SHE IS BURIED IN ALL SAINTS.**                       53

a white satin cross, and carried it but to the church door,
where with a ceremony of such civility as astonish'd all
(none, out of love off her, and fearing of them, daring to
oppose itt), they deliver'd it to the Catholicks only, who
with another priest (for I was not worthy of the honour),
laid it with Catholick ceremonies in the grave. In the in¬
terim, a gentleman was appointed to conduct the ladies and
magistrates to a sumptuous banquet in the finest house
in the town, where they expected enlarging themselves
in discourses upon her praises, till all was ended in the
church. Then her son waited on them, and with more
tears than courtship (unless it be a point of courtship
for ceremony at such a time to swim in tears), rendered
many thanks for their noble civilities.

Presently after her death, I heard most melodious mu¬
sick, like that of the Franciscan friars at St. Omers, but
now sweetly singing the office of the dead; and when
one told me it was nothing but want of sleep, which,
being overtoil'd with watching, made me think the noise
upon the water musick, I answered, '' No, I plainly dis¬
tinguished that noise upon the river from the musick, and
that I could not compare it to any so well as that of those
holy friars at St. Omers, which I had often heard from
the convent to the English seminary." It is a strange cir¬
cumstance, and very remarkable to persuade the credi¬
bility of this miracle, that the species or representation of
that musick should occur, which for the least of eighteen
years I had not heard. Nor can I alledge any publick
reason hereof, except the peculiar devotion wherewith
she honoured the seraphicall patriarch and founder of
that institute, on whose feast she did constantly commu¬
nicate. It seems God would entertain her with musick
voices, as He did her vertuous and dear sister, the Lady
Fairfax,  of Gilling,-^ with instruments.    For Mr. John

- Sir Thomas Fairfax, of Gilling Castle, Yorksliire was created
Viscount Fairfax, of Ireland, 1628; he married Catherine, daughter
of Sir Henry Constable, of Burton Constable, sister of Mrs. Dorothy
Lawson.—^. Z.