On Thursday 12 January 1643, members of the North Yorkshire raised regiment of Sir William Pennyman of Marske-by-the-Sea, part of the Royalist garrison of Oxford, were issued with match as they were part of the escort and gun salute at the funeral of Lord d’Aubigny (Lord George Stuart, Seigneur d’Aubigny (1518-42), younger brother of James, Duke of Richmond, and father of Charles, the 3rd Duke) killed at the Battle of Edgehill, October 1642. Oxford’s Governor, Sir Jacob Astley ordered,
These ar to desire Sir John Haydon knt: to deliuer vunto the regment of Sir William Penyman kt one roale of Match, to the regment of Collonell Dutton and Collonell Garrett each of them likewise one roale of match wch is for Solemnisinge the ffunoralls of the Lord Augbany (85) on fryday next, and for soe doeinge this with an Accquitanc from the Cheefe officrs of those regments shalbe yor warrant dated at Oxford this 12th day of Janvarij 1642
To Sr John Haydon knt: Lut: Genorall of the Trayne of Artilery
Receiued out of his Mats Stores for the service herin expressed for the vse of Sr Wm Pennymans Regimt.
Match – one bundle.
John Denton sergant[1]
Funeral of Earl of Essex, 1646
Friday, 13 Jan, a great solemne funeral in Oxon of lord Aubigny (brother to the duke of Lennox) who was slaine at Kaynton feild or at the battell of Edgehill. The body was brough up from Magdalen College and so brought and attended all the waye through the street to Christchurch the Cathedrall, and there enterred. The footmen soldiers came first with their muskets under their armes, the noses of the muskets beinge behind them; the pike men drayled their pikes on the ground; the horsemen followed with their pistolls in their hands, the handles being upwarde; the topps of the auntients also was borne behind. A chariott covered with blacke velvet, where the body was drawen by 6 horses, &c. The man that drove the chariot strowed money about the streets as he passed. Three great voleys of shott at the enterringe of the body; and lastly, an herald of armes proclaimed his titles, &c.[2]
[1] W.O. 55. 423, f.67 in Roy, I, The Royalist Ordnance Papers, 1642-1646, 1964, p. 189, Fn.85
[2] A. Clark (ed.), Wood’s Life and Times, vol. 1, OHS, (1891), p.82, at https://ia800202.us.archive.org/13/items/lifetimesofantho01wooduoft/lifetimesofantho01wooduoft.pdf
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