Luther, writing about this time to Caspar Müller, says: “The Queen of England is said to be dead, and her daughter mortally ill; but she has lost her cause all over the world except with us poor beggars of divines at Wittenberg, who would gladly have maintained her in her queenly dignity; in which case she ought to have lived”.[148] Katharine was buried with no more ceremony than befitted a Princess Dowager, some said with much less, in Peterborough Cathedral, where her remains still lie. It was intended to have kept her mother’s death a secret from Mary for some time, but by a mistake the news was brought to her four days after the event. To Chapuys’ letter of condolence she answered, that following his advice, “she would show such courage and constancy as he advised her, but that in any case she would prepare herself to die”. “She has written to me,” said the ambassador, “since she heard the death of the Queen more frequently than she did before, and this I think to testify the good heart and constancy to which I continually exhort her, in which certainly she shows great sense and incomparable virtue and patience, to bear so becomingly the death of such a mother, to whom she bore as much love as any daughter did to her mother, who was her chief refuge in her troubles.” These events took place at the beginning of 1536, and Shakespeare, who with his collaborators wrote his play of “King Henry VIII.” at the end of the same century, had not only Holinshed’s _Chronicle_, and other records to guide him, but a mass of still floating tradition. He had grown to middle age, surrounded by persons who were in their prime when Mary’s and her mother’s troubles were in the mouths of all. He knew of, and described Chapuys’ visit to the dying Queen, and recorded in the following words, part of the contents of a letter sent by her to her husband:— ... I have commended to his goodness The model of our chaste loves, his young daughter,— The dews of heaven fall thick in blessings on her!— Beseeching him to give her virtuous breeding, (She is young, and of a noble modest nature; I hope she will deserve well;) and a little To love her for her mother’s sake, that loved him, Heaven knows how dearly.[149] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 111: Chapuys to Charles V., 3rd Nov. 1533, Vienna Archives.] [Footnote 112: Gairdner, _Cal._, vi., 1528.] [Footnote 113: Chapuys to Charles V., 23rd Dec. 1533, Vienna Archives. Gairdner, _Cal._, vi., 1558.] [Footnote 114: Gairdner, _Cal._, vi., 1558.] [Footnote 115: Gairdner, _Cal._, vii., 83, 17th Jan. 1534.] [Footnote 116: Gairdner, _Cal._, vii., 171.] [Footnote 117: Gairdner, _Cal._, vii., 214.] [Footnote 118: The Count of Cifuentes, Charles’s ambassador in Rome.] [Footnote 119: Gairdner, _Cal._, vii., 225. Granvelle Papers, 11, 90.] [Footnote 120: Gairdner, _Cal._, vii., 296, 7th March 1534.] [Footnote 121: _Ibid._, 871, 23rd June 1534.] [Footnote 122: The Emperor’s sister.]