Death and funeral of Mary I of England

[4][5] On 28 October, Mary added a codicil to her will, witnessed by her physician Thomas Wendy and others, which indicated that Elizabeth I would be her successor.

[9] A decade after her death, Richard Grafton wrote that the loss of Calais to the French was the source of a depression, "an inward sorrow of mind", which led to her succumbing to a prevalent fever.

[10] According to the writer John Foxe, her servants Susan Clarencieux and "Master Ryse" heard Mary regret the loss of Calais.

[15] The usher John Norris listed a "Mr Rice" as a Gentleman of the Queen's Privy Chamber, who also appears in the 1557 gift roll.

It was later said that important state papers and accounts in Mary's chamber were destroyed when they were used in the making of her cerecloth, in "cering the corse".

[22] The coffin lay in state on a trestle table covered with cloth of gold in the Privy Chamber of the palace, which was draped with black cloth decorated with escutcheons of her heraldry and the arms of Philip II of Spain conjoined, and her arms displayed in the Order of the Garter.

At its roof level, supported on six posts, there was a valance, like a bed, which was inscribed with a motto in letters of gold, the "queen's word".

There was a lifelike effigy of Mary on the chariot,[29] possibly sculpted by Niccolo da Modena and painted by Nicholas Lizard.

[31] Some accounts of the funeral call the effigy a "representation" or "presentation", dressed in crimson velvet robes of state with a crown, orb and sceptre, the fingers richly set with rings.

[41] James VI and I had a monument built which commemorates the burials of Mary and her sister Elizabeth I with the Latin inscription "Regno consortes et urna hic obdormimus Elizabetha et Maria sorores in spe resurrectionis" (Partners both in throne and grave, here rest we two sisters, Elizabeth and Mary, in the hope of the Resurrection).