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 362 THE OBSEQUIES OF QFEEX KATTIAKIXE OF AriEAGOK 111 the ClmrcliwarJcns' accounts for Pctcrborough from 26 April, 26 lien, viij, to 21 May, in the 28th of the same King. Hecept. Item Reeyvd for the Abbys when the Order was given. . vj«. Item Reevved of Master Controller for my Lady Katern. vij*. vj''. Payments. item Payd for Ringars when my Lady Kateru was beryed. ij*. vij'. Item For Drink to the Ringars xij''. Ill the Cathedral account (several years afterwards), 1548. Paid for Bread and Drink at my Lady Katern's Dirige. ij iiij''. Item Payd for making the Yern (Iron) of one of my Lady Cattern's Banners ....... vi**. All we know beyond this is simply that Katharine was buried betwixt two pillars on the north side of the quire, near the great altar. According to custom the hearse was left over the tomb covered with its rich pall, and continued there till a body of the Parliamentary forces, in 1643, amongst other acts of desecration, violated this and other monuments, by breaking down the rails that enclosed the place, and taking away the pall covering the hearse, the hearse itself was overthrown, the gravestone displaced that lay over the bod}', and nothing was left remaining of that regal tomb, to use the words of the narrator of these sacrilegious outrages, " but only a monument of their own shame and villany." Nor to the present day does any fitting memorial mark the spot where the royal body Mas interred. This neglect of so illustrious a lady may excite sur])risc ; but the feeling is but transitory, and we need not winder that Queen Katharine's remains are thus consigned to oblivion, or that the spot is merely pointed out by traditiijn. when the monuments of some of our most illustrious nmiiarchs are permitted to fall into decay. A trifling outlay W(juld I'escue them irom destruction ; but the apathy that is shown to these ])rocious and, in many instances, most beautiful e.aiii|»]es of niniiunK'ntal ai't, is as unworthy of our ailvanceil state of civilisatictn as it is dis- creditable to a counti'V that prides itself" on its respect for historic greatness ami l<»r Inyalty to the Tindue. Among tin,' Records in (Ih- riiMic Kecord Ollice, Polls House, aiKJ in the eust(jdy <»f the jMashi' of tlu; Jtolls, pur- ■«uaiit to the Statute 1 k 2 Vict., c. IM. to wit, among the