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LXI. A Remembrance of the Order and Manner of the Burial of Mary Queen of Scots

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On Sunday being the 30th of July, 1587, in the 29th year of the reign of Elizabeth, the queen's majestie of England, there went from Peterborough Maister 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 had remained prisoner in England 19 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 arms of Scotland, and little penons, round about it.

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Archaeologia , Volume 1 , Volume 1, Second Edition, 1779 2 , 1779 , pp. 357 - 362
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1779

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page 357 note * There is, in the Hatfield library, a curious original letter from Patrick, Master of Grey, secretary to king James I, dated December 9th, 1601, relating to the death of this unfortunate princess, vindicating queen Elizabeth and Mr. secretary Cecil, from bieng privy to that transaction. That part of the letter relating. thereto runs thus: “Of one thing I am sorie, that your Matie should speak so hardly of Mr. Secretary Cecyll, “ for that ye alledg my Lord his Father couttit your mother's throt. I am assurit your Matie knoweth “ that I know more in that nor any Scottish or English living the queen acceptit: and wherefore do I remember “ your Matie of a note I gave you in that maiter: that the earl of Leicester, or Sir Francis Walsingham “ wer only the coutters of her throt, and inducers of Davisonne to doe what he did. I take on my conscience that it was fare from the queen, or his father's mynd that sche should dye when sche dyed, as I have “ yet some witnessing in the world.”