4, when it was brought up the Thames with all funereal pomp, mourning hangings on the barges and the wherries all the way, and so buried in Henry the Seventh's chapel, the Council, the great Army officers, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, and other dignitaries standing round, while a multitude thronged outside.

It was observed that Lord Lambert had made a point of being present, as if to signify that the great sailor and he had always understood each other.

How Blake would have farther comported himself had he lived no one really knows.

At sea he had made it a principle to abstain from party-politics.

"When news was brought him of a metamorphosis in the State at home, he would then encourage the seamen to be most vigilant abroad; for, said he, 'tis not our duty to mind State-affairs, but to keep foreigners from fooling us." The idea among the ultra-Republicans of using Blake's popularity to undermine Cromwell had long come to nothing.[1] [Footnote 1: Council Order Books, Aug.