[49] Bourgoing omits to give the Dean's name.
[50] Chantelauze, pp. 548-550.
[51] Labanoff, vi. 466.
[52] Camden, ii.
[53] Letter Books, p. 311.
[54] See Labanoff, vi. 466. "When the So. Q.'s cloth of Estate was plucked down by Sir A. Paulet and Sir D. Drury, after signification given unto her to prepare herself to die by the L. Buckhurst and R.B., she mentioned the murder of K. Richard II., but Sir Drue answered that she needed not to fear it, for that she was in the charge of a Christian gentleman."—Note by Beale, Yelverton MSS., p. 529.
[55] A sad office was reserved for the cover of this table; it was afterwards used to enshroud the body of the Queen after her execution, as we may see by the following passage from Brantôme: "Immediately after the execution, when the headsman had despoiled Mary's corpse, it was carried into a room adjoining that in which her maids of honour were confined; and they, looking through a crevice, saw the body of their mistress half covered by a piece of rough woollen stuff, which had been hastily taken from the billiard-table."
[56] Letter Books, p. 315.
[57] Chantelauze, pp. 293-295.
[58] Paulet to Mr. Secretary Davison, 28th November 1586. See Letter Books, p. 319.