his own chaplain will not suffer us to
doubt,) that every day of his life he read and meditated upon the word
of God, for the express purpose of learning how best to fear and serve
him; a daily exercise (says the chaplain) from which, when he was
engaged in it, no one even of his chief nobles and the great men of
his state[235] could withdraw him.[236]

[Footnote 235: Sloane, 64.]

[Footnote 236: It is satisfactory to find, even
among the mere details of expenditure, testimony
borne to his love of the Holy Scriptures. Among his
last domestic expenses is this interesting item:
"To John Heth 3_l._ 6_s._ for sixty-six quarterns
of calfskins, purchased and provided by the said
John, to write a Bible thereon for the use of the
King."--Pell Rolls, February 23, 1422, just six
months before his death.]

The bowels of Henry were buried in the monastery of St. Maur; and
his body embalmed, being put into a leaden coffin, was drawn to
St. Denis. Before and behind the corpse were two lamps burning;
and two hundred and fifty torches gave light to the procession.
The Abbot and Monks of St. Denis came out to meet it, and
solemnly preceded it to their church, where they performed (p. 308)
the office for the dead, the Archbishop of Paris singing the
requiem. From St. Denis the procession advanced to Paris, where
the body was deposited for a while in Notre Dame; and thence,
with great and solemn pomp, it was carried to Rouen. The Queen,
from whom the death of her husband had been before concealed,
here met the Duke of Bedford; and made preparations for the
conveyance of the body to England. In a bed, in the same carriage
with the body, was laid the figure of the King, with a crown of
gold on his head, a sceptre in his right hand, and a ball in his
left. The covering of the bed was vermilion silk embroidered with
gold, and over the chariot was a rich silk canopy. The chariot
was drawn by six horses in rich harness. The first bore the arms
of St. George, the second, the arms of Normandy; the third, those
of King Arthur; the fourth, those of St. Edward; the fifth, the
arms of France; the sixth, the arms of England and France. James,
King of