Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-01-14

At this moment, DR.. Fletcher, Dean
of Peterborough, approached the
rails, and said, with a low bow,
ssMadam, the queens most excellent
majesty. and after three times
commencing, began an exhortation of
repentance.
Mary checked him at once ssMr.
Dean" she said, ''I am Catholic,
and l must die a Catholic am set
tied in my faith, for which l mean to
shed my blood
Mary turned her back on the dean
and the two earls, and began her own
devotions, out of her own portuary,
with beads snd cruciix in her hand,
repeating the Penitential Psalm in a
loud rich voice. The ill-mannered
dean delivered an eXtempore prayer
for her conversion at the same time.
Mary struck the crucifx against her
bosom and prayed for the church, for
her son, and for Elizabeth. Then
kissing the crucifix and crossing her
forehead, cried = Given as thy
arms, O Jesus, were spread upon thy
cross, SO receive me into thy mercy
and forgive my SINS AS she rose,
the two masked men stepped forward
and begged her forgiveness.
81 forgive you," she said, ''for
now [ hope you shall end all my
troubles Turning her head, she said,
with a smile to the two earls, as the
executioners offered to arrange her
dress. 81 never had such grooms
waiting on me before . Her two Ia
dies then came up to remove her veil,
her black robe and bodice, to put on
her crimson sleeves, and to cover her
head and face with a gold-worked
cambria Corpus Christi cloth. The
women now, seeing their mistress thus
arrayed for death, burst into convul-
sive weeping, and left the scaffold.
Mary knelt and repeated the Latin
Psalm, "Ha tie Domino sperjvj, Ne
confunddr IN CeteTmatna.' - Then she
felt for the block, and laid down her
head, saying,"In madnus Domino tuds
comonaendo AMMAN mean1.'' She
placed her hands upon her neck, but
the eXecutiOner removed them, for
fear they should check the full force
of his blow, and one of the men gen.
tly held her. The first blow, ill-aim-
ed, fell on the knot of the Corpus
Christi handkerchief; but Mary nei-
Their groaned or moved, though the
wound was but slight. At the sec
ond stroke the head fell. The blow
shook off the false black locks, and
Mary's short-cropped gray hair be-
came visible.
$50 perish all the queens enemies, .
cried the dean.
"Such end," said the stern Earl of
Kent, "to the queens and the Cos
pePs enemies"
Under the dead woman's gown a
little pet dog was discovered, and it
went and laid itself down beside her
head. The beads, paternoster, hand
kerchief, the dress, and even the
cloth of the scaffold, were then burnt
in the hall fire, for fear they might be
turned into Catholic relics. The ex-
ecutioners received nothing that was
hers, though they tried to carry off
her crucifx. Her body was immedi-
ately taken into the great chamber
and embalmed by. the Outrageous.
So, in her forty-sixth year, and the
eighteenth of her IMPRISONMENT, end
ed the SORROWS and crimes of the fair
pupil of the Medici. On Sunday
night, July 80, Mary's body was car
ried by torchlight to Peterborough,
and the next day, at ten a. M, bur-
led in the cathedral, near the body OF
John, last abbott and first bishop OF
that venerable church. = BaUOu'S
Monthly Magazine.