chariot drawne by foure horses trapt in blacke veluet Gentlemen Vshers white rods About it twelue Banner-Rols six on each side caried by 12. noblemen Sixe Earles assistants with them the Footemen A Canapie borne ouer the chariot by foure Noblemen The Earle of VVorcester Maister of the Horse leading the Palfrey of Honour Two Esquiers and a Groome to attend and leade him away Gentlemen Vshers of the Priuie chamber Garter king of Armes Lady Marchionesse of Northamton assisted by the Lord Treasurer Lord Admirall Chiefe Mourner her traine caried by two Countesses and Maister Vicechamberlaine Fourteene Countesses assistants Ladies of Honour Countesses Viscountesses Earles daughters Baronesses Maids of Honor of the priuie chamber Captaine of the Guard with all the Guard following fiue and fiue in a ranke their holberds downeward The twelue Bannerols were caried by twelue Barons beginning at the yongest first The first Banner was of king Henry the second and Elenor of Aquitaine caried by the Lord Norris The second of king Iohn and Isabel of Angolisme caried by the Lord Compton The third of king Henry the third and Elenor of Arragon caried by the Lord Chandoies The fourth of king Edward the first and Elenor of Castile caried by the L. The sift of Edward the second and Isabel of France caried by the Lord Darcie of the South The sixt of king Edward the third and Philippa of Haynolt caried by the L. Cromwel The seuenth of Edmond Langley Duke of Yorke and Isabel of Castile caried by the L. Windsor The eight of Richard Earle of Cambridge and Anne Mortimer caried by the L. Darcie of the North. The ninth of Richard Duke of Yorke and Cicely Neuill caried by the Lord Dudley The tenth of king Edward the fourth Elizabeth Woodnile caried by the Lord Gray The eleuenth of king Henry the seuenth and Elizabeth daughter to king Edward the fourth caried by the Lord Cobham The twelfth of Henry the eight and Anne Bulline father and mother to our late deceased Queene caried by the Lord de la Ware The Shepheards Spring-Song in gratulation of the royall happy and flourishing entrance to the Maiestie of England by the most potent and prudent Soueraigne Iames King of England Scotland France and Ireland Collin THenot and Chloris red lipt Driope Shepheards Nymphs Swaines all that delight in fielde Liuing by harmelesse thrift your fat heards yeelde Why slacke yee now your loued company Vp sluggards learne the larkes do mount and sing Their cheerefull Carrolls to salute our King The Mauis blacke-bird and the little Wren The Nitingale vpon the hawthorne brire And all the wingd Musitions in a Quire Do with their notes rebuke dull lazie men Vp shepeheards vp your slouth breeds al your shames You sleep like beasts while birds salute K. Iames. The gray eyde morning with a blustering cheeke Like Englands Royall Rose mixt red and white Summons all eies to pleasure and delight Behold the euenings deaws doe vpward reeke Drawn by the Sun which now doth gild the skie With his light-giuing and world-cheering eie O that 's well done I see your cause of stay Was to adorne your tempels with fresh flowers And gather beautie to bedecke your powers That they may seeme the cabinets of May Honor this time Sweetest of all sweete Springs That so much good so many pleasures brings For now alone the liuery of the earth Giues not liue comfort to your bleating lambes Nor fils the strouting vdders of their dams It yeeldes another cause of gleesome mirth This ground weares all her best embrodery To entertaine our Soueraignes Maiestie And well she may for neuer English ground Bore such a Soueraigne as this royall Lord Looke vpon all Antiquities Record In no Inrolment such a King is found Beginne with Brute if that of Brute be true As I 'le not doubt but giue old Bards their due He was a Prince vnsetled sought a shore To rest his long tost Troian scattered race And as t is sed found here a resting place Grant this but yeeld he did false gods adore The Nations were not cald to Christ that time Black Pagan clouds darkned this goodly clime So when dissension brought the Romans in No Caesar till the godly Constantine Descended truly from the Brittish line Purg'd this Iles aire from Idoll-hated sinne Yet in care of Rome left Deputies Our Iames maintaines himselfe his dignities The Saxon the Dane scourgd with sharp steele So did the Norman Duke this beauteous land Inuading Lords raigne with an yron hand A gentler ruling in this change we feele Our Lyon comes as meekly as a doue Not conqu'ring vs vs by hurt but hartie loue Euen as a calme to tempest-tossed men As bread to the faint soule with famine vext As a coole spring to those with heate perplext As the Sunnes light into a fearefull denne So comes our King euen in a time of need To saue to shine to comfort and to feed O Shepheards sing his welcome with sweet notes Nymphs strew his way with Roses red and white Prouide all pastimes that may sense delight Offer the fleeces of your flockes white cotes He that now spares doth in that sauing spill Where Worth is little Vertue likes good will Now from the Orchades to the Cornish Iles From thence to Cambria and the Hiberian shore The sound of ciuill warre is heard no more Each countenance is garnished with smiles All in one hymne with sweet contentment sing The praise and power of Iames our onely King Our only King one Lord one Soueraigne O long-desired and perfected good By him the heate of wrath and boiling bloud Is mildly quencht pale Enuy counted vaine One King one people blessed vnitie That ties such mighty Nations to agree Shepheards I le not be tedious in my song For that I see you bent to actiue sport Though I perswade me all time is too short To welcome him whom we haue wisht for long Well done dance on looke how your little lambs Skip as you spring about their fleecie dams Thus were ye wont to trip about the Greene And dance in ringlets like to Fairie Elues Striuing in cunning to exceede your selues In honour of your late-falne summer Queene But now exceede this May excels all springs Which King and Queene and Prince and Princesse brings Showtioyfully ye Nymphs and rurall Swaines Your maister Pan will now protect your folds Your cottages will be as safe as Holds Feare neither Wolues nor subtill Foxes traines A royall king will of your weale take keepe Hee le be your Shepheard you shall be his sheepe He comes in pompe so should a king appeare Gods Deputie should set the world at gaze Yet his milde lookes driue vs from all amaze Clap hands for ioy our Soueraigne draweth neere Sing Io Io shepheards dance and sing Expresse all ioy in welcoming our King The aire the season and the earth accord In Pleasure Order both for sight and sense All things looke fresh to greet his excellence And Collin humbly thus salutes his Lord Dread and beloud liue Englands happy King While seasons last Fresh as the liuely Spring FINIS * Her Royall word or motto was Semper Eadem
ENGLANDS Mourning Garment Worne heere by plaine Shepheards in memorie of their sacred Mistresse ELIZABETH Queene of Vertue while she liued and Theame of Sorrow being dead To the which is added the true manner of her Emperiall Funerall With many new additions being now againe the second time reprinted which was omitted in the first Impression After which followeth the Shepheards Spring-Song for entertainment of King IAMES our most potent Soueraigne Dedicated to all that loued the deceased Queene and honour the liuing KING Imprinted at London for Thomas Millington and are to be sold at the signe of the Crane in Paules Churchyard by Walter Burre 1603. To all true Louers of the right gracious Queene Elizabeth in her life being vndoubtedly those faithfull Subiects that now honour and affect our most potent Lord King Iames after her death MY Epistle to you is like the litle Towne that the Cynicke would haue perswaded the Citizens was readie to runne out at the great gates being scarce so long as the Title In a word the negligence of many better able hath made me bold to write a small Epitomie touching the abūdant vertues of Elizabeth our late sacred Mistris Intreating of her Princely birth chast life royall gouernment and happie death being a Lady borne liuing raigning dying all for Englands good The manner is handled between Shepheards the forme of speech like the persons rude Affection exceedeth Eloquence and I haue not shewne much Art but exprest the dutie of a louing hart Shead some teares in reading our Shepheards sorrow and in that true passion let your loue to our royall Lord be shewne who hateth hypocrites as iust men hell Farewell all of you that giue the dead Queene a sad Farewell and the liuing King a glad Welcome the rest are Time-pleasers and I write not to them Foelicem fuisse infaustum Englands Mourning Garment Worne by plaine Shepheardes for the death of that most excellent Empresse Elizabeth Queene of Vertue while she liued and Theame of Sorrow being dead THENOT COLLIN Thenot. COllin thou lookst as lagging as the day When the Sun setting toward his westerne bed Shewes that like him all glory must decay And frolique life with murkie clouds o re-spred Shall leaue all earthly beautie mongst the dead Such is the habite of thy new aray Why art thou not preparde to welcome May In whose cleare Moone thy younglings shall be fed With nights sweete dewes and open flowers of day Collin I aunswer thee with woe and wel away I am in sable clad sith she cannot be had That me and mine did glad there 's all I 'le say Thenot. Well spoken Swaine let me thy sorrow ken Rich soule though wrong'd by idle Antike men And driuen by falshood to a cloudie den Tell me thy griefe Collin O it is past releefe and which is worst of worst Bayards and beasts accurst with grosest flattery nurst Haue sung her sacred name and prais'd her to their shame Of mayden Queenes who was our last and first Thenot. Deere Collin doe not checke the humblest song The will is euer maister of the worke Those that can sing haue done all Shepheards wrong Like Lozels in their cottages to lurke The ayres the ayre though it be thicke and murke If they to whom true Pastorals belong In needefull layes vse neither pipe nor tong Shall none the vertuous raise Collin Yes those that merit Bayes though teares restraine their layes Some weeping houres or dayes will finde a time To honour Honour still not with a rurall quill But with the soule of skill to blesse their rime Aye me why should I dote on rimes on songs or note Confusion can best quote sacred Elizaes losse Whose praise doth grace all verse that shal the same reherse No gold neede decke her herse to her all gold is drosse With that Collin in discontent brake his pipe and in that passion as if his heart had beene like his pipe parted each peece from the other hee fell without sense on the earth not then insensible of his sorrowe for it yeelded wept and groand at once with his fall his weepings and his sighs Poore Th. showted for help at whose call came some Nymphs full of sorrow for their Soueraigne and no whit amazed to see him lie as dead their hearts were so dead with thinking of that which had astonied his But yet as gathering of companies draw more more to wonder so prooued it among the Shepheards that left none but their curres to attend their flockes themselues flocking about Thenot Collin who now recouered from his trance and all asking the reason of his griefe with teares abounding in his eyes that likewise drew more aboundantly from theirs he distractedly answered Illum nec enim reprehendere fas est Qui fleat hanc cuius fregerunt stamina parcae Solus honor sequitur mortales ille misellos And therewithall making a signe for the Shepheards and Nymphs to sit downe he told them they had lost that sacred Nymph that carefull Shepheardesse ELIZA but if it pleased them to lend attention he would repeate somthing of her worth memorie that should liue in despite of death whereupon a still silence seizd them all sauing only now and then by sighing they exprest their hearts sorrow and Collin thus began Seeing Honor onely followeth mortals and the works of the vertuous die not with their deaths and yet those workes neuerthelesse with the honours and rites due to the departed might be much blemished if there were no gratitude in their successors let vs poore Rurals though no other wayes able to erect Statues for our late dread Soueraigne worthy all memory among our selues repeate part of her excellent Graces and our benefite obtained by her Gouernment for to reckon all were Opus infinitum alabour without end She was the vndoubted issue of two royall Princes Henry of Lancaster and Elizabeth of Yorke In whose vnion the quiet of vs poore Swaines began for till that blessed mariage England was a shambles of slaughtred men so violent was the blood of ambition so potent the factions and so implacable their heads whose eyes were neuer cleard till they were washt in blood euen in the deare blood of their Obiects hearts This King Grandfather to our late Queene was the first Brittish King that manie a hundred yeeres before wore the Emperiall Diademe of England France Ireland in him began the name of Tewther descended from the ancient Brittish King to florish the issue male of royal Plantagenet ending in his beginning his wife Grandmother to our late Elizabeth being the last Plantagenet whose Temples were heere circled with a sphere of gold Which King and Queene liued and loued and now lie intoombed in that most famous Chappell built at his Kingly charge in the Abbey of Westminster King Henry dying in a good age left England rich beautifull and full of peace and so blest with his issue after royally matcht to Scotland France besides his vndoubted heire
her people confessed Non nobis Domine non nobis sed nomini tuo Gloria And as she was euer constant in cherishing that faith wherein shee was from her infancie nourisht so was shee faithfull of her word with her people and with forraine Nations And albeit I know some too humorously affected to the Romane gouernment make a question in this place whether her highnesse first brake not the truce with the King of Spaine to that I could answer were it pertinent to me in this place or for a poore shepheard to talk of state with vnreprooueable truths that her highnes suffered many wrongs before fhe left off the league O saith Thenst in some of those wrongs resolue vs and thinke it no vnfitting thing for thee hast heard the songs of that warlike Poet Philisides good Meliboee and smooth tongued Melicert tell vs what thou hast obserued in their sawes seene in thy owne experience and heard of vndoubted truthes touching those accidents for that they adde I doubt not to the glory of our Eliza. To this entreatie Collin condiscended and thus spake It is not vnknowne the Spaniard a mighty Nation abounding with treasure being warres sinewes torne from the bowels of Mines fetcht from the sands of Indian Riuers by the miserable captiued Natiues haue purposed to be Lords of Europe France they haue attempted and failed in Nauarre they haue greatly distrest Lumbardy the garden of the world they are possessed of Naples and Sicilie Sardinia Corsica are forced to obey their lawes and that they reckoned England should be theirs with such small case euen in a manner with threatning their songs taught little Infants from Andolozia to Galizia are witnes The dice were cast her Maiesties subiects craftily put into the Inquisition vpon euery smal colour if they scaped which seldome sorted out so wel aliue they could of their goods haue no restitution Their King gaue pensions to our Queenes Rebellious fugitiue subiects not only to such that in regard of their Religion fled the land but vnto such as had attempted to resist her in actiue rebellion and yet not staying there out of his treasurie proposed rewards for sundry to attempt the murder of her sacred person of which perfidious gilt she ueuer was tainted let any Spaniard or Spanish affected English proue where she euer hired abetted or procured any such against their Kings Maiestie and I wil yeeld to be esteemed as false as falshood it selfe nay they cannot deny but that euen with the Rebels of her Realme of Ireland stird vp to barbarous and inhumane outrages by the Spanish policie shee hath no way dealt but by by faire and laudable warre But before I enter into her Maiesties lenitie in that Irish warre against sundry knowne Rebels and punishing some of her subiects that vpon zealc to her or perchance to get themselues a glorie aduentured their owne liues by treacherie to cut off the liues of some great Leaders of the Rebels I will a little digresse least I should be thought after her death to maintain the fire of hate which I euer in heart desired might honorably be quencht betweene these potent kingdomes of England and Spaine I wish all that reade this to bury old wrongs to pray that it would please God of his inestimable mercie to roote out all malice from Christian Nations and as our Royall Soueraigne now raigning hath conserued league and peace with all Princes so for the weale of Christendome it may more and more increase that the open enemies of Christ may the better be repelled from those wealthy Kingdomes in the East where they haue manie hundred yeeres most barbarously tyrannized for no man doubts but the blood shed within these thirtie yeeres as well of English as Scottish Spanish Dutch and Portugall in the quarrell of Religion might if GOD had so beene pleased beene able to haue driuen the heathen Monarch from his neerest holde in Hungaria to the fall of Danubia in the Euxine Sea especiallie with the assistaunce of the French that haue cruelly falne either vpon others swords But I trust God hath suffered this offence to adde more glory to our mighty King that hee should be the most famous of all his predecessours as indeede hee is the most mighty and hath beene raised to this Realme as a Sauiour to deliuer England make it more abundant in blessings when many lookt it should haue had all her glory swallowed vp of spoile The highnesse of his Emperiall place greatnesse of his blood mightinesse of his alliance but most his constancie in the true profession of Religion euen amid my sorrowes Thenot fill me with ioyes when I consider how a number that gaped for our destruction haue their mouths shut close yet emptie where they thought to eate the sweetes of our painefull sweate but God be praised as I saide before her Highnesse that ruled vs many yeeres in peace left vs in her death more secure by committing vs to our lawfull Prince matcht to a royal fruitfull Lady that hath borne him such hopefull issue that the dayes we lately feared I trust are as farre off as this instant is from the end of all earthly times who shal not only with their royall Father maintaine these his Kingdomes in happy peace but subiect more vnder him and spread the banners of Christ in the face of misbeleeuers In this hope I heere breake off and returne to our late Soueraignes care of keeping Faith euen toward her Rebell subiects which I wil manifest in some two or three examples of the Irish. When the Oneale in the time of that memorable Gentleman Sir Henry Sidney his Deputie-ship of Ireland was mightily strengthned in his Country and so potent that the Deputie had many dangerous skirmishes against him A seruant of her Maiesties one Smith thinking to doe a worthy peece of seruice by poysoning the Oneale prepared a little bottle parted in the middest one side containing good wine the other with tempered poyson of the same colour and that he carries to the Oneale vnder colour of gratification for that his armie lay farre from the Sea or Marchantable Townes and hee thought Wine was vnto him very dainty which the Oneale accepted kindly for that the said Smith was borne in the Oneales Countrey and such the Irish doe especially and before others trust to bring messages euen from their greatest enemies vnder whom they serue But the deceit being quickly spide Smith was by the Oneale sent bound to the Deputie to whose plot he would faine haue imputed the same practise but contrarilie the Deputie publikely punished the said Smith and her Maiestie refus'd him for her seruant saying shee would keepe none neere her that would deale treacherouslie no though it were against traytors The like example was showne on an other that would haue attempted the poysoning of Rory Og a bloody and dangerous Rebell To which may be added that her Highnesse among other trespasses obiected by her Atturney against
a conuicted Deputie was that hee went about by poyson to haue tooke away the life of Feff Mac Hue a Rebell more immane and barbarous than any of the other two the Lord chiefe Iustice of the Common Pleas yet liuing opening at the same time how iust a spirit her Maiestie was possessed with that she hated treason euen to traytors much more then to annointed Kings whose honours and reputations shee so maintained that shee not long since punished by fine and imprisonment a wealthie rayler for vnreuerent words spoken against the person of King Philip her open and professed enemie So faithfull so iust so gracious was she And to make it more plaine that Spaine intended England the first wrong long time before it was muttered but after that memorable battaile of Lepanto wherein Don Iohn of Austria obtained the tryumphant Christian victorie against the Turkes to reward him England was the Kingdome set downe being then in her Maiesties possession but hee had it when they could giue him it that promised the same which was at latter Lammas And I trust his Neece shal haue as good successe with her pretended title For if God strengthened her Maiestie so that against her being a woman they could not preuaile we trust his Almightinesse will be as carefull of our King being alreadie Lord of three such people as haue seldome beene equalled in battel except they haue vnnaturally contended among themselues the sight of which day deere shepheards let vs pray neuer againe to see Besides to expresse her farther intent to preserue faith and league notwithstanding infinite of open wrongs and certaine knowledge that a Nauie for inuasion of this Realme had been preparing more than fifteene yeere yet did she beare vntill against all law of Nations the Ambassador liedger of Spaine honoured with many fauours did notwithstanding plot and confeder with natiue traitors of this land and the matter being apparantly proued hee was by her milde sufferance admitted to depart the Realme without any violence to his perpetuall reproch and her neuer-dying glorie Well I will heere conclude touching this vertue of faith both toward God and man shee was as firme in the one as mortalitie could be and in the other approued glorious among all the Princes of her time For Hope the second diuine vertue shee rather therein abounded than was any way wanting for her Hope was no way wandring shee beleeued and it came to passe her enemies arise but before their arising shee was certaine to see them fall shee hauing by example of things past nothing doubted of things to come And she was not deceiued till the houre of her death For euer her expectation was fulfilled she kept peace within chased the spoyler without and euen as it is sung of Epaminondas that valiant Theban Captaine in his last victorious battaile wherein yet death of him got victorie he thus gloried Herein am I comforted that I dye a conquerour For euen when death laide his last siege to her yet vnvanquished life Tyrone the long disturber of her State besought by agents mercie at her feete O Nymphs and Shepheards doubt not she was full of diuine Hope whose heart obtained euer the thing it faithfully desired and that her desires were all of faith I could adde infinite examples to these alreadie alleadged but that it is needelesse to cast water in the Sea or to make question of that all men knowe and will confesse except some whose hearts are straungers from Truth and the professed Receptacles of falsehood Her Charitie the third and principall diuine Grace to the eye of mortals for that Faith and Hope bend principally their seruice to Heauen and Charities effects are manifested on earth hath beene extended ouer all her Realmes and stretched to the comfort of her oppressed neighbours The multitudes of poore daily releeued from her purse the numbers of sicke persons yeerely visited and by her owne hand their corrupt sores toucht the washing of poore womens feete and releeuing their wants was a signe that shee was humble as well as charitable for Humilitie is Charities sister they are two twins born at one time and as they are borne together in any soule whateuer so do they liue and die together the humble spirit being euer charitable and the charitable euer humble for it is as impossible to haue a proud man charitable as to reconcile fire and water or to make accord betweene any contraries As she was in these particulars exceeding all Ladies of her time giuen to this helpfull vertue so had she generall impositions through all her kingdome for her well able subiects to followe her example and so much did her example preuaile that besides the ordinarie and weekely almes distributed through the Realme there haue beene more particular Almes-houses builded for the reliefe of the aged then in anie sixe Princes Raignes before And as all parts of England haue in this imitation bin very forward so hath the Citie of London exceeded all wherein diuers priuate men haue builded sundrie houses for the poore and allowed them pensions but the Corporations haue beene most bountiful as most able and among all the right Worshipfull the Merchant-Tailors haue exceeded the rest all haue done well that haue done anie thing but they best of any other as I will one day in a song of liberall Shepheards thankfully expresse though for my selfe I knowe him not in the least gift to whom I am in that sort boundē but I ken not Thenot how I may for there is none liuing but may lack As the City so many knights Gentlemen honorable and deuout persons haue followed her example aboue the rest an honorable carefull reuer end and learned watchman as full of mildnesse pietie as he is of yeares and griefes for his good and royall Mistresse losse at Croiden hath builded a worthy Receptacle to the like charitable end As for the poore and decrepit with age her Royall Maiestie had this charitable care so for souldiers and suters she was very prouident The last being opprest in any part of her Realmes by men of much wealth and little conscience shee allowd them counsell and proceedings in Forma pauperis and maintenance weekely in the Termes for some part of their succour if any were delayd and abused it was vtterly against her will For souldiers and men of seruice her decrees of prouision are extant besides it is most cleare no Prince in the world to land or Sea-men was more bountifull or at least willing than her Highnesse out of her Coffers it went but there is an olde Prouerbe Thenot carriage is deere and I haue heard but I will stand to nothing base Ministers and vnder-officers curtall the liberalities of great and potent Maisters Some haue in her time beene taken with the manner and besides bodily punishment and fines displaced as I will remember and cannot omit amid my griefe to tell though somewhat from this subiect it dissent being of a fellow too meane
dwelling Where Art is euer swelling Your learned Fount forsake Helpe Funerall Songs to make Hang them about her Herse That euer loued Verse Clio writ downe her Story That was the Muses Glory Dryope And ye soft-footed Howers Make ready Cypresse Bowers Insteade of Roses sweete For pleasant Spring-time meete Strew all the pathes with Yeugh Night-shade and bitter Reugh Bid Flora hide her Treasure Say t is no time of pleasure Thenot. And you diuinest Graces Veyle all your sacred faces With your bright shining haire Shew euery signe of care The Hart that was your Phane The cruell Fates haue slaine From earth no powre can raise her Onely our Hymnes may praise her Chloris Muses and Howres and Graces Let all the hallowed places Which the cleere Moone did view Looke with a sable hiew Let not the Sunne be seene But weeping for the Queene That Grace and Muse did cherish O that such worth should perish Collin So turne our verse and on this lofty Pine Each one ingraue for her some Funerall line Thus I beginne Collins Epitaph Eliza Maiden Mirror of this Age Earths true Astraea while she liu'de and raign'de Is throwne by Death from her triumphant Stage But by that fall hath endlesse glorie gain'de And foolish death would faine if he could weepe For killing Her he had no power to keepe Thenots Epitaph Eliza rich and Royall faire and iust Giues heauen her Soule and leaues her Flesh to dust Dryopes Epitaph There is no beautie but it vades No glory but is veyld with shades So is Eliza Queene of Maids stoopt to her Fate Yet Death in this hath little thriu'de For thus her vertues haue atchieu'de She shall by verse liue still reuiu'de in spight of Hate Chloris Epitaph Eliza that astonished her foes Stoopt her rebellious subiects at her feete Whose minde was Still the same in ioy and woes Whose frowne was fearfull and her fauours sweete Swaid all this land but most her selfe she swaide Liu'de a chaste Queene and di'de a Royall Maide These Epitaphs ended the Nymphs and Shepheards led by Collin and Thenot who afore plaide heauy tunes on their oaten Pipes gotte to their seuerall cottages and spent their time till midnight mourning for Eliza But Sleepe the equaller of Kings and captiues banished their sorrowes What humor they are in after rest you shall in the morning heare for commonly as the day is so are our affections disposed ¶ The order and proceeding at the Funerall of the Right High and Mightie Princesse Elizabeth Queene of England France and Ireland from the Pallace of Westminster called White-hall To the Cathedrall Church of Westminster the 28. of April 1603. FIrst the Knight Marshals men to make way Fifteene poore men Next the 260. poore women by foure and foure Then seruants of Gentlemen Esquiers and Knights Two Porters Next foure Trumpetors After them Rose Pursiuant at Armes Two Sergeants at Armes The Standerd of the Dragon borne by Sir George Bourcher Two Querries leading a horse couered in blacke cloth Then the messengers of the Chamber foure and foure Children of the Almondry Children of the Woodyard Children of the Skullery Children and furners of the pastry The Skalding house The Larder After them Groomes being Wheate porters Coopers Wine-porters Conducts in the Bakehouse Bel-ringer Maker of Spice-bags Cart takers chosen by the bord Long Cartes Cart takers Of the Almery Of the Stable Of the Woodyard Skullery Pastrie Skalding house Poultrie Caterie Boyling house Larder Kitchin Laundrie Ewry Confectionary Wafery Chaundry Pitcherhouse Buttrie Seller Pantrie Bakehouse Counting house Then Noblemens and Embassadors seruants and Groomes of the chamber Foure Trumpetters Blewmantle A Sergeant at Armes The Standerd of the Greyhound borne by M. Herbert brother to the Earle of Penbroke Yomen of the Seruitors in the hall foure and foure Yomen Cart-takers Porters Almondrie Herbingers Woodyard Skullerie Pastriē Poultrie and Scalding house Purueyors of the Poultry Purueyors of the Acatrie Stable Boyling house Larder Kitchin Ewrie Confectionarie Waferie Purueyor of the waxe Tallow Chandler Chaundrie Pitcher house Brewers Buttrie Purueyors Seller Pantrie Garneter Bakehouse Counting house Spicerie Chamber Robes Wardrop Earles and Countesses seruants Foure Trompetors Portcullis A Sergeant at Armes The Standerd of the Lyon borne by M. Thomas Somerset Two Quirries leading a horse trapped with blacke veluet Sergeant of the Vestrie Children of the Chappell in surplesses Gentlemen of the Chappel in copes all of them singing Clearks Deputie Clarke of the Market Clarkes extraordinarie Coferer Diet. M. Cooke for the houshold Pastrie Larder Skullerie Woodyard Poultrie Bakehouse Acatrie Stable Sergeants Gent. Herbinger Wood-yard Scullery Pastry Catery Larder Ewry Seller Pantrie Bakehouse Master Cooke of the Kitchin Clarks of the Querrie Second and third clarke of the Chaundrie Second third clark of the Kitchin Superuisors of the Dresser Surueyer of the dresser for the chamber Musitions Apoticaries and Chirurgions Sewers of the hall Marshall of the hall Sewers of the chamber Groome Porter Gentlemen vshers quarter waiters Clarke Marshall and Auenor Chiefe clarke of the wardrop Chiefe clarke of the Kitchin Two clarkes controllers Clarkes of the greene cloth Maister of the houshold Sir Henrie Cocke cofferer Rouge Dragon A Segeant at Armes The Banner of Chester borne by the L. Zouch betweene two Seargeants at Armes Clarks of the councel foure four Clarks of the priuy Seale Clarks of the Signet Clarks of the Parliament Doctors of Phisicke The Queenes Chaplaines Secretaries for the Latine Italian French tongues Rouge Crosse. Betweene two Seargeants at armes The banner of Cornwall borne by the L. Herbert Sonne and heire to the Earle of VVorcester Officers to the Maior of London Aldermen of London Solliciter Atturney and Sergeant at Lawe Maister of Reuels M. of the tents Knights Bachelors Lord chiefe Baron and Lord chiefe Iustice of the common pleas Maister of the Iewell house Knights which haue been Embassadors and Gentlemen Agents Sewers for the Queene Sewers for the bodie Esquiers of the bodie Gentlemen of the priuie chamber Gentlemen Pensioners houlding their Pol-axes heads down wards couered with blacke The Banner of VVales borne by the Viscount Bindon Maister of the Requests Agents for Venice and the Estates Lord Maior of London Sir Iohn Popham Sir Iohn Fortescue Sir Robert Cicell principall Secretary Controller Treasurer of houshold Windsor Banner of Ireland borne by the Earle of Clanricard Barons Bishops Earles eldest sonnes Viscounts Dukes second sons Earles Marqueses Bishop of Chichester Almoner Preacher at the funeral Lord Keeper Archbishop of Cant. The French Embassador Foure Sergeants of Armes The great Embrodered banner of England borne by the Earle of Penbroke and the Lord Haward of Effingham Somerset and Richmond York Helme and Crest Chester Target Norrey king at Armes Sword Clarenceaux king at Armes Coat The liuely picture of her Highnesse whole body crowned in her Parliament Robes with her Scepter in her hand lying on the corps balmed and leaded couered with Purple veluet borne in a