And so they departed to the Bishop's House: where was a great feast appointed accordingly [at Queen Elizabeth's expense].
The concourse of people was of many thousands.
And, after dinner, the Nobles departed away; every one towards his own home.
The Master of the [Queen's] Wardrobe paid to the Church, for breaking of the ground in the Quire, and making the grave, £10; and for Blacks of the Quire and Church, £20.[12]]
FINIS.
Footnotes
[10] There is a Memorial entered on the wall of the Cathedral of Peterborough, for one [named Robert Scarlet] who, being Sexton thereof, interred two Queens therein (Katharine Dowager and Mary of Scotland); more than fifty years interceding betwixt their several sepultures. This vivacious Sexton also buried two generations; or the people in that place twice over. Thus having built many houses (so I find graves frequently called domus æternales) for others: some, as it was fitting, performed this last office unto him. [He died on 2nd July 1594. æt. 98.] Thomas Fuller, Worthies, &c., ii. 293., Ed. 1662.
[11] In the discourse of his Text, he only dealt with general doctrine, of the vanity of all flesh. Dean R. Fletcher.
[12] The total of Queen Elizabeth's expenses for this Funeral amounted to £321. 14s. 6d.
