Popham, buried the peculiar feeling of the moment passed,' there was no fulfilment of the intention of moving the body to a grander situation, in Henry VII.'s Chapel, where (said the preacher) there should be such a squadron-monument, as will have no brother in England, till the time do come (and I wish 'it may be long first) that the renowned and most excellent champion that now governs the sword of England, shall lay 'his bones by him.'2 6 This wish, thus early expressed for Cromwell, was, as we have seen, realised; and to that royal burial place, as if in preparation, the Parliamentary funerals henceforth converged. In St. John's Chapel,3 indeed, with Strode and Essex, was laid the fierce Independent, Edward Popham, distinguished Aug. 1651. both by sea and land. But in Henry VII.'s Chapel, at the head of Elizabeth's tomb, was magnificently buried the learned Isaac Dorislaus, advocate at the King's trial. Under the Commonwealth he was ambassador at the Hague, where he was assassinated one evening, by certain highflying Royalist cutthroats, Scotch most of them: a man of heavy, deep-wrinkled, elephantine countenance, pressed down with 'the labours of life and law. The good ugly man here found 'his quietus.'" Isaac Dorislaus, buried June 14, 1649. In the same vault probably which contained the Protector and his family, was deposited Ireton, his son-in-law, with an honour the more remarkable, from the circumstance that his His grave was in St. John's Chapel, by the right side of the Earl of Exeter's monument (Register), in a vault occupied by an Abbot, whose crozier was still perfect. (Perfect Relation of Essex's Funeral.) This, no doubt, is the stone coffin (still containing some remains), now rudely placed above the monument of Abbot Fascet, in the same chapel, and probably belonging to Abbot Milling, whose monument formerly stood in the midIdle of the chapel. (Camden.) This disposes of the various conjectures in Neale, ii. 185. (See Chapter V.) 2 These particulars are taken from the Funeral Sermon, the Elegy, the Programme of the Funeral, the Perfect Relation, and the Life of Essex, all published at the time.-See also Heath's Chronicle, p. 125, who mistakes the position of the hearse. Dart, ii. 145; Kennett, p. 537. Carlyle's Cromwell, i. 311; Kennett's Register, p. 536. See Appendix. died Nov. 26, buried 1650-1. death took place at a distance. His body was brought from Ireton, Limerick, where he had died of the plague in the camp, and lay in state at Somerset House,' with the hatchment bearing 1650; the motto, Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, which March 6, the Cavaliers interpreted, 'It is good for his country that he should die." Evelyn watched the procession pass in 6 a very solemn manner.' Cromwell was chief mourner.3 His obsequies were honoured by a sermon from the celebrated Puritan Dean of Christchurch, John Owen, on the Labour'ing Saint's Dismission to Rest.' He must have been no common man to have evoked so grave and pathetic an eulogy: The name of God was as land in every storm, in the discovery whereof he had as happy an eye, at the greatest seeming distance, when the clouds were blackest ' and the waves were highest, as any." 6 6 5 buried Here too, in a vault built for the purpose,' 96 was laid the Blake, first of our naval heroes, whose name has been thought worthy, 1657." in the most stirring of our maritime war-songs, to be placed by the side of Nelson. Blake [says a great but unwilling witness'] was the first man that declined the old track, and made it manifest that the science might be attained in less time than was imagined; and despised those rules which had been long in practice, to keep his ship and his men out of danger; which had been held in former times a point of great ability and circumspection, as if the principal art requisite in the captain of a ship had been to be sure to come home safe again. He was the first man who brought the ships Blake's funeral. Deane, June 24, 1653. Mackworth, Dec. 26, 1654. Constable, June 21, 1655. Worsley, June 12, 1656. to contemn castles on shore, which had been thought ever very formidable, and were discovered by him to make a noise only, and to fright those who could rarely be hurt by them. He was the first that infused that proportion of courage into the seamen, by making them see by experience, what mighty things they could do if they were resolved; and taught them to fight in fire as well as upon water and, though he hath been very well imitated and followed, he was the first that gave the example of that kind of naval courage and bold and resolute achievements. It was after his last action with the Spaniards-' which, with 'all its circumstances, was very wonderful, and will never be forgotten in Spain and the Canaries-that Blake on his return 'sickened, and in the very entrance of the fleet into the Sound of Plymouth, expired.' He wanted no pomp of funeral when he was dead, Cromwell causing him to be brought up by land to London in all the state that could be; and to encourage his officers to venture their lives, that they might be pompously buried, he was, with all the solemnity possible, and at the charge of the public, interred in Harry the Seventh's Chapel, among the monuments of the Kings.1 This is the first distinct claim of a burial in Westminster Abbey as an incentive to heroic achievements, and it came well through the ruler from whose reign 'the maritime glory of the Empire may first be traced in a track of continuous 'light.' 2 In Henry VII.'s Chapel were also interred Colonel Deane, the companion of Popham and Blake; Colonel Mackworth, one of Cromwell's Council: Sir William Constable, one of the Regicides; and near to him, General Worsley,3 'Oliver's 1 Clarendon, vii. 215. His dear friend, General Lambert, rode in the procession from the landing place. (Campbell's Admirals, ii. 126.) 2 Hallam's Const. Hist. ii. 356. Heath s Chronicle, p. 381. History of Birch Chapel in Manchester Parish, pp. 39-51, by the Rev. J. Booker. There is no entry of his burial in the Register. He died in St. James's Palace (Thurloe State Pa-' pers, v. p. 122), where, in the Chapel Royal, two of his children were buried. 'great and rising favourite,' who had charge of the Speaker's mace when that bauble' was taken from the table of the Long Parliament; probably also Denis Bond,1 of the Council, who died four days before Cromwell, in the beginning of that terrific storm which caused the report that the Devil was coming, and that Cromwell, not being prepared, had given bond for his appearance. Last of all came Bradshaw, who died in the short interval of Bradshaw, Nov. 2, Richard Cromwell's Protectorate, and was interred from the 1659. Deanery, which had been assigned to him as Lord-President of the High Court of Justice. He was laid, doubtless, in the same vault as his wife, in a superb tomb amongst the 'kings.' The funeral sermon was preached by his favourite Independent pastor, Rowe, on Isaiah lvii. 1. ment of magnates All these were disinterred at the Restoration. The fate of Cromwell's remains, which was shared equally by Bradshaw's and Ireton's, we have already seen. For the rest the King sent an order to the Dean of Westminster, to take up Disinterthe bodies of all such persons as had been unwarrantably the buried in Henry VII.'s Chapel or the Abbey, since the year magna 1641, and to bury them in some place in the churchyard Commonadjacent. The order was carried out two days afterwards. Sept. 12, All who were thus designated-in number twenty-one-were 1661. exhumed, and reinterred in a pit dug at the back-door of one of the two prebendal houses in St. Margaret's Churchyard, To these may be added-from the Register, and from the warrant in Nichols's Collect. viii. 153-(under the Choristers' seats in the Choir) Colonel Boscawen and Colonel Carter (1645); close to Lord Norris's tomb, Colonel Meldrum (1644); on the north side of the Confessor's Chapel, Humphrey Salwey (December 20, 1652); on its south side, Thomas Haselrig (October 30, 1651); the poet May, and the preachers Twiss, Strong, 8 and Marshall (1646-55). See Chap- 2 Kennett's Register, p. 536. See Nichols's Collect. viii. 153. • See Chapter III. 'The warrant is given verbatim in Nichols's Collect. viii. 153. See Appendix. Kennett's Register, p. 534.-The houses stood till February 17, 1738-39 of the wealth, Seven exceptions. Popham's monument. Archbishop Ussher, died at Reigate March 21, 1655-6; buried April 17, 1656. which then blocked up the north side of the Abbey, between the North Transept and the west end. Isaac Dorislausperhaps from a compunction at the manner of his deathwas laid in a grave somewhat apart. Seven only of those who had been laid in the Abbey by the rulers of the Commonwealth escaped what Dr. Johnson calls this mean revenge. Popham was indeed removed, but his body was conveyed to some family burial place; and his monument, by the intercession of his wife's friends (who had interest at Court), was left in St. John's Chapel, on condition either of erasing the inscription, or turning it inwards.1 Archbishop Ussher had been buried in state, at Cromwell's express desire, and at the cost of 200l., paid by him. When the corpse approached London, it was met by the carriages of all the persons of rank then in town. The clergy of London and its vicinity attended the hearse from Somerset House to the Abbey, where the concourse of people was so great that a guard of soldiers was rendered necessary. This funeral was the only occasion on which the Liturgical Service was heard within the Abbey during the Commonwealth. The sermon was preached by Dr. Nicolas Bernard (formerly his chaplain, and then preacher at Gray's Inn), on the appropriate text, 'And Samuel died, and all Israel were gathered together;" and the body was then deposited in St. Paul's Chapel, next to |