64 on the interment of Charles 1. Nov. 14 
to open the coffin and lead. They being fully satis- 
fied it was the king, his head was sewed to his body. 
They gave orders to the plumber to cast a piece of 
lead, sometwo feetlong, with this inscription: ‘* This 
is king Charles 1. 1648,” and solder the lead acrofs 
the roof of the coffin. This being done, the coffin 
was nailed up, and remained two days in the hall, 
being darkened with velvet pall, and two lighted ta* 
pers upon the coffin. After which time, the corpse 
was carried by two soldiers of the garrison into the 
chapel, the lords above named bearing up the pall: 
bifhop Juxon, and the governor of the castle, whose 
name was Whichcot, and the officers of the garrison, — 
with others, following the corpse; which corpse, with 
the velvet pall, was placed upon two trufsels, in a ~ 
vault in the middle of the choir, by king Henry vu. 
and hisqueen Jane. The governor commanded some of © 
his officers to see the workman close up the vault. The 
governor would not suffer the bifhop to bury the 
king after the church of England manner ; neither 
would the lords allow of his way. There was nothing 
read at the grave; the bithop’s lips were observed, 
to move.’ They were all full of tears and sorrow. 
—The soldiers had twelvepence each for carrying ” 
the corpse to the grave. 
This king’s interment, like that of Oliver Crom= 
well, has been much disputec ; and it has never before 
been authentically proved, that the real body of 
king Charles 1. was deposited in the royal chapel at 
Wiadsor. ‘4 
