ABSTRACT
In an unusual gesture, the new King James followed his father's coffin on foot to Westminster Abbey instead of on horseback or in a carriage, as might have been expected. In the sable procession there walked—as has already been noted—the Master of the Musick, who in common with his fellow musicians had been allotted nine yards of material for a mourning livery. King James succumbed at Theobalds to a death-dealing malarial fever on 27 March 1625. The catalogue of King Charles's art collection, painstakingly drawn up in the later 1630s by Abraham Van der Doort, the King's curator, lists the following as number 34 In the collection of pictures in the Bear Gallery at the Palace of Whitehall. Many an anxious discussion must have taken place at Whitehall and in York House. On behalf of King Charles he was to go immediately to Italy, there to select and purchase pictures for the royal collection.
