Language of Queen Mary's Days

In the first vol. of Evelyn's *Diary* (the last edition) I find the following notice:— "18th, Went to Beverley, a large town with two churches, St. John's and St. Mary's, not much inferior to the best of our cathedrals. Here a very old woman showed us the monuments, and being above 100 years of age, spake *the language of Queen Mary's days*, in whose time she was born; she was widow of a sexton, who had belonged to the church a hundred years." Will any of your readers inform me what was the language spoken in *Queen Mary's* days, and what peculiarity distinguished it from the language used in…