Being minded by those about her to call upon God even when the pangs of death were upon her; "I am not able," saith she, "to say my long prayer" (meaning the Lord's Prayer), "but I will say my short one: Lighten mine eyes, O Lord, lest I sleep the sleep of death." This done the little lamb gave up the ghost.[94]
She was buried in the tomb of her great-grandmother, the beautiful Mary, Queen of Scots, in the South Aisle of Henry the Seventh's Chapel.
The Effigies of the Lady Anna, who was borne ye 17th of March 1636, buried ye 30th of ye same month in the yeare of our Lord god—1637
The curious and very rare engraving, which we are fortunately able to reproduce, was published a few months after her death. The little creature, in a close-fitting skull-cap covering her head and fastened under her chin, stands grasping a rose in her little hand, with a thoughtful expression on her baby face. Based on the spelling of the name of the little princess we find the following quaint verse:
Anna is like a circle's endless frame,
For read it forward, backward, 'tis the same.
Eternity is circular and round,
And Anna hath eternal glory found.[95]
In the same year, 1640, that little Anna found "eternal glory," her brother Henry was born at Oatlands Park in Surrey.