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<P>AN ACCOUNT OF THE Solemn Funeral AND INTERRMENT OF THE <HI>RIGHT HONO&V;RABLE</HI> The COUNTESS of ARRAN, As it was lately &s;ent in a Letter or Narrative from <HI>D&V;BLIN.</HI></P>
<P>Bearing Date, <HI>Aug.</HI> 12. 1688.</P>
<P>In the <HI>SAVOY.</HI> Printed by <HI>Tho. Newcombe,</HI> 1668.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>DUBLIN; <DATE>Augu&s;t 21. 1668.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THough we have not much Newes &s;tir|ing here, the Vigilance of Our Go|vernour, &s;o generally beloved, and Our own Inclinations di&s;po&s;ing us to Quietne&s;s and Peace, yet we grow every day more and more &s;en&s;ible of the Lo&s;s of the mo&s;t excellent and incomparable young Lady the Coun|te&s;s of <HI>Arran;</HI> a Lo&s;s &s;o General, as that it hath not onely drowned that Noble Family (which had the Honour of Her Relation) in Mourning and Teares, but all who had the happine&s;s to know her, in a very Gene|ral Lamentation: And, truely, as it hath plea&s;ed God to take her to him&s;elf, &s;o there hath not been wanting any Evidences of Honour to her Memory: And really her Funeral hath been performed with much Grandeur and Magnificence, &s;utable to the high Extraction and Relati|on of the Decea&s;ed Lady; &s;o that I take it to be a piece of Ju&s;tice to give you as particular an Account thereof as my own Ob&s;ervation could reach.</P>
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<P> The Body, after Embalming, was removed from <HI>Chap|pel Izod,</HI> where for &s;ome dayes it lay in Blacks, to a fair new Hou&s;e in <HI>Dammas</HI>-Street in <HI>Dublin,</HI> built by the late Lord Chancellor <HI>Eu&s;tace,</HI> which was thus fitted for its Re|ception.</P>
<P>The Pa&s;&s;age from the Great Gate, the large Common-Hall, and all other Roomes below Staires, and the great Staireca&s;e, were adorn'd with Blacks and Scutcheons; above Staires there were five faire Roomes hung with Scutcheons and Black-cloath from top to bottom, the large&s;t whereof (being the Antechamer to the State) was &s;pread with a Foot-cloth of Black-Bayes of about &s;ix foot wide, leading directly from the Entrance into the State; on the right|hand of the State a large Pa&s;&s;age-Roome hung with fine Black cloath, adorn'd with Scutcheons, and Back Staires hung with Black and Scutcheons for Per&s;ons to goe away to prevent Di&s;order, where &s;o great Re&s;ort of Company came.</P>
<P>The Room wherein the State lay, was hung with me Black Cloath, the very Roofe and Floore all of Black.</P>
<P>Over the Head of the Body there was erected a Noble Ca|nopy, Cu&s;hions, Foot-&s;tool, and Chair of State of Black Velvet, the Canopy adorned with &s;everal Scutcheons, and a Maje&s;ty Scutcheon within it over the Chair, with Suppor|ters, in forme of a <HI>Lozeng.</HI> The ground was rais'd upon which the Corps lay, upon the head whereof on a Velvet Cu&s;hion was placed a Coronet, upon the Body a Rich Pall of Velvet adorned with Scutcheons upon each &s;ide the Body; and on the a&s;cent were placed three Banner-Rolls, and at the Feet the Great Banner and Pennon, within them ten black Stands with Silver Candle&s;ticks, and Virgin-wax Tapers. The&s;e all had a Raile without covered with Black to keep off the Crowd; at each Banner-Roll &s;tood con&s;tantly a Gentlewoman attendant, and further off &s;everal Ladies of Quality paid their Re&s;pects; The whole Room, which was
<PB N="3" REF="3">fair and high was enlightned with a noble fair &s;ilver Branch, and &s;everal carved Scenes of the &s;ame mettle with wax Ta|pers, and in all the other Rooms &s;tood a great number of Gentlemen in deep mourning, who in a decent re&s;pectful &s;ilence gave reception to tho&s;e that came to view that &s;o|lemnity, which was vi&s;ited by all of Quality, be&s;ides multi|tudes of people which daily re&s;orted thither.</P>
<P>After a months thus lying in State, upon the 17th of <HI>Au|gu&s;t</HI> in&s;tant, the Body proceeded towards the City of <HI>Kilkenny,</HI> after this form, to the be&s;t of my ob&s;ervation.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, two Servants conductors with black Staves on Hor&s;eback; then above &s;ixty Servants all in black, ranckt in order according to their Quality: after the&s;e an En&s;igne of Honour; then the Gentry and Nobility related, in deep mourning: after them, followed the great Banner, born by an Earles Son a Relation; then the Steward and Comptroller with their Staves; then the Chaplains; then one of the Officers of Armes, with the Cu&s;hion and Coronet, on his left hand the Counte&s;&s;es Gentleman U&s;her.</P>
<P>After the&s;e followed the principal Officer of Armes alone; then the Body carried in a Hear&s;e of black Velvet, richly a|dornd with Shields, Scutchions, Pencils and Plumes, drawn by &s;ix Hor&s;es covered with black, and adorn'd with Scutchi|ons, the Hear&s;e &s;urrounded with the Banners, carried by &s;ix per&s;ons, the meane&s;t whereof was a Knight: upon the Hear&s;e there did attend eight Coaches in mourning; after them near eighty Coaches, whereof the greater part had &s;ix Hor&s;es apiece.</P>
<P>The&s;e by the diligence of the Officers, without any di&s;or|der or confu&s;ion, did decently pa&s;s through the City to|wards <HI>Kilkenny,</HI> the Gentlemen of the Country in large Bo|dies, meeting it upon the Road, mo&s;t of them being in Mourn|ing. The want of Accommodation upon the way for &s;o great a Train, and of Hou&s;es fit for the Reception of that noble per&s;onages Body, forced them to pitch up &s;everal
<PB N="4" REF="4">Tents, in one of the large&s;t whereof hung Scutchions and black; the Hear&s;e was lodged, attended by Gentlemen in Mourning, wherein there were &s;everal Apartments for the Gentlewomen in Mourning, guarded by &s;ome of the Royal Regiment de&s;igned for that &s;ervice without.</P>
<P>Upon <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> the 19th. in&s;tant, the day appointed for the &s;olemn interrment, the Corps was lodged as before in a fair large field, within two miles of <HI>Kilkenny,</HI> where at the hour appointed there was a very noble appearance of per&s;ons of Quality, and of Gentry from many remote parts of this Kingdom. The&s;e being formally drawn into order by the chief Officer of Armes, did afford a very &s;olemn, though a &s;ad pro|&s;pect.</P>
<P>The chief Mourner was the Counte&s;s of <HI>O&s;&s;ory,</HI> who with the re&s;t of the Ladies in their Coaches to the number of ten mourning Coaches, and about 50 more mo&s;t of &s;ix Hor&s;es a|piece followed the Hear&s;e, all the men being on Hor&s;eback before, whereof there were about five hundred in black. There were pre&s;ent one Archbi&s;hop, one Marque&s;s, twelve Earles and Vi&s;counts, four Bi&s;hops, &s;ix Barons, be&s;ides Noble|mens yonger &s;ons, Baronets, Knights, E&s;quires, and Gentle|men, a great number, all in mourning.</P>
<P>When they came within the precinct of St. <HI>Kennies</HI> Church, all allighted without confu&s;ion, as before, the chief Mourner being &s;upported by the Marque&s;s of <HI>Antrim</HI> and the Lord <HI>John Butler,</HI> a Gentleman going bare before on the left hand of the Officer of Armes, and the Pall was &s;upported by tho&s;e who were Brothers, or Brothers in Law to my Lord Lieute|nant.</P>
<P>When they came to con&s;ecrated Ground, they were met by the Bi&s;hop of <HI>O&s;sory,</HI> with many of the Clergy of his Dioce&s;s, together with the Dean of <HI>Chri&s;tchurch,</HI> and his whole Choyre, which waited upon the Hear&s;e from <HI>Dublin,</HI> for the more &s;olemn performance of Divine Service, and from the great We&s;t-gate, began their Anthem. The Church we
<PB N="5" REF="4">found hung with Scutchions and black, and at the Ea&s;t end was erected a &s;umptuous Hear&s;e of Velvit, richly adorned with Shields, Scutchions, and other glorious devices which pa&s;s my Heraldry to expre&s;s.</P>
<P>The Office of Interrment was performed by the Bi&s;hop, and the Body of that &s;weet Lady repo&s;ed in a fair Valut wherein the Ance&s;tors of the noble hou&s;e of <HI>Ormond</HI> did re&s;t; and though the malice of the late Rebellion did utterly deface and pull down as rich a Monument as this Kingdom, or perhaps mo&s;t others could parallel, yet we di&s;pair not of a|nother in a little time, &s;ince there is &s;o rich a Trea&s;ure com|mitted to the cu&s;tody of that Vault; and &s;ince there are &s;uch alive, whom God long pre&s;erve, who leave undone nothing which befits the memory of that noble Lady or them&s;elves.</P>
<P>After the divine Service and Anthems (which were very &s;olemnly and skilfully performed) and the office of Interr|ment pa&s;t, the Officer at Armes, repeated the Stile and Ti|tles of the Ladies di&s;cent, which concluded the Ceremony at Church.</P>
<P>From the Church mo&s;t of all tho&s;e per&s;ons of Quality did repair to the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Kilkenny,</HI> a &s;eat very oble, Excel|lently furni&s;hed, where Lodgings were provided for the mo&s;t con&s;iderable; there they found a &s;pacious Hall hung with large rich Tape&s;try; and in it, be&s;ides many other El&s;e|where, four large Tables covered, and within a little time furni&s;hed with 3t large &s;ilver Di&s;hes at each Table thrice o|ver, the la&s;t Cour&s;e whereof was an Exqui&s;ite Banquet; of all which Noble Treat, though I am no competent Iudge, yet &s;ome pre&s;ent of Quality and experience prote&s;t, that in all their Travels they never &s;aw greater plenty, variety and order, all this being managed without any noi&s;e or confu&s;ion.</P>
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