so that as his Corps before, so now his Herse was of all men forsaken, every one running to quench the Fire. That done, they return and bear the Corps to the Church: The Funeral Sermon be∣ing ended, and the stone coffin set in the earth in the Chancel; as the Body was ready to be laid therein, there stood up one Anselm Fitz-Arthur, and forbad the Burial, alledging that that very place, was the Floor of his Fathers House, which this dead King had violently taken from him, to build this Church upon; Therefore, said he, I challenge this ground, and in the name of God forbid that the body of this dispoiler be covered with the Earth of my Inheritance. They were therefore inforced to compound with him for one hundred pounds. Now was the Body to be laid in that stone Coffin; but the Tomb prov'd too little for the Corps, so that pressing it down to gain an entrance, the Belly not bowel'd brake, and sent forth such an intolerable stink amongst the as∣sistants at the Funeral; that all the Gums and Spices fuming in their Censers, could not relieve them; but in great amazement all of them hasted away; leaving only a Monk or two to shuffle up the Burial, which they did in haste, and so gat them to their Cells: Yet was not this the last of those troubles, that the Corps of this great Prince met with; but some years after, at such time as Caen was taken by the French unner Chastilion 1562. his Tomb was rifled, his Bones thrown out, and some of them, by private Soldiers, brought as far as England again.
2. Katherine de V••••ois, Daughter to Charles the Sixth, King of France, Widow of King Henry the Fifth; she was marry'd after to, and had Issue by, Owen ap Tudor, a Noble Welshman; her Body lies at this day unburied in a loose Coffin at West∣minister, and shew'd to such as desire it. It's said it was her own desire, that her Body should ne∣ver be buried, because sensible of her fault, in dis∣obeying her Husband King Henry upon this occasi∣on. There was a Prophecy amongst the English peo∣ple, that an English Prince born at Windsor should be unfortunate, in loosing what his Father had acquir'd; Whereupon King Henry forbad Queen Katherine▪ (being with Child) to be delivered there, but she out of the corrupt principle of nitimur in vetitum, and affecting her Father before her Husband, was there brought to bed of King Henry the Sixth, in whose Reign the fair Victories, woven by his Fa∣thers Valor, were by cowardice, carelesness, and contentions unravell'd to nothing. Yet the Story is told otherwise by others, viz. that she was bu∣ry'd by her Son, King Henry the Sixth, under a fair Tomb, and continued in her Grave some years, until King Henry the Seventh, laying the founda∣tion of a new Chappel, caus'd her Corps to be taken up: But why the said Henry being her great Grand-child, did not order it to be re-in∣••err'd is not recorded; if not done by casualty and neglect, it is very strange, and stranger if out of design.
3. Aristobulus, King of the Jews, was by Cn. Pompeius sent to Rome in bonds; afterwards he was enlarged by Caesar (when he had overcome Pompey) and sent into Syria; there by the fa∣vourites of Pompeys part, he was taken away by poyson, and for some time deny'd buryal in his Native Country; the dead Body being kept pre∣serv'd in Honey; till at last it was sent by Mar∣cus Antonius to the Jews, to be laid in the Royal Monuments of his Ancestors.
4. The great Alexander, who had attain'd to the height of Military Glory, dy'd at Babylon, not without suspicion of poyson; this great man, for whom so much of the world, as he had con∣quered, was so much too little, was compell'd to expect the leisure of his mutinous Captains, till they would be so kind, as to bury him; Seven days together, his dead Corps lay neglected: in those heats of Mesopotamia, greater than which are rarely to be found in any Country: At last command was given to the Aegyptians and Chaldeans to em∣balm the Body according to their Art, which they did: yet was it two years before the miserable re∣mainders of this Heroe, could be sent away to∣wards its Funeral; then it was receiv'd by Ptole∣maeus, by him carry'd first to Memphis, and some years afterwards to Alexandria, where it lay, and some ages after was shew'd to Augustus Caesar; after his Victory over Antonius and Cleopatra.
5. Michael Palaeologus, Emperour of Constantino∣ple, in the Council at Lions, under Pope Gregory the Twelfth, was reconciled to the Latin Church: there in sign of his agreement, he and those that were with him, publickly sang the Nicene Creed: By reason of which he fell into such a hatred of the Greeks: that when he dy'd, the Monks and Priests forbad his Body to be bury'd: and his Son Andronicus, who succeeded him, though otherwise dutiful e∣nough, not only deny'd him the honour of an im∣perial Funeral, but scarce allow'd him that of a mean person; he only commanded a few in the night to carry him far from the Camp, and there cover him with Earth, that the Body of so great a person might not be torn in pieces by wild Beasts.
6. Iacobus Patius had conspired against the Medices, for which he was publickly hang'd, but by the permission of the Magistrates, his dead body was laid in the Monuments of his Ancestors: but the enraged multitude dragg'd it out thence, and buryed it in the common Field, without the Walls of the City; where yet they would not suffer it to rest, but in another popular fury, they fetch'd it out thence, drew it naked through the City, by the same halter wherewith he had been before hanged; and so threw it into the River Arnus.
7. The Carcase of Pope Iulius the Second was digg'd up, and his Ring taken from off his Fin∣ger by the Spaniards, at such time as Rome was taken by the Army of the Emperour Charles the Fifth, which was Anno Dom. 1527.
8. Scanderbeg the most famous Prince of E∣pirus; dy'd in the sixty third year of his age, up∣on the 17th. of Ianuary, Anno Dom. 1466. when he had reigned about twenty four years: his dead Body was, with the great lamentation of all men, buryed in the Cathedral Church of St. Ni∣cholas at Lyssa, where it rested in peace; until that about nine years after the Turks coming to the siege of Scodra, by the way took the City of Lyssa, and there with great devotion digg'd up his bones, reckoning it some part of their hap∣piness, if they might but see or touch the same, and such as could get any part thereof, were it never so little, caused the same to be set, some in Silver, some in Gold to hang about their Necks, or wear upon their Bodies, perswading them∣selves by the wearing thereof, to be partakers of such good fortune and hap, as had Scanderbeg himself whilst he lived.
9. The Sepulcher of the Great Cyrus, King of Persia, was violated in the days of Alexander the Great, in such manner, that his bones were