Said to have been the petticoat embroidered by Mary, Queen of Scots for Queen Elizabeth I.
Margaret Swain noted that the Queen of Scots, who was held captive at Hardwick, embroidered a petticoat for Elizabeth, Mary wrote to the French ambassador in London in 1574 for satin and silk: "I must give you the trouble of acting for me in smaller matters, viz. to send me as soon as you can eight ells of crimson satin of the colour of the sample of silk which I send you, the best that can be found in London, but I should like to have it in fifteen days, and one pound of the thinner and double silver thread." Mary completed the gift, as skirt of crimson satin lined with matching taffeta, in May and asked the French ambassador to present it to the Queen on her behalf "as evidence of the honour I bear her, and the desire I have to employ myself in anything agreable to her." At the same time The Earl of Shrewsbury, who held Mary, Queen of Scots, in his custody, wrote to Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State, that: "Some in my house are infected with the measles, and it may be dangerous for the Queen to receive anything hence before it has been well aired. God preserve her. She is a precious jewel to all men". The petticoat was no doubt aired throughly, as it was later in May when the French ambassador described its reception in a letter to his King. "The Queen of Scots, your sister-in-law, is very well, and yesterday I presented on her behalf a skirt of crimson satin, worked with silver, very fine and all worked in her own hand, to the Queen of England, to whom the present was very agreeable, for she found it very nice and has prized it much; and she seemed to me that I found her much softened towards her."