Wriothesley's Chronicle 1557

Wriothesley's Chronicle 1557 is in Wriothesley's Chronicle.

This yeare in Julie [16th July 1557] died the Ladie Ann of Cleve, at Chelsey, and the 5 of August her corps were solemnlye brought from thence to the Abbey of Westminster, and there buried by the highe aulter.

Note 1. The body of the late Queen, which had been sered, i.e. inclosed in waxed cloths, the night following her death, was interred with great pomp in Westminster Abbey on the 3rd August — See Machyn's Diary, p. 145; and was buried, as Stow says, "at the head of King Sebert," where "she Ilyeth in a tomb not yet finished." — See Vetusta Monumenta, ii. pl. 35.