He desired him to complete his marriage with Catherine, he exhorted him to defend the Church, and to make war on the infidel; he commended to him his faithful councillors, and is believed to have urged upon him the execution of De la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, the White Rose of England.

On the 22nd he was dead.

A fortnight later the funeral procession wended its way from Sheen to St.Paul's, where the illustrious John Fisher, cardinal and martyr, preached the _eloge_.

Thence it (p.

044) passed down the Strand, between hedges and willows clad in the fresh green of spring, to That acre sown indeed With the richest, royallest seed That the earth did e'er drink in.
There, in the vault beneath the chapel in Westminster Abbey, which bears his name and testifies to his magnificence in building, Henry VII.