A chronicle of the Kings of England, from the time of the Romans goverment [sic] unto the raigne of our soveraigne lord, King Charles containing all passages of state or church, with all other observations proper for a chronicle / faithfully collected out of authours ancient and moderne, & digested into a new method ; by Sr. R. Baker, Knight.

Of his death and buriall.

HE was not well at ease before, but when the King of France sent him a List of those that had conspired against him, and that he found the first man in the Lyst to be his Son Iohn, he then fell suddenly into a fit of Fainting, which so en∣creased upon him, that within foure dayes after he ended his life: So strong a Corrosive is Griefe of mind, when it meetes with a Body weakned before with sicknesse. He dyed in Normandy, in the yeare 1189. when he had lived threescore and one yeares; Raigned neare five and thirty: and was buryed at Founteverard in France. the manner of whose buriall was thus: He was Cloathed in his Royall Robes, his Crowne upon his head, white Gloves upon his hands, Bootes of Gold upon his legges, Gilt Spurres at his heeles, a great rich Ring upon his finger, his Scepter in his hand, his Sword by his side, and his face uncovered and all bare. As he was carrying to be Buryed, his Sonne Richard in great haste ranne to see him, who no sooner was come neare the Body, but suddenly at his Nostrils he fell a bleeding afresh; which though it were in Prince Richard no good signe of Innocency, yet

his breaking presently into bitter teares upon the seeing it, was a good signe of Repentance. It may not be unseasonable to speake in this place of a thing which all Writers speake of, that in the Family of the Earles of Anjou, of whom this King Henry came, there was once a Princesse a great Enchantresse, who being on a time enforced to take the blessed Eucharist, she suddenly flew out at the Church window, and was never seene after: From this Woman these latter Earles of Anjou were descended, which perhaps made the Patriarch Heraclius say, of this King Henries Children, that from the Devill they came, and to the Devill they would. But Writers perhaps had beene more compleat, if they had left this Story out of their Writings.