ed from the bedchamber into the church, and placed upon a stage
erected in the middle of the isle. These preparations were hardly
completed, when the corregidor of Plasencia arrived with his clerks and
constables, and asserted that, as the emperor had died within his
jurisdiction, it was his duty to see that the remains had been deposited
in a place of safety. In spite, therefore, of the remonstrances of the
prior, he caused the coffins to be opened, that he might identify the
body.

The solemn funeral services, or the honors, as they were called, were
commenced the next day, Tuesday, the 27th of October. They were an
expansion of the rites in which the emperor had himself taken part a few
weeks before, and they lasted for three days. Mass was said each day by
the Archbishop of Toledo, the prior of Yuste assisting as deacon, and
the prior of Granada as subdeacon, amongst the tears of the whole
brotherhood. Funeral services were also preached, on the first day by
the eloquent Villalva, on the second by the prior of Granada, and on the
third by the prior of Yuste. The imperial dust was then committed to the
earth. "Let my sepulchre," said the will of Charles, "be so ordered,
that the lower half of my body lie beneath, and the upper half before,
the high altar, that the priest who says mass may tread upon my head
and breast." But the clergy present being divided in opinion as to the
lawfulness of placing under the high altar a corpse not in the odor of
sanctity, the matter was compromised by laying the coffin in a cavity
made in the wall behind, so that it encroached only on a small portion
of the holy ground.

Funeral honors also took place in the presence of the regent and her
court, in the beautiful church of the Royal Benedictines at Valladolid.
A sermon was preached on the occasion by Francisco Borja, from the text,
"_Ecce longavi fugiens et mansi in solitudine._"--"Lo! then would I
wander afar off, and remain in the wilderness." (Psalm lv. 7.)[L] It was
filled with praise of the emperor for his pious magnanimity in taking
leave of the world before the world had taken leave of him--praise
which, from the mouth of a Jesuit who had once been a wealthy grandee,
must have savored somewhat of self-glorification. Amongst other edifying
reminiscences of his friend, Borja told his hearers that he had it from
the lips of the deceased, that never, since he was one-and-twenty years
old, had he failed to set apart some portion o