attendant bishops and priests, was absolved, and devoutly made his last Communion. Immediately afterwards he passed away.[1316] [1309] _Hist. de Guill. le Mar._, vv. 9085–9094 (_Romania_, vol. xi. p. 66). [1310] Rog. Howden (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 366. [1311] Gir. Cambr. _Vita Galfr._, l. i. c. 5 (Brewer, vol. iv. pp. 370, 371). [1312] Gir. Cambr. _De Instr. Princ._, l. iii. c. 26 (Angl. Christ. Soc., p. 150). [1313] Gir. Cambr. _Vita Galfr._ as above (p. 371). [1314] “Pantera.” “The word is doubtful,” notes Mr. Brewer (_Gir. Cambr._, vol. iv. p. 371); Bishop Stubbs (_Rog. Howden_, vol. ii. pref. p. lxxi) renders it “panther.” [1315] Gir. Cambr. _Vita Galfr._, l. i. c. 5 (Brewer, vol. iv. p. 371). [1316] Rog. Howden (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 367. Gir. Cambr. _De Instr. Princ._, dist. iii. c. 28 (Angl. Christ. Soc., p. 156), says there were no bishops with him at his death; any way, there were two at his burial. The date of death--July 6--is given by many authorities: _Gesta Hen._ (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 71; Rog. Howden as above; R. Diceto (Stubbs), vol. ii. p. 64; Gerv. Cant. (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 450, etc. Then followed one of those strange scenes which so often occurred after the death of a medieval king. The servants who should have laid out the body for burial stripped it and left it naked on the ground; and as during the three days that he lay dying they had plundered him of everything on which they could lay their hands, the few friends who were shocked at the sight could not find a rag wherewith to cover the dead king, till one of his knights, William de Trihan, took off his own cloak for the purpose.[1317] All this, however, was speedily set right by William the Marshal. He at once took the command of the little party--a duty for which Geoffrey was evidently unfitted by the violence of his grief--sent to call as many barons as were within reach to attend the funeral, and gave directions for the proper robing of the corpse.[1318] It was no easy matter to arrange within four-and-twenty hours, and utterly without resources, anything like a regal burial for this fallen king.[1319] William, however, managed to do it; and next day Henry Fitz-Empress, robed as if for his coronation, with a crown of gold upon his head, a gold ring on his finger, sandals on his feet, and a sceptre in his gloved right hand,[1320] was borne upon the shoulders of his barons down from his castle on the rock of Chinon, across the viaduct which he himself had built over the swampy meadows beneath, and thence northward along the left bank of the silvery, winding Vienne to his burial-place at Fontevraud.[1321] He had wished to be buried at Grandmont;[1322] but this of course was impossible now. “He shall be shrouded among the shrouded women”--so ran the closing