Chapter Notes

Introduction

1. Thomas Taylor Lewis (ed.), Letters of the Lady Brilliana Harley (London: Camden Society, 1854), pp. 246–7.

2. Randolph Yearwood, The Penitent Murderer. Being An Exact Narrative Of the Life and Death of Nathaniel Butler (London: T. Newcomb, 1659), pp. 25–6.

3. Ibid., p.26.

Chapter One: The Natural Death

1. E. Hockliffe (ed.), The Diary of the Rev. Ralph Josselin, Camden Third Series, Vol. 15 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1908), p.74.

2. Anthony Walker (ed.), Memoir of Lady Warwick: Also Her Diary (London: The Religious Tract Society, 1847), p.111.

3. Henry Ellis (ed.), Original Letters Illustrative of English History, Second Series, Vol. 4 (London: Harding and Lepard, 1827), p.37.

4. William Bray (ed.), The Diary of John Evelyn, Vol. 1 (London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1907), p.404.

5. Margaret M. Verney (ed.), Memoirs of the Verney Family, Vol. 2 (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904), p.250.

6. S. Wilton Rix (ed.), The Diary and Autobiography of Edmund Bohun Esq. (Beccles: Read Crisp, 1853), p.38.

7. Ibid., pp. 38–9.

8. Andrew Clark (ed.), The Life and Times of AnthonyWood, Vol. 2, Oxford Historical Society, Vol. 21 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892), p.101.

9. Anon. (ed.), William Lilly’s History of His Life and Times (London: Charles Baldwyn, 1822), p.30.

10. Thomas Heywood (ed.), The Diary of the Rev. Henry Newcome, The Chetham Society, Vol. 18 (Manchester: The Chetham Society, 1849), p.15.

Chapter Two: The Soldierly Death

1. Francis Gregory, A thanksgiving sermon for peace abroad (London: Richard Sare, 1697), p.13.

2. C.H. Firth (ed.), The Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894), p.103.

3. G. Roberts, The History of Lyme-Regis, Dorset, From the Earliest Periods to the Present Day (Sherborne: Langdon and Harker, 1823), p.46.

4. William Douglas Hamilton (ed.), Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I, 1644–1645 (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1890), p.45.

5. Henry B. Wheatley (ed.), The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 1 (New York: Random House, pref. 1893), pp. 1098–9.

6. ‘Cornelis Tromp’ appears to be the standard form of his name, as opposed to Cornelius van Tromp.

7. Anon., The life of Cornelius Van Tromp, Lieutenant-Admiral of Holland and Westfriesland (London: J. Orme, 1697), p.449.

8. Daniel Defoe, Curious and diverting journies, thro’ the whole island of Great-Britain (London: G. Parker, 1734), no page number given.

9. Edward Maunde Thompson (ed.), Correspondence of the Family of Hatton, Vol. 2 (London: The Camden Society, 1878), pp. 99–100.

Chapter Three: The Criminal Death

1. Norman Egbert McClure (ed.), The Letters of John Chamberlain, Vol. 2 (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1939), p.15.

2. Mary Anne Everett Green (ed.), Diary of John Rous (London: The Camden Society, 1856), pp. 30–1.

3. J.C. Hodgson (ed.), Six North Country Diaries, Surtrees Society, Vol. 118 (Durham: Andrews and Co., 1910), p.46.

4. McClure, The Letters of John Chamberlain, Vol. 1, pp. 297–8.

5. Anon. (ed.), A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 (Narcissus Luttrell), Vol. 4 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1847), p.418.

6. Maunde Thompson, Correspondence of the Family of Hatton, Vol. 1, p.131.

7. Anon. (ed.), Murder and Petty-Treason: or, Bloody News from Southwark (London, 1677), p.7.

8. Andrew Clark (ed.), The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, Vol. 3, Oxford Historical Society, Vol. 26 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894), pp. 552–3.

9. George Roberts, The Life, Progresses, and Rebellion of James, Duke of Monmouth, Vol. 2 (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844), pp. 224–5.

10. Anon., The last words of Coll. Richard Rumbold, Mad. Alicia Lisle, Alderman Henry Cornish, and Mr.Richard Nelthrop who were executed in England and Scotland for high treason in the year 1685 (London, 1685), pp. 3–4.

11. Verney, Memoirs, Vol. 2, pp. 404–5.

12. Anon., England’s Black Tribunal Containing: I. The Complete Tryal of King Charles the First (…) (London: R. Freeman, 1747), pp. 5–6.

Chapter Four: The Deathbed

1. J.B. Williams, Memoirs of the Life, Character, and Writings of the Rev. Matthew Henry (London: J. Holdsworth, 1828), p.256.

2. Wheatley, Pepys, Vol. 1, p.859.

3. Anon. (ed.), Historical Notices of Events Occurring Chiefly in the Reign of Charles I (Nehemiah Wallington), Vol. 1 (London: Richard Bentley, 1869), p.197.

4. The will of Sir John Croftes, 1 Feb 1630, PCCRP: Will Registers PROB 11/157/102. (1 Feb 1630 was the date of probate.)

Chapter Five: Of Corpses, Coffins, and Carriages

1. Linda A. Pollock, With Faith and Physic: The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman, Lady Grace Mildmay, 1552–1620 (London: Collins & Brown, 1993), p.40.

2. Charles Severn (ed.), Diary of the Rev. John Ward (London: Henry Colburn, 1839), p.261.

3. Ellis, Original Letters, Vol. 4, p.37.

4. M. Misson, Memoirs and Observations in His Travels Over England (London, 1719), pp. 89–90.

5. J.E. Foster (ed.), The Diary of Samuel Newton (Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1890), pp. 18–9.

6. Various (eds), Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, New Series, Vol. 6 (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892), p.7.

7. The will of Sir Thomas Cornwallis, 6 Feb 1605, PCCRP: Will Registers PROB 11/105/106.

8. Verney, Memoirs, Vol. 2, p.417.

Chapter Six: The Common and the Noble Funeral

1. John Dunton, A Mourning-Ring in memory of your departed Friend (London, 1692), p.289.

2. Elizabeth Cust (ed.), Records of the Cust Family, Series II: The Brownlows of Belton, 1550–1779 (London: Mitchell Hughes and Clarke, 1909), pp. 173–4.

3. The will of Sir Thomas Cambell, 12 March 1614, PCCRP: Will Registers PROB 11/123/273.

4. The will of Alexander Eylmer, 13 Aug 1602, PCCRP: Will Registers PROB 11/100/144.

5. Thomas Ken, A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable the Lady Margaret Mainard, at Little Easton in Essex, on the 30th of June, 1682 (London, 1688), no page number given.

6. Matthew Henry Lee (ed.), Diaries and Letters of Philip Henry (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1882), p.116.

7. Henry James Morehouse (ed.), Extracts from the Diary of the Rev. Robert Meeke (London: H.G. Bohn, 1874), p.50.

8. J. Horsfall Turner (ed.), The Rev. Oliver Heywood: His Autobiography, Diaries, Anecdote and Event Books, Vol. 1 (Brighouse: 1882), p.339.

9. Various (eds), Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, Vol. 1 (Colchester: The Essex and West Suffolk Gazette Office, 1858), p.119.

10. Various, Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, Vol. 1, p.118.

11. James Orchard Halliwell (ed.), TheAutobiography and Correspondence of Sir Simonds d’Ewes, Vol. 1 (London: Richard Bentley, 1845), p.132.

12. Verney, Memoirs, Vol. 2, p.501.

Chapter Seven: Royal Funerals

1. Walter Scott (ed.), A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts, Vol. 1 (London: anonymous printer, 1809), p.250.

2. James Heath, Flagellum: or the Life and Death, Birth and Burial of O. Cromwell (London, 1665), pp. 195–6.

3. Bray, Evelyn, Vol. 2, p.336.

Chapter Eight: The Unorthodox Burial

1. Harry Gill and Everard L. Guilford (eds), The Rector’s Book (William Sampson) (Nottingham: H.B. Saxton, 1910), p.63.

2. J. Charles Cox, The Parish Registers of England (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1910), p.175.

3. Foster, Newton, p.109.

4. Wheatley, Pepys, Vol. 2, p.38.

5. Anon., Historical Notices, Vol. 2, p.134.

6. Thomas Ellison Gibson (ed.), Crosby Records: A Chapter of Lancashire Recusancy, The Chetham Society, Vol. 12 (Manchester: Charles E. Simms, 1887), p.42.

7. Ellison Gibson, Crosby Records, p.45.

8. William Warburton (ed.), The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (Clarendon), Vol. 7 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1826), p.290.

9. Everett Green, John Rous, p.76.

10. Heywood, Henry Newcome, p.73.

Chapter Nine: Remembrance

1. John Clay (ed.), North Country Wills, 1383–1558, Surtrees Society, Vol. 116 (Durham: Andrews & Co., 1908), p.51.

2. The will of Sir William Cornwallis, 27 Nov 1611, PCCRP: Will Registers PROB 11/118/441.

3. John Blatchly, “The lost and mutilated memorials of the Bovile and Wingfield families at Letheringham,” in Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute for Archaeology and History 33, No. 2 (1974), p.190.

4. Catherine E. Parsons, All Saints’ Church Horseheath (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911), p.47.

5. Verney, Memoirs, Vol. 1, p.530.

6. Will no. 245 in Marion E. Allen (ed.), Wills of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, 1620–1624 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1989), p.137.

7. IC/AA1, Wills, Suffolk Records Office, Ipswich.

8. As seen on the monuments in Westminster Abbey.

9. The will of Thomas Goodwyn, 25 Apr 1638, PCCRP: Will Registers PROB 11/176/543.

10. The will of Sir Humphrey Handford, 8 Dec 1625, PCCRP: Will Registers PROB 11/147/493.

11. George C. Williamson (ed.), Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke & Montgomery, 1590–1676: Her Life, Letters, and Work (Kendal: Titus Wilson and Son, 1922), p.467.

12. The will of Mary Cornwalleys, 29 Feb 1632, PCCRP: Will Registers PROB 11/161/282.

13. The will of Sir Francis Nedham, 11 May 1638, PCCRP: Will Registers PROB 11/177/96.

14. Hockliffe, Josselin, p.179.

Conclusion: The Seventeenth Century and Beyond

1. Words from the trade card of the undertaker and coffin dealer Robert Green (London, 1752).

2. Thomas Noon Talfourd (ed.), The Works of Charles Lamb (London: Edward Moxon, 1848), p.63.

3. Anon., “The Grand State Funeral of Arthur Duke of Wellington,” The Illustrated London News, 27 Nov 1852, p.17.

4. Anon., The Cholera Gazette, Consisting of Documents Communicated by the Central Board of Health (London: S. Highley, 1832), pp. 37–8.

5. Romillys (eds), The Life of Sir Samuel Romilly, Vol. 2 (London: John Murray, 1842), pp. 486–7.

6. H.W., The House of Mourning (London, 1640), no page number given.