The enigma of Simon, Lord LOVAT
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A short article of this title was written by B.S.Hart:

Lovat had wished his body to be taken and buried
in the family vault in Scotland. Shortly after execution
the Deputy Governor of the Tower of London wrote of
scandal to the Secretary of State that Lovat's lawyer,
an apothecary and an undertaker were making a show
of the body for money. As a result, the body was
returned to the Tower and interred in the Tower Chapel
of St. Peter and Vincula near the bodies of the Lords
Kilmarnock and Balmerino.
Over 100 years later during Chapel restoration, three
unidentifiable bodies were found - presumed to be the
three Lords. The rumour persisted and grew, that the
body of Lord Lovat had been substituted and he had
indeed been buried with his forebears at Wardlaw as
he had wished.
Earlier this century a lead-covered coffin was discovered
at Wardlaw, and detached from it was a copper tablet
with a Latin inscription that the remains were those of
Simon, Lord Fraser of Lovat. Definite proof is lacking.


From:

A contribution in 'The Jacobite Anthology' publication
by The 1745 Association (1995). ISBN 1 89821830 7