e, immediately after their mistress's death.
The tailors and dressmakers, however, none the less set so actively to
work that on the 7th everything was finished.

Next day, at eight o'clock in the evening, a large chariot, drawn by four
horses in mourning trappings, and covered with black velvet like the
chariot, which was, besides, adorned with little streamers on which were
embroidered the arms of Scotland, those of the queen, and the arms of
Aragon, those of Darnley, stopped at the gate of Fotheringay Castle. It
was followed by the herald king, accompanied by twenty gentlemen on
horseback, with their servants and lackeys, all dressed in mourning, who,
having alighted, mounted with his whole train into the room where the
body lay, and had it brought down and put into the chariot with all
possible respect, each of the spectators standing with bared head and in
profound silence.

This visit caused a great stir among the prisoners, who debated a while
whether they ought not to implore the favour of being allowed to follow
their mistress's body, which they could not and should not let go alone
thus; but just as they were about to ask permission to speak to the
herald king, he entered the room where they were assembled, and told them
that he was charged by his mistress, the august Queen of England, to give
the Queen of Scotland the most honourable funeral he could; that, not
wishing to fail in such a high undertaking, he had already made most of
the preparations for the ceremony, which was to take place on the 10th of
August, that is to say, two days later,--but that the leaden shell in
which the body was enclosed being very heavy, it was better to move it
beforehand, and that night, to where the grave was dug, than to await the
day of the interment itself; that thus they might be easy, this burial of
the shell being only a preparatory ceremony; but that if some of them
would like to accompany the corpse, to see what was done with it, they
were at liberty, and that those who stayed behind could follow the
funeral pageant, Elizabeth's positive desire being that all, from first
to last, should be present in the funeral procession. This assurance
calmed the unfortunate prisoners, who deputed Bourgoin, Gervais, and six
others to follow their mistress's body: these were Andrew Melville,
Stewart, Gorjon, Howard, Lauder, and Nicholas Delamarre.

At ten o'clock at night they set out, walking behind the chariot,
preceded by the