[175] Marie Stuart, Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove, ii. 406.
[176] See [Appendix], p. [269], "Privy Council to the Queen."
[177] Yelverton MSS. 31.
[178] On 24th October Mendoça announces their arrival in France.
[179] "The Bishop of Peterborough, the Deane, the Prebendes, and the rest meeting the same at the Bridge, being not far from the town."—From The Scottish Queen's Buriall at Peterborough.
[180] "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 Scotch as others, thought good and agreed that it should be done at the day and time of solemnity."—"Manner of the Solemnity," etc., from Gunton's Hist. of Peterborough, Lond. 1686.
[181] "There is a memorial entred on the wall of the cathedral of Peterborough for one who, being sexton therof, interred two Queens therein (Katherine Dowager and Mary of Scotland), more than fifty years intervening betwixt the several sepultures."—Fuller's Worthies, ii. 174.
[182] "Upon Monday in the afternoon came to Peterborough all the lords and ladies, ... and at the Bishop's Palace was prepared a great supper for them."
[183] "A Remembrance of the Order and Manner of," etc., Archæologia, i. 155.
[184] "The Solemnity of the Funeral," etc., drawn up by Sir William Dethick, Garter king of arms.