Rowland Whyte, she had suffered a "burning fever for 24 days, and a continual rheum fell to her lungs and putrified there, which she had not strength to void". As soon as Mary died, the Earl of Worcester, the Earl of Leicester and the Earl of Totnes went to Hampton Court Palace, to inform the queen of her daughter's death. Seeing the three men before her, Queen Anne realized what had happened and spared the men the task of telling her. After showing the normal maternal signs of sorrow, she demanded that the king be told of Mary's death, an autopsy performed and a funeral prepared. Thus, a private ceremony took place at Westminster Abbey's Henry VII Lady Chapel on 23 September and Mary's embalmed body was buried opposite of her sister Sophia's tomb. The funeral sermon was given by Jeremy Leech (died 1644). He addressed the grief of Lady Elizabeth Knyvett, the Princess' "tutor", rather than the sorrow of her mother. The sermon was published soon after as A Sermon Preached before the Lords of Council, in K. Henry the Seavenths Chapell, Sept. 23, 1607 At the Funerall of the most excellent & hopefull Princess, the Lady Marie's Grace. Her effigy, created by Maximilian Colt, represented a young girl, clad in a mature dress, with the traditional ruff, carved in ivory. It reads (or read in the nineteenth century) "I, Mary, daughter of James, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland and of Queen Anne, received into heaven in early infancy, found joy for myself, but left longings for my parents, on the 16th of September, 1607. Ye congratulators, condole: she lived only 1 year [sic, according to Everett Green] 5 months and 88 days." The six women appointed to rock her cradle petitioned the queen for pensions of £30 a year. A wet nurse or "milch nurse", Mary Thompson, wife of Samuel Thompson, Windsor Herald, who became a "dry nurse" with duties to dress Lady Mary, claimed pay or pension. Margaret George claimed an annuity as an usher to Lady Mary. A necklace of knots of pearls and rubies that James had given to Mary Stuart was presented to her nurse. Ancestors References Notes Bibliography External links 1605 births 1607 deaths 17th-century English people 17th-century Scottish people 17th-century English women 17th-century Scottish women English princesses Scottish princesses Mary Burials at Westminster Abbey Deaths from pneumonia in England Children