=Source.=--Fabyan's _Chronicle_, edited by Ellis, p. 576. (London:
1811.)
In this year and 20th day of November, was a great council holden at
the White Friars in London, by the which it was among other things
concluded, that, for the King's great journey that he intended to make
in visiting of the holy sepulchre of our Lord, certain galleys of war
should be made, and other purveyance concerning the same journey.
Whereupon all hasty and possible speed was made; but after the feast of
Christmas, while he was making his prayers at Saint Edward's shrine, to
take there his leave, and so speed him upon his journey, he became so
sick that such as were about him feared that he would have died right
there, wherefore they for his comfort bore him into the Abbot's place
and lodged him in a chamber, and there upon a pallet laid him before
the fire, where he lay in great agony a certain of time. At length when
he was come to himself, not knowing where he was, he enquired, of such
as there were about him, what place that was; the which showed to him
that it belonged to the Abbot of Westminster, and for he felt himself
so sick, he commanded to ask if that chamber had any special name,
whereunto it was answered that it was named Jerusalem. Then said the
King: "Loving be to the Father of Heaven, for now I know that I shall
die in this chamber, according to the prophecy of me before said, that
I should die at Jerusalem"; and so after he made himself ready and died
shortly after.