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" in the 70th year of her age, she left
" her mortal part to be deposited in this
" church, which she established upon
" a new footing, till by the word of Christ
" she is called to immortality." She died
March 24, 1602.
In the south isle is a lofty and pompous
tomb erected to the memory of Mary Queen
of Scots, the mother of King James I. who
flying into England from her rebellious
subjects, was taken prisoner, tried and con-
demned for conspiring the death of Queen
Elizabeth, and on the 8th of February
1587, beheaded on a scaffold erected in
the hall of Fotheringhay Castle, in North-
amptonshire. She was afterwards pom-
pously interred by order of Queen Elizabeth,
in the cathedral church of Peterborough;
but upon the accession of her son to the
throne of England, he ordered her remains
to be removed from thence, and placed
near this monument.
Near the last monument is a tomb en-
closed with iron rails, on which lies a Lady
also finely robed, the effigies of Margaret
Douglas, daughter of Margaret Queen of
Scots by the Earl of Angus. Her son the
Lord Darnely, father to King James I. is
represented foremost on the tomb kneeling,
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with the crown over his head, and there
are seven other of her children represented
round the tomb. This great Lady, though
she herself never sat on the throne, had,
according to the English inscription, King
Edward IV. to her great grandfather;
Henry VII. to her grandfather; Henry VIII.
to her uncle; Edward VI. to her cousin
german; James V. of Scotland to her bro-
ther; Henry I. of Scotland to her son;
James VI. to her brother. Having to her
great grandmother and grandmother two
Queens, both named Elizabeth; to her
mother, Margaret Queen of Scots; to her
aunt, Mary the French Queen; to her cousins
german, Mary and Elizabeth Queens of
England; and to her niece and daughter-
in-law, Mary Queen of Scots. This great
Lady died March 10, 1577.
In the south side is likewise the monu-
ment of Margaret Countess of Richmond,
mother to Henry VII. by her first hus-
band Henry Tudor. She was afterwards
married to Humphry Stafford, a younger
son to Humphry Duke of Buckingham,
and at last to Thomas Lord Stanley, Earl
of Derby; but by the two last had no
children. The inscription mentions the
charities of this humane and generous
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