also requested Cromwell to ask the king if he felt a dirge at St. Paul’s Cathedral was appropriate.

On October 25, the queen’s corpse was partially eviscerated and her entrails were buried in the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court. The body was embalmed and dressed in a robe of gold tissue and some of her jewels were added and a crown put on her head. She lay in state in the presence chamber surrounded by tapers for several days starting on October 26. There was an altar close by where masses were sung all day and all night for Jane’s soul.

The first ceremony of the obsequies was the translation of the body to the Chapel Royal. The funeral began with the pronouncement of the Lancaster Herald to those gatheredto pray for the Queen’s soul. The body was moved to a catafalque in the Chapel where it lay in state for another week, watched over in vigil by the queen’s ladies and other household servants along with the chief mourner, the King’s eldest daughter, the Lady Mary. Mary paid for masses to be sung for Jane and took over running the Queen’s household until it was disbanded.

On November 8, the cortege left Hampton Court to move in easy stages to Windsor. The body was placed on a horse-drawn hearse and followed by two hundred poor men who were wearing the badge of the Queen and carrying lit torches. Chief Mourner Lady Mary rode a horse draped in black velvet followed by twenty-nine mourners, presumably one for each