The Tragedy of Fotheringay / Founded on the journal of D. Bourgoing, physician to Mary Queen of Scots, and on unpublished ms. documents

by Mary Monica Maxwell-Scott

[185] "Les Hérauts à quelque temps de là et après le sermon fait par l'Evesque de Lincolne, les fut initer dans le cloistre où ils estoient, de venir à l'offrande, ce qu'ils refuserent de faire, disans qu'ils n'offraient point à un autel qu'ils n'approuvient pas."—Martyre de Marie Stuart, Blackwood.

[186] From the Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, Article No. XL. "Hist. of Ant. Fotheringay," p. 75.

[187] All other accounts agree in calling these "poore women," "poore old women, for the most part widowes."

[188] Du Préau, Mary's French chaplain. "Monsieur du Préau aumosnier, en long manteau, portant une croix d'argent en main."—From "Ordre du Convoy," etc.

[189] Dingley?

[190] She was an Erle's daughter.

[191] It is curious that Paulet does not appear in any list of those present at the funeral.

[192] Archæologia, i. 355; Miss Strickland, vii.

[193] "The royal ensigns of an helmet, sword, and scutcheon remained to the year 1643 hanging high over the place of burial."—"Manner of the Solemnity," etc., from Gunton's Hist. of Peterborough.

[194] "A Remembrance," etc., Archæologia, p. 155.