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For the Monthly Magaziae. 
LONDINIANA. 
No. II. 
ABBAT ISLIP'’S FUNERAL. 
N the Collese of Arms is this account 
of Abbat ‘Iflip of Wcitminiter’s fu- 
neral. 
«¢ The Interment of the Reverend Fathe 
in God Doni paus John Hipp, Abbot 
of the Monaitery of Weitminfter, and 
one of the Kong’s Majeity’s Privy 
Councell, deceafed, at or nigh or next 
belide Weltminiter, the xiith day of 
May, being Sunday, about 4 and 5 
o'clock at afternoone ; the Dominical 
Letter, F; anno 1532; the 24th yere 
of King Henry the Eight. 
«: Birft, his corpfe was chefted and 
tered, and fo remaimed-in a large parlour 
in the faid place, which was hanged with 
bleck cloth, garnifhed with feotcheons of 
Londiniana. 
his arms aod tive nee REL the corpfe co- 
vered wih a rich pail of cloth of tiffue, 
and buraing night and day four great ta- 
pers, with ‘mafles daily, asd every night 
watch, unul Thuriday the. 15th day, 
about 2 of the clock, at which time came 
all the fathers of the houfe. with the 
monks, and the Abbat ef Bury, in penti- 
ficalibus, did fey fuch ceremonyes as to 
the fame appertaineth the {pace of an 
hour, 
«¢ Then about 3 of the clock the corpfe 
was conveyed into Weitminiter monaftery 
in manner following : 
«Fir, two conduStors, John Gardyn 
and William Alove, with each of them 
in their hands a black flail, to avoid iuch 
people as would not be ordered, and make 
Feom. 
«© Then the ereffe. 
« Then the three orders of friers of 
Canterbury. 
«< Then diverfe orders of religious per- 
fons, as the brotherhood of the pr riefts, and 
clark of the parifh. 
«© Then the priefts and clarks of Sf. 
Margaret’s in Weitminiter, with all the 
monks of the faid monaitery. 
*«¢ Then the abbat of St. Edmund’s 
Bury, in pontificalibus, with his aflidance 
in eoodly rich copes. 
«< Then gent tlemen in goodly biack rich 
hoods, two and two, and his two chap. 
Jans Dr. Dudley and Sir Robert Sheder, 
with others, as Dr. Sherten and Dr. 
D-ke, and the vicar of Croydon, with di- 
vers others. 
«© Then Richmond and Lancafier, in the 
King’s cotes of arms, 
[ Feb. ly 
 «¢ Then the ¢corpfe, berne by fix of his 
yeomen in black cotes, and other fix going 
by to help them as they did need. 
«< ‘Phen about the corpfe four affiftants, 
Mr. Hawes, Mr. Jude, Mr. Andre,. and 
Mr. Deckura, and at each end, at each 
corner, a banner + of Our Lady, by John 
James ; St. Peter, by John Sheder; St. 
Edward’s, by William Middleton ; and 
St7C atherine” s, by Thomas Kemp ; “with, 
black gowns, and hoods en their heads; 
alfo two branches of white wax by two 
clerkes in their furplices. 
“‘Ttem, afore the corpfe, twenty-four 
poore men in gowns and hoods, in one 
range, bearing twenty-four torches. 
‘* Item, about the corpfe, twelve ftaff- 
torches, borne by twelve yeomen im black 
cotes. Then after the corpfe, alone, the 
Lord Windfor,. chief-mourner, with fix 
others, two and two, Sir Henry - Wiat, 
Sir Hugh Vaughan, Mr. Denfell, frjeant 
at hw. and Mr. Baker, ricohale of Lon- 
don, Mr. Joyner, and Mr. Tamwerth, in 
long gowns and hoods. 
‘© Tien the yeomen-farmers of the faid 
defun& in black cotes. 
“< Then diverfe other men and women 
of Weftminfer and other places, fo that 
the train reached from next until Tutle- 
ftreet, and fo proceeded unto the monaf- 
tery, doing fuch ceremonyes as_ to the 
fame apperaineth. 
~ « And at the-entry of the fa'd mona 
tery, the Abbat of Bury, with his-ailift- 
ants, did receive the faid corpie, and fo 
proceeded into the faid quoir, where it 
was fet under a goodly herfe, with many 
lights and vallance fet with pencills and 
double was: with formes hanged with 
black ¢loth, and garnifhed with {cotcheens 
of arms, and the choir likewile, and fo the 
mourners took their places. 
<¢ Then the dirige began, foleanily fang 
by the faid monatiery ; 3 and diverfe diriges 
done at other places of the church, which 
eing done with the other ceremonyes, the _ 
mourners with the others departed intoa — 
place over the chapel of the defuné, 
where was prepared for them fpyced bread, 
fucket, marmalet, fpyeed cake, and di- 
verie forts of wines plentie. And in the 
mean feefon they ef the church did bury 
the defunct in the faid chapel of his build- 
ing, which was hanged with black cloth, 
earnithed with {cutcheons, and ~over his 
fepulchre a pawl of black velvet, and two 
candlefticks, with angels of ‘filver, and 
gilt, with two tapers thereon, and four 
about the corple burning fill. ~ 
«© Then in the quire waderneath the 
herfe was made a preientation of the corpfe 
covered 
