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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES i. ENTRY IN KING EDWARD'S DIARY. The following entry relative to the wedding of Amy Robsart was made by Edward VI. in his diary : " S. Robert dudeley, third sonne to th' erle of warwic, married S. John Robsarte's daughter, after whose marriage there were certain gentlemen that did strive who should take away a gose's head, which was hanged alive on tow crose postes." 2. AMY ROBSART'S FUNERAL. Nearly all the accounts of Amy Robsart's funeral imply that, before her corpse was finally deposited at Oxford, it had been hastily buried at Cumnor. Such still is the local tradition. There is, however, no proof whatsoever to demonstrate that Amy's body was ever buried anywhere than at St. Mary's, Oxford. The story of the secret obsequies at Cumnor is as incorrect as Scott's portrait of Forster. The correspondence that took place between Dudley and Blount, printed above, makes it clear that if any such interment as that which " Leicester's Commonwealth " relates ever took place at Cumnor, it was totally unknown to both Dudley and Forster, and, in fact, to everybody else. Third surviving son. One of the most frequently quoted arguments in favour of the theory that Amy Robsart was murdered is the statement that when Dr. Babyngton, Dudley's chaplain, preached her funeral oration, he more than once " tripped in his speech " and described her as having been murdered. This story owes its origin, it is hardly necessary to say, to the ingenious author of the " Commonwealth, " and has been taken for gospel ever since. To my mind, however, as a set-oft against the authenticity of this tale, it is by no means certain that Babyngton ever preached the funeral oration at all, but that it was delivered by a far greater orator-the famous Edward Campion, who afterwards joined the S
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