Note 10 — The Scottish Queen's Burial at Peterborough, upon Tuesday, being Lammas Day [1st August], 1587.

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.