1563 — 28th May. the Sentence on the Earl’s Body
Rutland MSS. at Belvoir, quoted in the Marquess of Huntly’s Annals of Aboyne , pp. 467-468.
The coffin was set upright, as if the Earl stood upon his feet, and upon it a piece of good black cloth with his arms fast pinned. His accusation being read, his proctor answering for him, as if himself had been alive, the inquest was empanelled. The verdict was given that he was found guilty, and judgment given thereupon as by the law is accustomed. Immediately hereupon the good black cloth that hung over the coffin was taken away, and in its place a worse hanged on, the arms torn in pieces in sight of the people, and likewise struck out of the herald’s book.
GENTLE ENTREATMENT OF A STRANGER