Of his Death and Buriall.
SOme say he was poysoned, which Polydore Virgill saith was much suspected: The Scots write that he died of the disease called St. Fi••cre, which is a Palsie and a Crampe: E••guerant saith that he died of St. Anthonies fire: But Peter Basset E∣squire, who at the time of his death was his Chamberlaine, affirmeth that hee died of a Pleurisie, which at that time was a sicknesse strange and but little known. Being dead his body was embalmed and closed in lead; and laid in a Chariot-Royall richly apparelled in cloath of Gold, was conveyed from Boys de Vin••••n••es to Paris, and so to Roa••, to A••bevyle, to C••llys, to D••ver, and from thence through London to West∣minster, where it was interred next beneath King Edward the Confessor; upon whose Tombe Queene Katherine caused a Royall picture to be layed, covered all o∣ver with silver plate gilt, but the head thereof altogether of massie silver; all which at that Abbies suppression were sacrilegiously broken off and transferred to p••o∣phaner uses. Hee dyed the last day of August, in the yeere one thousand foure hun∣dred twenty two, when he had reigned nine yeeres and five Moneths, lived eight and thirty yeeres.