Then Mr. Dean said with a loud voice, "So perish all the Queen's
enemies;" and afterwards the Earl of Kent came to the dead body, and
standing over it, with a loud voice said, "Such end of all the Queen's
and the Gospel's enemies."
Illustration: EFFIGY AT WESTMINSTER.
_THE LAST COURTIER_
Then one of the executioners pulling off her garters, espied her little
dog which was crept under her clothes, which could not be gotten forth
but by force, yet afterward would not depart from the dead corpse, but
came and lay between her head and her shoulders, which being imbrued
with her blood, was carried away and washed, as all things else were
that had any blood was either burned or clean washed; and the
executioners sent away with money for their fees, not having any one
thing that belonged unto her. And so, every man being commanded out of
the Hall, except the Sheriff and his men, she was carried by them up
into a great chamber lying ready for the surgeons to embalm her.
A full account of Queen Mary's last days will be found in "The
Tragedy of Fotheringay," by the Hon. Mrs. Maxwell-Scott. In August
1587, the Queen was buried, with great ceremony, in Peterborough
Cathedral, and, in 1612, was reinterred in Westminster Abbey by her
son James VI. and I.
APPENDICES
_CONTENTS_
(A.) Genealogical Tables.
(B.) Lord Darnley.
(C.) Contemporary Writers.
(D.) Authorities.
(E.) Controversial Books.
_APPENDIX A._
(A.) TABLE SHOWING THE RELATIONSHIP OF MARY TO LORD DARNLEY AND TO
THE DUKE OF CHÂTELHERAULT.
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