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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

Bishop of Angiers on his left side with their Miters and surplices and capes of blacke veluet Then followed the Kings Image in the same honour that it lay in the great hall of the Louure on his right hand holding the Scepter royall and on his left hand the hand of Iustice borne by the bearers of the great seale of Paris About the said Image went the foure chiefe Presidents with diuers Counsellours of the great Chamber and the Scottish Archers of the Kings guard The Canopie ouer it was made of cloth of gold and the vnder part of it of purple veluet imbroydered with Flower de luces of gold and a fringe of gold about it which was borne by the Prouost of Merchants and the Shriefes of the citty of Paris Then followed the Earle of Saint Paul bearing the staffe of high Steward representing Mounsieur de Scissons high Steward of France on the right hand and Mounsieur le Cheualier de Guise representing Mounsieur le Duc de Esguillon High Chamberlaine bearing the banner of France on the left hand mounted vpon two great horses couered and hooded with blacke veluet with crosses of white sattin Then followed Mounsieur the Prince of Conty vpon a little horse hooded and in complete mourning wearing vpon the same the collar of the Order his traine being borne vp by seuen Gentlemen After him followed Mounsieur County of Soissons also on horse-backe in the same sort and in like mourning Then followed Mounsieur le Duc de Guise without the Order but in the like mourning habit after him went the Prince of Ianuile on horse-backe in complete mourning without the Order Then the Duke de Ellebaeufe on horse-backe in the same manner of mourning Then the Duke de Espernon followed him on horse-backe with with the order in like complete and after him the Duke de Mountbazon in the same order and mourning their traines were borne vp by gentlemen their owne followers The Vsher of the order bearing a blacke wand in his hand apparelled in blacke with his hood downe After the Princes Dukes followed the knights of the Order on foot with their colours vpon their mourning gownes their traines borne vp by their pages Then followed a great number of Noble men two and two together And after them the twelue pages of the chamber in blacke veluet with their bonnets And after them followed the captaines of 400. Archers of the guard with their ensignes followed by the Archers of their said guard bearing their armes downeward in blacke gownes and hoods Before their departure from the Louure there was some controuersy betweene the great personages the court of Parliment and Scottish guard but by the Queenes wise direction it was well pacified This was the order which they obserued in going from the Castle of Louure to our Lady Church going ouer the new bridge along by the Augustines so passing ouer S. Michaels bridge through the new market from thence to the said Church wherein to they entred at nine of the clocke in the euening The streets were hanged with black cloth vpon the same the Kings armes fastned with the armes of the citty not farre from it all the way as they went How our Lady Church in Paris and the hearse were adorned THe body of the deceassed King was set in the middle of the quire of the said Church vnder the light hearse which was erected about a pickes high The quire of the said Church was hanged with blacke cloth and in the middle thereof there was a range of blacke veluet all along vpon the which the Scutchions and armes of the King were fastened two foote distant one from the other The great body of the said Church was likewise hanged with the same throughout all the said Church vpon and betweene the said pillars with the other circuit thereof about in euery place was full of waxe tapers and lights And the same euening there was euening prayer and vigiles for the dead The next day in the morning being the last day of the moneth of Iune The Princes Cardinals Lords and Officers of the crowne the court of Parliament Couents Parishes all those that had accompanied the body of the King the day before came againe to the same Church of our Lady about ten of the clocke in the morning where then Diuine Seruice was celebrated by the Bishop of Paris And after the offering the Bishop of Heres made the funerall oration which continued a long houre All the seruices were finished by two of the clocke in the afternoone and from thence all the Princes Cardinals Bishops and all the principall persons went to dinner to the Bishop and in other places not farre from thence where prouision was made for them In the meane time the foremost of the traine beganne to goe forward each in their first order and ranckes which they had holden the day before from the Louure to our Lady Church passing ouer our Lady bridge and along through Saint Denis streete till they came to Saint Denis in France without any stay The streetes from the said Church of our Lady to the gates of Paris called Saint Denis gate were hanged with blacke cloth on both sides and on them the armes of the King and the armes of the Towne one an elle distant from the other The religious persons and Priestes of the Parishes as also the Fathers Confessours Almoners Batchelers Regents of the Vniuersity and Donors of Diuinity accompanied the body of the King through the towne euery one in their order vntill they came to the Church of Saint Ladred which is in the suburbs of Saint Dennis from which place the greatest part retired and left the body of the King which was accompanied by all the Court with his officers of the Court of Parliament the Princes Dukes Earles Lords Gentlemen Captaines Guards Archers and Priests from our Lady Church to the crosse which standeth in the middle way betweene Saint Dennis and Paris at the which place the Priour and religious persons of Saint Dennis came to receiue the body There the Priests of the parishes departed and the Cardinals Bishops Princes Dukes Earles Lords and all the Court both of the King and of the Parliament and the officers accompanyed the body to Saint Dennis Church where it was set vnder a light hearse eleuated on high where certaine Vigiles and Suffrages were said for the dead The said Church of Saint Dennis was hanged with blacke both in the Quire and the body thereof vpon it hauing a broade range of blacke veluet which went cleane through the Church whereon the Kings armes were made fast The high Masse was celebrated by the Cardinall de Ioyeuse and answered with musicke After the offering the Bishop of Angiers made the funerall Oration This office being performed and the accustomed prayers and oraisons said the maister of the ceremonies tooke the Crowne the Scepter and the hand of Iustice off from the kings corps which stood vpon it and together with the cloth of gold Then the Gentlemen pentioners and the archers bare the body to the graue which was before the high Altar of the said Church on the right hand Then the Cardinall de Ioyuese went and cast earth vpon the body and the last holy water that done he sate downe by the graue by the high Altar and the maister of the ceremonies on the other side and betweene them a herault of armes who calling the Gentlemen one after the other that had borne the Kings honours which being brought were throwne into the graue That done the Earle of S. Paul struck with his high stewards staffe vpon the ground and with a loud voice said The king is dead Then the herault of armes taking the word from him said three times one after the other The King is dead the King is dead the King is dead all of you pray for his soule Then euery man fell downe on their knees and wept A little while after the Earle of Saint Paul tooke the staffe in his hand againe and said God saue the King God saue the King God saue the King Lewis the 13 of that name by the grace of God King of France and Nauarre most Christian our foueraigne Lord and good maister to whom God grant most happy and long life Which words ended Trumpets Shackbuts Flutes and Phifes began to sound After that each of the said Lords took vp againe the said peeces of honor which they had throwne into the graue and the Princes and great Lords were conducted to the great hall where the funerall feast was prepared for dinner Euery man hauing dined the Officers of the Court of Parliament of the Chamber of account of the Aides of the Receipts of the Towne house of Paris and other Officers assembled together in the hall where the Earle of S. Paul holding the stewards staffe in his hand made a little oration vnto them touching the Kings death offering them his seruice with promise to recommend them vnto the King now reigning to the end that he should continue them in their offices and estates and to shew that he himselfe also was out of office he brake his staffe in presence of them all FJNJS