Mr. Vines, in his sermon at the interment, compared Essex to Abner, and observed: "The funeral, for the state of it, overmatches the pattern. Here are the two Houses of Parliament, the map of all England in two globes, pouring out their sorrows, and paying their kisses of honourable farewell to his tutelar sword."
[642] History of Rebellion, 610.
[643] After leaving Holdenby, during the three days the King tarried at Childerley, many doctors, graduates, and scholars of the University repaired thither, "to most of whom the King was pleased to give his hand to kiss; for which honour they returned their gratulatory and humble thanks with a Vivat Rex." He was also visited by Fairfax, Cromwell, Ireton, Skippon, Lambert, Whalley, and other officers of the Parliament army, some of whom kissed his hand.—Wood's Ath. Oxon., ii., fasti 81.
[644] Clarendon, 613.
[645] Ludlow's Memoirs, vol. i. 240.
[646] Ludlow, vol. i. 207.
[647] Clarendon, 616.
[648] Blomefield's Hist. of Norwich, i. 394, 395.
[649] Journals of Lords, May the 19th. Rushworth, vii. 1119. At Bury, the cry was "For God and King Charles."
[650] 1648, 26th of April.—"It is thought fit and agreed that Tuesday next shall be set apart and kept as a solemn day of thanksgiving for God's deliverance of this city from the rebellious company of people that did rise against them upon Monday last, and that Mr. Carter be desired to preach in the forenoon, and Mr. Collings in the afternoon, both at the Cathedral, and that they shall have 20s. a piece, and that the great guns shall be shot off, and that the aldermen shall be in scarlet and attended with the livery, and that the churchwardens and overseers of every parish do go from house to house to take the benevolence in writing of every person that will give for the relief of the poor who are in want, to be delivered unto the Court of Mayoralty, to be by them distributed."—Corporation Records.