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160 HISTORY OF
East end.-" Memorise sacrum__Religione ad primoevam sinceritatem re-
" staurata, pace fundata, moneta ad justum valorem reducta, rebellione domestica
" vindicata, Gallia malis intestinis praecipiti sublevata, Belgio sustentato, Hispa-
" nica classe profligata, Hibernia pulsis Hispanis et rebellibus ad deditionem
" coactis pacata, redditibus utriusque academiae lege annonaria plurimum adauctis,
" tota denique Anglia ditata prudentissimeque annos xlv administrata: Eliza-
" betha regina victrix, triumphatrix, pietatis studiosissima, faelicissima, placida
" morte septuagenaria soluta, mortales reliquias, dum Christo jubente resurgant
" immortales, in hac Ecclesia celeberrima ab ipsa conservata et denuo fundata
" deposuit."
East Base.—" Obiit xxiv Martii, anno Salutis M.DCII. regni xlv actat. lxx."
West Base. — Part of wbich is obliterated. " Regno consortes et urna hie
obdormimus Elizabetha et Maria sorores in spe resurrectionis*."
(170). Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.-Near that of Elizabeth, and
beneath a tomb of equal splendour, and in the same style of design, repose the
ashes of this beautiful, accomplished, and unfortunate princess, who thus appears
in death to maintain the rivalry of her life. After her execution she was
buried with great pomp in the cathedral church of Peterborough; but, on the
accession of her son to the throne of England, her remains were removed to the
place which they now occupy in this church, among her royal ancestors. Her
descent and kindred, her uncommon attainments and rare endowments, her
troubled life and lamentable end, are described with great animation in this
monumental record:
D. O. M.
" Bonae memoriae et spei aeternae, Marle Stuarts, Scotorum Regina?,
" Franciae Dotariae, Jacobi V. Scotorum Regis filiae, et haeredis unicae, Henrici
* There was no memorial to mark the grave of Mary, till James I. on erecting a monument to
Elizabeth, ordered this sentimental notice to be engraved on it.
East end.-" Memorise sacrum__Religione ad primoevam sinceritatem re-
" staurata, pace fundata, moneta ad justum valorem reducta, rebellione domestica
" vindicata, Gallia malis intestinis praecipiti sublevata, Belgio sustentato, Hispa-
" nica classe profligata, Hibernia pulsis Hispanis et rebellibus ad deditionem
" coactis pacata, redditibus utriusque academiae lege annonaria plurimum adauctis,
" tota denique Anglia ditata prudentissimeque annos xlv administrata: Eliza-
" betha regina victrix, triumphatrix, pietatis studiosissima, faelicissima, placida
" morte septuagenaria soluta, mortales reliquias, dum Christo jubente resurgant
" immortales, in hac Ecclesia celeberrima ab ipsa conservata et denuo fundata
" deposuit."
East Base.—" Obiit xxiv Martii, anno Salutis M.DCII. regni xlv actat. lxx."
West Base. — Part of wbich is obliterated. " Regno consortes et urna hie
obdormimus Elizabetha et Maria sorores in spe resurrectionis*."
(170). Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.-Near that of Elizabeth, and
beneath a tomb of equal splendour, and in the same style of design, repose the
ashes of this beautiful, accomplished, and unfortunate princess, who thus appears
in death to maintain the rivalry of her life. After her execution she was
buried with great pomp in the cathedral church of Peterborough; but, on the
accession of her son to the throne of England, her remains were removed to the
place which they now occupy in this church, among her royal ancestors. Her
descent and kindred, her uncommon attainments and rare endowments, her
troubled life and lamentable end, are described with great animation in this
monumental record:
D. O. M.
" Bonae memoriae et spei aeternae, Marle Stuarts, Scotorum Regina?,
" Franciae Dotariae, Jacobi V. Scotorum Regis filiae, et haeredis unicae, Henrici
* There was no memorial to mark the grave of Mary, till James I. on erecting a monument to
Elizabeth, ordered this sentimental notice to be engraved on it.