 On 14 February 1547 Henry 's coffin lay overnight at Syon Monastery , en route for burial in St George 's Chapel , Windsor . Twelve years before in 1535 a Franciscan friar named William Peyto ( or Peto , Petow ) ( died 1558 or 1559 ) , had preached before the King at Greenwich Palace " that God 's judgements were ready to fall upon his head and that dogs would lick his blood , as they had done to Ahab " , whose infamy rests upon 1 Kings 16 : 33 : " And Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him " . The prophecy was said to have been fulfilled during this night at Syon , when some " corrupted matter of a bloody colour " fell from the coffin to the floor . 
