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XXIV.—The Discovery of the Remains of King Henry VI in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2011

W. H. St. John Hope
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In the year 1790 the Bishop of Carlisle, Dr. John Douglas, who was also Dean of Windsor, communicated to the Society of Antiquaries an account of ‘the Vault, Body, and Monument, of Edward IV. in St. George's Chapel at Windsor ’. This forms one of the memoirs printed in the third volume of Vetusta Momintenta, and describes certain discoveries made on 13th March, 1789, ‘in making the ground to receive the new pavement’ in the north aisle of the quire.

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Archaeologia , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , 1911 , pp. 533 - 542
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1911

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page 535 note 1 Plummeridge, Platt, and Maisey.

page 536 note 1 Shipp.

page 537 note 1 The coffin may have been put into the vault through this arch, which was then bricked up.

page 538 note 1 ‘ Hugoni Brice In denariis sibi liberatis per manum propriam pro tot denariis per ipsum solutis tam pro Cera tela linea speciebus et alijs ordinarijs expensis per ipsum appositis et expenditis circa sepulturam dicti Henrici de Windesore qui infra Turrim London diem suum clausit extremum. Ac pro vadijs et regardis diversorum hominum portancium Tortos a Turri predicto usque ecclesiam Cathedralem Sancti Pauli London, et abinde usque Chertesey cum corpore presente per breve predictum …‥xv.li. iij.s. vj.d.ob.

Magistro Ricardo Martyn In denariis sibi liberatis ad vices videlicet una vice per manum propriam ix.li. xs. xjd. pro tot denariis per ipsum solutis pro xxviij ulnis tele linee de Holandia et expensis factis tam infra Turrim predictum ad ultimum vale dicti Henrici quam apud Chertesey in die sepulture ejusdem. Ac pro regardis datis diversis soldariis Cales vigilantibus circa corpus et pro conductu Bargearum cum Magistris et Nautis remigantibus per aquam Thamic usque Chertesey predictam et alia vice viijli xis iiijd pro tot denariis per ipsum solutis iiijor ordinibus fratrum infra Civitatem London, et fratribus sancte Crucis in eadem et in alijs operibus Caritatis videlicet Fratribus Carmet xxs. Fratribus Augustift xxs. Fratribus Minoribus xxs. Fratribus Predicatoribus pro obsequiis et missis celebrandis xls. et dictis Fratribus Sancte Crucis xs. Ac pro obsequijs et missis dicendis apud Chirtesey predictam in die sepulture dicti Henrici lijs iijd per breve predictum …‥xvjiili iijs iijd.' Issue Roll (Pells), Easter, ii Edward IV. No. 505.

page 537 note 2 Ed. Halliwell, , Camden Society 10 (London, 1839), 21Google Scholar.

page 539 note 1 The Union of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancastre and Yorke (London, 1548)Google Scholar. The prosperous reigne of Kyng Edward the Fourth, fo. xxxiiij.

page 539 note 2 Account Roll xv. 34, 60Google Scholar.

page 541 note 1 ‘ Et in mense Augusti proximo sequente effossum est corpus regis Henrici Sexti, et usque novam ecclesiam collegiatam castri de Wyndzour est translatum, ibi honorifice receptum, et cum maxima solempnitate iterum tumulatum ad australem partem summi altaris. Erat illud tune sacrum corpus valde odoriferum, non quidem ex speciebus appositis, cum per inimicos atque tortores suos erat sepultum. Et pro magna parte erat tune incorruptum, capillis et crinibus ubique fixum, facie consueta sed parvum depressa cum macilentiori aspectu solito. Et statim affluebant miracula regis sanctitatem profitentia, ut in scriptis ibi sufficienter evidet.’ Johannis Rossi antiquarii Warwicensis Historia Regum Angliac, ed. Hearne, T., 2nd edition (Oxford, 1745), 217Google Scholar.