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 flfoar& (Slueen of Scots* 
 
 H Collect ion of Curious {Tracts, relating 
 to tbe burial of tbis unfortunate 
 princess, being IReprints of 
 rare ©riginals, partly trans* 
 criptions from various 
 manuscripts. 
 
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 The Tracts, forming the present Volume, have 
 been collected, with considerable pains, from a 
 variety of sources ; and it is hoped, will prove 
 equally acceptable to the Antiquary, and to the 
 general reader. 
 
 The whole circumstances, attending the suffer- 
 ings, trial, and last moments, of the unfortunate 
 Mary, Queen of Scotland, are already suffi- 
 ciently well known ; but among the numerous and 
 voluminous works of her Historians, Vindicators, 
 and Calumniators, very little information can be 
 gathered, concerning the Funeral obsequies of that 
 ill-fated Princess. Indeed, it may be noticed, that 
 few of these authors have even mentioned, that 
 Mary had a public funeral granted to her; and 
 those who have stated this fact, have given no 
 
X 
 
 Introduction. 
 
 particulars whatever relating to it. This considera- 
 tion suggested to the Editor the idea of collecting 
 whatever might seem curious and worthy of pre- 
 servation on the subject. 
 
 It appears necessary here to remark in general 
 that Mary left explicit and very minute directions 
 in her Last Will * concerning the disposal of her 
 body ; which she desired to be buried in France, as 
 will be seen, by the following quotation from an 
 authentic copy of that interesting document, taken 
 from the Cotton Library. ( Vespas. c. xvi. p. 145.) 
 
 " Je veulx & ordonne, que si je decedde en ceste prison, mon 
 corps soit porte en France, et y conduict a mes despens, par tous 
 les serviteurs & officiers de ma maison,t estant pres de moy, lors 
 de mon decez, pour estre inhume, en l'Eglise Sainct Denys, 
 aupres du Corps du feu mon trescher & treshonore seigneur & 
 mary, le Roy de France, Francoys, &c. Qu'aux funerailles qui 
 se feront, en l'ad' ville, assistent tous mes serviteurs et officiers 
 domestiques, qui s'y vouldront trouver revestuz en deuil, ch'nt 
 selon sa qualite ; et oultre deux cens pauvres aussi vestuz de 
 robbes de deuil, ch'n une torche allumee a la main. Les quattre 
 mendians de Paris, les enfans de la Trinite, les bons hommes, 
 Capussins, et aultres relligieux, ainsi que les executeurs de ces 
 Testament adviseront, et verront bon estre. — Ausquels j'ordonne 
 y faire celebrer le divin service, tant vigiles que messes, ainsi 
 qu Ton a accoustume de faire ; et durant les jours de dictes 
 ffunerailles, facent distribuer aux pauvres, la somme de Mil 
 livres," &c.§ 
 
 * History of Fotheringhay, p. 79. 
 
 t Here the Queen has interlined — "francoys ou escosoys, qui en seront 
 capables." 
 
 J An abbreviation for "chacun." — R. P. I. 
 
 §Here Mary has added — " et constitue une tnesse aux carmes ; through 
 which a pen was afterwards drawn. 
 
Introduction. 
 
 XI 
 
 In this Will (of which Principal Robertson has 
 preserved a copy, Vol. 2. No. xi. of his Appendix, 
 "incorrectly and not fully transcribed, by the 
 Rev d Mr. Crawford"*) Queen Mary appointed the 
 Duke of Guise, her cousin-german, the Archbishop 
 of Glasgow,t her ambassador, the Bishop of Ross,t 
 her high-almoner, and Monsieur de Ruysseau, her 
 chancellor, Executors. Immediately after conclud- 
 ing her Will, Mary wrote the following interesting 
 Letter to the Duke of Guise ; which is here given, 
 as translated by the Author of the History and 
 Antiquities of Fotheringhay. 
 
 Letter, by Queen Mary, to the Duke of Guise : 
 written on the Morning of her Death, 
 Wednesday, 8th Feb?- 1587. 
 
 Sir, my Brother-in-law, 
 
 Hauing by the divine permission, for my sins I 
 believe, thrown myself into the arms of this Queen, my cousin, 
 where I have many enemies, above twenty years since ; I am at 
 length, by her and her parliament, condemned to die; and 
 having asked for my Papers, which they have taken away, in 
 order to make my Will, I cannot get back any that were of use 
 to me, nor obtain leave, to make a free Will ; nor, that after my 
 death, my body should be conveyed, according to my desire, 
 
 * History of Fotheringhay, p. vii. 
 
 f James Beaton, appointed to the See of Glasgow, 1551. At the Reforma- 
 tion, he retired with the French troops to France; and carried along with 
 him, all the records of his See. — Died there 1603, aged 86. Ibid. ix. 
 
 J John Lesley, her faithful servant, Bishop o Ross from 1564-5. Died at 
 Brussels, 1596, aged 69. Ibid. 
 
Introduction. 
 
 into your kingdom, where I have had the honour to be a Queen 
 your sister, and ancient ally. 
 
 This day,* after dinner, my sentence, without longer respite, 
 was read to me,t to be executed to-morrow, at Eight in the 
 morning, as a Criminal. I have not had time to enlarge on 
 what has past ; but if you please to ask my physician, and these 
 my other afflicted servants, you will hear the truth, and that, 
 thanks be to God, I despise death, and faithfully protest, that I 
 meet it, innocent of every crime \ were I their subject, which I 
 never was. The Catholic religion, and the defence of the rights, 
 which God has given me to this Crown, are the two points of my 
 Condemnation. — Yet, I fear they will not permit me to say, that 
 I died for my religion, but for fear of making a change in theirs : 
 and, for a proof of it, they have taken from me my almoner, 
 who, tho' he is in the house, I cannot obtain leave for him to 
 come and confess me, and give me the Communion, at my 
 death ; but they are very pressing that I should receive comfort 
 and instruction from their Minister, brought hither for that 
 purpose. The bearer of this, and his companions, most of them 
 your subjects, will inform you of my behaviour in my last 
 moments. — It remains, that I beseech you, as the most Christian 
 King, my brother-in-law, my ancient ally, and who have done me 
 the great honour to protest that you love me ; that on this occa- 
 sion, you would give proofs, in all these points, of your virtuous 
 disposition; the one, out of Charity, relieving me, of what to 
 discharge myself and my Conscience, I cannot do without you, 
 to reward my afflicted servants, by leaving them their wages ; the 
 other, in praying to God for a Queen, who has borne the name 
 of Most Christian, and dies a Catholic, and bereft of all her 
 possessions. As for my son, I recommend him to you, as far as 
 he shall deserve your favor ; for I cannot answer for him : but 
 for my servants, I beseech you with folded hands. I have taken 
 
 * Tuesday is here meant. 
 
 t By the Earls of Shrewsbury and Kent. 
 
Introduction. 
 
 xiii 
 
 the liberty to send you two stones, of rare virtue for health, 
 wishing you may enjoy it, uninterrupted, with long and happy 
 life. You will receive them, as from your most affectionate 
 sister-in-law, dying, and bearing witness of her good disposition 
 towards you. I will recommend to you my servants, by a written 
 paper ; and appoint, that for my soul, I may be paid in part of 
 what you owe me ; and that in honour of Jesus, to whom I shall 
 to-morrow, at my death, pray for you, you would leave me 
 wherewith to found an obit, and do the necessary alms. This 
 Wednesday, two o'clock after midnight. 
 
 Your affectionate and good sister, 
 Mary, R.' 
 
 (On a separate paper.) 
 
 " Mem. of my last requests to the King, to cause to be paid 
 to me what is owing to me, both of my pensions, and the money 
 advanced by the late Queen, my Mother, in Scotland, for the 
 service of the King, my father, in these parts j at least, till an 
 annual obit be founded for my soul ; and the alms and little 
 foundations promised by me, be completed. 
 
 Further, that he allow me to enjoy my dowry, a year after my 
 death, to reward my servants. 
 
 Further, that he be pleased to let them enjoy their wages and 
 pensions for life ; as was done for the officers of Queen Eleanor. 
 
 Further, I beseech him to take my physician into his service, 
 and to give credit to what he shall say ; and to pay regard to 
 my recommendation of him.* 
 
 Further, 1 will that my almoner be re-placed in his rank, and 
 on my account, be presented to some little benefice, to pray to 
 God for my soul, the rest of his life. 
 
 Further, that Didier, an old servant of my table,t to whom I 
 
 * De l'avoir pour recommande. 
 t Officier de ma bouche. 
 
xiv 
 
 Introduction. 
 
 have given a place in the Rolls,* for his reward, may enjoy it 
 during life, being very old. 
 
 Done, this morning of my death. Wedn. Feb. 8. 
 
 Mary, R." 
 
 Even the dead body of this ill-fated Princess was 
 exposed to shocking indignities, which it would be 
 disgusting to humanity to relate. It is enough to 
 notice one example, which can, with propriety, be 
 mentioned ; that none of her women were suffered 
 to perform the last offices to their departed mistress, 
 or even to come near her dead body, which was 
 carried by some of her attendants into a room, 
 adjoining the place of execution where it lay for 
 some days, covered with a coarse cloth, torn from a 
 billiard tablet 
 
 By order of Walsingham, the body had been 
 embalmed, under the care of Andrews, the Sheriff ; 
 and placed in a leaden coffin, in the Castle of 
 Fotheringhay ; where it remained from the 8th 
 February until the ist August following ; being 
 nearly six months from the day of her Execution. 
 
 The interment of the Queen was thus most 
 unaccountably and cruelly neglected by Elizabeth, 
 amidst her real or pretended sorrows, for having 
 so rashly signed the death-warrant. In order, 
 
 * Une greffe, or a Clerk's place. 
 
 t Robertson's Hist, of Scot. Book vii. p. 412, &c. 
 
Introduction. 
 
 xv 
 
 however, to avert, as much as possible, the just 
 indignation of Europe, for such an unparalleled act 
 of violence to Majesty, Elizabeth punished her 
 Secretary, Davidson,* for presuming to take down 
 the fatal warrant ; which, she pretended, was never 
 meant by her to be carried into execution, but was 
 to be kept private, by the Secretary, until express 
 orders to the contrary. — Still further to impose on 
 the public mind, and after having seriously weighed 
 the consequences, she at length decreed the decapi- 
 tated Queen the honours of a Royal Funeral. Dr. 
 Robertson well remarks t that this vulgar artifice 
 was employed in vain. The pageantry of a pompous 
 funeral could never efface the memory of those 
 injuries, which laid Mary in her grave. 
 
 About sixteen years after the interment, James I. 
 desired that a public funeral ceremony should take 
 place at Peterborough; which, as we learn from 
 Noble, was celebrated with suitable splendour.! 
 
 * Davidson, who solemnly denied he had received any instructions from 
 Q. Elizabeth, not to suffer the warrant to be executed, or to go out of his 
 hands, without her special permission, was deprived of his office, closely 
 confined to the Tower, during pleasure, and fined ,£10,000 Sterling : and 
 thus fell a victim to State-policy, one of the most able and virtuous men of 
 that age. This fine, James I. with his usual meanness, and to his everlasting 
 disgrace, accepted of, as a peace-offering from Elizabeth, for the murder of 
 his mother. 
 
 t Robertson's History of Scotland, Book vii. p. 412. 
 
 J " Conversus hinc ad officia pietatis, ne matris reliquias, Fetroburgi 
 inhonoratas pateretur, addidit gloriam ; cineres pompa funeris ornavit ; eique 
 ample, magnifice, summaque Religione, justa persoluit. Nulla reddi mortuse 
 alia dignitas, nullam majorem pietatis significationem prsebere potuit, quam 
 honorem sepulture. Dethicum, Fsecialium Regemmi sit, ut publico funere 
 efferret Episcopus et Decanus Petroburgensis. Plerique Equestris Ordinis, 
 ac maxima vulgari frequentia, ad cohonestandas exequias, ex praescripto 
 Principis, convenerunt. Hie honos memoriae Matris habitus. "—Johnstoni 
 Historia Return Brit. Amst. 1655. fol. 374. 
 
xvi 
 
 Introduction, 
 
 "Sir William Dethick, Garter, attended the 
 solemnity of the funeral of Mary, Queen of Scots, 
 14th August, 1603. — James I., her son, sent him to 
 Peterborough, with a rich pall of velvet, embroidered 
 with the arms of Mary ; and with a letter to the 
 Bishop of that see, to obtain leave to place it upon 
 the Coffin of the Queen ; which being acquiesced 
 with, he, assisted by many knights and gentlemen, 
 and accompanied by a vast concourse of people, 
 placed it over the tomb of the unfortunate victim 
 to state necessity. A sermon upon the occasion 
 was delivered by the Bishop, in the morning ; at 
 noon, the Company received a magnificent dinner ; 
 in the afternoon, the Dean preached a sermon, 
 relative to the late Queen."* 
 
 Having, nine years after this ceremony, (and 
 twenty-five years after the interment at Peterbo- 
 rough,) determined to remove the body of his 
 Mother to the Chapel of Henry VII, Westminster, 
 James I. addressed the following Letter, which is 
 taken from the Records of that Church, t to the 
 Dean and Chapter of Peterborough.! 
 
 "To our trusty and well-beloved, the Dean and Chapter of 
 our Cathedral Church of Peterborough ; and in their absence, to 
 the Right Reverend Father in God, the Bishop of Peterborough ; 
 
 * Noble's History of the College of Arms, p. 200. 
 
 f Reg. Neville, p. 327. 
 
 X Antiquities of Fotheringhay, p. 59. 
 
Introduction. 
 
 xvii 
 
 and to such of the Prebendaries, and other officers of the church, 
 as shall be found there. 
 James R. 
 
 Trusty and well-beloved, we greet you well; for that 
 we think it appertains to the duty, we owe to our dearest mother, 
 that like honour should be done to her body, and like monument 
 be extant of her, as others, hers and our progenitors, have been 
 used to be done ; and ourselves have already performed, to our 
 dear sister, the late Queen Elizabeth; we have commanded a 
 memorial of her, to be made in our Church of Westminster ; the 
 place, where the Kings and Queens of this realm, are usually 
 interred : and for that we think it inconvenient, that the monu- 
 ment and her body, should be in several places; we have ordered, 
 that her said body, remaining now interred in that our Cathedral 
 church of Peterborough, shall be removed to Westminster, to her 
 said monument : and have committed the charge of the said 
 translation of her body, from Peterborough to Westminster, to 
 the Reverend father in God, our right trusty and well-beloved 
 servant, the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield,* bearer hereof; 
 to whom we require you, (or to such as he shall assign) to deliver 
 the corps of our said dearest mother, the same being taken up, 
 in as decent and respectful a manner, as is fitting. And for that 
 there is a pall now upon the hearse, over her grave,t which will 
 be requisite to be used, to cover her said body, in the removing 
 thereof, which may perhaps be deemed as a fee, that should 
 belong to the Church; we have appointed the said reverend 
 
 * Richard Neale, Dean of Westminster, and Clerk of the Closet, to James I, 
 and Charles I. He was made Bishop of Rochester in 1608, (holding his 
 Deanery also, in Commendam) ; translated to Lichfield and Coventry, 1610 ; 
 to Lincoln, 1613 ; to Durham, 1617 ; to Winchester, 1628 ; and to York, 
 1631 ; where he died, in 1640, and was buried in All Saints' Chapel, in that 
 Cathedral ; but no memorial of him exists. He left a large fortune, which 
 was soon dissipated by his worthless son. 
 
 + This is the same pall which was placed upon the hearse, at the solemnity, 
 14th Augt. 1603, (nine years before,) that James here so anxiously bargains 
 for, in his Letter. 
 
xviii 
 
 Introduction. 
 
 father, to pay you a reasonable redemption, for the same ; which 
 being done by him, we require you, that he may have the pall, 
 to be used for the purpose aforesaid. Given under our Signet, 
 at our honour of Hampton Court, the eight and twentieth day of 
 September, in the tenth year of our reign of England, France, 
 and Ireland; and of Scotland, the six and fortieth.* 
 
 The execution of these Letters, is thus entered: 
 
 " These Letters were delivered to the Right Reverend father 
 in God, the Lord Bishop of Peterborough, and to me, Henry 
 Williamson, one of the Prebends of the said Cathedral Church, 
 in the absence of the Dean, and the rest of our Prebends, and 
 the contents thereof were executed the fourth day of October, 
 in the year aforesaid. 
 
 (signed) W. K."t 
 
 Although the Ceremonial, on the translation of 
 the Body from Peterborough to the Chapel of 
 Henry VII, would be attended with every circum- 
 stance of State, which the manners of that reign 
 required, and would, of course, be sufficiently 
 public and notorious at the time, yet the Editor 
 has not been fortunate enough to have met with a 
 detailed account of the Procession, &c. in any of the 
 Collections of State Tracts, or otherwise.! 
 
 * History of Fotheringhay, p. 59. 
 
 t " The body of the Queen of Scots, was taken up, the Eleventh day of 
 October following, in the year of our Lord 1612, and translated to West- 
 minster." — Ibid. 
 
 JCseterum, Pietatem, mansuetudinemq. Jacobi Regis, testatur defunctse 
 Marise, habitus honos maximus. Ossa ejus, quae erant Petroburgi, in Templo 
 illius civitatis maximo, condita, ad Urbem Regiam translata; et honorifice, 
 majorum Mausoleo illata. Episcopus Leichfieldensis, a Petroburgo usque ad 
 suburbium Civitatis, deportavit. Ibi, Archiepiscopus, Prsetor Egertonius, 
 
Introduction. 
 
 xix 
 
 It would, indeed, be a singular circumstance, if 
 no official statement was drawn up at the time, or 
 if no pamphlets were published, for the satisfaction 
 of the public ; for accounts of the Funerals of Queen 
 Elizabeth and Prince Henry, and of several other 
 distinguished characters, on similar occasions, were 
 published, apparently by authority, at the time 
 that these ceremonies took place ; — and it is not 
 very likely that a Prince of James's disposition 
 would not take the whole merit of this pious act, on 
 his part. No such account, however, is known to 
 have existed. 
 
 On the re-interment of Mary, in the Chapel of 
 Henry VII, a very splendid monument was erected 
 to her memory ; which Walpole informs us,* cost, 
 together with the monument of Queen Elizabeth, 
 and King James's daughters, the Princesses Mary 
 and Sophia, Three Thousand Five Hundred pounds 
 Sterling. — Of these, Queen Elizabeth's Monument, 
 alone, cost ^965, t besides the stone ; and it is pre- 
 sumed that Mary's was not less, but rather more, 
 expensive. Tablets of marble were placed on the 
 
 qui plura defunctse, quam vivse praestitit officia ; Privati Sigilli custos, et 
 complures homines nobilissimi, ac primarij Antistites, multa face susceperunt : 
 Templo D. Petri, Fanoq. Henrici Septimi, Avi, ornatissimu intulerunt. 
 Extruxit autem Jacobus, eo in loco, Monumentum, in honorem matris, 
 amplissimum ; atque Marmoreo in Sepulchro, sua impensa exsedificato, condi 
 jussit; et prseposuit Effigiem, prseclare factam, e Marmore : nihilique prater - 
 misit, quod ad memoriam ejus, excogitari poterat ; propter singularem amorem 
 et observantiam.— fohnstoni Historia. Fol. 481. 
 
 * Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, i. p. 288. 
 
 tlbid. 
 
XX 
 
 Introduction. 
 
 north and south sides of this splendid tomb and on 
 the cornices.* These contain the following Epitaph, 
 &c. stating her royal descent and kingly relations, 
 her extraordinary endowments, both of body and 
 mind, the troubles of her life, her constancy in 
 Religion, and her resolution in death. 
 
 Inscriptions 
 
 on the Monument Erected to the Memory of Mary, Queen 
 of Scots, in Westminster Abbey. 
 ( On the South side of the Tomb.) 
 D. O. M. 
 
 Bonae memorise et Spei aeternae 
 Marias Stuartae, Scotorum Reginse, Franciae Dotariae, Jacobi V* 
 Scotorum Regis, filise et haeredis unicae: Henrici VII. Angl. 
 Regis, ex Margareta majori nata filiae, (Jacobi IIII. Regi Scotorum, 
 matrimonio Copulatae) ; Proneptis Edwardi IIII. Angl. Regis, ex 
 Elizabetha filiarum suarum natu maxima ; abneptis Francisci II. 
 Gallorum R. Conjugis; Coronas Angl. dum vixit, certae et 
 indubitatae haeredis; et Jacobi, rnagnae Brit. Monarchse poten- 
 tissimi matris. Stirpe vere Regia et antiquissima, prognata erat : 
 maximis totius Europae principibus, agnatione et cognatione 
 conjuncta; et exquisitissimis animi et corporis dotibus et orna- 
 mentis, cumulatissima ; (verum, ut sunt variae rerum humanarum 
 vices,) postquam annos plus minus viginti, in custodia detenta> 
 fortiter et strenue (sed frustra), cum malevolorum suspicionibus, 
 et inimicorum capitalium insidijs confiicta esset; tandem inaudito> 
 et infesto regibus exemplo, securi percutitur; et contempto 
 mundo, devicta morte lassato carnifice Christo servatori animae 
 salutem, Jacobo filio, spem regni, et posteritatis et universi, caedis 
 
 *See Chalmers' Life, &c. of Mary, 8vo. 1822, ii. 203. 
 
Introduction. 
 
 xxi 
 
 infaustse, spectatoribus exemplum patientiae commendans, pie, 
 patienter, intrepid^, cervicem regiam, securi maledictae subjecit, 
 et vitaa caducse fortem, cum coelestis regni perennitate com- 
 mutavit. Vi Idus Februarij, Anno Christi, mdlxxxvii. ^Etatis, 
 
 XXXXVI. 
 
 ( On the North side of the Monument. ) 
 SI GENERIS SPLENDOR RARjE SI GRATIA FORMiE 
 
 PROBRI NESCIA MENS INVIOLATA FIDES 
 PECTORIS INVICTI ROBUR SAPIENTIA CANDOR 
 
 NIXAQUE SOLANTIS SPES PIETATE DEI 
 SI MORUM PROBITAS DVRI PATIENTIA FR^NI 
 
 MAJESTAS BONITAS PVRA BENIGNA MANVS 
 PALLIDA FORTVNjE POSSINT VITARE TONANTIS 
 
 FVLMINA QViE MONTES TEMPLAQUE SANCTA PETVNT 
 NON PRiEMATVRA FATORVM SORTE PERISSET 
 
 NEC FIERET M^STIS TRISTIS IMAGO GENIS 
 IVRE SCOTOS THALAMO FRANCOS SPE POSSIDET ANGLOS 
 
 TRIPLICE SIC TRIPLEX JVRE CORONA BEAT. 
 FiELIX HEV NIMIVM FiELIX SI TVRBINE PVLSA 
 
 VICINAM SERO CONCILIASSET OPEM 
 SED CADIT VT TERRAM TENEAT NVNC MORTE TRIVMPHAT 
 
 FRVCTIBVS UT SVA STIRPS PULLULET INDE NOVIS 
 VICTA NEQVIT VINCI NEC CARCERE CLAUSA TENER 
 
 NON OCCISA MORI SED NEQUE CAPTA CAPI 
 SIC VITIS SVCCISA GEMIT FCECVNDIOR WIS 
 
 SCVLPTAQVE PVRPVREO GEMMA DECORE MICAT 
 OBRUTA FRVGISERO SENSIM SIC CESPITE SVRGUNT 
 
 SEMINA PER MVLTOS QVJE LATVERE DIES 
 SANGVINE SANCIVIT FQ5DUS CVM PLEBE JEHOVA 
 
 SANGVINE PLACABANT NVMINA SANCTA PATRES 
 SANGUINE CONSPERSI QVOS PRETERIT IRA PENATES 
 
 SANGUINE SIGNATA EST QUjE MODO CEDIT HUMVS 
 
xxii Ititroduction. 
 
 PARCE DEUS SATIS EST INFANDOS SISTE DOLORES 
 
 INTER FUNESTOS PERVOLET ILLA DIES 
 SIT REGES MACTARE NEFAS VT SANGVINE POSTHAC 
 
 PVRPVREO NVNQVAM TERRA BRITANNA FLVAT 
 EXEMPLUM PEREAT CJESJE CUM VOLNERE CHRISTIE 
 
 INQUE MALUM PR^ECEPS AUTHOR ET ACTOR EST 
 SI MELIORE SUI POST MORTEM PARTE TRIUMPHET 
 
 CARNIFICES SILEANT TORMINA CLAUSTRA CRUCES 
 QUEM DEDERANT CURSUM SUPERI REGINA PEREGIT 
 
 TEMPORA L^ETA DEUS TEMPORA DURA DEDIT 
 EDIDIT EXIMIUM FATO PROPERANTE JACOBUM 
 
 QUEM PALLAS MUS^E DELIA FATA COLUNT 
 MAGNA VIRO MAIOR NATU SED MAXIMA PARTU 
 
 CONDITUR HIC REGUM FILIA SPONSA PARENS 
 DET DEUS UT NATI ET QUI NASCENTUR AB ILLA 
 
 jETERNOS VIDEANT HINC SINE NUBE DIES. 
 
 ( H. N. Gemens.) 
 
 (Over the Cornice at the Head of the Monument.) 
 
 i Pet. 2. 21, 
 
 Christus, pro nobis passus est ; reliquens 
 exemp/um, ut sequamini vestigia ejus. ^ 
 
 (Over the Cornice at the Foot of the Monument.) 
 
 i Pet. 2. 23. 
 Qui cum makdiceretur, non makdicabat ; 
 cum pateretur, non comminabatur ; 
 tradebat autem, judicanti juste* 
 
 The first tract contained in the present collec- 
 
 Dart's History and Antiquities of Westminster Abbey, p. 151 — plate 36. 
 
Introduction. 
 
 xxiii 
 
 tion is almost a fac-simile from a valuable Tract, 
 (supposed to be unique,) in the Library of the 
 Faculty of Advocates. It was purchased at the 
 Sale of the late Duke of Roxburghe's Library.* — 
 From a marking on the top of the Title-page it 
 appears to have been acquired by the Duke of 
 Roxburghe from Mr. Herbert, Editor of Ames's 
 Typographical Antiquities ; in which work it is 
 noticed by him.t 
 
 This Tract was " Printed by A. J." (Abel Jeffes, 
 stationer) an obscure printer, "for Edward Venge," 
 stationer. The only other book which appears to 
 have been printed by or for Venge, is "A most 
 true discourse, declaring the damnable lyfe and 
 deathe of one Stabbe Peter, a high Jermayne borne, 
 a Sorcerer ; who, in the likeness of a Wolfe, com- 
 mitted many murders, 2 5 years together ; and for 
 the same was executed in the cytye of Bedbur, near 
 Coleyn, 31 March, 1590. Licenced."! 
 
 Owing to the extreme rarity of this account of the 
 Queen of Scots' Burial, it has been thought proper 
 to reprint it, as nearly as possible, in the shape of 
 the original. 
 
 With regard to the remainder of the Tracts, short 
 Notices have been inserted on the back of each of 
 
 *No. 8744, for the sum of Nine Guineas, (vid. Roxb. Catalogue.) 
 
 tSee Ames's Typog. Antiq. pp. 387. 407.— and Herbert, pp. 1162. 1222. 
 
 % Herbert's Typog. Antiq. p. 1222. 
 
xxiv 
 
 Introduction. 
 
 the Titles ; which renders it unnecessary to make 
 any particular mention of them here. 
 
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 uitatis auida, 
 
 THE SCOTTISH 
 Queens Buriall at Peterbo- 
 rough, upon Tuesday 
 beeing Lammas 
 day. 1587. 
 
 LONDON. 
 Printed by A. J. for Edwarde 
 Venge, and are to be fold 
 at his shop ivithout 
 Bishops-gate. 
 
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The Scottish Queei.es Burialt at Peterbo- 
 rough, vpon Tuesday, being Lam- 
 mas day. 1587. 
 
 HER bodie was brought in a Coutch (about 100 
 attending thereon) from Fotheringham castell vpon 
 Sonday at night, the Bishop of Peterborough, the 
 Deane, the Prebendes, and the rest meeting the 
 same at the Bridge, being not far from the town, and so con- 
 ueighed it to the Bishops Pallace, and from thence vpon 
 Tuesday being Lammas day, was caried to the Church where she 
 was buried on the south side of the hearse by torch light. 
 
 The Hearse was made field-bed wise, the vallance of blacke 
 veluet with a golde fringe, the top of the imperiall couered wite 
 Baies : About it was set 10 Posies, In my defence God me defend 
 with 10 Scutchions greate and litle, and at the toppe a double one 
 with a Crowne imperiall thereupon. The supporters, Unicornes 
 with 100 Pendons or litle Flags : It was impaled with Baies, and 
 in it 14 stooles with blacke veluet cushions : vpon the pillers 
 sustaining the imperiall of the Hearse, the which were all couered 
 with veluet, were fixed Scutcheons, bearing either red Lion alone 
 or els parted with the Armes of France, or with the Armes of the 
 
4 
 
 The Scottish Queenes Buriall 
 
 Lorde Lineaux. The Church and Chancell were hanged with 
 baies, and Sutchions as at other Funerals. The Mourners 
 came out of the Bishops pallace, being set in order by the 
 Herralds thus. First 100 Releeuants poore old women, 
 for the most part widowes in blacke cloth gownes, with 
 an ell of white Holland ouer their heades, which they had 
 for their labor, and 9 shillings apiece in monie : These 
 diuided themselues in the bodie of the Church, and stood 
 halfe on the one side, and halfe on the other, and there stood 
 during the whole solemnitie. At the Church doore the singing 
 men and Quiristers met the Mourners with a psalme, and led 
 them the way into the Chancell, continuing singing with the 
 Organs vntill the sermon began. Then followed two yeomen, 
 viz. the Sherifes bailiefe, and the bailiefe of Peterborough, with 
 black staues, and after them mourning coates. Then Sir Nicholas 
 Sauell in a mourning gowne carrieng the great Standard, viz. a 
 Crosse in a Field Azur : the Streamer, an Unicorne Argent in a 
 field of Guiles, a poesie written, In my defence God me defend 
 
 Then followed mourning cloakes by two and two, a greate^ 
 number, whereof the first were late the Queens officers, and' 
 after them mourning gownes : Among these officers of her house 
 was a French Jesuit her Confessor, with a golden Crucifix about 
 his necke, which he did weare openly, and being tolde that the 
 people murmured and disliked at it, he said he would do it, 
 though he died for it. Thus wee may see how obdurate their 
 hearts are in malice, and how obstinate they shewe themselves in 
 the vaine toies and superstitious trifles of their owne imaginations. S 
 
 Then the Deane, next the two Bishops of Peterborough and 
 Lincolne, the L. Willoughby of Parhan, the L. Mordant, the L. 
 Compton, Sir Thomas Cicel all fower in gownes with white 
 staues, representing the Steward, Chamberlain, Tresurer, and 
 Controller: after these 16 Scottes and Frenchmen which had bin 
 officers in her house : then Sir Andrew Nowel alone, carieng the 
 banner of Scotland : then Percullis the Harralde bearing the 
 
at Peterborough. 
 
 5 
 
 Crowne and Crest, thereon a red Lion rampant crowned, holding 
 i a sword the point vpward, the Helmet ouermanteled Guiles 
 poudered ermyne : then the Target by Roge Dragon : the 
 Sword by Yorke : the coat of Armes by Somerset. Then 
 Clarenceaux with a Gentleman at Armes. Then followed the 
 Coffin couered with a paule of veluet, six Scutchions fixed theron, 
 vpon the head whereof stood a Crowne of Gold, 6 Gentlemen 
 bearing the Corps vnder a veluet canapie born by these 4 
 Knights : viz. Sir Thomas Manners, Sir John Hastings, Sir 
 James Harrington and Sir John Knightlie : eight other banorets 
 borne by 8 Squires, 4 on either side of the Coffin. After the 
 Corps came the heade Mourner, the Countesse of Bedford, 
 assisted by the two Earles of Rutland and Lincolne. The Lady 
 Saint-Johns of Basing bearing her train. Then followed by two 
 and two other Ladies : the L. Talbot, the L. Mordant, the L. 
 Sauell, the L. Manners, the L. Cecil, the L. Mountegew, the 
 Lady Nowell. The other Gentlemen. The ten Scottish and 
 French women of the Queens with black attire on their heads, 
 i of taffate before, and behind white Lawne, hanging downe like 
 French-hoodes. They with the Scottish and French men did all 
 go out before the Sermon (except M. Meluin who staied) and 
 the rest came in when it was ended : the head Mourner, and the 
 Ladies, with the two Earles assistants were placed within the 
 Hearse : the two Knights with their banners were set at the east 
 end of the Hearse without the pale, and the eight squires with 
 their bannorets, 4 of a side in like manner without the pale. 
 Al the rest of the Mourners were carried vp by an Harrald 
 above the Hearse, and placed of each side, the women next the 
 altar. The Bishop and the Deane standing at the Altar with 
 two gilded basons, al which being placed and set, and the Church 
 quiet, the Bishop of Lincolne began his Sermon, and in his 
 praier vsed these wordes, " Let vs blesse God for the happie 
 dissolution of Marie, late the Scottish Queen and Dowager of 
 France: of whose life and departure, whatsoeuer shall be 
 
6 The Scottish Queenes Buriall 
 
 expected, I haue nothing to say, for that I was vnacquainted 
 with the one, and not present at the other, of her M. faith and 
 end I am not to iudge : It is a charitable saieng of the Father 
 Luther : Many one liueth a Papist, and dieth a Protestant : 
 Onely this I haue bene enformed, that she tooke her death 
 patiently, and recommended her self wholy to Jesus Christ." 
 
 The Sermon ended, a long peece of veluet and a cushion wa s 
 caried and laid for the Countesse to go and kneele vpon, hard 
 before the Bishops feete, then by the King of Harralds were 
 caried the four officers with their white staues, and placed two at 
 the top of the staires vnder the Bishop and two 'beneath them 
 Then the two principal Harralds fetched up the Countesse, the 
 two Earles leading her, and the Lady Saint-Johns bearing vp her 
 train : there she kneeled a while, and then all returned to their 
 places, this was the first offering (not that Brakenburie went this 
 time before her) The two Earles placed without the pale before 
 the Countesse, one of the Kinges of Harralds fetched from the 
 Hearse the coat armor brought it downe to the other King of 
 Harralds, and he deliuered it to the two Earls, they caried it 
 (obeisance beeing done to the Countesse) to the Bishop, and 
 kissed it in delivering of it. A third Harrald tooke it of the 
 Bishop and laide it downe on the Altar, the Sword, the Target, 
 the Helmet, Crowne, and Crest in like sort was all done by the' 
 two Earles, kissing their hands before them : then were ihe two 
 banners caried by one after another seuerally by those that 
 brought them, and so set vpon the Altar, leaning to the wal, the 
 other 8 Bannorets were put into the Hearse as they stood. Then 
 went the Countesse, M. John Manners holding vppe her traine 
 the second time, and offered alone to the Bishop. 
 
 Then the Ladies and Gentlewomen by two and two went vp 
 and offered, then the officers with white staues offered : and last 
 of all came there a Harralde to the pulpyt, and fetched the 
 Bishop of Lincolne, and then the most part of the Mourners 
 departed in the same order they came in, and toward the doore 
 
at Peterborough. 
 
 7 
 
 of the Chancell stoode the Scottish women parted on both sides, 
 and as the English Ladies passed by, they kissed them all. 
 
 Then ouer the Vault where the body lay, the Deane read the 
 ordinary wordes of buriall, an this being done, the 
 foure officers brake their white staues ouer 
 their heads, and threw them into 
 the Vaulte. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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THE following account oj Queen Mary's Funeral Proccess 
 (drawn up by Sir William Dethick, Garter king at arms,) is taken from 
 Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, No. XL. article, "History and A, 
 quities of Fotheringay," p. 75. 
 
 It seems to have been extracted from the Harl. MSS. I345>/ 45» and ts 
 given, verbatim, from the Bib. Topog. Brit. 
 
 A few explanatory notes are given in the Appendix. 
 
3ht 0t[^r fait th* Snriatt (or JUar^ $u^n ojf droits, 
 
 Two Conductors with 
 black staves in 
 coates. 
 
 Poore men (One hundred) in gownes, two and two. 
 Two Yeomen ^ John Hamshiere, 
 
 The Sheryfes Bailie, and 
 the Baylie of 
 Peterborough. 
 
 harbingers 
 in clokes. 
 
 and 
 John Keyes. 
 
 THE STANDARD 
 
 Borne by Sir George Savill knight. 
 
 GENTLEMEN IN CLOKES, TWO AND TWO, videtizet. 
 
 Syxe Groomes. 
 The Deane of Peterborough's man. 
 Mr. Stafforde's sonne. 
 Master of Wardrobe's two men. 
 The Bishope of Peterborough's Stewarde. 
 James Howland. 
 Edward Jackson. 
 Richard Kylefett. 
 Robert Cotton. 
 The Lorde Compton, one man. 
 The Lady St. John, of Basinge, one. 
 The Lorde Willoughby of Parram, one. 
 
12 
 
 The Order for the Buriall 
 
 The Lorde Mordant, and Ladie, two. 
 The Lorde Dudley, and the Ladie, two. 
 The Lady Marie Savell, one. 
 The Lady Talbott, one. 
 The Lord St. John, and the Ladie, two. 
 The Bishope of Peterborough, one. 
 The Bishope of Lyncolne, one. 
 The Erie of Lyncolne, and the Countis, three. 
 The old Countis of Bedford, chief Mourner, three. 
 
 GENTLEMEN IN GOWNES. 
 
 Mr. Worme. 
 Mr. Howland. 
 Mr. Horseman, i 
 Mr. Femis, J- Three Sewars. 
 
 Mr. Creuse. 
 Mr. Watsonn. 
 Mr. Alyngton. 
 Mr. Marmaduke Darrell. 
 Docture Fortescue Thomas. 
 
 SCOTTES IN CLOAKES, 
 
 seventeen. 
 A Scottish Priest. 
 
 GOWNES. 
 
 Two Chaplayns to the Bishops aforesayde. 
 Mr. Fortescue, master of Queene Elizabeth's wardrope. 
 The two Bishopps, Peturborough and Lincolne. 
 
 THE GREATE BANNER. 
 
 Borne by Sir Andrew Nowell. 
 r Mr Melvin, and Sir Edward Montague, ' 
 - Comptroller and Treasurer to the Queen - 
 of Scottes. 
 
 k Ten. 
 
for Marie, Queen of Scotts. 
 
 13 
 
 The Lord Chamberlayne, y Qfficers 
 The Lord Stewarde, f 
 
 The Lorde Dudley. 
 The Lord St. John of Basnige. (sic.) 
 Two Yeomen of the garde, in clokes, with black staves in 
 
 their handes. 
 
 THE HALM AND CREASTE, 
 
 borne by pourcyvant of armes. 
 
 THE TARGETT, 
 
 borne by Rouge dragon, a pourcyvant of armes. 
 
 THE COATE OF ARMES, 
 
 borne by Somersett, herald of armes. 
 Then Clarentius Kinge of Armes, 
 and a Gentleman huisher goyng with him. 
 
 Then 
 
 Was carryed by these 
 
 six gentlemen in cloakes ; videlizett. 
 
 Francis Fortescue. 
 William Fortescue. 
 Thomas Stafforde. 
 Nycholas Smythe. 
 Nycholas Hyde. 
 Fortescue Sen 1 - of Aywood. 
 
14 The Order for the Buriail 
 
 BANNEROLLS, 
 
 eight, 
 
 borne by these gentlemen, videlizett, 
 William Fitz William. \ 
 Mr. Gryffith, of Drugley.* 1 
 Mr. Robert Wyngfield. I 
 Mr. Bevill. I _ . , 
 
 Mr. Lynne. f El S ht 
 
 Mr. John Wyngfield. L 
 Mr. John Spencer. 
 Mr. Fortescue of Aywood. / 
 
 THE CANOPIE. 
 
 borne by these four Knightes, videlizett, 
 Sir Thomas Manners. 
 Sir George Hastinges. 
 Sir James Harrington. 
 Sir Richard Knightley. 
 
 THE BODIE 
 
 assisted be these Four, 
 The Lorde Mordantt 
 The Lorde Willoughby of Param. 
 The Lorde Compton. 
 Sir Thomas Cycill, Knight. 
 
 Then, 
 
 GARTER KINGE OF ARMES, 
 
 and a Gentleman huisher with him. 
 Then, 
 
 THE CHIEF MOURNER. 
 
 THE COUNTIS OF BEDFORD. 
 
 Assisted by the Erles of Rutland and Lyncolne, 
 
 HER TRAYNE 
 
 borne by 
 The Ladie St. John of Basing, 
 who was assisted by 
 Mr. John Manners, Vize Chamberlain. 
 
 ■Four. 
 
 •Four 
 
 * Dingley ? 
 
for Marie Queen of Scotts. 
 
 T HE OTHER MOURNERS, Vldell'zet, 
 
 Twelve. 
 
 The Countis of Rutland. 
 The Countis of Lyncolne. 
 
 The Ladie Talbott. 
 The Ladie Marie Savill.* 
 
 The Ladie Mordantt. 
 
 The Ladie St. John of Bletfoe. 
 
 The Ladie Manners. 
 The Ladie Cecill. 
 
 The Ladie Montague. 
 The Ladie Nowell. 
 
 Mistris Alington. 
 
 A Scottish Gentlewoman. 
 
 Then, 
 two of the 
 
 YEOMEN OF THE GUARDES 
 
 in clokes. 
 
 SCOTTISH GENTLEWOMEN, 
 
 Eight, 
 too and too. 
 Then, 
 
 GENTLEWOMEN OF COUNTISSES, 
 
 too and too 
 Then, 
 
 BARONISSIS AND LADIES, 
 
 accordinge to ther degree. 
 
 * She was an Erie's daughter. 
 
The Order for the Buriall for Marie Queen of Scotts. 
 
 Then, 
 
 GENTLEWOMEN. 
 
 Thirty. 
 
 The Countis of Bedforde, four. 
 
 The Countis of Rutland, three. 
 
 The Countis of Lyncolne, three. 
 
 Ladie St. John of Baznige, two. 
 
 Ladie Talbott, two. 
 
 Ladie Marie Savill, two. 
 
 Ladie Mordantt, two. 
 
 Ladie St. John of Bletneshoe, two. 
 
 Ladie Manners, two. 
 
 Ladie Cycill, two. 
 
 Ladie Montegue, two. 
 
 Ladie Nowell, two. 
 
 Mystris Alyngton, two. 
 
 ALL YEOMEN IN COATES. 
 
 The Countise of Bedforde, allowed for ten men. 
 The Countis of Rutland, eight men. 
 The Countis of Lincolne, eight men. 
 The Ladie of St. John of Basing, five men. 
 All Baronissis and Ladies, five apeece. 
 All knightes, two men apeece. 
 All knightes wyfes too apeece. 
 All esquires one man apeece. 
 
L'ORDRE DU CONVOY 
 
 DE LA ROYNE D'ESCOSSE, 
 
 Faict en la ville de Peterbourgh 
 en Angleterre, en PEglise du 
 quel lieu son corps a este enterre, 
 le premier iour d'Aoust. 1587, 
 et selon le Calendrier reforme, 
 le dixiesme, audict an ; enuiron 
 six moys apres sa mort : — 
 
 MDLXXXVII. 
 
 F 
 
" L 'Ordre du Convoy" is here given from Jebb's Collection, 
 (ii. 655.) 'De vita et Rebus gestis Marise Scotorum Reginag, 
 Francia? Dotarise,' Folio, London 1725; as it illustrates Sir 
 William Dethick's " Order of the Buriall" in many interesting 
 particulars. It forms part of a very curious Tract, published in 
 France, anno 1589, entitled "LaMortde la Royne d'Escosse, 
 Dovariere de France," which Jebb has reprinted at large. 
 
3L'©rbre bu Convoy be la IRo^ne 
 
 b'lEscosse 
 
 jEetott en ceste sorte: 
 
 Premierement, marckoient deux conducteurs, en saye noir. 
 Le Preuost Baillif. Le Baillif de Peterbourgh. 
 
 Pauvres femmes habillees en dueil blanc, au nombre de Cent 
 
 marchoient deuz a deux. 
 
 Fourriers en maniteaux de deuil. 
 Jean Hanipshire. Jean Kayes. 
 
 L'Estandar 
 porte par Sieur George Sauil Cheval. 
 
 Gentilzhommes en manteau de dueil. 
 Six hommes de chambre. L'homme du Doyen de Peterbourg. 
 Le filz de Maistre Stafford. Deux hommes du maistre de 
 Garderobbe. Maistre Jacques, Le maistre d'hostel de l'Eues- 
 que de Peterbourgh. Jacques Houland. Edouard Jarson. 
 Richard Kelifet. Robert Creton. 
 L'homme du Seigneur Comptoin. 
 L'homme de Madame Sainct Jean de Bletso. 
 L'homme du Seigneur Willegby de Parrhan. 
 Deux hommes du Seigneur et Dame Mordaine. 
 Deux hommes du Seigneur et Dame Dudley. 
 
20 
 
 JOOrdre du Convoy 
 
 L'homme de Dame Marie Sauil. L'homme de Madame 
 
 Talbot. 
 
 Deux hommes du Seigneur et Dame Sainct Jean de Bassing. 
 L'homme de l'Euesque de Peterbourg. 
 
 L'homme de l'Euesque de Lincoln. 
 L'homme de la Comtesse de Lincoln. 
 Deux hommes du Sieur de Rutland. 
 Deux hommes de la Comtesse de Rutland. 
 Quatre hommes de la Comtesse de Bedford. 
 
 Gentilzhommes en robbes de deuil. 
 Maistre Worme. Maistre Houland. Le grand escuyer. 
 Maistre Fenys. Maistre Martin. Maistre Wathou. 
 
 Maistre Dareil. 
 
 Trots maistres d J hostel. 
 Maistre Cruyse. Maistre Alington. Thomas Fortescu. 
 
 Les Serviteurs de la Royne d'Escosse. 
 i. Monsieur Bourgoin, medecin, en robbe. 
 2. Monsieur du Preau, aumosnier, en long manteau, portant vnc 
 
 croix d'argent en main. 
 3. Pierre Gorion, apoticaire, en manteau. 
 4. Jacques Geruais, chirurgien. 
 
 Valets de Chambre. 
 
 5. Baltasar Hulli. 
 
 6. Bastien Pagets. 
 7. Hannibal Stouard. 
 
 8. Didier Siflard, sommelier. 
 9. Jean Lander, pannetier. 
 10. Martin Huet, escuyer de cuifine. 
 11. Nicolas de la Mare, potagier. 
 12. Robin Hamilton, ateux. 
 13. Laurens de la Chappelle, huissier de sale. 
 14. Simon Jaqui, valet de fourrier. 
 
de la Royne d'Escosse. 
 
 21 
 
 En Robbet. 
 Le chappelin de l'Euesque de Peterbourg. 
 Le chappelin de l'Euesque de Lincoln. 
 Maistre Jean Fortescu, niaistre de garderobbe. 
 L'Euesque de Peterbourg and L'Euesque de Lincoln, auec 
 leurs surplis and bonnets quarrez. 
 La Grand Bannier 
 
 portee par, 
 Seignieur Andre Nouuel Cheualier, 
 Le Controlleur et Tresorier, 
 Maistre Andre Meluin, maistre d'hostel de la Royne d'Escosse, 
 Seigneur Edouard Montague. 
 
 Le Seigneur Chamberland et le Grand Maistre. 
 Monseigneur Dudley. Monseigneur Jean de Bassin. 
 
 Deux tapissiers en Manteau, auec ieurs bastons noirs, en la main. 
 
 Les Escuyers. 
 
 L'heaume, Portecoulis. Le targe, Rouge dragon. 
 L'Espee, Yorke. La Cotte d'armes, Sommerset. 
 Maistre Clarentieux, 
 auec luy, vn gentilhomme huyssier. 
 
 LA PRESENTATION, 
 
 portee par six en manteau 
 
 Francois Fortescu. Guillaume Fortescu. Thomas Stafor. 
 Nicolas Smith. Nicolas Hyde. Le filz de Fortescu. 
 
 Huict banderosses, portees par 
 
 Maistre Guillaume Fitzvilliam. Maistre Robert Wingfield. 
 Maistre Lyne. Maistre Spencer. Maistre Griffen de Dingley. 
 Maistre Beuille. Maistre Jean Vigfield. Maistre Jean Fortescu 
 de Lycod. 
 
) 
 
 22 DOrdre du Convoy 
 
 LE CIEL DE VELOURS NOIR 
 
 porte sur la representation par 
 Seigneur Thomas Manner. Seigneur Jacques Harington. 
 Seigneur George Hastings. Seigneur Richard Knigtly. 
 Quatre assistants la representation. 
 Le Seigneur Mordant. Le Seigneur Willoughby de Parrham. 
 Le Seigneur Compton. Seigneur Thomas Cicille. 
 Maistre Garter, 
 auec luy vn Gentilhomme huisser. 
 
 LE PRINCIPAL DUEIL, 
 
 La Contesse de Betford, 
 representant la Royne d'Angleterre. 
 Deux soustenans ladicte Contesse sous les bras, 
 Le Conte de Rutland. Le Conte de Lincolne. 
 
 V ne Dame portans la queue. 
 Madame Sainct Jean de Bassing, soustenue par Maistre Jean 
 Maners, Vice chamberlant. 
 Autres Dames en Dueil. 
 La Contesse de Rutland. Madame Talbot la veufeu. 
 
 Madame Mordant. Madame Manners. 
 
 Madame Montagu. Madame Dudley. 
 
 La Contesse de Lincolne. Madame Marie Sauill. 
 
 Madame Sainct Jean de Bletso. Madame Cecyll. 
 Madame Nauil. Madamoyselle Alington. 
 
 Deux huyssiers de la Royne d'Angleterre, en manteau. 
 Lesfemmes de la Royne d'Escosse. 
 Madamoyselle Barbe Maubray. Madamoyselle Reuce de Realay. 
 Christine Sog. Marie Pagets. 
 
 M. Gilles Maubray M. Janne Kennedy. 
 
 Elspeth Curie. Susanne Korkady. 
 
 Les femmes des Confesses, Baronesses, 6- autres dames, marchant 
 
 selon leurs degrez. 
 Quatre de la Contesse de Bed- Trois de la Contesse de Rut- 
 ford - land. 
 
de la Royne d'Escosse. 23 
 
 Trois de la Contesse de Lin- Deux de Madame S. Jean de 
 
 coin. Bassin - 
 Deux de Madame Talbot. Deux de Madame Sauill. 
 
 Deux de Madame Mordant. Deux de Madame S. Jean de 
 
 Bletso. 
 
 Vne de Madame Maners. Vne de Madame Cecill. 
 
 Vne de Madame * Vne de Madame Nauill. 
 
 Vne de Madamoyselle Alington. 
 Les ferviteurs de Confesses ; Dames, Ckeualiers, Barons, Escuyers, 
 
 marchant en deuil, Selon leur degr'e. 
 Dix de la Comtesse de Bedford. Huit de la Comtesse de Rutland. 
 Huit de la Comtesse de Linco- Cinq de la Comtesse de Lincoln, 
 lin. 
 
 Cinq de chacune de leurs fern- Cinq de chacune Dame, 
 mes. 
 
 Deux de chacune des Cheuali- Deux de chacune de leurs 
 erS- femmes. 
 
 Vne de chacune Escuyer. 
 
 * Montague or Dudley. 
 
a^agmfiqueg ©deques 
 
 He la 
 
 Eopne tr&scosse. 
 
 He Hunancfie, fiuictiefime fottt 
 i'^oust, selon la nouuelle 
 reformation or I'annee, 
 
THE following, is taken from "Martyre De Marie Stvart 
 Royne D'Escosse et Dovariere de France," contained in the 
 collected Works of Adam Blackwoood,— Paris, 1644, p. 703.— 
 There is a curious copy of this Tract, in the Signet Library, " A 
 Edimbovrg chez Jean Nafield 1589," {printed with French types 
 and probably in France,) but the passage concerning Queen Mary's 
 Obsequies, does not appear in it. The first Edition of this tract, 
 {by the same printer,) is rather larger in size than the copy alluded 
 to, and is dated Edin. 1587. In the preface to Blackwood's Works, 
 Edition 1644, it is stated, that there are various additions and 
 corrections by the author, of which this seems to be one. 
 
LES MAGNIFIQUES OBSEQUES 
 
 DE LA ROYNE D'ESCOSSE. 
 
 8me Aoust 1587. 
 
 Le Dimanche huictiesme iour d'Aoust selon la nouuelle 
 reformation de l'annee mil cinq cens quatrevingt sept, fut 
 amene dans le chasteau de Fodringhaye, vn chariot couuert 
 de velours noir auec les banderolles autour 011 estoient les 
 armes d'Escosse, traine par quatre cheuaux de mesme parure. 
 Sur le soir, le roy de heraults estant arrive auec vingts 
 hommes de cheval, tant gentils-hommes que autres tousen dueil, 
 monta dans la chambre 011 estoit le corps, lequel il fist mettre 
 dans le chariot, auec vn grand respect et vn profond silence, et 
 fur les dix heurs du soir le faict emmener a Peterbrouch; 
 ou il l'accompagna auec ceux qui estoient auec luy et 
 sept des ofrlciers de la feue Royne, conduits par des 
 gens de pied, portans a leurs mains des torches alumees. Sur 
 les deux heures apres minuict, ils arriuerent au dit lieu de 
 Peterbrouch, oil l'Euesque en son habit Episcopal auec le Doyen 
 et quelques Chanoines vestus de surplis receurent le corps a Pen- 
 tree de l'Eglise, et l'accompagnerent iusqu'au lieu, oil ils auoient 
 prepare vne fosse bastie de brique, tout al entour, au coste droit 
 et a l'opposite du tombeau de la dite Royne Catherine, dans 
 laquelle le corps fust mis, fans sonner ny chanter, et au mesme 
 temps on paracheua ce bastiment de brique en forme de voute 
 et a fleur de terre, ou fuft laissee seulement vne petite ouuerture . 
 
28 
 
 Les Magnifiques Obseques de la 
 
 Le Mardy ensuiuant se fift la ceremonie. Les grandes sales de 
 l'Euesche oil se fist l'assemblee du conuoy estoient tendues de 
 dueil. Tout estant prepare, commencerent k marcher, premiere- 
 ment le Preuost et le Baillif de Peterbrouch conducteurs de 
 l'assemblee en sayes noirs, et apres eux cent pauures femmes 
 habillees de deuil blanc, marchans deux a deux, puis deux 
 Mareschaux des logis en dueil, et en suite vn cheualier qui 
 portoit l'estendart, et apres quarante gentilshommes en manteaux 
 de dueil, puis marchoit le grand Escuyer, et en suite trois 
 maistres d'Hostel et sept gentils-hommes tous en robes de dueil. 
 Apres alloient les officiers et domestiques de la feue Royne 
 scauoir son medcin en robe de dueil, son aumosnier en long 
 manteau, portant vne croix d'argent ; et autres faisans en tout le nom- 
 bre de quatorze. Et en suitte, alloient les Euesques de Peterbrouch 
 et de Lincolne auecleurs surpliset bonnets quarrez, leurs chapelains 
 deuant eux. Vn Cheualier portoit la grande banniere, et 
 apres marchoient les Controlleurs, Thresoriers et maistres d'hostel 
 de la feue Royne, puis le Chambelland et le grand Maistre, deux 
 tapissiers en Manteau, leurs bastons noirs en la main. Apres 
 Marchoient quatre Escuyers portans le heaume, la targe, l'espee 
 et la cotte d'armes. Et en suite six gentils-hommes portans les 
 banderolles, et autres quatre gentils-hommes portans le ciel de 
 velours noir sur la representation, et quatre Milords assistance la 
 dite representation. La Comtesse de Bethford marchoit apres, 
 representant la Royne d'Angleterre, soustenue par les Comtes de 
 Rutland, et de Lincolne, vne Dame luy portant la queue, laquelle 
 estoit soustenue par vn Gentil-homme. Apres marchoient les 
 Comtesses de Rutland, et de Lincolne, les Dames de Talbot, de 
 Montague, Dudeley, de Samike, ( Sauiilel ) Cecile et autres 
 faisans le nombre de douze, toutes en deuil, suiuies de deux 
 Huissiers de la Royne d'Angleterre. Et en suitte alloient les 
 femmes de la feue Royne au nombre de huict, et par apres vingt- 
 cincq femmes, et Damoiselles de la suitte des Dames cy-dessus, 
 puis marchoient en sayes de deuil 48 ou 50 seruiteurs et Officiers 
 des Seigneurs et Dames cy-dessus. 
 
Royne cPEscosse. 
 
 29 
 
 Tout le dit conuoy entre en cet Ordre dans le Choeur de la dit 
 Eglisse, tendue de drap noir, seme* des armes de la feue Royne. 
 Au milieu du Choeur, estoit eleve vn dome, a la facon de nos 
 chapelles ardentes, sans cierges, et couuert de velours noir, auec 
 les armes d'Escosse, et banderolles. Sous ce dome fut mise la 
 representation de sa Maieste, sur vne bierre couuerte de velours 
 noir, et sur vn oreiller de velours cramoisi estoit posee vne 
 Couronne. Les Choristes et Chanoines se mirent aussi-tost 
 a. chanter a. leur mode, en language Anglois, et mesloient par fois 
 de la musique. Les Officiers de la feue Royne, se retirent, 
 ne voulans assister a leurs prieres. Les Herauts a quelque temps 
 de la, et apres le Sermon fait par l'Euesque de Lincolne, les fut 
 inuiter dans le cloistre 011 ils estoient de venir a l'offrande, ce quils 
 refuserent de faire, disans, qu'ils n'offroient point a vn autel qu'ils 
 n'approuuoient pas : on les pria done d'assister comme ils firent 
 aux ceremonies Royales, de rompre les bastons, de mettre les 
 enseignes dans la fosse et autres. De la tous ceux du conuoy 
 furent traittez splendidement dans les sales de l'Euesche, les 
 seruiteurs de la feue Royne en vne chambre a, part, qui meslerent 
 force larmes auec leur boire et leur manger. 
 
A REMEMBRANCE OF 
 THE ORDER AND MANNER 
 OF THE BURIALL 
 OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTTS. 
 
 MDLXXXVII. 
 
THIS curious document is preserved in the Archseologia, 
 (i, 155.) That part of it which narrates the order of the 
 procession has been omitted^ as it is very much the same with 
 the other accounts. Where it materially differs from these 
 is noted in the Appendix. 
 
H TRemembrance of tbe ©roer ano /IDanner of tbe 
 Burial of /i&arE dfcueen of Scotts. 
 
 On Sunday, being the 30th July, 1587, in the 29th year of the 
 Reign of Elizabeth, the queens Majestie of England, there went 
 from Peterborough, M. . . . Dethick, alias Garter principal King 
 of armes, and five heralds, accompanied with forty horse and 
 men; to conduct the body of Mary, late queen of Scots, 
 from Fotheringham Castle in Northamptonshire to Peterborough 
 aforesaid ; which queen ^remained prisoner in England. . . . 
 years ; having for that purpose, brought a royal coach, drawn 
 by four horses, and covered with black velvet, richly set forth 
 with escotcheons of the armes of Scotland, and little penons 
 round about it; the body, being enclosed in lead, and the 
 same coffined in wood, was brought down and reverently put 
 into the Coach ; at which time, the heralds put on their coats of 
 arms, and bare-headed, with torches light, brought the same forth 
 of the castle, about ten of the clock at night, and so conveyed it 
 to Peterborough, . . . miles distant from Fotheringham 
 Castle ; whither being come, (about two of the clock, on the 
 Monday morning) the body, was receved most reverently, at the 
 minster door of Peterborough, by the bishop, dean and chapter, 
 and Clarenceux king of armes ; and, in the presence of the Scots 
 which came with the same, it was laid in a vault prepared for the 
 
 H 
 
34 A Remembrance of the Order of the Burial 
 
 same, in the quire of the said church, on the South side, opposite 
 to the tomb of Queen Katherine, dowager of Spain, the first wife 
 of King Henry the Eighth. The occasion, why the body was 
 forthwith laid into the vault, and not borne in the solemnity, was, 
 because it was so extreame heavy, by reason of the lead, that the 
 Gentlemen could not endure to have carried it with leisure, in the 
 solemn proceding; and besides, was feared that the sowder 
 might ripp, and being very hot weather, might be found some 
 annoyance. 
 
 On Tuesday, being the first of August, in the morning, about 
 Eight of the clock, the chief mourner, being the Countess of 
 Bedford, was attended upon by all the lords and ladies, and brought 
 into the presence Chambre, within the bishop's palace, which all 
 over, was hanged with black cloath ; she was by the queens 
 majesties gentlemen ushers, placed somewhat under a cloth of 
 estate, of purple velvet; where, having given to the great officers, 
 their staves of office, viz. to the lord steward, lord chamberlayne, 
 the treasurer, and comptroller, she took her way into the great 
 hall, where the corps stood ; and the heralds, having marshalled 
 the several companies, they made their proceedings as followeth. 
 
 [It seems to be unnecessary to reinsert the order of the Procession 
 here ; as it is very much the same with the other accounts. — Where 
 it materially differs from these, notice will be taken in the Appendix.] 
 
 The body, being thus brought into the quire, was set down, 
 within the Royal herse, which was 20 feet square, and 27 feet in 
 height ; covered over with black velvet, and richly set, with escot- 
 cheons of armes, and fringe of gold ; upon the body, which was 
 covered with a pall of black velvet, lay a purple velvet cushion, 
 fringed and tasseled with gold, and upon the same, a close crown 
 of gold, set with stones : after the body was thus placed, and 
 every mourner, according to their degree ; the sermon was begun 
 by the Bishop of Lincoln ; after which, certain anthems were sung 
 by the quire ; and the offering began very solemnly as followeth. 
 
of Mary \ Queen of Scotts. 
 
 35 
 
 THE OFFERING. 
 
 First, the chief mourner offered for the queen ; attended upon, 
 by all ladyes. The coat, sword, target, and healme, was 
 severally carried up by the two Earls of Rutland and 
 Lincoln, one after another ; and received by the bishop of 
 Peterborough, and Mr. Garter king at arms. 
 The standard, alone. 
 The great banner, alone. 
 The lady chief mourner, alone. 
 The trayne-bearer, alone. 
 The two earles, together. 
 The lord steward, ") 
 The lord chamberlaine. J 
 The bishop of Lincolne, alone. 
 The four lords assistants to the body. 
 The treasurer, comptroller, and vice chamberlaine. 
 The four knights, that bore the body. 
 In which offeringe, every course was led up by a herald, for 
 the more order ; after which, the two bishops and the dean of 
 Peterborough, came to the vault ; and over the body, began to 
 read the funeral service ; which being said, every officer broke 
 his staff, over his head, and threw the same into the vault, to the 
 body ; and so every one departed, as they came, after their degrees, 
 to the bishop's palace ; where was prepared a most royal feast ; 
 and a dole given unto the poore. 
 
THE 
 
 SOLEMNITY OF THE FVNERALL 
 OF 
 
 MARY, LATE OF SCOTTISH, QUEENE, 
 AND DOWAGER OF FRANCE. 
 
 CELEBRATED IN THE CHURCH 
 OF PETERBOROUGH. 
 
 ANNO DOMINI MDLXXXVII. 
 
 AUGUSTI PRIMO. 
 
THIS short Heraldic Account of 1 the Solemnity of the Funeral 
 of Mary,' was drawn up by Sir William Dethick, Garter King 
 of Arms ; and is reprinted from the Bibliotheca Topographica 
 Britannica, No. XL. ; where it is stated to have been taken from 
 the Harl. MS. 1440, f. 13. 
 
 Two short Tracts, from the same MS. are also preserved in the 
 History and Antiquities of Fotheringay. They are here inserted 
 as illustrative of the subject of the present Collection. 
 
Zbc Solemnity of tbe ffnnerall of flDar^ t late 
 . of Scottisb (Slneene anfc Dowager of 
 If ranee, celebrated in tbe cburcb 
 of Peterborough anno Domini 
 1587, Eugusti primo* 
 
 First, The body of the cathedrall church, wan hanged round 
 aboute, six or seven yards high from the grounde, with two 
 breadthes of black bayes, against every second piller, garnished 
 with escutiones of the armes of the defunct alone, viz. Or, a lyon 
 rampant, within a double tressure, counterflored proper ; and 
 with the armes of both her husbands, impaled severalely, with 
 the armes of Scotland ; which were these : — first husband, B. 
 three flower de luces, Or, for France. 
 
 The second husband, eight coates, severally ; four above, and 
 four beneath ; — 
 
 The first, B. three flower de luces, Or, on a bordure, G. six 
 buckles torteux,* the poynts of the thongs upwards, of the first 
 two, Or. — 
 
 2. Or, a fess cheeky, O. and B. a bordure, G. — 
 
 ° o 
 
 3. a faltire, between 400 . — 
 
 o 0 
 
 4. Or, a lyon rampant, G. 
 
 5. B. a lyon rampant, A, crowned, Or. 
 
 6. A, 5 pyles, V, poyntes in poynt of the fesse. 
 
 7. Or, a fesse cheeky, G, or. ^ B : over all a bend, G, charged 
 
 with three buckles, fermaulx, the poynts upwards of the first. 
 
 8. A, a man's hart, G. on a Chief, B, 3 cinquefoyles, A ; over all, 
 
 a label of 3 poynts, A : over each escution, was set an 
 emperiall crowne. 
 
 (* Should be fermaulx, as in No. 7.) 
 
4° The Fanerall of Queene Mary. 
 
 The quire, was hanged with broad bayes, two bredthes, one 
 over another, garnished with escutcions, as aforesade. 
 
 The place above the quire, was in most solemn manier, hanged 
 with four bredthes of black bayes, sowed togeather ; garnished 
 at the upper end, with escutions of mettall, and one each side, as 
 aforesayde. 
 
 In the midst of which place, neere unto the quire, four steps, 
 assending, was placed betweene a stately hearse, with a topp, 8 
 square, rising lik a field-bed, which was covered on the topps 
 with black bayes, garnished with escutions as affore, of mettall, 
 and besett with pinicles from the topp, on each quarter, most 
 butiful to behoulde; whereupon were painted, on some, the 
 Scottish armes alone, and on others some, the armes of France 
 and Darnley, impaled with them, and St. Andrewe's crosse A, in 
 a filde, O; and also an unicorne tripping, A, attyred and un- 
 guled, Or ; the filde B, with a crowne, and a chayne turning over 
 his back, Or. On the topp of the hearse, was set three escutions 
 of the Scotch armes, cut out in paste borde, guilded, and an 
 impereall Crown, guilded, and cut out in past bord. 
 
 The vallence was black velvet, a yard and a halfe deepe, edged 
 with a fringe of golde, a quarter of a foote deepe ; adorned with 
 fore compartments, in silver, two on each side, smale armes in 
 mettle, and buckram set betwene, in the compartments. The 
 word, of the armes of Scotland, was this; $n !tt£ t)CfCHCC Oot> 
 
 me t>efen£>. 
 
 Over the vallence, at evry corner, was set a scution of armes, 
 in compartiments wyse, with emperial crownes, cut out in past- 
 bord, fastned to black staves, that bore out, each a foote from the 
 hearse, beset round about the herse, immediately above the val- 
 lens, with pencells of silk, as above named, in forme of stremers. 
 
 The six principalis and postes, were covered with black 
 velvet ; and over each, a compartiment, with the word or posy, 
 as aforesayde, and a small scution of buckram, in mettall. 
 
[From Harl. MS. 293, f. 211.] 
 
 The 14th of August, Sir William Dethick, Garter, knight, 
 principal King of Armes, being sent to Peterburgh ; a rich pall of 
 velvet, embroidered with the armes of the mighty princesse, 
 Mary queene of Scotts ; having letters, directed to the reverend 
 lord bishoppe of Peterburgh, in that behalfe; which pall of 
 velvett, embroidered, was by him caryed, & laid uppon and over 
 the corps of the said late Queene, assisted by many knights and 
 gentlemen, and much people at the time of divine service ; and, 
 then the said lord bishoppe preached a sermon in that behalfe, 
 in the morning, and made a great feast at dinner, and the Deane 
 preached of the same, in the afternoon. 
 
 Then the queene of Scotland was most royally and sumptously 
 enterred, by the said Garter, on the 14th of August, in the yere 
 1587. 
 
Hllowance of servants ano btacfees, at tbe jf uneralles 
 of jflDan? flfcueen of Scottes, at jpeterborougb, 
 on Uuesoas, tbe fivst of Huaust, 1587. 
 
 [From Harl. MS. 1354. f. 45.] 
 The Countess of Bedford, beyng ladie chief mourner, for her 
 
 surcott and mantell, with a long trayne, 16 yeardes, 
 Two gentlemen in cloakes, too eche of them, three yeardes and 
 
 a halfe, 
 Fyve yeomen. 
 
 Every other countesse, had twelve yeardes. 
 
 Lyke number of gentlemen in cloaks, and yeomen in coates. 
 
 Every baronesse, had five yardes, two gentlewomen, and five 
 
 yeomen in coates. 
 Every knighte's wyffe, had one gentlewoman, and two yeomen. 
 Every gentlewoman, had three yeardes and a haulf apeece. 
 The ladyes, had Parris heades and barbes. 
 The gentlewomen, had whyte headdes. 
 
 Every Erie, had for himself ten yeardes, two gentlemen in clokes, 
 
 and eight yeomen. 
 Every baron, had for himself eight yeardes, a gentleman in a 
 
 cloake, and five yeomen. 
 Every knight, had six yeardes, and two yeomen. 
 Every esquier, had for himselfe five yeardes, and one yeoman. 
 Every gentleman wearing a cloke, had for the same, three yeardes 
 
 and a haulfe. 
 
 Garter and Clarentaulx, kings of Armes, had for their blackes, 
 
 either of them six yeardes. 
 Every herald, had for his blackes, five yeardes. 
 
THE 
 
 MANNER OF THE SOLEMNITY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SCOTISH QUEEN'S FUNERAL, 
 
 HEING THE FIRST OF AUGUST 
 
 MDLXXXVII. 
 
 WHEN SHE WAS BVRIED, IN THE 
 
 CATHEDRAL CHURCH 
 
 OF 
 
 PETERBVRGH. 
 
'The Manner of the Scottish Queen's Funeral,' ts taken 
 from Gunton's History of the Cathedral Church of Peter- 
 burgh, Lond. 1686, {pp. 77, This interesting Tract, 
 appears to have been transcribed by Gun ton from the attested 
 account, drawn up by Dr. Fletcher, Dean of Peterborough, 
 who was present at the whole solemnity in his official 
 capacity. 
 
Gbe flDamter of tbe Solemnity, of tbc Scottsb 
 Queen's jf uneral, bema tbe first of 
 Huoust 1587 ; wben 6be was 
 btuiefc, in tbe (Satbefcral 
 Cburcb of petet> 
 
 Upon Tuesday, being the first of August, were the Funerals 
 appointed to be celebrated, for the Scotish Queen in the Cathedral 
 Church of Peterburgh j and accordingly, there were sent thither, 
 from the Court, the Queen's household officers ; to make pre- 
 parations for the Diet, Mr. Dorrel and Mr. Cox ; for the Funeral 
 Offices, Mr. Fortescue Master of the great Wardrobe. The 
 Heralds came down, three or four days before, and appointed 
 (together with the Bishop & Dean) the place, for the body to be 
 interred ; which was devised, over against the lying of Queen 
 Katherine, near to the tomb of John, last Abbot and first Bishop 
 of that Church. There was a rich hearse, erected above the first 
 step of the Quire, near to the place of the burial ; and the whole 
 Quire and Church were hanged with black. Upon Sunday, at 
 night, the thirtieth of July, the body, was brought by torch-light 
 from the Castle of Fothcringhay, (where it had lain, since the time 
 of Execution, being the Eighth of February before) by Garter 
 
46 The Manner of the Solemnity 
 
 King at arms, and other Heralds, with some number of Horse, 
 in a Chariot, made of purpose, covered with black velvet, and 
 adorned with her Ensigns, accordingly, between one and two of 
 the Clock, in the night ; where attended for it, before the Church, 
 the Bishop of Peterburgh, and the Dean of the Cathedral Church, 
 the Master of the Ward-robe, Clarentius King at Arms, and divers, 
 as well of her Majesties servants, as other persons. There came 
 with the body, six of the Scotish train j as Melvin, the Master of 
 the household, and Physician, and others. The body 
 with the closures, weighed nine hundred weight; which 
 being carried, and attended orderly, by the said persons ; 
 was committed to the ground, in the Vault appointed; and 
 immediately the Vault was covered, saving a small hole, left 
 open, for the Staves to broken into. There was at that 
 time, not any offices of the Church-service done, the Bishop 
 being ready to have executed therein ; but it was by all that were 
 present, as well Scotish, as others, thought good, and agreed, 
 that it should be done, at the day and time of solemnity. Upon 
 Monday, in the afternoon, came to Peterburgh, all the Lords and 
 Ladies, and other assistants appointed; and at the Bishop's 
 palace, was prepared a great supper for them ; where all, at one 
 table, supped in the great chamber, being hanged with black, 
 where was a State set on the right side thereof, of purple Velvet. 
 Upon Tuesday morning, the Chief Mourners, Lords and Ladies, 
 and other assistants, being ready ; about Ten of the Clock, they 
 marched, from the Hall of the Bishop's palace, as followeth, 
 The Countess of Bedford, Chief Mourner, &c. 
 
 ( Then follows an abstract of the procession.) 
 
 The solemnity being setled, the prebends and the quire, which 
 received them at the Church Door, sung an Antheme : the 
 Scotish, all saving Mr. Melvin, departed, and would not tarry at 
 Sermon or Ceremonies. The Bishop of Lincoln out of that 39th 
 Psalm, 5. 6. 7 ver. Lord let me know mine end, &c. Who shall 
 
of the Scotish Queeris Funeral. 47 
 
 gather them, &c. — In the Prayer, when he gave thanks for such 
 as were translated out of this vale of Misery, he used these 
 words : — ' Let us give thanks for the happy dissolution of the 
 High and Mighty Princess, Mary late Queen of Scotland, and 
 Dowager of France, of whose life and death, at this time, I have 
 not much to say ; because I was not acquainted with the one, 
 neither was I present at the other : I will not enter into judgment 
 farther ; but because it hath been signified unto me, that she 
 trusted to be saved, by the bloud of Christ, we must hope well of 
 her salvation : For as Father Luther was wont to say, many one 
 that liveth a Papist, dieth a Protestant" — 
 
 In the discourse of his text, he only dealt with general 
 doctrine, of the vanity of all flesh. The Sermon ended, the 
 offering of the Chief Mourner & hatchments were received by 
 the Bishop of Peterburgh, and the offerings of the rest by the 
 Dean ; which ended, the Mourners departed. The Ceremony of 
 burial was done by the Dean, the Officers breaking their staves, 
 and casting them into the vault upon the coffin. And so they 
 departed to the Bishop's house, where was a great feast appointed 
 accordingly. The concourse of people was of many thousands • 
 and after dinner, the Nobles departed away, every one towards 
 his own home. The Master of the Wardrobe paid to the Church, 
 for breaking of the ground in the quire, and making the grave 
 ;£io; and for blacks for the quire and Church £20. 
 
 This relation was attested in a Church Register, by Dean 
 Fletcher himself, subscribing his name thereunto. 
 
 Shortly after this interment, there was a table hanged up against 
 the wall ; which contained this inscription : 
 
 MARIA SCOTORUM REGINA, REGIS FILIA, REGIS GALLORUM VIDUA, 
 REGIN/E ANGLIC.E AGNATA, ET H^RES PROXIMA ! VERTUTIBUS 
 REGIIS, ET ANIMO REGIO ORNATA, JURE REGIO FRUSTRA S^PIUS 
 IMPLORATO, BARBARA, ET TYRANNICA ANGLORUM CRUDELITATE 
 ATQUE SENTENTIA ORN AMENTUM NOSTRI SECULI, ET LUMEN VERE 
 REGIUM EXTINGUITUR : EODEMQUE NEFARIO JUDICIO, ET MARIA 
 
48 The Manner of the Solemnity 
 
 SCOTORUM REGINA MORTE NATURALI, ET OMNES SUPERSTITES 
 REGES, PLEBEII FACTI, MORTE CIVILI MULCTANTUR. NOVUM ET 
 INAUDITUM TUMULI GENUS, IN QUO, CUM VIVIS MORTUI INCLU- 
 DUNTUR, HIC EXTAT : CUM SACRIS ENIM DIViE MARIiE C1NERIBUS, 
 OMNIUM REGUM, ATQUE PRINCIPUM VIOLATAM ATQUE PROSTRATAM 
 MAJESTATEM HIC JACERE SCITO : ET QUIA TACITUM HOC MONU- 
 MENTUM REGALE SATIS SUPERQUE REGES SUI OFFICII MONET, 
 PLURA NON ADDO, VIATOR. 
 
 TRANSLATION. 
 
 1 Mary Queen of Scots, daughter of a King, widow of the 
 King of France, Cousin and next heir to the Queen of England ; 
 endowed with Royal virtues, and a Royal mind ; (the right of 
 princes being oftentimes in vain implored) by barbarous and 
 tyrranical cruelty, the ornament of our age and truly Royal light, 
 is extinguished. By the same unrighteous judgement, both Mary 
 Queen of Scots, with natural death, and all surviving Kings, 
 (now made common persons) are punished with civil death. A 
 strange and unusual kind of monument this is, wherein the living 
 are included with the dead : for, with the Sacred ashes of this 
 blessed Mary, know, that the Majesty of all Kings and princes, 
 lieth here, violated and prostrated. And, because regal secresy 
 doth enough and more admonish Kings of their duty — traveller, 
 I say no more.' — 
 
 This table continued not long ; but was taken away, and cast 
 aside ; by whose hand, or order, I know not ; yet the royal 
 ensigns, of an helmet, sword and scutcheon, remained to the year 
 
of the Scotish Queen's Funeral. 49 
 
 1643, hanging high over the place of burial j yet did not their 
 height secure them from the storms which then fell upon the 
 Church and Monuments.* 
 
 * The « Helmet and Escutcheon ' were entire when Dugdale visited the spot 
 in 1641. From on unpublished MS. of the latter, a fac-simile drawing was 
 made for Bonney's "Historic notices respecting Fotheringhay. " — R. P. I. 
 
ii 
 
 MM 
 
 V.VVhJ« V 
 
 ■ 
 
 §§§ 
 
 II 
 
 MM 
 
 Ii 
 
 S3 
 
 Declaration 
 
 of tfic 
 
 Cfjarges of Mitt ants IBxpenses 
 incurred at ttie jfnnnal 
 of 
 
 a^arp ixueen of ^cotts; 
 
 iHarma&ufte mareU ants Uitfyarts €ox, 
 events. 
 
 ©n JHontrai> tlje last of Julg, aitlr ftues&ag 
 tfjc first of august, in tf)e Ytat 
 
 mmiLxxxvm. 
 
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 11 
 
 IF 
 
 m 
 
 88 
 
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THIS interesting Account of the Expenditure by the officers 
 appointed by the Crown, at the Funeral of Queen Mary, was, 
 for the first time, noticed by George Chalmers, Esq. in his 
 learned and able Vindication, (2d Edit. ii. 203. 8vo. 1822) as 
 extant in the Paper Office. The Editor and the public are 
 indebted to him for his kindness, in procuring and transmitting 
 a Copy of the original account, from which the following is an 
 exact transcript The note marked G. C. is by Mr. Chalmers. 
 
accompt 
 
 of roe dPipencw tntumfc 
 
 at tf>c jfimtral of iflars <©ueen of Scotts. 
 
 The Declaration of the Account of Marmaduke Darell and 
 Richard Cox, Gentlemen, appointed by the Right Hon blc William 
 Baron of Burghley, Lord High Treasurer of England, to receive 
 sundry sums of money, for defraying the charge of Diet at the 
 Funerall of Lady Mary, late Queen of Scotts : solemnized in the 
 Cathedral Church of Peterborough, the first day of August in the 
 29th year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth ; 
 that is to say, for provisions of Diet, for two Meals, during the 
 time of the said Funeral ; viz. a Supper, on Monday, the last of 
 July ; and a dinner on Tuesday, the 1st August 1587. 
 
54 
 
 Accompt of the Expences incurred at the Funeral. 
 
 The whole expences of the Funeral of the Queen of Scotts 
 amounted to L320 : 14 : 6, viz. 
 
 Provisions for Diet, in the several offices of 
 Pantry and and Buttery, . . £105 10 6 
 
 * Accatry, 
 Kitchen, 
 Larder, 
 Spicery, 
 Wood Yard, 
 
 54 18 3 
 
 12 9 iyi 
 
 7 13 o 
 18 6 io)4 
 689 
 
 1204 
 
 16 
 
 Charges of Carriage .... 
 
 Extraordinary Charges, viz. — 
 Extra Emptions and provisions, 6 12 2 
 
 Wages, .... 382 
 
 Riding Charges, . . . 90 1 2 
 
 o 
 o 
 
 IOO 
 
 £320 14 6 
 
 * In the King's Household, a kind of check betwixt the Clerks of the Kitchen 
 and the Purveyors. — G. C. 
 
 t So in Mr Chalmers's Copy. The summation ought to have been £205 17:0; 
 which makes the total Expenses amount to ^321 : 14 : 6. 
 
incites anD 3Ulus;tratton0. 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Page 3. 
 
 ' Her bodie was brought in a Coutch? — Reference may here be 
 made to "A Remembrance of the Order,' &c {vtd. p. 33,) where 
 the body is said to have been carried in ' a Royal Coach, drawn by 
 four horses, and covered with black velvet,' &c. 
 
 Ib. 1 Fotheringham Caste//.' — The Estate of Fotheringhay, was 
 granted by William the Conqueror to his niece Judith, daughter 
 of Maud, Dutchess of Albemarle, his sister uterine, and wife of 
 Waltheof, (son of the famous Earl Siward,) a powerful baron, who 
 was subsequently beheaded for conspiring against the king. 
 Their daughter Maud inherited Fotheringhay, which, together 
 with the earldoms of Northampton and Huntingdon, the king 
 bestowed on Simon de St. Liz, or Sen/iz, as a marriage portion. 
 On the death of this nobleman, Maud married David, king of 
 Scotland, who, by virtue of this marriage, became seised of the 
 manor of 'Fodringey,' and of the earldom of Huntingdon, by p-rant 
 of Henry I. — Simon, Second Earl of Northampton and Hunti g- 
 don, is supposed to have founded the Castle, shortly after he 
 built that of Northampton, in 1084. After being long in posses- 
 sion of the Royal Family of Scotland, Fotheringhay reverted to 
 the Crown of England, (temp. Edw. I.) John de Britain, E. of 
 
 Richmond, in 2 Edw. II., obtained a grant from the Crown, of the 
 
 L 
 
58 
 
 Notes. 
 
 whole Estate ; and on the demise of the celebrated foundress of 
 Pembroke Castle, Cambridge, Maria* wife of Audemare de Valentia, 
 Earl of Pembroke, (who lost his life at a tournament, on the day of 
 his nuptials,t) Edward III. made a grant of Fotheringhay to his 
 fifth son, Edmund of Langley, Earl of Cambridge and Duke of York ; 
 and through him, the Castle became the residence of the Royal 
 House of York, and was the birthplace of Richard III. — Catherine 
 of Arragon received Fotheringhay in dowry from her husband, 
 Henry VIII. ; and it seems to have been a favourite residence of 
 her's. According to Leland,t she ' did great costs in late tyme of 
 refresching of it.' 
 
 The Castle of Fotheringhay, was first made use of, as a State 
 Prison, 25th May, 1554, when Edward Courtney, Earl of Devon- 
 shire, was removed to it from the Tower of London. The 
 unfortunate Mary was the next and last state prisoner (25th 
 Sept. 1586) ; having been there closely confined during the last 
 six months of her singularly chequered life, under the custody of 
 Sir William Fitzwilliam of Milton. 
 
 'Her own son (James I.) who wore her crown in her lifetime, 
 accepted the unjust fine inflicted on poor Davidson, as a full 
 satisfaction ; took the son of Cecil, her warmest enemy, into his 
 favour, when he came to the throne of England ; and beat down the 
 Castle, in a fit of revenge. It was so completely demolished, that 
 only the earth-works remain ; and the keep shows the fetter-lock 
 form, round on the west, and flat at the east end. Within the 
 first works, is a farm-house, with some carved stones, wrought into 
 it; and at the south west corner of the inner trench, are some 
 masses of stone walls. Sir Robert Cotton carried the wainscott 
 of the wall to Connington.' — Archeeologia, xv. 221, — and Gougtfs 
 Camden, ii. 181. 
 
 * Maria de St. Paul, Baroness de Voissie and Montanai, was daughter of Guido de 
 Chatillon, Comte de St. Paul in France, by Mary, daughter of John de Britain, Earl 
 of Richmond, nephew of Edward I. She also founded Denny Abbey, near Ely. 
 •f- 1 Sad Chatillon, on her bridal morn 
 That wept her bleeding love.' 
 
 Gray. 
 
 J Leland, Itin. vol. i. fol. 4, 6. 
 
Notes. 
 
 59 
 
 ' The ground on which it stood, with the surrounding moats,* 
 and small fragments of the walls, near the river, and on the east 
 of the mount, are the only marks of this once strong and memor- 
 able Castle.' — Historic Notices in reference to Fotheringhay, Oudle, 
 8vo. 1821. 
 
 Ib. ' The Hearse! — The hearse, was usually ' a four-square frame 
 of timber, which was hung with black cloth, and garnished with 
 flags and scutcheons, as also a great quantity of lights, according 
 to the wealth and quality of the person deceased.' The following 
 dimensions for a hearse are taken from a MS. in the Harleian 
 Library : ' Each side was twelve foot broad, and each corner post 
 twelve foot high ; from each of these posts, arose a rafter, slanting ; 
 and all four rafters met at the top, and morticed in an upright 
 post in the middle, which rise about four foot above the corner 
 posts.' — Strutt's Manners of England, iii. 159. 
 
 In a very interesting tract, preserved in Lord Somers's Collec" 
 tion, (ii. 225.) '■The Life and Death of our late most incomparable and 
 Heroique Prince Henry, Prince of Wales. A Prince (for V alour and 
 Virtue) fit to be imitated in succeeding Times! 1641. Written by Sir 
 Charles Cornwallis, Knight, Treasurer of his Highness's House- 
 hold, the following occurs: — 'The coffin was set under a great 
 stately herse, built quadranglewise, with eight pillars, shewing three 
 to the view, on each side four square canopy like, rising small on 
 the top, trimmed and set thick within and without, with divers 
 scutchions, small flagges, and pensils of his highness's several armes 
 of the union chained, Scotland, Wales, Cornewall, Chester, 
 Rothsay, Carrick, &c, mingled here and there, with his highnesses 
 motto, Fax mentis honestce gloria; and that of the funeral herse, 
 Juvat ire per ahum? — Somer's Tracts. (Sir Walter Scott's edit.) 
 ii. 247. 
 
 Antiently, these Hearses remained over the grave, with wax 
 
 *The outer moat, on the north side, before the earth was thrown into it in 1820, 
 was seventy-five feet across ,• and the inner moat, at the foot of the mount, sixty-six 
 feet. 
 
60 Notes. 
 
 lights bnrning, in the chapel or vault where the deceased was 
 interred ; and masses were said and sung at appointed times, 
 vid. Strutt, Gough, &c. 
 
 Page 4. 
 
 < Being set in order in the by the heralds? &e.— There is here, an 
 evident omission, in the original tract. The following passage, 
 immediately proceding the form of the procession, in 'A Remem- 
 brance of the order,' Sec, shews, that the marshalling 01 the 
 procession, took place, in 1 the Great Hall? 'She (the Countess of 
 Bedford) took her way into the great hall, where the corps stood, and 
 the heralds having marshalled the several companies, they made their pro- 
 ceedings, as followeth. — vid. p. 34. 
 
 Ib. 'Sir Nicholas Sauell,'— Sir George Saville, knight. 
 
 Page 4. 
 
 ' Then the Deane.'—Dr. Richard Fletcher, Dean of Peterborough, 
 was made Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth, 1581; Dean, 1583; 
 Bishop of Bristol, 1589. Translated to Worcester, 1592, and to 
 London, 1594. He was father of the celebrated dramatic poet, 
 John Fletcher, who was his eldest son by his first marriage. 
 Having offended Elizabeth, by marrying the widow of Sir John 
 Baker of Sisingsherst, he was forbid the court for a year ; and 
 suspended from his Episcopal functions for six months. He 
 never recovered this disgrace ; but died a very short time after- 
 wards, as was supposed, of grief. 
 
Notes. 
 
 61 
 
 Page 5. 
 
 ' The Sword by Yorke.' — This herald is unaccountably omitted, 
 in Garter's notice of the procession. He was Humphry Hales, 
 Esq. created York herald, by Robert, Earl of Leicester, 4th June, 
 1587; died 1 6th June, 1 59 1 . Arms, Gules, three arrows, Or. 
 feathered and bearded, Argent. He was succeeded by Ralph 
 Brooke, Esq. — vid. Noble, Dallaway, Sec. 
 
 Page 7. 
 
 ' Brakenburie.' — From 'A Remembrance of the order,' &c. it 
 would appear that this person was Gentleman Usher to Garter 
 King at Arms ; as in the procession, ' Mr. Garter, with the usher 
 Mr. Brakenbury,' are marshalled together. 
 
 Page 11. 
 
 ' Poore men? — All the accounts, excepting this one, agree in 
 stating these, as 100 '■poore women? ' pauures femmes,' ' poore old 
 women, for the most part widowes, in black cloth gownes, with an ell 
 of white Holland ouer their heads,' Sec. 
 
 Ib. • Sir George Saville, Knight.' — He was created a Bart, by 
 James I. In the first tract he is, by mistake, called Sir Nicholas. 
 — vid. p. 4. 
 
62 
 
 Notes. 
 
 Ib. ' Gentlemen in cloakes? — In the tract, * A Remembrance' Sec. 
 they are thus mentioned ; 1 Gentlemen in clokes to the number 
 of 50, being attendants on the lords and ladies.' 
 
 Ib. 1 Syxe Groomes.'— In the same tract, ' Six grooms of the 
 
 chamber, viz. Mr. Eaton, Mr. Bykie, Mr. 
 
 Ceavaval, Mr. Flynt, Mr. Charlton, Mr. Lylle.' 
 
 They are not named in the French account. — p. 19. 
 
 Page 11. 
 
 '■The Bishop of Peterborough's Stezoarde.' — ' Maistre Jacques.' 
 
 Page 12. 
 
 ' Mr. Horseman? — ' Le grand escuyer,' in the French accounts. 
 
 Ib. ' ' ' Mr. Martin,' ' Maistre Martin,' according to 
 
 two of the other accounts. 
 
 Ib. 'Scottes in cloakes' — Fourteen servants of the Queen of Scots, 
 are named in the French copy; but according to 'A Remembrance,' 
 &c. they are stated to be ' 17 in number.' The other three, were 
 Cruyse, Aligton, and Fortescue, ' maistres d' hostel? — vid. p. 20. 
 
 Ib. l A Scottish Priest? — This person is said to have been a 
 French Jesuit, (perhaps Monsieur de Preau, Mary's Almoner and 
 Confessor). He openly wore a gold cross, pendant at his breast, 
 a nd also carried one of silver in his hand, during the procession ; 
 
Notes. 63 
 
 which gave great offence to the populace. — The office of Almoner 
 to the Queen was also enjoyed, during part of her imprisonment, 
 by Archibald Crawford and Peter Rorie. 
 
 Ib. 'Peterborough] — Richard Howland, D.D. was successively 
 master of Magdalene's and St. John's Colleges, Cambridge. — In 
 1584, he obtained the bishoprick of Peterborough on the promotion 
 of Bishop Edmund Scrambler, D.D. to the See of Norwich. 
 Bishop Howland, presided over this Diocese, for 16 years. — He 
 died at Castor, anno 1600, and was interred in the East End of the 
 Cathedral. — Gunton's Peterb. p. 81. 
 
 Ib. 'Lincolne.' — William Wickham, Dean of Lincoln, succeeded 
 Bishop Cooper, on 6th December 1854. He was afterwards 
 translated to the See of Winchester, (on the demise of Bishop 
 Cooper, who had also been promoted to that Bishoprick from 
 Lincoln) 22d Feb. 1549; but died 1 ith June following, before 
 having taken formal possession. He was buried in the Church of 
 St. Mary Overy, Southwark. 
 
 Ib. 4 Sir Andrew NowelF — of Ridlington, Co. Rutland. He 
 'was a person of great note, in the reign of Elizabeth ; living in 
 that state of magnificence, as to equalize the barons of greater 
 worth.' Banks, iii. 140. — 'For person, parentage, grace, gesture, 
 valour, and many other excellent parts, (amongst which skill in 
 music,) was one of the first rank in the court.' — Fuller's Worthies. 
 
 Ib. ' Sir Edw. Montague '—of Hemyngton, Co. Northampton, 
 knight, (1567,) one of the ancestors of Montagu, Duke of Man- 
 chester, was eldest son of Sir E. Montagu, Chief Justice of the 
 Common Pleas.— Died at Boughton, 26th Jan. 1 601-2, and was 
 interred in Weekly Church, Northamptonshire; where there is 
 an Altar-tomb, with two effigies, of himself and his Lady.— Sir E. 
 B.'s Collins, ii. 48. &c. 
 
 Page 12. 
 
 ' The Lord Chamberlayne.' — Edward Sutton, Lord Dudley. Dugd. 
 Bar. ii. 217. He married Theodosia, daughter of Sir James 
 Harrington, Knight. — Died, 1643. — Banks, ii. 173. 
 
6 4 
 
 Notes. 
 
 Ib. ' The Lord Stewarde.' — William Pawlett, Lord St. John or 
 Basing, eldest son of William, third Marquis of Winchester ; suc- 
 ceeded to that title on the death of his father in 1598. He 
 involved himself in pecuniary embarrasments by entertaining 
 Queen Elizabeth most splendidly, at Basing, in one of her pro- 
 gresses. — Lodge's Must. iii. 151. — Sir E. Bridges' 's Mem. of K. James's 
 Peers, 309. — Sir E. B.'s Collins, ii. 375. 
 
 Ib. 1 , pourcyvant of arms' — Sir William Segar, Knight, 
 
 (then W. Segar, Gent.) Portcullis Pursuivant, was appointed to this 
 office, at Derby-house, by George, Earl of Shrewsbury, 10th June, 
 1585, (patent 14th June following). He afterwards successively 
 enjoyed the appointments of Somerset Herald, 1588 ; Norroy, 1593 ; 
 and Garter, 1603 ; in which last mentioned year, he went with 
 the Order of the Garter, to Christian IV. of Denmark. In 161 2, 
 he invested Maurice, Prince of Orange, with the insignia of the 
 Garter ; and was presented with a chain of gold, six pounds in 
 weight, with the miniature of the prince, set in diamonds. James L 
 conferred the honour of knighthood on him, in Nov. 1616. He 
 died, 13th Dec. 1633. Arms, first and fourth, Azure, a cross- 
 moline, Ar. for Segar ; and second and third, a Chevron, between 
 three mullets, Azure, for Crakenthorp. — Vide Anstis, Noble, 
 Dallaway, l£c. 
 
 * The Sword by Torke' (p. 5.) — This has been omitted in Garter's 
 account. 
 
 Ib. 'Rouge Dragon.' — John Raven, Gent, was created Rouge 
 Dragon; {»rsuivant, 8th June, 1583. He was son of John Raven of 
 Creating, Co. Suffolk; and, according to Noble, was 'an officer 
 at arms of great skill, and was much employed by Camden, as his 
 deputy marshal, in visitations.' He afterwards enjoyed the office 
 of Richmud Herald, 23d Oetober, 1597.— Died, 13th February, 
 161 5. Arms, Or. a raven proper, placed on an orb, Gules. — See 
 Noble, Sec. 
 
 Ib. 'Somersett.' — Robert Glover, Esq. of Ashford in Co. Kent, 
 was appointed Somerset Herald, 1 571. Elizabeth, in consequence 
 
Notes. 
 
 65 
 
 of his great skill and unwearied attention, permitted him to visit 
 foreign countries, for his improvement. He was allowed by 
 heralds, to be one of the greatest ornaments to the College of 
 Arms. Amongst others of his performances, it may be noticed, that 
 he was the author of Titles of Honour,' afterwards published by 
 his nephew, Thomas Milles. He also answered the Bishop of 
 Ross's book, as to Queen Mary's claim to the English crown ; and 
 is known to have materially assisted Cambden, in the pedigrees, 
 for his ' Britannia.' He married Elizabeth, daughter of William 
 Flower, Esq. Norroy. — Died in London, April 1 588, aged 45, and 
 was succeeded by Sir W. Segar, (afterwards Norroy and Garter.) 
 — Arms, Sable, a chevron E rmine, between three crescents, 
 Argent. — See Noble, Dallazvay, l£c. • 
 
 lb. ' Clarentius? — Robert Cooke, Esq. Clarenceux King of Arms, 
 succeeded William Harvey, who died 22d Feb. 1566-7. He was, 
 successively, Rose pursuivant, Chester, Norroy and Clarenceux; to 
 which last, he was appointed 1567. — Died and was buried, at 
 Hanworth, Co. Middlesex, 1592. — Arms of Gules, seme of fleurs- 
 de-lis, a cinquefoil, Ermine. — Vide Noble and Dallazvay, &c. 
 
 Ib. ' A gentleman hiusher? — ' Mr. Conyngsbye.' 
 
 Ib. ' The body.' —It would appear, from one of the tracts, ('A 
 Remembrance; &c.) that the body 'was not borne in the solemnity, 
 because it was so extreame heavy, by reason of tbe lead,' &c. — According 
 to Gunton, and other authorities, ' the body, with its closures, weighed 
 nine hnndrea weight! — Gunton's Peterborough. 
 
 Ib. * Banner -oils' — In 'A Remembrance,' &c. they ?t thus 
 enumerated : — 
 
 Eight Bannerolles borne by Esquires. 
 
 1. King Robert, impaling Drummond, by Mr. Wm. Fitz- 
 williams. 
 
 2. King James the 1st, impaling Beaufort, Mr Grirfin of 
 Dingley. 
 
 3. Guelders, by Mr. R. Wingfield. 
 
 4. King James 3d, impaling Denmark, Mr. Bevil. 
 
66 Notes. 
 
 5. King James 4th, impaling the arms of Henry 7th of England, 
 Mr Lynne. 
 
 6. King James 5th, impaling Guys, Mr. John Wingfield. 
 
 7. King of France, impaling the arms of Mary, Queen of 
 Scotland, Mr Spence. 
 
 8. Lord Darnley, impaling the arms of Mary Queen of Scot- 
 land, Mr Jonn Eortescue of Aywood. 
 
 Pages 14 and 22. 
 
 * The Canopie, born by these four knights? &c. — ' Le Ciel de velours 
 noir, forte sur la Representation? &c. — It seems to have been cus- 
 tomary, at the Funerals of Royal personages, to carry in the 
 funeral procession an Image, or Representation (as it was termed), 
 of the deceased. This Representation, was usually placed on 
 velvet cushions, in an open Chariot, garnished with banners 
 pencells, escutchions, &c; appareled with robes of State, having 
 the Crown on the head, and the ball and sceptre in the hands, 
 &c. — See Gough's Sepulchral Monuments. — Strutt's Manners of England, 
 &c. — Over the Chariot, which frequently contained the body 
 also, there was usually carried a Canopy of State, which was 
 surrounded with eight, ten, or twelve Bannerols, carried by as 
 many Knights or Gentlemen ; Four or Six Noblemen, termed, 
 Assistants to the Body, bore up the pall. 
 
 In a curious Tract, preserved in Lord Somer's Collection, — 
 * Order and proceedings at the Funerall of the Right High and Mighty 
 princesse, Elizabeth, Queen 'of England^ France and Ireland, from the 
 pallace af Westminster, called White-hall : To the Cathedral Church of 
 Westminster the iSth of April 1603.' (by Henry Chettle,) there 
 occurs, in the description of the procession, 1 The lively picture of 
 
Notes. 67 
 
 her Highnesse whole body, crowned in her parliament robes, 
 lying on the Corps balmed and leaded, covered with velvet, borne 
 on a chariot, drawn by four horses trapt in black velvet. — About it, six 
 banner rolls, on each side, gentlemen pentioners, with their axes 
 downward. With them the Footmen. A Canopy borne over the 
 Chariot, by four Noblemen.' — Sower's Tracts {Sir Waltea Scoffs 
 Edit.) i. 250. 
 
 In the same valuable collection, there is another Tract, which 
 is also worthy of being noticed, as illustrative of these circum- 
 stances, — " The Funerals of the High and Mighty Prince, Henry 
 Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwaile and Rothsay, Count Palatine 
 of Chester, Earl of Caricke, and late Knight of the most noble 
 Order of the Garter. Which Noble Prince, deceased at St. 
 James's, the sixt day of November, 1612, and was Princely 
 interred, the seventh day of December following, within the Abbey 
 of Westminster, in the eighteenth year of his age. London, 
 Printed by T. S. for John Budgde, 1 61 3 ;" which contains the 
 following : — 4 Monday the 7th of December, (the funerall day,) 
 the Representation, was layd upon the corps, and both together, put 
 into an open chariot. — Ibid. ii. 211. 
 
 And afterwards, in describing the procession : — 4 The Corps of 
 the Prince, lying in an open Chariot, with the Prince's Represen- 
 tation, invested with his robes of estate, of purple velvet, furred 
 with ermines, his Highnesse Cap and Coronet on his head, and 
 his Rod of Gold in his hand ; and at his feet, within the said 
 Chariot, sat Sir David Murrey, the Master of the Wardrobe. 
 The Chariot, was covered with blacke velvet, set with plumes of 
 blacke feathers, and drawn by sixe horses covered, and armed 
 with scuchions, having their chiefFrons and plumes. A Canopy 
 of blacke velvet, born over the representation, by sixe Baronets. 
 Ten Bannerols, born about the body, by ten Baronets. Four 
 assistants to the Corps, that bore up the corners of the pall.' — 
 Ibid. 215 & 216. — After the ceremonial was over, 'The Coffin, 
 with the Representation (as is before said) remaining still under the 
 
68 
 
 Notes. 
 
 hearse, to be seene of all, untill the 19th of the said month of 
 December; when, decked and trimmed with cloathes, as he went 
 when he was alive ; robes, collar, crowne, golden rodde in his 
 hand, &c. ; it was set up, in a chamber of the said Chapell, at 
 Westminster, amongst the Representations of the kings and 
 queenes, his famous predecessors ; where it remaineth for ever to 
 be seene.' — Life and Death of Prince Henry. — Ibid. ii. 248. — In 
 Westminster Abbey, several of these Representations, or waxen 
 figures, are still preserved. 
 
 It may here be noticed, that at the Funeral of Queen Elizabeth, 
 the ' Lady Marchionesse of Northampton, assisted by the lord- 
 treasurer, and lord-admiral, was Chief Mourner; her traine, sup- 
 ported by master vice-chamberlaine.' — (Sir W. Scott's) Somers 
 Tracts, i. 250. 
 
 At the Funeral of Prince Henry, ' Prince Charles was Chief 
 Mourner, supported by the Lorde Privy Seale, and the Duke of 
 Lenox. — His Highnesse train, was borne by the Lord Dawbney, 
 brother to the Duke of Lenox.' — lb. ii. 216. 
 
 Page 14. 
 
 ' Sir Thomas Manners' — Knight, fourth son of Thomas, first Earl 
 of Rutland. — Died in June 1 59 1 , and was buried at St. Leonard's 
 Shoreditch, London. — Sir E. B's Collins, i. 469. 
 
 Ib. ' Sir George Hastings' — Second son of Francis, second Earl 
 of Huntingnon ; to which title he afterwards succeeded, on the 
 death of his elder brother, Henry, third E. Huntingdon ; who had 
 charge of Queen Mary. He married Dorothy, {Eleanor according 
 to Milles,) daughter of Sir John Port of Etwall, Co. Derby, Knight. 
 Died 1604. — Dugd. ii. 588. — Banks, iii. 399. 
 
Notes. 69 
 
 Id. '■S'-r James Haryngton.' — Of Exton, Co. Rutland. Married 
 Lucy, daughter of Sir W. Sidney, Kt. His son, Sir John, was, in 
 1603, on the ascension of K. James, created Lord Harington of 
 Exton, and had the tuition of the Lady Elizabeth, (daughter of 
 King James,) until her marriage, with Fred. Count Palatine. — 
 Sir E. B's Collins, ix. 479. — Died 1591, and was buried in Exton 
 church. — Wrights Rutland, p. 55, 56. 
 
 Ib. ' Sir Richard Knightly.'' — Of Fawsley, Co. Northampton, 
 which county, he frequently represented, in Parliament, temp. 
 Eliz. He was a great favourer of the Puritans, whose libels were 
 published at his expense ; for which he was cited, in the Star 
 Chamber, and severely fined and censured ; but he was dis- 
 charged, and his fine remitted, on the intercession of Archbishop 
 Whitgift. — He married, 1st, Mary, daughter of Richard Farmer, 
 Esq. of Easton Neston ; 2d, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Duke 
 of Somerset ; and 3d, Jane, daughter of Sir John Spencer, knight. 
 — Died, 1 6 1 5-16. There is an Altar Tomb, in the Parish Church 
 of Fawsley, in memory of Sir Richard and his last wife, Jane ; 
 with sculptured figures, in alabaster, in recumbent postures. He 
 is represented, in armour, over which is thrown an herald's 
 mantle, the thighs are in mail. — Another monument, with similar 
 figures, also in alabaster, is still preserved in the Chancel of 
 Upton Church. — Britton's Beauties of England and Wales, {Northamp- 
 tonshire^) — Bridge's Northamptonshire,^ 65. — Sir E. B.'s Collins, &c. 
 
 Ib. ' The Lord Mordaunt.' — Lewis Mordaunt, third Lord Mor- 
 daunt ; was one of the peers, who sat in judgment, on Thomas, 
 Duke of Norfolk, 19 Eliz.; and, in 29 of the same reign, also sat 
 on Queen Mary's trial. — Died 1601. — Dugd. ii. 360. — Sir E. B.'s 
 Collins, iii. 316. 
 
 Ib. 4 The Lord Willoughby of Faram' — Charles, second Lord W. 
 of Parham ; married Margaret, daughter of Edward, and sister of 
 Henry, Earl of Lincoln. — Died 1603. — Dugd. ii. 88 — and Banks, 
 iii. 744. 
 
 Ib. * The Lorde Compton.' — Henry, L. Compton, father of William, 
 
7° 
 
 Notes. 
 
 first E. of Northampton, was one of the Peers for Queen Mary's 
 trial.— Died 1590.— Sir E, B.'s Col/ins, iii. 23$.— Dugd. ii. 403. 
 
 Ib. ' Sir Thomas Cycill, Eldest son of William, first 
 
 Lord Burleigh, Lord High Treasurer, the most active of £>. 
 Mary's persecutors, by his first wife, Mary, daughter of Peter 
 Cheek, Esq. On the death of his father, (4th Aug. 1598,) he 
 succeeded to the title of Burleigh, and, on the 29th Augnst, was 
 chief mourner at his splendid state funeral, {as an Ear/) by the 
 express orders of Q. Elizabeth. — In consequence of his great 
 merits and services, he was created Earl of Exeter, 4th May, 1605, 
 shortly after the ascension of James I.— He died, at the advanced 
 age of 80, on 7th Feb. 1622 ; and was buried at St. Peter's, 
 Westminster, (in the chapel of John the Baptist.)— Sir E. B's 
 Collins, ii. 599. — Dugd. ii. p. 406. 
 
 Ib. ' Garter Kinge of Armes, and a Gentleman Usher with him' — Sir 
 William Dethick, second son of Sir Gilbert Dethick, Garter. He 
 obtained his patent, 1586. Resigned, on a pension of 200,. per 
 annum, in 1606, and died the same yzn.—Antis Reg. of the Garter, 
 i# 386-9.—^. also Noble's College of Arms, for his life.— His 
 Gentleman Usher, was Mr. Brakenbury. Vid. note to p. 7. 
 
 Ib. ' The Chief Mourner. /—Bridget, Countess of Bedford. 
 She was the daughter of John, Lord Hussey ; widow of Sir 
 Richard Morrison, Knight, and of Henry, Earl of Rutland, father 
 of E. Edward, ; and second wife of Francis Russel, second Earl of 
 Bedford, who died 1585.— Dugd. ii. 380. Banks, ii. 290. She 
 had no issue by her two last husbands.— Died 12th Jan. 1600, and 
 lies buried at Watford in Herfordshire.— Collins, (Sir E. Brydges) 
 i. 272. 
 
 Ib. ' Rutland.'— Edward Manners, third Earl of Rutland, died 
 14th April, 1587, leaving an only daughter, Elizabeth, who, at 
 the age of thirteen, became the Baroness Roos, and married Sir 
 William Cecil, K.G. (commonly called Lord Burleigh,) son and 
 heir apparent to Thomas, first Earl of Exeter.— Dugd. ii. 298.— 
 Sir E. B'e Collins, i. 472. 
 
Notes. 7 1 
 
 lb. « Lyncolne.' — Henry Clinton, second Earl of Lincoln. He 
 was one of the Commissioners on Queen Mary's trial. ' Of him 
 (Sir E. Brydges remarks) we have but little information, and that 
 little is not to his advantage.' — Sir E. B.'s Memoirs of Peers of 
 England, Lond. 1802, p. 43.— He died 9th Sept. 1616.— Lodge's 
 Illustrations, iii. 107. 
 
 Page 15. 
 
 ' Ladle St. John of Basing? — Lucy, daughter of Sir Thomas 
 Cecil, afterwards Earl of Exeter, and wife of William, Lord St. 
 John of Basing, afterwards fourth Marquis of Winchester. — Died 
 1 6 14, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. — Collins, (Sir E. B.) 
 
 375- 
 
 Ib. 'Mr. John Manners' — Probably John, brother and successor 
 of Edward, third Earl of Rutland. He married Elizabeth, daughter 
 to Francis Charlton of Apely, County Salop, Esq.— Died 1st Feb. 
 i$S8.—Dugd. ii. 298.— 3/r E. B.'s Collins, i. 473. 
 
 Page 15. 
 
 • The Countis of Rutland' — Isabel, daughter of Sir Thomas Hol- 
 croft of Vale Royal, Co. Cheshire, and wife of Edward, fourth 
 Earl of Rutland.— Dugd.—Sir E. B.'s Collins, i. 473. 
 
 Ib. 1 The Countis of Lyncolne.' — It is likely, that this Lady was, 
 Elizabeth Fitzgerald, daughter of Gerald, Earl of Kildare, and 
 relict of Edward Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, father of Earl Henry. 
 
7 2 Notes. 
 
 Ib. < The Ladie Talbot?— Anne, daughter of William Herbert, 
 Earl of Pembroke, wife of Francis Lord Talbot, eldest son, of 
 George, Earl of Shrewsbury : who had the custody of Queen 
 Mary, for seventeen years.— Dug J. i. 334— [vid. next note.) 
 
 Ib. 'The Ladie Marie Savill."— Mary, daughter of George 
 Talbot, sixth Earl of Shrewsbury ; wife of Sir Geo. Saville, 
 Knight, who bore the Great Standard of Scotland, in the funeral 
 procession.— Her father, died at Sheffield Manor, 18th Nov. 1590. 
 His funeral took place, on the 10th January following ; and then 
 more sumptously performed, than 'was ever to any afore in these 
 eountrys; and the assembly to see the same was marvelous, both 
 of Nobility, Gentry, and country folks, and poor folks without 
 number.'— Hunters Hallamshire, fol. Lond. 18 19. p. 73. 
 
 Ib. « The Ladie Mordantt.— Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Arthur 
 Darcie, Knight, and wife of Lewis ; third Lord Mordaunt.— 
 Dugd. ii. ^60.— Collins, iii. 316. 
 
 Ib. * The Ladie St. John of Bletsoe.'— Catherine, daughter of Sir 
 William Dormer of Ethorpe, Co. Bucks : third wife of John, 
 second Lord St. John of Bletshoe, who was one of the peers on 
 Queen Mary's trial, and died 1596. Their only daughter and 
 heir, Anne, married William Lord Howard of Effingham, eldest 
 son of Charles Earl of Nottingham.—/)*^, ii. 300.— Collins, iv., 
 275. 
 
 Ib. « The Ladie Manners.*— Theodosia, daughter of Sir Thomas 
 Newton, Knight ; wife of Sir Thomas Manners.— Collins, i. 469 
 
 Ib. ' The Ladie Cecill',— Dorothy, second daughter of John Nevill, 
 Lord Latimer ; first wife, of Sir Thomas Cecil, afterwards second 
 Lord Burleigh, and first Earl of Exeter.— Ib. ii. 601. 
 
 Ib. ' The Ladie Montague:— Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James 
 Harrington of Exton, Co. Rutland, Knight, and wife of Sir 
 Edward Montague of Hemyngton, Co. Northampton, knight, 
 whose son Sir Edward, was created Lord Montague of Boughton| 
 19 James I.— She died 19th May, 1618.— Dugh. ii. 443. (nj e 
 Note on p. 1 2.) 
 
Notes. 73 
 
 lb. ' The Ladie Novo ell! — Mabel, one of the daughters of Sir 
 James Harrington, Knight, and sister of John, Lord Harrington, 
 wife of Sir Andrew Noel of Dalby, Co. Leicester, Knight ; one of 
 the gentlemen pensioners of Queen Elizabeth, whose son was 
 created Lord Noel of Ridlington, 14 James l.—Dugd. ii. 435.— 
 Banks , iii. 140. 
 
 Ib. ' Mistris Allington' — This Lady was probably one of Queen 
 Elizabeth's maids of honour, and perhaps wife or daughter to Mr. 
 Alyngton, who is noticed, p. 12. 
 
 Ib. l A Scotish Gentlewoman' — In the tract, 'A Remembrance ' &c. 
 the name immediately following ' Mrs. Alington,' is ' Mrs Curie,' 
 who is likely to be the 1 Scotish Gentlewoman' here alluded to. 
 It may be remarked that in the French account, besides the 
 eleven preceding mourners, there occurs 1 Madame Dudley' who was 
 probably Mary, wife of Edward Sutton, Lord Dudley, and 
 daughter of William Lord Howard of Effingham. 
 
 Ib. 'Scotish Gentlewomen. — These eight ladies net named in the 
 French account and are designed, ' Les Femmes de la Royne 
 d'Escosse. 
 
 Page 20. 
 
 ' Trois maisters d'hostel.' — These gentlemen formed part of the 
 Queen of Scots' household. 
 
 lb. ' Les serviteurs de la Royne d'Escosse' — In Queen Mary's Will, 
 (from the Cotton Library, Fespas. c. xvi. p. 145.) which has been 
 preserved in the History and Antiquities of Fotheringhay already 
 quoted, there occur the following legacies to her domestics. — 
 'Je veulx que Guilbert Courle soit paie, des premiers derniers et 
 plus clairs, qui soient en mes cofres, et en default, sur mes meubles, 
 
 N 
 
74 
 
 Notes. 
 
 ou autres biens, de la somme de quatre mille francs, des quelz je 
 me suis obligee vers luy et sa femme, par leur contract de manage : 
 Et oultre, que tous mes serviteurs et officiers domestiques, estans 
 pres de moy soient payez de leur gaiges, pour l'annee entiere, en 
 laquelle je decederay, et l'aultre suyvante des premiers et plus 
 clairs deniers de ma succession. Je donne et laysse a Jayne 
 Kennedy, oultre laronte constituee, en recompance de ces cervices, 
 la somme de mil frans. A Elizabet Courle 1 autant. Cent equs, a 
 Beauregart,' pour la remener en son pays. Six* sens francs, a 
 Marie Pages. Quatre sent franks, a Katerine. Troysf sens, a Bes 
 Bray, & la debte de son frere, de sent equs, dont il m'est redev- 
 able. Deux sens frans, a Susane} A GUles* sent equs. A 
 Bastien, 5 sinq sens francs. A Lesquier, sent equs. A Nicolas, 6 cent 
 equs. A Robin Hamilton, 7 sent equs. A Haniba/, e cent equs ; & 
 charge mon cousin de Guise, de l'entretenir sa vie durant, estant 
 son filleul & le mien & un pauvre idiot. A Garnays? sinqt sans 
 francs. A Papotiquaire," autant. A Jon Lauder," troys sens franks, 
 & charge a mes executeurs de la provoir sa vie durant en service. 
 A Simeon, 12 & Henri, chesqun, deux sens francs & pour pratiques ; 
 & charge de mesme a mes executeurs. Six sent francs a Per si 
 Cent francs a Tomas. 13 Sinquante francs a Hamberlin. Deus cent 
 
 "Wife of Guilbert Courle.' Vide Note on f. 22. — * 'Madamoiselle Beauregard. 
 
 — 3 < Susanne Korkady.' — * ' Madamoiselle Gilles Maubray.' — 5 < Bastien Pagets.' 
 
 6 'Nicolas de la Mare, potagier.'— 7 < Ateux?'— 8 ' Hannibal Stouard.' This person 
 seemi to have been godson to the Queen and Duke of Guise ; but who his parents 
 were, does not appear. In the list of Supernumeraries, belonging to the train of 
 Mary, when she arrived at Sheffield Castle, ' Robin Hamiltoun ' is mentioned ; and 
 his office then was, « to here fyre and water to the Queen's cuysitie' — 9 This person is 
 likely to be 'Jacques Geruais, chirurgien.' — 10 ' Pierre Gorion.' — " ' Pannetier. 
 {pantler) — a ' Simon Jacqui, valet de fourrier, officier, qui sert sous un Marechal du logis 
 ou a la Cour, et dont la fonction est, de marquer le logement de ceux qni suiuent la Cour, Sec 
 Diet. Acad. Francoise.' — >3 « Thomas Fortescu, maistre d'hostel ? ' — 
 
 %i Sinq,' erased, and ' Six,' written over it. 
 j ' Deus ' erased, and ' Troys,' written over it. 
 + < Quatre sent,' first written. 
 
Notes. 
 
 75 
 
 francs a Morton >4 et pratiques. Didier « pratiques a Balfasar ,s restantz 
 en necessite. Sis sens liures, au Medecin. 11 Sent frank a Rogier, 
 et praticques essaye. Troys ponds, au trois Pakferniers* et pra- 
 tiques. Sint francs, a Chares. Cent francs, a Laurens. 19 Sinq 
 ponds, a ifor Boutler, et pratiques. Trois, a chasque des autres.' 
 
 It may be curious and interesting, to compare the list of 
 domestics contained in Queen Mary's Will, and in the procession, 
 with the following : 
 
 The traine of the Queen of Scots, when she first arrived at the 
 Castle of Sheffield, (under the superintendance of George, 
 (Sixth) Earl of Shrewsbury,) in Dec. 1570.* 
 
 My Lady Leinstoun, dame of Archibald Betoun. 
 
 honor to the quene's Ma te - 
 M rez - Leinstoun. 
 M rez - Setoun. 
 Maistresse Brusse. 
 M rez - Courcelles. 
 M rez ' Kennett. 
 My Lord Leinstoun. 
 M re - Betoun, m'r howshold. 
 M re - Leinstoun, gentilman 
 
 servant. 
 M re - Castel, phisition 
 Mr. Raullet, secretaire. 
 Bastien, page. 
 Balthazar Huylly. 
 James Lander. 
 Gilbert Courll. 
 William Douglas. 
 Jaquece de Sanlie. 
 
 Thomas Archebald. 
 
 D Chiffland. 
 
 Guyon POyselon. 
 
 Andro Matreson. 
 
 Estien Hauet, escuyer. 
 
 Martin Huet, m're cooke. 
 
 Piere Madard, potiger. 
 
 Jhan de Boyes, pastilar. 
 
 M r - Brusse, gentilman to my 
 Lord Leinstoun. 
 
 Nicoll Fichar, servant to my 
 
 Lady Leinstoun. 
 Jhon Dumfrys, servant to 
 
 Maistresse Setoun. 
 William Blake, servant 
 Maistresse Courcelles, 
 serve in absence of Flo- 
 rence. 
 
 to 
 to 
 
 ** 'Martin Huet, escuyer de cuisine?' (clerk of the kitchen.)—^ 'Didier Siflard, sommelier,' 
 (butler.)—* 'Baltassar Hulli, valet de chambre.'— »7 « Monsieur Bourgoin.'— 18 Pale- 
 Kjremer, 'a groome of the stable ; a horse-keeper.' Vide Cotgra-ve's Dictionary, Lond. 
 l6ll « — 19 'Laurens de la Chapelle, huissier de sale.' 
 •Hunter's History of Sheffield, fol. Lond. 1819. p. 66. 
 
7 6 
 
 Notes. 
 
 Supernu, 
 
 Christilie Hog, Bastiene's 
 wyff, 
 
 Ellen Bog, the M r - Cooke's 
 wyff. 
 
 Christiane Grahame, my Lady 
 Leinstoun's gentilwoman. 
 
 Jannet Lindesay, M rez - Setoun's 
 gentilwoman. 
 
 Janette Spetelle. 
 
 Robin Hamiltoun, to bere 
 
 fyre and water, to the 
 
 Quene's cuysine. 
 Robert Ladel, the Queen's 
 
 lacquay. 
 Gilbert Bonnar, horskeippar. 
 Francoys, to serve M re ' Castel, 
 
 the phesitien. 
 
 Page 29. 
 
 4 Tout le dit convoy,' &c. — Reference may here be made, to J ebb, 
 ii. 653. 660. 
 
 Page 33. 
 
 ' Madamoyselle Barbe Maubray? — * Ehpeth Curie? — The following 
 is so very interesting, that no apology seems necessary for 
 inserting it at length. — It was communicated to the Editors of the 
 Antiquarian Repertory, by John Bullman, Esq. 
 
 'Against a pillar, in the Church of St. Andrew, (in Antwerp) is 
 a monument, in memory of the unhappy Mary, Queen of Scot- 
 land ; of which, the following account, was given me, by a 
 Flemish gentleman,, of consequence and learning, residing there. 
 Barbara Mowbray, and Elizabeth Curle, both ladies of the 
 Bed-chamber, to Mary Queen of Scots, and faithful Companions 
 of her various fortunes, after her Execution, were permitted to 
 
Notes. 1 7 
 
 retire hither, and to take the head of their Mistress with them ; 
 which they interred, near a pillar, opposite the Chapel of the 
 Holy Sacrament,* by the entrance, at the grand door of the 
 Church of St. Andrew ; the spot they had chosen, for their own 
 sepulture. — On the pillar, they placed the portrait of the Queen, 
 of which, I herewith send you a copy ; it is in an oval frame, and 
 is about twenty inches high, well executed ; the face extremely 
 beautiful, and much differing from any other I have seen : her 
 hair, is represented as bright flaxen. It is said, this portrait was 
 painted in France, soon after she became a widow. Under it, 
 upon a tablet of black marble, is the following inscription, in 
 letters of gold. 
 
 ANNO MDLXVIII, IN ANG. REFVG. RELIGIONIS CAVSA QUJERENS, COGN. 
 ELISAB. JVSSV ET SENAT. HiERET. INVIDIA POST XIX CAPTIUAT. ANNOS, 
 CAPITE OBTRVNC. MARTYRIVM CONSVMAUIT. ANNO DOM. MDLXXXVII, 
 JETAT. ET REG. XLV. 
 
 D. O. M. 
 
 Nobiliss. Dvarvm e Britannia Matronarvm Monvment. viator 
 spectas, qvas ad Regis Cath. Tutel. Orthodoxae Religionis cavsa a 
 patria profvg. hie in spe resvrectionis quiesevnt : In primis, Bar- 
 bara Moubray, D. Joannis Moubray, Baronis F. qvas Sereniss. 
 Mariae Stvartas Regime Scotias a Cubiculis ; nvptijs data Gvlielmo 
 Cvrle, qvi amplivs xx. Annis a secret. Reg. fverat, vnaqve sine 
 qvrela Ann. xxiv. vixerat, Liberosqve Octo svstvlerat ; sex Ccelo 
 transcripsit ; Filij dvo svperstites, in stvdijs liberaliter edveati ; 
 Jacobvs societate Jesv, sese Madriti aggregavit in Hispagnia ; 
 Hypolitvs, natv minor, in Gallia-Belgica Societate Jesv prov. sese 
 adscribi Christi Militem voluit et hie Mcestis, cvm lacrymis optimaa 
 Parentis, P. C. pridie Kal. Avgvsti mdcxvii, iEtat lvii. Vitam 
 Caducam cum aeterna commvtavit. 
 
 * This is entirely fabulous ; but the popular error may have been occasioned by 
 the circumstance of the Tablet to the Memory of £>. Mary having been erected 
 near this place by these Ladies j who were well known, to have been present at 
 the Execution, and to have been devoted to the fortunes of their mistress. 
 
78 
 
 Notes. 
 
 Item, Elizabetha Cvrle, avita ex Nobil. Curleorvm stirpe, 
 Marias qvoqve Reginas a Cvbicvlis fvit, et Octo annis vincvlofidei 
 Socia. Hypolitvs Cvrle, f'ratris ejvs, F. hoc monvmentvm grati 
 animi pietatisqve erga Pos. Hasc diem vltimam vita? clausit, A. 
 Christi mdcxx. iEtat. lx. die xxix. Maij. 
 
 D. O. M. 
 
 Sub hoc lapide, duarum Feminarum vere piarum conduntur 
 Corpora : D. Barbaras Moubray et D. Elizabeths Curie utneque 
 Scotas. nobilissimas Marias Reginas a Cubiculis, quarum Monu- 
 mentum superiori affigitur Columnas. Ilia vidua Mortalium lege 
 cessit xxxi. Julij A 0 - mdcxvii. ^Etat. lvh. dum haec, semper caslebs, 
 xxix. Maij, iEtat. lx. A 0 - D 1 mdcxx. r. i. p. 
 
 As nothing is said respecting the interment of the Queen's 
 head in either of these inscriptions and the circumstance of its 
 being brought hither not being mentioned by any of our his- 
 torians, it seems most likely that the story is groundless. — I made 
 these objections to the Gentleman before mentioned who there- 
 fore invited me to his house ; where, from an ancient Flemish 
 manuscript, he translated to me the substance of what he had 
 before related. On telling this matter to Thomas Astle, Esq. he 
 was so kind as to favour me with the sight of an original letter, 
 from Sir Amias Paulet to Sir Francis Walsingham, dated Fother- 
 inghay Castle, July 25, 1586, containing an account of the jewels, 
 plate, &c. of Mary late £>. of Scots. In it, Elizabeth Curie 
 appears to have had in her custody, besides many other valuable 
 Effects, a book of Gold, Enamelled, containing the pictures of 
 the Queen, her husband and son ; possibly, the Original from 
 whence that on the Monument was taken. In the same Letter 
 it is said that the Body was Embalmed and Enclosed in lead, 
 under the direction of a Physician at Stamford. Had the head 
 then been wanting, the deficiency would in all probability have 
 been taken notice of. — Vide Antiquarian Repertory, (edited by Grose, 
 tsV.) iii. 388. 
 
Notes. 79 
 Page 47. 
 
 ' The Officers breaking their staves, and easting them into the vault upon 
 the Coffin! — This was the usual method of concluding the 
 ceremonials of State-Funerals. The rods or staves were broken, in 
 token of their office being at an end. It is certain ' The Queen 
 of Scots' servants, refused to assist at a Protestant Ceremonial ; 
 and, when they were, with difficulty, prevailed upon to perform 
 this last office of breaking their staves, they found it had been 
 done before they came in from the Cloister. — GougFs Sepulchral 
 Monuments, p. clxv. 
 
 In the tract ' Les magnifiques obseques,' &c. this circumstance 
 is taken notice of ; and their ground of refusal to be present at the 
 offering was, 1 qu'ils rioffrount point a vn autel quHls n'approuuoientpas. 
 Old Scarlet the Sexton. 
 
 To some, it may be matter of curiosity to know that the 
 person who made the grave of Mary Queen of Scots was old 
 Robert Scarlet, the Sexton of Peterborough Cathedral ; a man 
 (as Gunton expresses himself) 'that was famous in his generation.' 
 — ' There is a Memorial, entred on the Wall of the Cathedral of 
 Peterborough, for one, who being Sexton thereof, interred two 
 Queens therein, [Katherine Dowager, and Mary of Scotland] more 
 than fifty years intervening, betwixt their several sepultures. This 
 vivacious Sexton, also buried two generations, or the people in that 
 place twice over. Thus, having built many houses (so I find 
 Graves called, domus ^Eternales) for others ; some (as it was fitting) 
 performed this last office unto him. Thus, though Sextons often 
 meet with bad savours, arising from Corps, too much (or rather too 
 little) corrupted, yet is the instance of his long life, aleadged, by 
 such who maintain, that the smelling to perfect mould, made of 
 men's consumed bodies is a preservative of health.' — Fulter's 
 Worthses, ii. 174. 
 
 'At the West end of the body of the Church, under the famous 
 Sexton, Robert Scarlet's Pourtrayture, which is painted against 
 the wall ; this, on an ordinary small stone, on the ground. 
 
8o 
 
 Notes. 
 
 July 2, 1594. R. S. (i. e. Robert Scarlet) iEtatis 98. On the 
 
 wall above, are these twelve verses' : — 
 
 You see old Scarlet's picture stand on hie, 
 But at your feete, there doth his body lye. 
 His gravestone, doth his age and deathtime show ; 
 His office, by these tokens you may know. 
 Second to none, for strengthe and sturdye limm ; 
 A scarebabe mighty voice, with visage grim. 
 He had interd two Queens, within this place ; 
 And this Town's householders, in his life's space, 
 Twice over : but at length, his own turn came ; 
 What hee for others, for him the same 
 Was done no dovbt, his soule doth live for aye, 
 In heaven, tho here, his body clad in clay. 
 
 Willis's Survey of Cathedrals, Lond. 1742. iii. 483. 
 
 There is an Engraving of this curious Portrait in the History 
 and Antiquities of Fotheringay, * which represents him as a very 
 strong man. He has in his right hand a shovel, in his left, a 
 bunch of six large keys, in an iron chain ; and in his belt or 
 girdle, a whip : behind him, are a pick-axe and skull. — At the top 
 of the picture, on the right corner, is placed a shield, containing 
 what are supposed to be his arms, two rapiers, salter-wise, between 
 four trefoils, slipped. 
 
 This portrait seems to have escaped the observation of Granger, 
 in his Biographical History of England, and also of his Continua- 
 tor, Noble. — It has, however, been re-engraved, by Caulfield, in 
 his 'Portraits, memoirs, and characters of remarkable persons, from 
 the Reign of Edward III. to the Revolution.' (Quarto, Lond. 
 1823. vol i. p. 9.) 
 
 * Bibliotheca Tofog. Brit. No XL. p. 12. 
 
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