[Broadside print of Robert Scarlett "Old Scarlett", the sexton of Peterborough Cathedral, who supervised the burials of Mary Queen of Scots and Catherine of Aragon in the course of his career].
[Peterborough] : Published by T. Chadwell, bookseller &c. Peterborough.,
1836..
The portrait is based on the one hanging in Peterborough Cathedral, it also includes the text of the 12-line verse next to the original portrait: "You see old Scarleit's picture stand on hie / But at your feete here doth his body lye ...."
Scarlett died in 1594, aged 98; he claimed to have buried two people from every Peterborough household during his life, in addition to the royal burials, Catherine of Aragon in 1536, and then 51 years later, Mary Queen of Scots (Mary's body was exhumed in 1612 and reburied in Westminster Abbey at the wish of her son James VI/I).
England Peterborough.