butcher's son take warning by his fate. He has bearded me long
enough. See that Sir Thomas Cheney be sent for with all despatch. I
will hear the truth from his own lips."

He then arose, and quitting the chapter-house, proceeded with the
knights-companions to the choir--the roof and walls of the sacred
structure resounding with the solemn notes of the organ as they
traversed the aisle. The first to enter the choir were the aIms-knights,
who passed through the door in a body, and making low obeisances
toward the altar and the royal stall, divided into two lines. They were
succeeded by the prebends of the College, who, making similar
obeisances, stationed themselves in front of the benches before the
stalls of the knights-companions. Next followed the pursuivants,
heralds, and provincial kings-of-arms, making like reverences, and
ranging themselves with the alms-knights. Then came the knights-
companions, who performed double reverences like the others, and
took their stations under their stalls; then came the black-rod, Garter,
and register, who having gone through the same ceremony as the
others, proceeded to their form, which was placed on the south side of
the choir before the sovereign's stall; then came the chancellor and
prelate, whose form was likewise placed before the royal stall, but
nearer to it than that allotted to the other officers; and, lastly, Henry
himself, with the sword borne before him by the Duke of Richmond, who
as he approached the steps of his stall bowed reverently towards the
altar, and made another obeisance before seating himself.

Meanwhile the Duke of Richmond posted himself in front of the royal
stall, the Earl of Oxford, as lord chamberlain, taking his station on the
king's right, and the Earl of Surrey, as vice-chamberlain, on the left. As
these arrangements were made, the two cardinals arrived, and