THE LIFE and DEATH OF That matchless mirror Of MAGNANIMITY, And heroic virtues HENRIETTA MARIA De BOURBON, Queen to that blessed King and Martyr Charles the First: And Mother to that most magnificent Monarch Charles the Second, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c.  
LONDON, Printed for Sam. Speed, near the Inner Temple Gate in Fleet-street. 1669.   

TO The most High and Mighty MONARCH, The Grand Exemplar of Magnanimity, Majesty, and Mercy, Charles II: KING Of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland; With all their Appenages, as well by Sea as Land, &c. This Historical Narration of his Dear and Matchless MOTHER Is Most humbly Dedicated and Devoted.   

To the Candid, and Religious Reader.  
YOu have here in a rough draft presented to you, a brief Narration of the Life of a most excellent Princess, the Lady Henrietta Maria de Bourbon, late Queen, and Queen Mother of England, a Princess of so much Piety, virtue, Humility, and Conjugal affection towards her Husband, and our King, Charles the First of Glorious Memory, that as malice cannot slain her reputation, so on the other side, it is beyond the reach of Art to flatter her, many have been the infamous Libels wherewith rebellious and self-ended people have endeavoured to bely her, but those scandals wherewith in the late Wars we did abound, were invented merely for the better carrying on of the work of Rebellion. Neither did those Authors spare our then gracious Sovereign, a Prince of whom we were not worthy: Nor his present Majesty, or any that they thought did retain any Principles of Loyalty or Religion: wherefore laying aside all malice, envy, guile, hypocrisies, clamour, and evil-speaking, see her in her right Effigies, as she is deciphered by his late most excellent Majesty, and by other persons of Honour, good Credit and Authority.  
farewell.   

ON Her Majesties EFFIGIES.  
AS in some mirror there you clearly see  
The face of M●l●n●ss m●xt with Majesty;  
The Beauty of whose virtues may incite  
The World to Imitation, and Delight:  
You Noble Ladies who her virtues knew  
Come mourn with me, she was your M●rrour too▪  
Her let us imitate, and b●ame her Fate  
For not allowing L●f● a longer date:  
She knew not that which compliment we cal●,  
Co●ld flatter none, but Her self least of all.  
So true, so faithful, and so just a● Sh●,  
Nothing can live beyond her Memory.  
What shall we say, since silent now is She,  
Who when she spake all things would silent be:  
Great, Glorious Princess, may your virtues show,  
As bright in Sto y, as they did in you.  
Who to express, as thou wert free from ill,  
Must be by Ink dropped from an Angels Quill:  
And I myself a catholic will be,  
So far at least, Dear Saint, to pray to thee.   

Lice●sed according to Order.   

THE LIFE and DEATH OF That matchless mirror of Magnanimity and heroic virtues, HENRIETTA MARIA DE BOURBON, Daughter of Henry the Great, King of France; Queen to that Blessed King and Martyr CHARLES the First, and Mother to our most Magnificent Monarch CHARLES the Second, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland.  
HER Majesty Henrietta Maria de Bourbon, Daughter of King Henry the fourth of France, and Q. Maria de Medices of Florence, youngest Sister of King Lewis the 13th. of France, and Aunt to K. Lewis the 14th. Wife to King Charles the I. of England, and Mother to King Charles the Second; Sister-in-law to Philip the Fourth of Spain, who married one of her Sisters, 
Her descent, All●a●ce and Birth, 1609.  and to Amadee Victorio the tenth Duke of Savoy, who married the other; Grandmother to the Prince of Aurange, was born on the 25 of November in the year of our Lord 1609. and lived to be Daughter, Sister, Wise, Aunt, and Mother to several great and famous Princes.  

Some remarks of her infancy and youth, 1610.  The 13th of May 1610. She and the rest of her Brothers and Sisters were present at the solemn Coronation of her Mother at St. Dennis, and the next day with her Brother the Duke of Anjou, in whom King Henry the Fourth took great delight, was brought to his Majesty( who was very melancholy in the morning, upon some presages and tokens of his death, that day, which happened in the afternoon) to divert his thoughts.  
On the 25 of June following, she was carried with her Brother to perform the Ceremony of casting Holy-water on the Corps of her dead Father, who was butted the 28 following. On the 17 of October the same year, she was carried to the Coronation of her Brother in the Abbey of St. Dennis by the Princess of Conde, and his receiving of the Order of the Holy Ghost, the next day after which Ceremonies she and others of the Children were removed from Paris by reason of the factions and disturbances there between Monfr. de Belgard, and marquis de anchor; the Prince of Conde, and the Earl of Soissons; and the said Earl, and the Duke of Guise.  
The 17 of November 1611, the Court was by the Queen Regent invited to see the Infants of France, of whom one much lamented, viz. the Duke of Orleans then died, at the age of four years and six months, which bread a great suspicion of Monsieur Le master, first physician to the said Infants.  
On the fourth of March 1612, her Majesty was carried to the solemn Nuptials of her Sister Elizabeth of Bourbon with the King of Spain, kept at the Palace Royal, and the 22 of August following to the Marriage of her Brother King Lewis the 13th with the Infanta of Spain; and on the 21 of November 1615 to meet her Sister-in-law at Bourdeux; accompanying her Mother at her solemn entry into Paris upon the Edict of Peace, between her and the Princes of the Blood, May 11, 1616. and thence attended her again to Blois, after the death of her Favourite the Marshal de anchor; about which time there was a rumour, as if the Lord Hays afterward Earl of Carlisle's Embassy of Congratulation for the King's her Brothers Marriage with the Daughter of Spain, made some overtures of Alliance between her and the Prince of England.  
Feb. 10, 1619. Her Majesty appeared at the Marriage of her Sister Christieene with the Prince of Savoy, to whom King Henry IV. designed her, as was then observed, the first day she was born, viz. Feb. 10. 1606. after this Marriage, her Majesty durst not follow her Mother to the displeasure of her Brother, left she might hinder her own; until June 21, 1620. when the Queen-Mother and her Son were reconciled; 
The several pretences made to her by several Suitors.  about which time Count Soissons( second Prince of the Blood, after eminent service done before Rochel) pretended to Madam, whose respects for her were not thought fit to be discouraged till a seasonable condition offered itself, and that was this, in 1622 King Charles the First when Prince adventured into Spain, and passed by the Court of France, where incognito he was present at a Ball( wherein Madam danced, 
The first occasion of the King and Queens mutual affection.  as she could do rarely well) to his great satisfaction; insomuch that he took in by the eye, that love which he preserved inviolable for her to his death; and she likewise entertained a love for him by the ear: for when she was  told that he passed through Paris, it was then discoursed that she should say, That, if the Prince of Wales went into Spain for a Wife, he might have had one nearer hand, and saved himself a great part of the labour: which news coming to the aforesaid Counts ears, disordered him much, till the Cardinal Rochfulcout, one of the then Cabinet council of France, dealt freely with his Mother, telling her, that if she or her Son thought the King would give him his Sister in Marriage, they would( as he conceived) be much mistaken; the King being minded to bestow his Sister the best way for her Honour, and the Crowns advantage, professing though he honoured the Count, it was his advice to his Majesty so to do.  
Upon the breach of the Match with Spain, the Lord Kensington, afterwards Earl of Holland, joint ambassador with the Earl of Carlisle no sooner moved the Alliance with Fr●nce, but the Queen Mother declared, that she had entertained a great while inclinations for the Marriage of her Daughter, whom she loved entirely, with the Prince; and indeed the whole Court was very fond of it, 
The resentment of the Count of Soissons.  but the aforesaid Count observing the magnificent entertainment of the Lords Carlisle and Kensington, stormed, and received the Lord Kensingtons salute scornfully, by turning aside his head, and professed when he was put in mind of his incivility to the ambassador of so great a Prince by his friend Grandemont, that his Negotiation went so near his heart, that were it not in the behalf of so great a Prince, he would cut his throat: Nay, said he farther, were any Prince of Savoy, Mantua, or Germany here in person, to solicit for themselves in like nature, I would hazard my life in the cause.  

The Earl of Hollands Character of the Lady Henrietta Maria de Bourbon. 
The character of the Queen.   
Indeed he was not much to be blamed for his passion, since her Majesty was reckoned then the loveliest Creature in France, and the sweetest thing in Nature, as the Lord Kensington expresseth her in his Letter to the Prince, 
The reception of Kings and Princes Letters. 1624.  Febr. 26. 1624. for whom she declared as high a value privately as her mother had done publicly, procuring a view of his Highness Picture, by the Lady( once her Servant) where the Lords ambassadors lay, and perusing it a whole hour together in her Closet; and having received a Letter from King James, and another from the Prince; after she had asked her Mothers leave, she put the first in her Cabinet, and the second( not without some tears of joy) in her bosom; as King James observed to his great satisfaction, saying, that she intimated thereby, that she would trust him, and love his Son, adding farther that he would denounce war against her, for not reading his Letters without her Mothers consent, but he would thank her, for lodging her Sons Letters so well: Nor did his Highness the Prince take less content in her Picture that was sent him, and the account that was given him, of her smart discourse, gallant carriage, sweet nature, and extraordinary accomplishments, there being nothing in her short of her years but her statute; of which the wooing ambassador said, that her Sister the Princess of Piedmont( who is now grown a tall and goodly Lady) was not taller than she at her age.  
All things concurred so to this Alliance, 
Her marriage. 1625.  that May 11. S. N. 1625. the Marriage was celebrated at the Church of notre dame in Paris, the Duke of Chevereux his Kinsman, of the house of Guise being the Princes Proxy, and her Majesty setting forward from Paris June 2, attended by the whole French Court, and the Duke of Buckingham with others of the greatest Quality, Lords, 
Her Voyage to England.  and Ladies from the English Court( after 14 dayes stay at Amiens, because of her Mothers indisposition, who would needs have seen her at the Sea-side, but could not) lands at Dover from boulogne, calais being infected, June 23, S. N. after a dark and uncomfortable passage, about seven of the Clock on Sunday night, 
The King and Queens first greeting.  when the King her Husband received her on the top of the Stairs; she striving on her knees to kiss his hands, and he preventing her with civilities on her Lips. Being retired, she wept, and he kissed off her tears, professing he would do so, till she had done, and persuading her that she was not fallen into the hands of strangers, as she apprehended tremblingly, but into the wise disposal of God, who would have her leave her Kindred, and cleave to her Spouse, he professing to be no longer Master of himself, than whilst he was a Servant to her.  
At Canterbury, June 14/ 24 1625, they were personally married: it is not to be forgotten that so great was the honour done to the English in France, that the Duke of Buckingham's Mother, took place of the duchess of Chevereux, and was visited by Monsieur; whence Sir Toby Matthew merrily collected, That he should not be discouraged from bearing devotion to the Blessed Virgin, when he saw that women sick of Love towards the Son, are put by a Law of Nature into pain, till they revenge themselves of the Mother.  
From Canterbury they rid through lanes of people, the whole Kingdom flocking to wait on them at their arrival, and all the Nobility and Gentry attending them to Gravesend, whence in a Barge of State, waited on by many more, the whole Fleet lying in order on both sides the River to salute them, they came to London, 
The Queen at London.  landing at Somerset-house, June 16, and appeared on their Thrones to the then Parliament, at the first opening of it, to the Kings great Honour in the eye of all foreigners.  
From London then visited with the Sickness, 
The King and Queen meet the Parliament at Oxford.  their Majesties retire to Hampton Court, from whence they took a progress to several parts of the Nation, till they met the Parliament at Oxford, whence they returned the next year upon the abating of the Sickness to London, she seeing her Husbands Coronation, and in that her own, Febr. 2. 1625. nothing all this while appearing in her Majesties converse, but openness and freedom, which if some were offended at, as not suiting with the Genius of our Nation, others saw nothing in it, but was agreeable to her high Birth and State, her Discourse being modestly witty, and her recreations innocent.  

The Queens French Servants dismissed.  July the first 1626, the King in person attended by the Duke of Buckingham, the Earls of Holland, and Carlisle, came to Somerset-house, where the Queens French Retinue were ordered to await, and bespeaks them thus: 

Gentlemen and Ladies,  

The Kings Speech to them.  I Am driven to that necessity, as that I am personally come to acquaint you that I very earnestly desire your return into France; True it is, the deportment of some amongst you hath been very inoffensive to me, but others again have so dallied with my patience, and so highly affronted me, as I cannot, I will not longer endure it.    
Hereunto the Bishop of means answered: 
Their reply.   
Sir, If this accrimination be leveled against me, let me, I beseech you, know my fault, while I am here to make my defence.  
And Madam St. George said:  
Sir, I make no question but the Queen will give me a fair testimonial to your Majesty.  
The King replied, I name none, commanding peremptorily their speedy return into France, and dismissing them with their Wages and Gratuities, to the value of 22800 lib. and not as the French Mercury, and du Chesne suggested, Cashiered without their Wages.  

Their faults.  Several occasions they had given the King, but the chief that wrought his displeasure were these: The ecclesiastics fault was the imposing of several unhandsome penances on her Majesty, as her going barefoot to Tyburn, to pray for those of her own Religion that had been executed there for Treason: an action( of which his Majesty said) it could have no greater invective than the Relation.  
The Bishop of means likewise contested with the Earl of Holland for the Stewardship of her Majesties Dowry, confronting the Earls Grant from the King with another from the Queen.  
And Madam St. George insinuated to the Queen some things that seemed to design to alienate the Queens affection from the King, who on some occasions had the confidence to contradict the King, and was in a fair probability of being sooner believed as well as heard. Taking it ill that the King would not suffer her to perch above all the English Ladies, and that he put her back from his Coach to which she used to intrude, when the King and Queen intended to be most private: this action the King effectually excused to the Queen, who at first was doubtful whether her Attendants were set to watch her as a prisoner, or wait on her as a Princess, but when once convinced, she proved ever after a very loving consort, showing that former distastes proceeded not from her own inclination, but ill advice. Sir Dudley Carleton being sent to give an account of these Affairs to the French King, who demanded their restitution, with the severe threats of a War; but was answered, that this discharge of the Queens French Attendants, should not seem strange to him, who had lately in the same manner dismissed the Spanish Servants of his own.  
Freedom from the influence of malicious Spirits, together with Letters from her Mother to persuade her to follow her Husbands council( matters of Religion only excepted) brought her to her own sweet temper, reverencing her husbands person, not his fortune; whereof she partaked of nothing but the joy when it was at the highest, and sharing in all the crosses of it when at the lowest.  
Wednesday, May 13. 1629. her Majesty surprised with some fright, 
Her first Son. 1629.  was delivered of a Son, before her time, which the King( to prevent others) had Christened by Dr. Web. then Chaplain in attendance; and dying an hour after, was butted by Dr. Laud at Westminster.  
On the safe Birth and hasty death of which Child, one of Christ-Church in Oxford wrote these following Lines.  
Quod Lucina tuos semel est frustrata labores  
Nec fortunantes praebuit illa manus.  
Ignoscas Regina; uno molimine ventris  
Non potuit Princeps ad tria regna dari.  
These her throws were no sooner over, 
Several scandalous Pamphlets published against the Queen.  but she endured those of another nature, being much troubled at the Pamphlets of some that reviled her as a Daughter of heath, a Canaanite, and an Idolater; and the muttering of others, who said, they could discern no cause of joy, in her being with Child, God having better provided for us, in the hopeful Progeny of the Queen of Bohemia.  

Her second Son. 1630.  On the 29th of May 1630. she was brought to bed at St. James of her second Son, our most Sovereign Lord, K. Charles II. at whose Birth there shined a Star at Noon-day, when the King was riding to St. Pauls, to give thanks for the Queens safe delivery, whereupon these Verses were presented.  
Rex ubi paulinas accessit gratus ad arras  
Immicuit medio lucida stella polo,  
Dic divina mihi tractans aenigmata coeli  
Haec oriens nobis quid sibi stella velit?  
Magnus in occiduo Princeps modo nascitur orb  
Moxque sub eclipsi regna Orientis erunt.  
rendered into English, thus: 
When to Pauls across the grateful King drew near,  
A shining Star did in the Heavens appear:  
Thou that consultest with Divine Mysteries,  
Tell me what this bright Comet signifies,  
Now is there born a valiant Prince i'th West,  
That shall eclipse the Kingdoms of the East.   
Our present Sovereign King Charles was Christened at St. James's by Bishop Laud, 
King Charles the second Christened.  June 27. the King of France, and the Prince Elector Palatine( represented by the Duke of Lenox, and marquis Hamilton) being Godfathers, and the Queen-Mother of France( represented by the duchess of Richmond) Godmother, his Governess was Mary Countess of Dorset, wife to Earl of Dorset.  
The fourth of November 1631. was born her Eldest Daughter Mary, 
The Queens first Daughter, born. 1631  late Princess of Aurange,( Mother to the present Prince of Aurange) who died of the small Pox, December 24. 1660. about which time a good correspondence was settled between the Queen and Dr. Laud, afterwards Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, who had promise of free access to her Majesty upon all occasions, and her best assistance in all his affairs.  

Her third Son. 1633.  The thirteenth of October, 1633. after the Kings safe arrival from his Coronation in Scotland( whether she would not go, that Nation being infected with perfidious men, that pretended an honest animosity, and specious plain-dealing) she was then delivered of her third Son James Duke of York, who was Christened October 23. 
James D●ke of York Christened. Her second Daughter. 1635.   
The twenty eighth of January 1635. was born her Daughter Elizabeth, who survived her father, but lived not to see the restauration of her Brother, dying of grief in Carisbrook Castle,( where her Father was imprisoned) October 1649. and was butted in the Church of Newport, upon the birth of this Princess, besides the Congratulation of both the Universities which were usual at all these Royal Births, the United States of the Low-Countries caress Her Majesty with the Ceremony of an embassy, and presents of a massy piece of Amb●r-greace, two fair, and almost transparent China basins; an exquisite Clock of curious Art, and four admirable pieces, being the Originals of Tintinet, and Titian, those excellent performers in the Art of Painting.  

Her third Daughter. 1637.  March 17. 1637. Her Daughter Anne came into the world, and died in her youth.  

Her fourth Daughter. 1639.  April 1639. her Daughter Katherine, died as soon she was born.  
This was the service she did her King and his Government, to bring him each year a prop of Empire; and his people a security of Succession, until his Majesties occasions calling for money, she engaged in his service another way, directing her Letters dated April 17. 1639. 
She a●sisteth the King with catholic contributions. 1639. ( by the hands of Sir Kenelm Digby, and Mr. Walter Montague) to all the catholics of England and Wales, for a free Contribution towards his Majesties expedition into the North,( which she calls her first recommendation) upon which was advanced forty thousand pounds; therefore her Majesty dealt a little roundly with Bishop Laud, for complaining of Sir Toby matthew, Mr. W. M. and other catholics, and moving the council-table for a restraint upon men of that Profession, even in ambassadors houses, it being at that time, wherein they were so ready to serve the public here at home;& wherein she had so many assurances of good offices from the Pope, by his Nuncioe's Panzani and Rosetti about whom and other catholics who had received some favours of late, there grew some mis-understanding between her and the people, some of whom formerly had used, she thought unkind expressions of her, as the Author of Histrio-Mastix, who knowing she took delight in Dancing, Masks, and Balls, declared all women that danced in Masks, strumpets, or to that purpose. Yea, when it was known that her Majesty danced at a Ball, that very week it came out; not to mention odd expressions in several popular Sermons.  

Her fourth Son. 1640.  In those busy times July 8th. 1640. she was brought to bed of her fourth Son, Henry of Oatlands Duke of gloucester, who was sometimes designed chief governor of these Nations, after his fathers death; but after that permitted to go beyond Sea with promise of a pension, which( because he went to his Mother) was not paid; he was a very hopeful Prince, and died of the small Pox September 13th. 1660. 
Queen-Mother of France in England.   
About this time her Mother being banished France, and escaping out of the French Army, in which she was carried about Prisoner, first into Flanders, and then to the Prince of Aurange, was invited out of pity by her Son and Daughter into England, where she continued about two years, and in August 1641. was attended by the Earl of Arundel into Holland, and thence through Zealand into colen in Germany, where she died; not without sad thoughts, considering that Cardinal Richlieu whom she had raised from a low estate, to be the instrument of her Government, became in his height the cause of her ruin.  
Jan. 28. 1640. Sir K. Digby,& Mr. Montague being brought upon their knees before the House of Commonss, for managing the aforesaid Collection, or rather free-gift, as they alleged, among the catholics, and some words being given out, as if her Majesty had been an incendiary between the King and his people, she thought fit, Feb. 3. 1641. to writ to the House of Commons by Mr. controller, to this purpose. 
Her Majesties Mess●ge to● the Commons concerning th●●e Ca●h l●ke contr●but●ons.   
That her Majesty hath been ready to use her best endeavours for the removing of all misunderstanding between the King& Subject.  
That at the request of the Lords, who petitioned the King for a Parliament; her Majesty at that time wrote effectually to the King, and sent a Gentleman expressly to persuade the King, to the holding of a Parliament.  
That she hath since been most willing to do all good offices between the King and his people; which is not unknown to divers of the Lords, and shall ever continue so to do, as judging it the only way to happiness, for the King, her self, and Kingdom.  
That her desire is, that all things be justly settled between the King, and his people, and that all cause of misunderstanding may be removed.  
That her Majesty taking notice, that having one sent to her from the Pope is distasteful to the Kingdom, for their better satisfaction, within convenient time she promiseth to remove him out of the Kingdom.  
That understanding likewise that exceptions have been taken at the great resort to her chapel at Denmark-house, she will be careful not to exceed that which is convenient and necessary for the exercise of her Religion.  
She taketh farther notice, that the Parliament is not satisfied with the manner of raising money for the King in his Journey to the North, in the year 1639. at her entreaty from the catholics; to which act she was moved merely by the dear affection she had for his Majesty, and the example of others of his Subjects, if any thing were illegal, her ignorance in the Law, was her best plea, but promiseth to be so cautious hereafter, as not to do any thing hereafter, but what may comply with the established Laws of the Kingdom.  
Her Majesty being desirous to employ her own power to unite the King and people, desireth the Parliament to look forward, and to pass by such mistakes and errors of her Servants as might be formerly; and this their respect she promiseth shall be repaid with all the good offices she can do to the House, which shall be found real effects as often as there shall be occasion.  
The effect of this prudent Message was the present mitigation of the Parliaments severity against her Collectors, and her other( then obnoxious) Officers, but notwithstanding a strange report went about afterwards of their intentions to draw up Articles of High Treason against her, which the House disowned as a scandal.  
Her Majesty answering,  

Her Majesties reply to the parliament ●h●n ●h●y excused themselves from having any design to impeach her.  That there was a general report thereof, but she never saw any Articles in writing, and having no certain Author, she gave but little credit thereunto; nor could she believe that they would lay any aspersions upon her, who had ever been very unapt to misconstrue the actions of any one person; and much more the proceedings of Parliament; and should at all times wish a happy union and understanding between the King and his people.  
Yet the report being generally believed, and she her self persuaded that it was resolved about that time either to threaten or force her away, because of the influence, she was thought to have upon the King, and for some other reasons which her self best knew, 
Her Majesty going into Holland.  she got leave of his Majesty to accompany her Daughter the Princess of Aurange into Holland, which the King acquainted the Parliament with, in words to this effect.  
That he was pressed by the States ambassadors to sand the Princess Maria into Holland, to her late espoused Husband, and that the Queen desiring it, he had given her leave to go with her, he himself accompanying them as far as Dover.  
But be it remembered here( for pity it is so good an act should be forgot) that her Majesty was present at most of the Lord of Straffords trial,( at which it was a goodly sight to see all the Court Ladies like so many Sempronia's, 
Her endeavours to save the Earl of Strafford.  taking notes at the trial all day, and discoursing it at night) and that it was discoursed, that she took off the greatest sticklers against him, and particularly the Lord Digby, who was of the close Committee( three in number) to prepare the evidence against the Earl, and yet made afterwards an elegant, though much displeasing speech for him; a change which his, and the Earls adversaries called, a relenting upon the warm, and benign beams of Majesty reflecting on him.  
Nor is it to be forgotten that her Majesty was with the King entertained at London, 
The King& Queen entertained at London.  so magnificently, that it was suspected the City was fixed to their Majesties interest, till in their own defence, few days after they declared that they were not so dazzled with the presence of Majesty, but that they would live and die with the Parliament.  
Her Majesty having left England, and being now arrived at Holland, and hearing that the breach between the King and Parliament grew still wider, and considering the disadvantage on his Majesties side for want of money, men and Ammunition, since his departure from London, which is the store-house for all of them, 
The Qu. assists the K●ng with supplies from Holland. 1642.  engages all her credit,& her Jewels of England, which she had carried with her, for Arms, men, especially Officers, and Ammunition in the Netherlands and in France, embarking with them from Holland, Feb. 16. 1642. and after some foul and across weather, anchoring at Burlington-Bay the 19, landed at the Key the 22, the danger whereof, take in these her own words.  
The next night after we came to Burlington, 
The Qu. dangerous return to England.  four of the Parliaments ships arrived, without being perceived by us, and about five of the clock in the morning, began to ply us so fast with their Ordnance, that they made us all rise out of our beds, and leave the Village; one of the ships did me the favour to flank upon the house where I lay, and before I was out of my bed, the Cannon-Bullets whistled so loud about me, that all the company pressed me earnestly to go out of the house, their Cannon having totally beaten down all the neighbour houses, and two Cannon Bullets falling from the top to the bottom of the house where I was; so that( clothed as well as in hast I could be) I went on foot some little distance out of the Town,( under the shelter of a ditch, like that of Newmarket) whither before I could get, the Cannon Bullets, fell thick about us, and a Serpent was killed within seventy paces of me, we in the end gained the ditch, and stayed there two hours, whilst their Cannon played all the while upon us; the the Bullets flew for the most part over our heads, some few only grazing on the Ditch, covered us with earth, &c. till the ebbing of the tide, and the threats of the Holland Admiral put an end to that danger.  

The Qu. at the head of an Army at York.  After which her Majesty being conveyed by the Earl of Montross and the Lord Ogilby with two Troops of Horse to York raised a considerable Army, which she commanded in person, brought over Sir Hugh Cholmeley, the Hothams, and several other persons of Quality, and divers Garrisons; left three thousand foot, and Arms for two thousand Horse under Sir Charles Cavendish the Earl of Newcastle's Brother, to fix and secure Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire; marching her self in the head of three thousand foot, thirty Companies of Horse; and Dragoons, six pieces of Cannon, two Mortar-pieces, and one hundred and fifty Wagons of money, from Newark, by Weston, and so to Ashby, to meet his Majesty at Edgehil, Mr. Jermine, since Earl of St. Albans being Captain of her Guards, Sir Alexander Lesley ordering the Infantry, Sir John Gerard commanding the Horse, and Captain Leg the Artillery; her Majesty marching in the head as General.  
Having now met the King her Husband, 
The King& Queen at Oxford.  she is by him conveyed to Oxford, where she stayed till 1644. when being big with Child, upon some presumptions that Oxford would be besieged, she retired to Exeter, where she was brought to bed, June 16. 1644. of her Daughter Henrietta, 
The Lady Henrietta born at Exeter.  whom she trusted to the care and government of the Lady Dalkieth, Sir Edward Villiers his Daughter, and the Lord Dalkieth, the Lord Mortons eldest Sons wife, her Majesty passing to France from Pendennis, 
Her Majesty at France.  July 15. 1644. when her month was hardly yet expired.  
While the Queen was here in England, 
Her advice to the King.  she gave a shrewd advice, that his Majesty should go to London, directly after his Victory in the West, rather than lose time about gloucester, which she said would have fallen in of its self: and a great piece of service she intended, when she would have renewed the Treaty at Uxbridge, offering her mediation to salue the credit both of the King and Parliament: Besides that, it is observable, that when her Majesty arrived at Oxford, Prince Harcourt an ambassador of Mediation( it was said by her appointment) arrived from France at London.  
Upon her return into France, great were the alterations in that Kingdom, 
A change of affairs n France.  her Majesties Brother being dead, who was ruled by Richlieu, and Richlieu died, who to say no worse, carried towards England a reserved spirit: it was remarkable that Pope Paul the fifth, looking in his face( when being a Gentleman of Paris, he took Orders at Rome) should say, that young man should prove the greatest cheat in the World; considering how he embroiled all Europe to govern it, as if he had been of the Spanish Cardinals mind, who loved the smell of Gun-powder, better than that of Incense.  
Her Majesty found the Queen-Regent more tractable and real, with whom she entred into a personal friendship, minding her that after the regency she might want friends, and Cardinal Mazarine was observed generally to be more civil to the Kings interest, as it appeared to be low, and procured several ships, many Arms, and good sums of money in that Court, besides an embargo on the Parliaments ships.  
Nor did the Queen omit to solicit Denmarks assistance, 
Her Masties negotiations beyond Sea.  drawing up Cockrams Instructions her self, for Men and Arms, especially Horse, for the service of that Noble and Gallant Commander Montross, whose great Victories would have been as useful as wonderful, had he then been supplied with a thousand Horse, negotiating however for a passage to the Duke of Curlands Auxiliaries through the Zound into Scotland.  

Her large supplies from Dunkirk.  She settled a trade between the Tin of cornwall, and the money and Arms of France, sending from Dunkirk at one time, 4 frigates with six thousand& forty Muskets, two thousand pair of Pistols, twelve hundred Carabines, many Swords, four hundred Shovels, twenty seven thousand pound of Match, and fifty thousand pound of Brimstone, with four hundred Barrels of Powder.  

She borrowed at Rotterdam of the Burgomasters Gilders. 40000  
And of the Bank there 25000  
Of the Bank at Amsterdam by Mr. Sandys 845000  
At the Hague of Fletcher c lftcher 126000  
More of him 40000  
At the Hague of van Liren, by Sir W. Boswel 9000  
Of Monsr. D'espernoone 230000  
Of Webster by three obligations together on the Pendant Pearls 100000  
Of him more 43200  
Of him more and borrowed by him 70000  
Of Monsieur Vicford 70000  
Of Sir Charles Herbert 20000  
Of Cullimore at Antwerp 64000   
In all 1281700 Gilders.  

To the Prince of Aurange 300000  
To Webster six Rubies 40000   
Her Majesty by proposal of a match of the Prince with the Princess of Aurange, went far to the drawing of the Dutch to a League offensive and defensive with France against the Parliament, Sabran residing there for that purpose from the French Court, pressing hard for the dismission of Strickland the Parliaments Agent; for a free Port to the Kings side, and none for his enemies ships and prizes; and lending the French a good number of ships: not to mention Sir Kenelm Digby's agency at Rome, Sir John Talbots negotiation at Venice, Sir Henry de Vies Treaty with the Duke of lorraine, Dr. Goffes Ministry with the Prince of Aurange for shipping to transport the lorraine assistances; a constant correspondence by Letters with the King, and this in the midst of several distempers of body, and not a few troubles of mind, especially in reconciling several malcontents, as the Lord P. Lord W. E. of S. and others, whom she was contented to receive in France, when they grew troublesone at Oxford: I had almost forgot her continual mediation with the Irish catholics, for Cessation, and other points, and all these managed with so much industry, that her Majesty writes, Holy days were troublesone to her in that respect, and visits irksome.  
After her party in Scotland, and at Sea failed her, January 1648. her Majesty at Paris hearing of the Kings usage, and intended Trial, 
Her Letters to the King.  writes to him by one Wheeler, employed by mayor Boswels man, expressing her deep sense, and sorrow for his Majesties condition, with whom she saith, she bears an equal snare, and wishes to die for him; nor will she live without him, for whose interest she hath, and will do her utmost in all possible ways, and means to help him.  

And General.  She writes likewise, To her Trusty and well Beloved Thomas Lord Fairfax, General, desiring his assistance that she might see the King her Husband, before he be proceeded against by any Trial, or charge, and to have a Pass for her secure coming and returning, which Letter was delivered by the French ambassador to the General, and being by him sent to the House was laid aside; that House having after much debate 1644. Voted her Majesty guilty of High Treason, and sent the Impeachment up to the Lords by Mr Pym, where it stuck many moneths, and afterwards passed there also.  

The Q●. receives the news of his Majesties death, with commendations from him.  Receiving the news of bis Majesties death( notwithstanding the interposition of so many Kingdoms and States, she had procured in his behalf) together with the commendations he sent her a day or two before his death, by the Lady Elizabeth, January 1648. whom he bid tell her Mother, that his thoughts had never strayed from her, and that his love should be the same to the last; withal commanding her and her Brother to be obedient to their Mother( as he desired the Prince to harken to her in all things, but in matters of Religion, the only things they themselves( he said) differed in) her Majesty retired to St. Clou a Religious house, 
The Qu. goes into a Monastery.  where she was condoled with by all the Princes and States of Europe; continuing here, till she was prevailed with by the French Court to return to Palace-Royal, a stately House built by Cardinal Richlieu in Paris. Thus she was at last advised to admit of a more cheerful conversation, which she comported with the rather to promote her Sons affairs whom she made the instrument, taking off the Prince of Conde, and the Duke of lorraine, from the heads of two great Armies, and reconciling them to the King, whereby he obliged, and in a manner saved the French Crown, mediating likewise for the recalling of Mazarine, who was likewise thereby engaged to his service, to pass by the constant supplies she allowed his Majesty and his followers, out of her own Pension: and the advices she gave him upon many important occasions, as not to venture into Ireland 1648. and when he demurred in the Treaty with Scotland, to close with them immediately, and go over 1650. keeping France and Holland in a resolute posture of War against the Parliament, till 1653.  
When her adversaries successses turning the tide, and she not able to keep either state from closing with them, she betook her self to a private life, studying nothing more than how to live in-offensively( her Children being forced from her for reasons of State not to be contradicted, and banished as it were from their banishment: till 1658. when there being some likelihood of his Majesties Restauration, the general inclinations of the English Nations tending thereunto, and the divisions of the other side making way for it, she advised the King not to adventure into England, upon the rising of any one party, but rather to stay for a free and solemn invitation, which accordingly fell out to the great satisfaction of the Nation in the year 1660.  
To which her Majesty contributed what lay in her power, 
The Qu● assist●●he King her Son upon h●s Restaur●ti●n.  procuring an annuity of fifty thousand Crowns a year from her Sister the duchess Royal of Savoy; prevailing upon Turein to wait upon his Majesty, if there were occasion into England( upon Sir George Booths Declaration) from St. Maloes, where his Majesty then resided, awaiting the progress of that affair; being ready with his presence and his counsel: but the Queen still not approving of his Majesties venturing into England, upon the invitation of a few persons, but advised him rather to stay till he had an Army, with Ports, and Garrisons, declaring for him.  
Be it here remembered, that a Writer hath set down her Majesties opinion for going to Ireland, 1649. to this purpose, That his presence was necessary there to quicken the endeavours of his friends, and to suppress the humours of uniting factions, all interests then unanimously joining to oppose the common Enemy, reducing Oneal and many others to submit to Jones, who was fallen off upon discontents( as was supposed with Sir Nicholas Byron, about a Lieutenant Colonels place bestowed over his head) and was not yet closed with the independents, so called; the Presbyterians( as they were termed) of whom he was thought one, being now discountenanced, so might he have easily made an end of one War in that Kingdom, and have had twenty thousand men to begin another War for the rest.  
Although her Majesty could not do what she desired for her Son in France, yet she could discover what was done against him in England, there being( as it was supsosed) a very near correspondency at that time between Cardinal Mazarine and the Parliament of England for the time being, as had been between him and the Protector, whom he advised to take the Government upon him, as he did the Lord General to be King, and Mr. Lenthal, who would say( as the King writes to the Queen 1643.) that he had Letters from him, to make his place perpetual, offering to all of them his best advice, and most faithful assistance; though yet that Cardinal, who one saith, was good at cogging, since he laid the foundation of his fortune, 
Ca●di●●l Ma● 〈…〉.  by winning twenty thousand crowns at play, when a private Gentlemans servant, from whom he then went to Cardinal Barberinoes service, who sent him to France to countermine Richlieu, with whom closing, since he could not over-reach him, he became first his friend, then his confident, and afterwards his Successor.  
This subtle Italian then at Paris immediately upon the news of the death of Oliver Protector, went presently to her Majesty, very earnestly congratulating the innocent distressed Queen, that the great adversary of her and her Relations was now gone, and that undoubtedly the restauration of her Son, was then approaching, which yet was cunningly and secretly obstructed by him, while the Danish ambassador endeavoured to treat with Richard, for closing with the Kings interest upon honourable terms, engaging his Majesties word for the performance of them.  
At the great Treaty at St. Jean de Luz, between the Crowns of France and Spain, managed by Cardinal Mazarine, and Don Lewis de Haro, her Majesty was not a little concerned, the Lord of St. Albans being Plenipotentiary there in behalf of his Majesty, and prevailed that his Majesties concerns should be regarded in private distinct Articles, between the two Crowns, in so much that Lockart the Parliaments Agent, was disregarded, and forced by some affronts to be gone as soon as he came; a person so firm to his Masters interest, that he was not to be won over, or obliged to the contrary side: Nor was Lambert, to whom the Lord Hatton in his Majesties name, offered honourable terms, if he would now at last mind his own, and the Kingdoms good, in returning to his allegiance, and convert his designs for himself, to the service of his Sovereign in his restitution; the said Lord farther assuring him, that if he did it not, it would be presently done without him, beyond his power of remedying it, and therefore he should not let slip such an opportunity, of raising himself and his Posterity, which however he did, vowing at his going out to the North, That he would not leave a Cavalier to piss against the wall.  
Her Majesty in the mean time found her cause growing to great reputation, by reason of the divisions then in England, and saw her Son respected at Paris as Monarch of Great Britain; and at Brussels entertained as King of England; many of his enemies it is like, repenting now, that a Letter of his Majesties, which was delivered by Mr. Nevil to the House a little before its dissolution was not red.  
When his Majesty was at colen and Franckfort to solicit some German assistance, the Queen-Mother( as one writes) by her Daughter the Princess of Orange, writ to Queen Christina of Sweden, who was then in the Arch-Duke of Insprucks Country, whereupon his Majesty, the Dukes of York, and gloucester, had some hours conference with that Queen, about the King of Sweden, marching to Poland, which the Protector Oliver encouraged, that the Emperor might thereby be put to stand upon his Guard, and so be diverted from assisting the Spanjard, who had embraced his Majesties interest so far, that his Majesty after a private conference with Count Fuensaldagne near louvain, resided at the Royal Mansion of Treveur near Brussels, in order to a nearer conjunction of councils, and Forces; and after that at Bruges, where was all the Royal Family, except her Majesty, and her youngest Daughter Henrietta, and several Persons of Quality, as the Lord of Ormo●d, the Lord Wilmot, Lord Gerard, Lord Wentworth, Lord Taaf, and General Middleton, with their respective Regiments, ready upon the Sea-coasts of Flanders. 
The Duke of gloucester in the J●suits college at Paris.   
About which time her Majesty having p●a●ed the Duke of gloucester in the Jesuits college at Paris, for his education, his Majesty sent the Lord of Ormond for him, who being persuaded by the marquis of Praslin, and Abbot Montague to stay, answered, That he was to obey his Sovereign before any Relation on earth; and so came with his Grace to the King.  
November the second 1660. 
Queen-Mother arrives in England, with the Princess Henrietta.  after they had suffered that had a hand in the death of the Royal Martyr, and an Act of Oblivion was passed to settle the Kingdom, her Majesty arrived at Whitehal, with the Princess Henrietta, and Prince Edward Brother to Prince Rupert: his present Majesty paying her those respects that were due to a Mother, whose welcome to his Kingdoms, he could not better manifest, or oblige to her, than by rendering them innocent, and free of that horrible guilt, which had divorced her from her Husband, and estranged both King and Queen from their people.  
Nor was it just or civil she should be here received without satisfaction and expiation for those crimes, the very tendences whereto had so rudely driven her to seek her safety abroad: The King brought her to Whitehall the second of November, after nineteen years discontinuance.  
The Princess Henrietta who came with her Majesty, never had breathed English Air before, but some two years after her Birth, which happened in exeter, June 16. 1644. Nor is it possible to express the joy of this meeting, after so tedious, and injurious an absence, and as their joy was great, so their entertainment was highly magnificent.  
These felicities of the Queen( as the course of all worldly things are guided) were soon abated, by the immature, 
The death of the Duke of Gl●cester, Sept. 13. 1660.  and most lamented death of the right excellent Prince Henry Duke of gloucester, her youngest Son, a Prince of very extraordinary hopes; but silence will best become our lamentation, for his virtues, and our loss of them transcend beyond expression: he died of the small Pox, aged twenty years and two months, after much blood-letting, and was interred with a private funeral, in Henry the Sevenths chapel at Westminster, just before the arrival of his Sister the Princess of Aurang, 
Princess of Aurange arrives in England.  who came to joy, and felicitate her Brothers in their happy restauration.  
That happy Parliament which had rebuilt the glorious structure of the English ancient, 
The Parliament dissolved.  and renowned Government, and had assured the foundation thereof, in the established Throne of our Soreign, came now to its period; but that no revolution of time should obliterate the memory of those excellent worthy things had been done by it, for the good of King, and Kingdom, his Majesty honoured it by his Royal mouth, with the never to be forgotten epithet, of, The Healing Parliament, which will undoubtedly recommend it to Posterity, as long as any grievance, humors, or distempers, shall remain in Church, or State.  
Death had tasted of the Blood-Royal in the lamented fate of that Noble Henry Duke of gloucester, 
Princess of Aurange not death.  and as if there were not only a circulation of it in every individual, it naturally ran in the same distempers round a whole family, the infection by a kind of sympathy in the same disease of the small Pox, seizing the vitals of the most illustrious Mary Princess of Aurange, in spite of all Art, or remedy ( though the blooding of her, was causelessly, and ignorantly taxed) carried her to her grave, leaving the whole Court in a very great, and almost disconsolate sadness; and her Son, the Prince of Aurangr, ten years and one month old; she deceased on the twenty fourth of December, 
The Assurance frigate overset.  her death being ushered with a sad accident, the oversetting of the Assurance frigate, then riding at Anchor at Wolledge, by a sudden gust of wind, by which disaster many persons of the Ships company were drowned.  
The Princess was butted with a private Funeral, 
Princess of Aurange her fune-  yet honourable enough, the manner thus: About five days after her decease, the chiefest of the Nobility met together in the House of Peers, to attend the Royal Corps of this cess, which was brought about nine of the clock at night, from Somerset-house house thither; from whence they proceeded with the funeral, through a lane of Guards of the Duke of Albemarls Regiment of Foot; First went several Gentlemen and Knights; next, the Servants of his Royal Highness the Duke of York; then the Servants of the Queen; after whom came his Majesties Servants; and next those of the deceased Lady; then two Heralds before James( marquis, now) Duke of Ormond, Lord Steward of his Majesties household, Edward, Earl of Manchester, Lord Chamberlain of the same; after whom went Edward Lord hid, Lord chancellor of England, with the Purse and Mace born before him; after whom came another herald with a Coronet upon black Velvet, and then the Royal Corps carried by her own Servants, the Pall being supported by six Earls, and the Canopy carried over it, by several Baronets; his Royal Highness the D. of York as principal Mourner followed the Corps, with a herald before him, divers persons of Quality bearing his Train; in this order they came to Henry the Sevenths chapel, where she was interred in a Vault particularly set apart for the Royal Line.  
This Princess and the Duke of gloucester who preceded her to bliss, needed no Effigies to present them to our eye, being like virtue, not to be pictured; and can have no resemblance, but in the mind, where with immortality they have placed their Monuments, to dure, and last, with Eternity itself.  
Her Majesty after her long absence from the Court, and people, 
Her Majest●es revenue settled.  being now returned, she settleth her Court and revenue, which was threescore thousand pounds per annum: thirty thousand pounds per annum for her jointure, and thirty thousand pounds per annum as a Pension from his Majesty out of the Exchequer.  

The Officers and Servants of Her Majesties Court.  

A Catalogue of the Servants belonging to her Majesty.  1. The Lord Chamberlain, or Steward of her Majesties revenue, was Henry Lord Jermyn, Earl of St. Albans.  
2. The Vice-Chamberlain, Monsieur Vautelet, whose salary was two hundred pounds per annum.  
3. The chancellor Sir Kenelm Digby, whose place after his death was managed by Sir John Winter, Sir Henry Wood, and Sir Robert Long.  
4. The Master of the Horse, the Lord Arundel of Warder, Count of the Empire.  
5. Her Secretary, Sir John Winter.  
6. The Treasurer, and receiver General of the revenue, Sir Henry Wood,  
7. The Comptrouler of her household, Sir Thomas Bond.  
8. The Master of the Robes, Sir Thomas Orke.  
9. Four Gentlemen-Ushers of the Privy-Chamber, each ones salary being one hundred and thirty pounds per annum, and diet.  
10. Four Grooms of the Privy-Chamber, the salary three-score pounds per annum, and Diet.  
11. Four Gentlemen-Ushers, Quarter-Waiters, their salary threescore pounds per annum, and Diet: four Pages of the presence, and eight Grooms of the Great Chamber.  
12. Two Cup-bearers, two Carvers, two Sewers, two Gentlemen Ushers of the presence-Chamber, each of them having one hundred and twenty pounds salary, and a Table among them all.  
13. The Ladies of the Chamber, the chiefest whereof were, the duchess Dowager of Richmond, the Duke of Buckinghams Sister, Groom of the Stool, the Countess of Newport Lady of the Chamber.  
14. Four Ladies of the Privy-Chamber, the Lady Price, the Lady Bond, and two more, each one having the salary of one hundred and fifty pounds per annum, with eight women of the Bed-Chamber.  
15. The Lady Saunderson, and others of the Laundry, a Sempstress, and a Starcher.  
16. The Lord Almoner, Abbot Montague, Brother to the Earl of Manchester; and since her Majesties death, Lord Almoner to the Duke of Orleans, his salary being seven hundred pounds per annum.  
17. The Confessor, Father Lambert, a French Gentleman, his salary three hundted pounds per annum.  
18. The Clerk of the Closet, and Assistant to the Confessor, of the Order of the Oratory, with two hundred pounds salary per annum; with a Lay-Brother whose salary was forty pounds per annum; the Covent of Capuchins, adjoining to the chapel, to which belonged a Warden, called Father-Guardian, seven Priests, and two Lay-Brothers, who undertook the Service of the chapel daily, and made Sermons every Sunday, holiday, and three days in the weeks of Lent, her Majesty allowing for the maintenance thereof a revenue of five hundred pounds per annum.  
19. A physician, and an Apothecary.  
20. A Guard, the Earl of St. Albans being Captain thereof, and Monsieur de la chapel Lieutenant; Monsieur Fremon exempt of the Guards; four and twenty Gentlemen wearing black Velvet Cassocks, and golden embroidered badges, waiting with their Halberts on her Majesty, when going into her Sedan, or at chapel, or at Meals, or at taking Coach, horsed with Carabines, and other weapons fit for a horseman, when attending on her Majesty in a Coach with six Horses, always covered, within doors, or without.  
21. A Stable, where there was a chief Escuyer or Querry, Sir Edward Wingfield; fout Coaches, and to each Coach six Horses.  
22. Twelve Footmen, twelve Barge-men in Liveries, fout Pages of the Back-stairs, several Officers of the Pantry, Ewry, Cellar, buttery.  
23. The Master of the Buckhounds, of the Bows, of the Queens Games, and the Gentlemen of her music.   
Her Majesties revenue, 
The Qu. ordereth her two Palaces, Greenwich and Sommerset-houses to be repaired.  and Court being thus settled, she agve order for the repair of her Royal Palaces at Greenwich, and Somerset-house, upon the last of which Mr. Abra cow bestowed an elegant Copy of Verses, he having been many years at her Court in France, as Secretary to the Lord St. Albans, and transcribed all the Letters that passed between her Majesty, and her Royal( now glorious) husband, for several years, and which were taken at Nazeby, and published to both their great advantages, as she always apprehended that accident.  
To this journal of her Majesties lifk, we should add a character of her petson, but none can have resentments equal to Princes inclinations, and tempers, but they themselves; the thoughts and fancies of private men, not being able to reach to the true apprehensions of public geniuses;  
Take it rather from the pen of the forementioned Mr. Cowley who attended her Majesty above twelve years, bearing a share in her calamities, and serving her in her negotiations, wherein he undertook many perilous Voyages, to Holland, Scotland, Flanders, Jersey, and other places whither the affairs of those times required his presence and his parts, besides that he cyphered and deciphered with his own hand most of the great correspondence between the King and Queen, as also between her and other the most potentate Princes and States of Europe, which work of indefatigable industry, carried on with unsuspected secrecy, as well as integrity, took up the whole of every day, and the most of many nights in the Week for divers years, who notwithstanding his multiplicity of business, found so much spare time as( among other of his works) to compose an admirable Ode on his Majesties Restauration and Return, and thus addresseth himself to the Queen-Mother.  
Where's now the Royal Mother, where  
To take her migh●y share  
In this so ravishing sight,  
And with the part she takes to add to the delight?  
Ah! why art thou not here,  
Thou always best, but now the happ●est Queen,  
To see ou● joy, and with new j●y be seen?  
God hath a bright example made of thee,  
To show that womankind may be  
Above that sex, which her superior seems,  
In wisely managing, the wide extremes  
Of great affliction, great felicity.  
How well those different virtues thee become,  
Daughter of Triumphs; W●st of Martyrdom.  
Thy Princely mind with so much courage bore  
Affliction, that it dares return no more;  
With so much goodness used felicity,  
That it cannot refrain from coming back to thee;  
'tis come, and seen to day, in all its bravery.  
Or rather take it from the pen of that good King Charles the first, who had most reason to know her, and was best able to express her, and in his own excellent portraiture, hath thus drawn hers.  

King Charles the first his Character of the Queen.  

The Character of Henrietta Maria, late Queen of England.  ALthough I have much cause to be troubled at my wives departure from me, and out of my Dominions; yet not her absence; so much as the scandal of that necessity, which drives her away, doth afffict me. That she should be compelled by my own Subjects, and those pretending to be Protestants, to withdraw for her safety; This being the first Example of any Protestant Subjects, that have taken up Arms against their King, a Protestant: For I look upon this now done in England, as another Act of the same tragedy, which was lately begun in Scotland, the brands of that fire being ill quenched have kindled the like flames here. I fear such motions( so little adorning the Protestant profession) may occasion a farther alienation of mind, and divorce of affections in her, from that Religion, which is the only thing wherein we differ.  
I am sorry my Relation to so deserving a Lady, should be any occasion of her danger, and affliction; whose merits would have served her for a protection among the savage Indians; while their rudeness and barbarity knows not so perfectly to hate all virtues, as some mens subtlety doth; Among whom I yet think few are so malicious as to hate her for her self. The fault is, That she is my Wife.  
All justice then as well as affection commands me to study her security, who is in danger only for my sake; I am content to be tossed, weather-beaten, and shipwrecked, so she may be safe in Harbour.  
This comfort I shall enjoy by her safety in the midst of my personal dangers, that I can perish but half, if she be preserved; In whose memory, and hopeful Posterity, I may yet survive the malice of my enemies, although they should be satiated with my blood.  
I must leave Her, and them, to the Love and Loyalty of my good Subjects; but common civility is in vain expected from them, that dispute their Loyalty: Nor can it be safe( for any Relation) to a King, to tarry among them who are shaking hands with their Allegiance, under pretence of taking faster hold of their Religion.  
'Tis pity so Noble and peacefu●l a Soul should see, much more suffer, the rudeness of those who must make up their want of Justice, with Inhumanity and Impudence.  
Her Sympathy with me in my afflictions, will make her virtues shine with greater lustre, as Stars in the darkest nights, and assure the envious world, that she loves me, not my fortunes.  
Neither of us but can easily forgive, since we do not much blame the unkindness of the Generality, and Vulgar; for we see God is pleased to try the patience of us both, by the most self puni●hing sin, the ingratitude of those, who have eaten of our bread, and being enriched with our bounty, have scornfully lifted up themselves against us; And those of our own household, are become our enemies, I pray God lay not their sin to their charge; who think to satisfy all obligations to duty, by their Corban of Religion; and can less endure to see, than to sin against their benefactors, as well as their Sovereigns.  
But even that policy of my enemies is so far venial, as it was necessary to their designs, by scandalous Articles, and all irreverent demeanour, to seek to drive her out of my Kingdoms; Lest by the influence of her example, eminent for Love, as a Wife; and Loyalty, as a Subject; she should have converted to, or retained in their Love and Loyalty, all those whom they had a purpose to pervert.  
The less I may be blessed with her company, the more I will retire to God, and my own heart, whence no malice can banish her. My enemies may envy me, but they can never deprive me of the enjoyment of her virtues, while I enjoy myself.   
So much for her Character, return we now to the Actions of her person, about Christmas 1660. it was that she was God-mother to James late Duke of Cambridge, Son to the Illustrious Prince James Duke of york: 
The Qu. Mother goes to France.  after which his Majesty accompanied his Mother and Sister( who complained very much of the smoke of the City, and a stoppage in her breast, ever since she came thither, and was afraid of the small pox, whereof she had a little spice) to the water-side, whence her Majesty went to France, to conclude the Match between the Duke of Orleans and her Daughter, where she assisted at the Baptism of the Dauphine of France, who was born on All Saints day, and Christened therefore by the name of Lewis Tous Saints.  
In the time of his Majesties absence from his Palace at Whitehal, there happened a rebellious Tumult in London, which in the beginning of January 1660. was thus executed.  

Venners Insurrection.  A handful of wild inconsiderate people of mean degree being got together with Arms befiting their design, and commanded by one Venner a Wine-Cooper, dated to attempt the City of London, and that at two several times; First on Sunday the 6. of January 1660. after their meeting in Coleman-street in the same City,( having then a gracious liberty from the King for their devotion) when arming themselves, they resolutely came to S. Pauls in the dusk of the evening, where having mustered, and ordered their small party, they placed Sentinels for the time, one of whom killed an innocent person coming by accidentally. Their Declaration was for King Jesus, crying as they marched, remember the Gates, intimating thereby a revenge for those of their own party, that not long before had been executed for high Treason, their quarters being fixed upon the Gates, and other appointed places in the Cities of London and Westminster  
From S. Pauls they proceeded to Beech-lane, where a Head-borough opposing them, they shot him dead, and forcing their passage, they hasted to Canewood, 
They are routed at Canewood.  where they lurked till a party of Horse and Foot, that were sent in quest of them, routed them from thence, taking about thirty prisoners.  
Notwithstanding, 
From whence they has●e to London.  the others that had escaped from the wood, returned for London, and on Wednesday morning January the ninth, after the Watches and Guard were removed, they re-inforced their first enterprise; Alaruming the Trained-bands at Threadneedle-street, but being pursued to Bishopsgate-street, Wood-street and several other places of the City, they were subdued; 
And are most of them killed and taken.  about twenty and two of them refusing quarter, being killed, and the like number of his Majesties Loyal Subjects. Several of the rebels being taken, were a short time after deservedly executed( having received a legal trial) in several parts of the City.  

The Coronation of K. Charles the second.  Now come we to his Majesties Coronation, where we may see those Regal Ornaments that for several years had lain obscure; This, was the Crown profaned by the lewd hands of those prostitue Members at Westminster, when they seized on the Regalia, which by H. Martin his advice was thought fit to be shared among the Usurpers: This was the Crown, afterwards violated, deprived and Widowed of that Sacred and Royal head of King Charles the Martyr; This was the Crown that alone of all the Insignia of Majesty, abhorred the Idolatry of Cromwels usurpation, and escaped the ravishing and polluted hands of that Tyrant; This was that Crown which the malignity of a dire Pestilence had envied the sight and blessing thereof to the City of London, his Majesties Imperial Chamber, at his Royal Fathers Inauguration; And this was that Crown, under whose just and ancient descent, we have flourished ever since we were a Nation, till our late Anarchy.  
His Majesty on the twenty second of April, early in the morning, passed from Whitehal to the Tower by water; from thence to go through the City to Westminster abbey, there to be crwoned.  
Two days were allotted to the consummation of this great and most celebrated action, the wonder and delight of all persons, both foreign and domestic, and pity it was that the solid and lasting happiness it portended should not have taken up a month, and given it the name Coronalis. I should give a Relation of the magnificent Ceremonies performed therein, but it being too large for an intended small Tract, I choose rather to refer the Reader to what on that subject hath been already made public.  
Infinite and innumerable were the acclamations and shouts from all the parts, as his Majesty passed along, to the no less joy than amazement of the Spectators, who beholded those glorious Personages that rid before and behind his Majesty. Indeed it were in vain to attempt to express this Solemnity, it was so far from being unutterable, that it is almost unconceivable, and much wonder it caused in out-landish Persons, who were acquainted with our late troubles and confusions, which way it was possible for the English to appear in so rich and stately a manner.  
Nor was it the Peers alone, the Gentry, nor the Commonalty that rejoiced in his Majesties happy Restitution, but behold a Queen, 
The Qu. of Bohemia returns to England.  his Majesties Aunt the Queen of Bohemia, after the long absence of forty and eight years returned to Whitehall, where she was formerly married in 1612. to the Prince Elector Palatine.  
The Solemnity of the Coronation being ended, his Majesty was graciously pleased to pay a kind memorial to the dispersed Limbs of the Renowned marquis of Montross, 
The marquis of Montross en●erred in State, May 11.  ordering them to be taken down, and butted in State and all fit Solemnities becoming his merits, and the greatness of his Family.  
And to declare the Justice of Almighty God, it may not be omitted that within a fortnight after this happened the death and deserved execution of the marquis of Argyle, 
Argyle be●●hded, May 27.  who was this Heroes mortal and spightsul enemy; he cunningly defended himself, and pleaded the Kings Pardon, and the Treaties in 1650. and 1651. But he was condemned for crimes of a later date.  
In the like manner as the renowned Montross had been interred, 
Sr. Charles Lucas and Sr. G. Lisle interred with Solemnity, June 7.  so with proportional Solemnity the two most Loyal Commanders, Sr. Charles Lucas and Sr. George Lisle, were re-interred at Colchester, the seventh of June, the same day thirteen years that they took up Arms for the King in that Town, both Corps being laid in a Vault set a part for the Sepulchry of Sir Charles and his Family.  
The Queen of Bohemia, Aunt to his Majesty, had not continued long in the English air, 
Qu. of Bohemia dies, Feb. 13.  till she was snatched from this Life and her Royal Relations, dying February the thirteenth, aged sixty six years, having been forty eight years out of England, as was said before, and had survived all the misfortunes of her Family, which almost from the time of her Marriage in 1612. on St. Valentines day( on the Eve of which she now died) had fallen very thick, chiefly and solely upon it: she now came to her Rest among her Royal Ancestors and Relations, whose Glories and Honours she left more flourishing than ever.  

Qu. Katherine arr●ves, May 13. 1662.  On Wednesday the fourteenth of May, our gracious Queen Katharine landed( from her native Country Portugal) at Portsm●uth, about four of the clock in the afternoon, where she was received with all possible demonstrations of Honour, the Nobility, and Gentry, and multitudes of People, in most rich apparel, waiting on the Shore for her landing, to which place his Majesty hasted with all possible speed, to consumate the sacred rites of Matrimony, 
King and Queen married at Portsmouth.  which were performed in that Town in private, after which some time being spent in compliments and entertainments between those Lords and Ladies attending on the Queen, and several Persons of Honour of our own Nation, their Majesties return to Hampton-Court, and from thence on the twenty third of August the Regal Bride was in great Triumph brought by water to Whitehal, 
They arrive at Whitehal.  all the Companies in their Barges nobly set our, attending the Lord Mayor at this Solemnity, several Pageants being placed upon the River, and Speeches designed, all which made a very noble sight, illustrated by the rich and glorious setting out of the Kings Barge: about seven at night their Majesties arrive at that Palace, and somewhat before the Queen-Mother being fetched and attended by the Earl of S. Albans arrived at Greenwich, 
Qu. Mother at Greenwich  where for a while after she resided, till her other Palace, viz. Somerset-house, was made fit for her.  
In short time after, her Majesty the Queen-Mother took leave of her Palace at Greenwich, and settled in the other before-mentioned, where she had a large reputation for her justice 
Her Justice,  to all people, paying exactly well for whatsoever her occasions required, weekly discharging all accounts, and withal bestowing good sums of money Quarterly to charitable uses, 
Charity.  particularly to the releasing of poor prisoners, that lay in for small debts, or for fees in the prisons in and about London, upon which occasion several catholic Priests thought it convenient to attend those prisons upon every execution, to reconcile those that died to the Church of Rome.  

Piety.  She desired to live with the least offence imaginable to any sort of men, and therefore was very much troubled to hear that of Dr. Du-Moulin Prebend of Canterbury( Mr. Fowles of Lincoln-Colledg then, as Mr. Pryn before should writ) that her Confessor was seen on Horse-back brandishing his sword, and to fling his hat by the Scaffold; when the late King was beheaded, and being asked why he of all men should do so; replied, That that was the most glorious day that ever came, and that, that Act was the greatest thing that ever was done to advance the catholic Religion, whose greatest enemy was that day cut off.  
Neither could it be any pleasure to her to see the controversies revived between those of her Religion and the Kings( hoping that those who had undergone one common suffering, 
And Modera●ion.  might live together in common love; and though they could not be of one mind, that they might however be of one heart) as they were by Dr. Pierces Sermon at Whitehal, Febr. the first 1662.( like Bishop Jewels challenge at Pauls across) called the The primitive Rule of Reformation, Mr Cressies Answer to it, Mr. 〈…〉 tbies Defence of it, Mr. Ser 〈…〉 〈◇〉 Book against Bishop T 〈…〉 ●r. Tillotson, and Dr. Stillingfleet, &c. While yet she comported her self so agreeably to the present state of affairs, as to discountenance Sir Kenelm Digby, her old servant, when his Majesty in the contentions between the aforesaid Knight and the Earl of Bristol, conceived he had reason to frown upon him.  
In the Year 1665. after she had mourned for her Sister, Christina duchess of Savoy, and seen the effects of the Negotiation of her half-Brother, the Duke of Vendosme, her Majesty( upoa the approaching of the great Sickness, during which she gave large sums of money, wherewith to relieve the poor) that year went over into France, 
The Qu. Mother goes to France.  where she did many good offices for this Kingdom, by interposing, to prevent the War with the French; and to put an end to it, when it could not be prevented: Saying to the King of France, That she was sorry he was engaging in an enterprise, wherein she could not go along with him in her Prayers. And saying likewise to the Duke of Beaufort, That she was afraid of him, now he was going to fight against the English.  
The fourth of September in the morning, his Majesty received by an express from France the unwelcome news of her Majesties Death, 
Her Death, August 1669.  who died after a long indisposition of Body and decay of Health, on Tuesday morning the last day of August, in the sixtieth year of her Age, at her house at Colombe Castle, four leagues from Paris; whereupon his Majesty and his Royal Highness retired immediately from their intended diversion at New-Forrest to Hampton-Court, where they continued till Whitehall was made ready for hem.  
Upon the news of her Majesties Death, the Duke of Orleans went from St. germans presently to pay her his last Devotion; and having done that, he repaired without delay to St. Clo●, to impart the sad tidings to his Wife, and her Daughter.  
Madam, the duchess of Orleans, who heard it with great sorrow, and was afterwards visited and condoled by the King and Queen: The King of France having always had a great value and reverence for her Majesty.  
The day the Queen died, her Body was laid to be seen upon a bed of State in her Chamber, and the next day it was embalmed, and exposed some considerable time in an Apartment in the Castle of Colombe, with the usual Ceremonies in that case had, and used.  
The tenth of September her Head was laid into a Vessel of Silver, whereon was written her Name, and Title, viz.  Henrietta Maria, Angliae, Franciae, Scotiae,& Hiberniae Regina, Galliae Filia Henrici Quarti Victoris nata, Caroli Primi Martyris Conjux, Caroli Secundi Restauratoris matter, &c. 
From her Castle of Colombe she was carried to the Religious House or Monastery of Chaliot, in a mourning Coach, attended by the Lord montague her Almoner, by the Lady Marshall du Plessis, and the duchess of Richmond, her Ladies of Honour, her Guards following her; the Coaches of the Queen of France, their Royal Highnessess the Duke and duchess of Orleans, with the Officers of their respective Housholds going before.  
The twelfth of September the Royal Corps was, about seven of the Clock at night, carried to St. Dennis, accompanied by Madamosel, and Madam de Guise, with a great Train of flambeux carried by an hundred Pages and the Queens Guards at the Porch and entrance into that great Church. Those of the Religion, with Taper lights in their hands, received the Royal Body, at the delivery of which the Grand Almoner pronounced an excellent Oration upon the Occasion; in answer to which the like was made by the Prior: both which being ended they carried the Corps in Procession into the choir, where the Altar was hung with black, agreeable to the Solemnity: Some Devotions customary upon such occasions being performed, the Body was set in another choir, behind that but now mentioned, where it continueth till preparations may be made befiting the Funeral of so great a Princess.  
About this time the Count de St. Aignan, 
An Envoy extraordinary from France to England.  Son to the Duke of St. Aignan first Gentleman of the King of France his Bed-chamber, arrived at London in the quality of an Envoy Extraordinary from the most Christian King, and from thence went to Hampton-Court, where being introduced( by the Earl of Bath, Groom of his Majesties stool, and first Gentleman of his Bed-chamber, and Sir Charles Cotterel Mr. of the Ceremonies) to his audience; wherein in the behalf of his most Christian Master he condoled with the King and Queen, for the Death of the Queen-Mother. Being afterwards nobly entertained agreeably to his Quality and Message, by the Right Honourable the Earl of Bath.  
Instead of a Monument to her Majesty, take this pedigree of the Royal Family.  

King Henry the Fourth of France, 
The Pedigree of the Royal Fami●y.  who acquired the style of Henry le Grand, and Queen Mary de Medices her Parents.  
King Lewis the thirteenth of France her Brother. 

Henry Duke of Orleans her younger Brothe●.  
Katherine Queen of Spain, and Christienne duchess of Savoy, her Sisters.    
King Lewis the Fourteenth of France, her Nephew. 

The Duke of Orleans her Son-in-Law    
Mary late Queen of England, Wife to King Charles the first King of England. 

Charles James, who died.    
Charles the Second, King of England, her Son.  
James Duke of York, her Son. 

His Son 

Edgar Duke of Cambridg, born Sept. 15. 1667.    
His Daughters 

The Lady Mary, born April 30. 1662.  
The Lady Anne, born Febr. 1664.      
Mary Princess of Orange, dead. 

Her Son, William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, born nine days after the decease of his f●ther, Nov. 14▪ 1650.    
The Princess Elizabeth, dead.  
The Princess Anna, who died young.  
The Princess Sophia, died young.  
Henry Duke of gloucester, dead.  
Henrietta duchess of Orleans. 

Who hath two Children.    
Filiabitur Nomen Ejus.   
Besides the Representations of her Majesty, we expect her Character drawn by an exact Pencil, and her Epitaph from both the Universities, who are preparing Poems suitable to her Funeral, particularly Oxford, sometime her Majesties Court in the late Wars.  
It is remarkable that her Majesty died on the Tuesday, 
The death o● Sir Ed. Nicholas.  and Sir Edward Nicholas on the Wednesday, the same week. That Honourable person having been Secretary of State to King Charles the first, and King Charles the second; relating formerly as Secretary to the late Duke of Buckingham, being of her Majesties particular opinion in the late Wars in all things, save( as the King said) in matters of Religion.  
For it was her Majesties opinion and his, that the Parliament should not be exasperated in any thing wherein they could not be overcome( it having been the imprudence of late time, in great managers of Affairs, that the people were provoked, when they could not be suppressed) and that there should have been no attempt upon the five Members, where there was not evidence enough to convict them, and power enough to take them.  
After the War began, both advised the adjourning of the Parliament from London to some other place, as york or Oxford, especially york, where Sir Edward wished the Parliament had been called at first, by reason of the Loyalty of the Northern parts, and the ill affection and distemper of the Southern, which time had reduced to a temper; and distance had cooled to an accommodation. And in case all did not come according to the Kings command to them, to wait upon him, yet if the greater Number did, and the rest had continued in Arms against the King, that they at Westminster should be never owned by the King as a Parliament, and that the King should never harken to an accommodation, but upon condition, that this long Parliament was dissolved.  
And the Queen writes upon this point thus, I understand to day from London, that they will have no Cessation, and that they treat at the beginning of the two first Articles, which is of the Forts, Ships and Ammunition, and afterwards of the disbanding of the Army. Certainly I wish a Peace more than any, and that with greater reason. But I would the disbanding of the perpetual Parliament first, and certainly the rest will be easy afterwards. I do not say this of mine own head alone: for generally both those who are for you, and against you in this Country, wish an end of it. And I am certain, that if you do demand it at the first. In case it be not granted, Hull is ours and all yorkshire, which is a thing to be considered. And for my particular, if you make a Peace and disband your Army, before there is an end of this perpetual Parliament, I am absolutely resolved to go into France, not being willing to fall again into the hands of those people, being well assured, that if the power remain with them, that it will not be well for me in England. For the Honour of God, trust not yourself in the hands of those people. And if ever you go to London before the Parliament be ended, or without a good Army, you are lost. I understand that the Propositions for the Peace must begin by disbanding the Army, if you consent to this you shall be lost: they having the whole power of the Millitia, have done and will do what they please.  
This was the reason of the late Kings great confidence in Sir Edward Nicholas, permitting all his Declarations to be penned by him, and trusting him with his choicest Memorials, as these about the Treaty at Uxbridge.  
First, for Religion and Church Government, I will not go one jot farther than what is offered by you already.  
2. And so for the Militia more than what ye have allowed by me, but even in that you must observe, that I must have free Nomination of the full half: as if the total number, Scots and all, be thirty, I will name fifteen; yet if they( I mean the English Rebels) will be so base as to admit of ten Scots, to twenty English, I am contented to name five Scots and ten English, and so proportionably to any number that shall be agreed upon.  
3. As for gaining of particular persons besides security, I give you power to promise them Rewards for performed services, not sparing to engage for places, so they be not of great trust, or be taken away from honest men already in possession, but of as much profit as you will. With this last you are only to acquaint Richmond Southampton, Culpeper, and hid.  
This was that Sir Edward Nicholas, to whom his Majesty concerning the intercepting and publishing his Letters, wrote in manner following, by which the Reader hath a farther Testimony of the great trust and confidence their Majesties reposed in him.  
Nicholas,  
HAving commanded your fellow Secretary to give you a full account, as well of our proceedings here as resolutions; I will neither trouble you nor myself with repetitions: only for myself, I must desire you to let every one know, that no distresses of fortune whatsoever shall make me, by the grace of God, recede in any thing from those grounds I laid down to you, who were my Commissioners at Uxbridge, and which( I thank them) the Rebels have published in print. And though I could have wished their pains had been spared, yet I will neither deny that those things are mine, which they have set out in my name( only some words here and there are mistaken, and some commas misplaced, but not much material) nor as a good Protestant or honest man blushy for any of those papers. Indeed as a discreet man, I will not justify myself; and yet I would fain know him, who would be willing, that the freedom of all his private Letters were publicly seen, as mine now have been. However, so that one clause be rightly understood, I care not much though the other take their fortune: it is concerning the mongrel Parliament. The truth is, that Sussex his factiousness at that time, put me out of patience, which made me freely vent my displeasure against those of his party to my Wife; and the intention of that phrase was, that his faction did what they could to make it come to that, by their raising and fomenting base Propositions. This is clearly evidenced by my following excuse to her for suffering those people to trouble her, the reason being to eschew those greater inconveniences which they had, and were more likely to cause here than there. I am now going to Supper, so I rest  
Your most assured Friend, Charles R.   

An Epicaedium On the death of Her most Serene Majesty Henrietta Maria de Bourbon Queen-Mother of England And Daughter to the late most puissant King Henry le Grand King of France and navarre.  
Hence! and make ●oom, all ye that weeping come  
To red an elegy, or see a Tomb.  
But oh! what Poets genius can device  
For such a Tomb a decent Sacrifice.  
Vain man! to mention what can ne're be writ  
Since 'tis above the reach of Art or Wit.   

The elegy.  
HEre lies the British Islands Nursing Mother  
A Queen, was never paralleled by other.  
Happy that choice Regalio, keeps in trust  
The Royal relics, and selected Dust  
Of Her, whom flattery knows not how to paint,  
Great Britains Queen,& Heavens glorious Saint  
To her those names of Queen& Saint are given  
As two most sacred names of Earth& Heaven.  
See! How the pious Marble seems to weep,  
As being conscious threescore doth keep  
The Sacred Ashes of a Queen so good,  
Should be of greater worth than ston or wood.  
And boasting seems to say, her Name will be  
An everlasting Monument to me.  
See! See! the day by Sable clouds orespread,  
Portending Englands Royal Queen is dead.  
See! How it shortens, striving to retire,  
The Queen and Autumn seeming to expire,  
Bids Night and Nature hang the Universe  
With black, due Obsequies for such a Hearse.  
She ne're was cruel to exhaust a Tear,  
All weeping was reserved to spend it here.  
Those flattering Arts which Poets use, to save  
Decaying reputations in the grave,  
Are here but vain: for no Hyperbole  
C●n tell the World how great her Mer●ts be.  
And Chronicles themselves can say no more  
Than what her famed hath spread about before.  
In whatsoever Land she chanced to come  
She red th● M●n and Manners, bringing home  
Their Wisdom, virtue, and their Piety,  
As if she went to conquer, not to see.  
She knew all Nations so, that one would swear  
She did not Live, but was Born every where.  
And when she through this restless Globe had past  
She died, lest she should idle grow at last.  
Great Queen of cares and crosses. Tosst& hurled  
Through all the changes of a giddy World.  
That World, that's now concerned t'have understood  
Death durst approach so near to Royal blood.  
A Queen, to Kings and Emperours allied,  
Great Henry's Daughter, and blessed Charles his Bride.  
Yet did the envious Thistle interpose  
'Twixt her F●ench lilies, and our English Rose.  
blessed Queen, thy mind maintained so calm a state  
As crowned thee Empress of thyself and fate.  
Angels now sing to thee, their airs divine  
And joy in an applause so great as thine.  
Who claimed the Garland by thy matchless life,  
Of a dear Mother, and indulgent W●fe.  
And having gained it, meekly now layest down  
An Earthly Diadem, for an Heavenly Crown.  
Thus you, Dear Queen, a grateful subject have  
Who what he owed your life, hath paid your grave.   
FINIS.   

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