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Pasquier, in his Recherches sur la France, is giving an account of the Queen of Scotland’s execution; he says, the night before, knowing her body must be stripped for her shroud, she would have her feet washed, because she used ointment to one of them that was sore. I believe I have told you, that in a very old trial of her, which I bought from Lord Oxford’s collection, it is said that she was a large lame woman. Take sentiments out of their pantoufles, and reduce them to the infirmities of mortality, what a falling off there is!

HORACE WALPOLE to GEORGE MONTAGU

18 May 1749