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covered with a cloth of gold of tyffew, 
witha cro{s, and two white branches and 
two candlefticks, fiver and gilt, which 
being done, everg man departed for that 
hignt. ; j 
<¢ The next being Friday, in the morn- 
ing, about eight of the clock, every man 
did repair to the church, and took their 
places as afore. 
‘Then began the firft maffe of our 
Lady, fung folemnly with deacon and 
fub-deacon, and at the offertory the cheif 
mourner offered a peice of gold of half a 
crown, aflifted with the other mourners ; 
which being dene, 
‘< Then began the mafs cf the twenty, 
fung, fet in like manner as afore; but in 
the offering, the cheif mourner offered a 
peceof gold of a crown, affifted as be+ 
fore; which being finifhed, 
‘¢ Then the mourners with all the off-’ 
cers went in good manner to the Mannor- 
place, where was prepared for them bread 
and drink as appertaineth for that diy, 
being Friday; and this done, every man 
returned in good order to the church to 
their places appointed, and the torches, 
herfe, and other lights being lighted, 
«© Then began the mals of requiem, 
fung by the Abbat of Bury in pontifica- 
libus, with deacon and fubdeacon; and at 
the offertory the monks offered their ob-. 
Jation after the cuftom and manner. 
sé Them offered the cheif mourner a 
noble in gold, being conduéted by the 
officers at arms, affifted with the other 
mourners, and fo returned back again to 
the herfe. j : | 
Then all the mourners returned back 
again to offer for themfelves every mana 
groat, : 
‘* Then offered the attendants, with all 
other that wold, — ; 
<¢ Then began the fermon by the Vicar 
of Croydon. 
«© Then all the other ceremonyes being 
done and finifhed, withdivers other mafies 
in his own chapel, in the abbey and parifh 
church, with other prayers, 
‘¢ Then began a great dole given among 
the poor. . 
‘« Then all things finifhed, the lord 
cheif mourner, with all the other, went 
in like order as afore unto the Manour- 
place to dinner ; which being done, every 
man took bis leave and departed. 
‘© Then the banners were fet in order in 
the faid chapel with braces of iron. 
“* The herfe with all the other things 
did remain there until the month’s mind. 
‘© The heralds rewarded with five 
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Londinianas 2 SS 
pounds and thanks, befides their gowns 
and attendents’ cotes.”’ 
STATUE OF KING CHARLES aT 
CHARING-CROSS. 
Men on harleback may be very fire- 
queutly obferved upon our ancicnt feals ; 
and we have one iniliance, in a bold bas- 
relief, fo early as 1296, in a trefoil, in 
the larger pediment of Edmund Eat of 
Lancafter’s tomb, in Weltminfter Abbey, 
although among the earlier periods of our 
fculpture nothing like an equeftiian ftatue 
can be found. 
Saint-Foix, in his Hiftarical Effays up- 
on Paris, obferves, thet under the firft, 
fecond, and third race of the French mo. 
narchs, till the reign of Loyis XIII. if 
the flatue of a king was produced, it was 
only to be placed upon his tomb, oratthe 
porch af fome church or royal houfe 
which he had caufed to be built cr repair- 
ed. The equeftrian ftatue of Henry the 
Fourth, upon the Pont Neuf, was the firft 
general and public monument of the kind 
erected to the glory of the Kings of 
France. Like the ftatue we are about to 
mention, it was of bronze, was begun 
Auguft 23, 1614, and finifhed in 1635. 
The pedettal, together with its ornaments, 
was the work of Francheville; the horfe 
was made by Jzan du Boulogne, at Flo. 
rence, and the figureof Henry 1V. by Du 
Pré. The whole cofting 30,000 crowns. 
—(Brice, Nouvelle Defcr. dela Ville de 
Paris. iv. 179.) 
We have been thus particular in regard 
tothe fatue which ficod upon the Pont 
Neuf, as it feems to have been the exame 
ple for that at Charing-crefs; in which, 
as an elegant critic has obferved, the com- 
manding grace of the figure, and exqui- 
fite form of the horfe, are friking to the 
moft unpractifed eye. This piece was 
caft by Herbert le Sceur, in 1633, in a 
fpot of ground near the church of Covent- 
garden ; and not being erected before the 
commencement of the civil war, it was 
fold by the Parliament to John Rivet, a 
brazier, living at the Dial, near Holborn- 
conduit, with ffrict ordersto break it in 
pieces. But the man preduced fome frag- 
ments of old brafs, and concealed the 
ftatue and horfe under ground till the Re- 
ftoration. They had been made at the 
expence of the family of Howard- Arun- 
dei, who have flill receipts to thew. by 
whom and for whom beth this and Le 
Sceur’s other work (the fttatue of Wil- 
liam Earl of Pembroke, in the. picture- 
gallery at Oxford) were caft. > 
The fiatue at Charing-crofs was fet up 
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