He was
clothed in a musk colour silk suit, embroidered with gold, a golilla
(or ruff) about his neck, cuffs on his hands, which were clasped on
his breast, holding a globe and a cross on it therein; his cloak was
of the same, with his sword by his side; stockings, garters, and shoe-
strings of the same, and a pair of white shoes on his feet. In the
room were erected six altars for the time, upon which stood six
candlesticks, with six wax candles lighted, and in the middle of each
altar a crucifix; the forepart of each altar was covered with black
velvet, embroidered with silver. Before the throne a rail went across
from one side of the room to the other. At the two lower corners of
the throne, at each side, stood a nobleman, the one holding an
imperial crown, the other the sceptre; and on each side of the throne
six high candlesticks with six tapers in them. The doors of that room
were kept by the Mayor-domo of the King and Queen then in waiting, and
the outward by the Italian guard.
On the Saturday night, he was carried upon a bier, hung betwixt two
mules, upon which the coffin with the King's body was laid, covered
with a covering of cloth of gold, and at every corner of the bier was
placed a high crystal lanthorn with lighted tapers in it. He was
attended by some grandees, who rode next after him, and other noblemen
in coaches, with between two and three hundred on horseback, of whom a
great part carried tapers lighted in their hands: this was the
company, besides footmen.
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