. Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry . er the battle, the bodie of the same king being found,was closed in lead, and conveyed from thence to London, and tothe monasterie of Sheyne in Surrey, where it remained for a o % 196 VISIT TO LINDISFARNE, ETC. time, in what order I am not certaine; but since the dissolutionof that house, in the reygne of Edward the Sixt, Henry Grey,Duke of Suffolke, being lodged, and keeping house there, I havebeen shewed the same bodie so lapped in lead, close to the headand
. Visits to remarkable places : old halls, battle fields, and scenes illustrative of striking passages in English history and poetry . er the battle, the bodie of the same king being found,was closed in lead, and conveyed from thence to London, and tothe monasterie of Sheyne in Surrey, where it remained for a o % 196 VISIT TO LINDISFARNE, ETC. time, in what order I am not certaine; but since the dissolutionof that house, in the reygne of Edward the Sixt, Henry Grey,Duke of Suffolke, being lodged, and keeping house there, I havebeen shewed the same bodie so lapped in lead, close to the headand bodie, throwne into a waste room amongst the old timber,lead, and other rubble. Since the which time, workmen therefor their foolish pleasure, hewed off his head; and LancelotYoung, master glazier to Queen Elizabeth, feelinge a sweetsavour to come from thence, and yet the form remaining, withthe hair of the head and beard red, brought it to London tohis house in Wood-street, where (for a time) he kept it for thesweetness; but, in the end, caused the sexton of that church tobury it amongst other bones, taken out of their LINDISFARNE.
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