[Footnote 193: "The royal ensigns of an helmet, sword, and scutcheon remained to the year 1643 hanging high over the place of burial."--"Manner of the Solemnity," etc., from Gunton's _Hist. of Peterborough_.] [Footnote 194: "A Remembrance," etc., _Archæologia_, p. 155.] [Footnote 195: Jebb, ii. 203.] [Footnote 196: _Martyre de Marie Stuart_, Collected Works of Adam Blackwood, Paris, 1644, p. 703.] Amidst all the pomp and display of this funeral one point had been omitted: no tablet or inscription marked the spot where Mary lay, and it remained for a faithful subject of the dead Queen, the same Adam Blackwood, to supply this omission. On occasion of a pilgrimage made by him to Peterborough, Blackwood placed the following well-known epitaph over his mistress's grave:-- Mary Queen of Scots, daughter of a king, widow of the King of France, cousin and next heir to the Queen of England, endowed with royal virtues and a royal mind (the right of Princes being oftentimes in vain implored) by barbarous and tyrannical cruelty, the ornament of our age, and truly Royal light is extinguished. By the same unrighteous judgement both Mary Queen of Scots with natural death, and all surviving kings (now made common persons) are punished with civil death. A strange and unusual kind of monument this is, wherin the living are included with the dead; for with the Sacred ashes of this blessed Mary, know that the Majesty of all Kings and Princes lieth here violated and prostrated. And because regal secresy doth enough and more admonish kings of their duty--traveller, I say no more. It, however, "continued not long, but was taken away and cast aside,"[197] probably on account of the sympathy it called forth, and the tomb remained almost forgotten till James, having ascended the English throne, thought of honouring his injured mother's remains. [Footnote 197: _Martyre de Marie Stuart_, Collected Works of Adam Blackwood, Paris, 1644, p. 703.]