grave without
pornp or ceremony. He had died a Catho-
lio. and Evelyn, in his Diary. dwells
upon the awkwardness Of the situation.
His late Majesty dying in. and his present
Majesty protesting, a different religion
from that of his people. 1t had been a diff
cult matter TO reconcile the greater cere-
monies. which must have been performed
according TO the rites OF the Church Of
England. with the obligation of not COM
municating with 1t in spiritual things"
Therefore he was very obscurely buried
at night" in the south aisle of the Abbey.
. James II died an exile in France. Sep
TENDER 16. i701. and his body remained I'M
buried for century In the Church of the
Bcnedictines al ST. German Lights were
kept burning around It until the French