By the Rev. R. H. Clutterbuck. 



75 



stay so long for tbeir money, In the meantime the ladies grow weary of watching 

 at Denmark house. Though all day long there is more concourse there, than 

 when she was living. Her obsequies they say shall be very solemn and well they 

 may be if she has left such an estate behind her as is reputed, some particulars 

 wherof I will relate unto you, as I have heard them more than once and of more 



than one 



" For mine own part I am not so fully satisfied as to think that her jewels are 

 valuably rated at £40,000 sterling, her plate at £90,000, her ready coine 80,000 

 Jacobus pieces 12 whole pieces of cloth of gold and silver, besides other silkes. 

 Linen for quantity and quality beyond any Prince in Europe, and so for all other 

 kinds of hangings. Bedding and furniture answerable. Now for yearly incomes 

 the King shall have £600,000, that her household her servants and stable stood him 

 in, besides £24,000 that was her 'joynter' and allowed for her own person and 

 £1300, she had for certain years out of the sugars and a late grant of cloth, 

 which they say the King hath bestowed on the Prince for as the speech of a will 

 it is like to proove nothing, and perhaps it fell out for the best, for it is verely 

 thought she meant to have made the King of Denmark her executor if she had 

 had time and leasure, for he had greatly insinuated himself, and it is thought, if 

 she had lived but three months longer, we should have seen him here once 

 more 



" The prince was sent for on Monday and met the King twixt Newmarket 

 and Royston. The King keeps his Easter at Royston, and thither the Bishop 

 of Winchester was sent for and went yesterday to preach to-morrow. 



" With the remembrance of my best service to my good lady, I commend you 

 to the protection of the Almighty. From London this 27 March 1619." * 



The funeral did not really take place until the 22nd of May (two 

 months and twenty days after her death), and as in Chamberlain's 

 account of it there is a good deal which falls in with the subject 

 I want to mention presently, I shall venture, if you are not too 

 much depressed already, to introduce his letter nearly entire : — 



" My very good Lord. Coming yesterday late, from the queens funeral, I 

 understood of Mr. Barnards arrival. It were to no purpose to make any long 

 description of the funeral, which was but a drawling tedious sight, more remark 

 able for number than for any other singularity, there being 280 poor women 

 besides an army of mean fellows that were servants to the Lords and others of 

 the train, and though the number of Lords and Ladies were very great, yet me- 

 thought altogether they made but a poor shew, which perhaps was, because they 

 were apparelled all alike, or that they came lagging all along, even tired with the 

 length of the way and the weight of their clothes. Every lady having 12 yards 

 of broad cloth about her, and the countesses 16. The Countess of Arundel was 

 chief mourner (but whether in her own right, or as supplying the place of the 

 Lady Elizabeth, I know not) being supported by the Duke of Lenox and the 

 Marquis Hamilton. As likewise the rest had some to lean on, or else I see not 



* State Papers, Domestic Series, James I,, vol. 107—54. 



