Scots, followed it as principal mourner. The banners of
the saints were borne by four lords. The hatchments were carried
by twelve captains; and around the carriage rode five hundred
men-at-arms, all in black armour,--their horses barbed black, and
their lances held with the points downwards. A great company
clothed in white, and bearing lighted torches, "encompassed the
hearse." Those of the King's household followed, and after them
the royal family; the Queen, with a great retinue, followed at a
league's distance. Whenever the corpse rested masses were sung
from the first dawn of the morning till nine o'clock. The
procession passed through Abbeville to Calais; and crossing to
Dover, proceeded with the same solemnities towards London. When
they approached the capital, they were met by fifteen bishops in
their pontifical habits, and many abbots in their mitres and
vestments, with a great company of priests and people. The
princes of the royal family went mourning next to the hearse. The
corpse was buried in Westminster Abbey, among its most valued
treasures.

Among the public acts[237] of the realm his death is thus (p. 309)
recorded:

[Footnote 237: Acts of Privy Council. Cleopatra, F.
iv. f. I. a.]

"DEPARTED THIS LIFE, AT THE CASTLE OF BOIS DE VINCENNES, NEAR
PARIS, ON THE LAST DAY OF AUGUST, IN THE YEAR 1422, AND THE TENTH
OF HIS REIGN, THE MOST CHRISTIAN CHAMPION OF THE CHURCH, THE
BRIGHT BEAM OF WISDOM, THE MIRROR OF JUSTICE, THE UNCONQUERED
KING, THE FLOWER AND PRIDE OF ALL CHIVALRY--*HENRY THE FIFTH*, KING
OF ENGLAND, HEIR AND REGENT OF FRANCE, AND LORD OF IRELAND."

Here we would have drawn the curtain round the bed of Henry of
Monmouth; but truth and justice compel us to tarry somewhat longer in
the chamber of death. The tongue and pen of calumny have not suffered
the dying hero to pour out his soul with his last breath in prayer and
pious ejaculations unmolested; and the accuser's name is too widely
known, and has unhappily gained too much influence in the world, for
his calumnies to be passed over as harmless. Henry, having "set his
house in order," and being certified how short a time he had to live,
declares, on the faith of a dying man, that he had been fully resolved
(had the Almighty granted him length of days to put his resolve into
effec