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Repository	Scottish Catholic Archives
Ref No	SCA/MC/34/1/86
Title	Object from Mariae De Gueldres buiral
Date	1898
Level	File
Description	Ex Arca Sepulcrali Marie De Guelders in Abbatia St ae Crucis Edinburgh; Objects recovered when the Royal Vault at Holyrood was open at the orders and expense of Her Majesty he Queen Elizabeth II; 5 bodies where moved at the time; Mary of Gueldres 1469, was teh foundress of Trinity College Church and Hospital; she was buried in the Church until 1848 when the building was removed to make way for the North Railway. The body was then laid in a damp sodden floor, that when moved again the coffin was decayed and the bottom fell away. The items where collected in 1898
Format	Objects
AccessConditions	Open for consultation, some sections closed as they hold personal data subject to the Data Protection Act

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