Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 609
he king was laid upon the coffin, in order to impressyet more deeply the people who were admitted to do him homage. By special privilege the hanouars, or bearers of salt, carried the coffin;but at the interment of Charles VIII. twenty gentlemen of his householdvolunteered to act as bearers of the… … Fig. 399.—Funeral of St. Edward the Confessor, the Anglo-Saxon king, who died on the 5th ofJanuary, 1066.—The body, covered with an embroidered pall surmounted with two smallcrosses, being carried by eight men to Westminster Abbey, of which he was the founder.Behind come priests chanting the Psalms…
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