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A02996	The funerall pompe and obsequies of the most mighty and puissant Henry the fourth, King of France and Nauarre solemnized at Paris, and at S. Dennis, the 29. and 30 daies of Iune last past. 1610. Together with the order and ceremonie of remouing the body of Henry, the third of that name, King of France and Polonia, at Saint Dennis the 22 of Iune last past. All faithfully translated out of the French coppy printed at Roan by Petit ...; Pompe funèbre du grand Henry, roy de France et de Navarre. English	Morillon, Claude, fl. 1600-1615.	1610 (1610)	STC 13136; ESTC S103962	10,510	26

THE FVNERALL POMPE AND OBSEQVIES OF THE MOST mighty and puissant HENRY the fourth King of France and Nauarre solemnized at Paris and at S. Dennis the 29. and 30 daies of Iune last past 1610. Together with the order and ceremonie of remouing the body of Henry the third of that name King of France and Polonia at Saint Dennis the 22 of Iune last past All faithfully translated out of the French Coppy printed at Roan by Petit ordinary Stationer and Printer to the King by the permission of Superiours LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes and are to be sold in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Tygers head 1610. The funerall pompe celebrated at the buriall of the high and mighty Prince Henry King of France and Nauar in the citty of Paris and the towne of Saint Denis vpon the 29 and 30 day of Iune 1610. THe Destinies hauing had so great power in so golden an age so peaceable a time throughout all Christendome in a yeare so aboundant and in the middle of the pleasantest moneth thereof by the hands of a villanous and disloyal traitour to bereaue the most Christian and flourishing kingdome vnder the cope of heauen of the greatest King and most accomplished Prince for wisedome prouidence magnanimitie clemencie and mercy that euer liued in our time and to speake truth the mirrour and miracle of Kings and the King of miracles as his owne kingdomes and other foraigne kingdomes and prouinces yea and those that are faire distant both on this side and beyond the seas beare witnesse But lest I should be ouer tedious I will not particularly rehearse the great number of his actions atchiuements battailes and heroicall conquests or the histories sufficiently declare the same I forbeare to speake of his notable and prompt proceedings and his owne deepe and wise counsels I ceasse to set downe the wonders of his life and actions He was the forwardest of them most forward The first in field and the last that retired A louer of the good and the terrour of the wicked curious to inrich and beautifie his townes as his lofty and sumptuous buildings may witnesse vnto all posterities But when he thought himselfe to be seated vpon the Olympus of his prosperities replenished with ioy to haue seene his Queene and deare espouse crowned with as much magnificence as contentment which should haue bene augmented at his entry into the famous cittie of Paris after that to mount on horsebacke and from thence to goe to place himselfe at the head and forefront of the puissantest army that euer France sent into the fields in mans remembrance euen at that time I say that heauen had blessed his seed in the multitude of his goodly and princely children left vnto vs a parricides knife suddenly cut off both the execution of his great dessignes and the threed of his life the end whereof hath made mortall men inwardly as much grieued at their hearts as they shewed sorrow outwardly in their countenances The King being dead the Queene assisted by the Princes Prelates and Officers of the crowne with determination to yeeld him the last duties due vnto him in his obsequies caused order to be taken not onely that prayer should be made vnto God for his soule but also for all things requisite for the accomplishing of the Funerals of so great a Monarch as you shall hereafter particularly reade Two daies after the death of this great King which was vpon the 16 day of May his body was laid on a bed with his face open that euery man might behold him and then preparation was made for the ripping and imbalming of his body from whence they tooke his heart to send it to La Flesche and his bowels to Saint Denis as he had determined in his life time Which done he was wrapt in seare cloth and put in a coffin of lead couered ouer with purple veluet whereon there was imbroydered a great crosse of white sattin The next day after Whitsonday at 4 a clocke in the morning the Kings heart was honorably imbalmed and being put into a little coffin of lead it was carried to La Flesche which is the sepulcher of the King of Nauarre his father by aboue 400 Lords gentlemen and others on horse-backe the heart being borne in a caroach wherein there sate 4 Iesuites to accompany it Of the state and manner of the chamber wherein the dead body lay THe body being laid in the coffin it was set in a chamber richly hanged on the sides whereof there were diuers altars erected whereon euery day there was a hundred Masses high low said which were celebrated by seueral Priests of diuers orders Within the chamber there were diuers benches richly couered for the Princes Officers of the crowne the Lords Cardinals Arch-bishops Bishops the Almener and other Prelates and officers of the Church to sit on and hard by the Censer there stood 2 heraulds of Armes and diuers benches on both sides whereon many religious persons sate singing continually night and day Vpon the Kings body there stood the Crowne Scepter and hand of Iustice which were placed vpon a cushion richly imbroydered The body of the King remained in the said chamber the space of 15 or 16 daies and then it was carried downe and borne with great honour and many ceremonies into the great hall of the Louure accompanied by diuers Bishops Prelates and great Lords of the Court. Of the Hall of honour THe great Hall was hanged with the Kings richest and most sumptuous hangings not onely from the toppe to the bottome but also on the ground On each side of the said hall there were two galleries on either side one for the Princes and great Lords to passe through which galleries were all richly hanged Of the Bed of Honour and the Kings Image AT the vpper end of the hall there was a tribunall place made foure steppes high whereon was placed a great pallet bed couered with cloath of gold and on it lay the Kings image made of waxe with his hands close together apparelled in his royall robes and the crowne vpon his head which rested vpon a cushion richly imbroidered Vpon his royall cloake he had thecollar of the Order on his right side his Scepter royall on his left the hand of Iustice Hard by the image there were two altars erected sumptuously set forth the one on the right the other on the left side vpon that on the right side there was a Masse of Requiem with musicke said and on that on the left side foure other high Masses ouer each altar there hung a rich canopie and betweene those altars there were diuers seates for Prelates and religious persons that song continually as they did in the chamber and all along in the neather part of the hall there were diuers other altars placed which also were richly set forth whereon there were diuers low Masses celebrated The image being placed in this manner hard by his body in the hall euery