66 towne, if you can by fayer means, (but ftike "not long in difputing,) otherways force them away lyke fo manie wyld beastes, untill ye have

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shipped them, and fo the Devil goe with them. "Lett me heare no answer, but of the perform"ance of my command.

"So I reft

"Your faithfull, conftant, loving frende, "CHARLES R.

"Oaking, the

7 of August, 1627."

(Superferibed)" THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.

The following letter of this intrepid Princess, written foon after the unfortunate attempt upon

"penancies upon the Queen, are all cafhiered this week. "It was a thing fuddenly done; for about one of the "clock, as they were at dinner, my Lord Conway and Sir "Thomas Edmondes came with an order from the King,

that they must inftantly away to Somerfet-Houfe, for "there were barges and coaches staying for them, and there "they should have all their wages paid them to a penny,

and fo they must be content to quit the kingdom. This "fudden undreamed-of order ftruck an aftonishment into "them all, both men and women; and running to com

plain to the Queen, his Majefty had taken her before into “his bed-chamber, and locked the door upon them, till he "had told her how matters ftood. The Queen fell into a " violent paffion, broke the glafs windows, and tóre her "hair, but she was cooled afterwards. Just such a destiny "happened in France fome years fince, to the Queen's Spa"nish fervants there, who were all dismissed in like manner " for some mifcarriages. The like was done in Spain to "the French, therefore 'tis no new thing.' 5

Hull,

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Hull, in April 1642, is tranflated from the French Original in the British Museum. It is without a date.

"As I was clofing my letter Sir L. Dives ar

rived, who has told me all that passed at Hull. "Do not lofe courage, and pursue the business "with refolution; for you must now fhew that 66 you will make good what you have under"taken. If the man who is in the place will

not submit, you have already declared him a "traitor: you must have him, alive or dead; "for matters now begin to be very serious. "You must declare yourself; you have fhewn "gentleness enough, you must now fhew your "firmness. You fee what has happened from "not having followed your first resolution, "when you declared the five Members traitors; let that serve you for an example: dally no

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longer with confultations, but proceed to ac❝tion. I heartily wifhed myself in the place of 66 my fon James in Hull; I would have thrown "the fcoundrel Hotham over the walls, or he "fhould have thrown me. I am in fuch hafte "to dispatch this bearer, that I can write to no"body elfe. Go boldly to work, as I fee there " is no hope of accommodation," &c.

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This beautiful Princefs faid of Kings, that "they should be as filent and as difcreet as Fa"ther Confeffors."

A perfon

A perfon appearing anxious to tell her the Mames of fome who had indifpofed many of the English Nobility against her, fhe replied, "I forbid you to do fo. Though they hate me now, they will not perhaps always hate me; and if they have any fentiments of honour, they will be ashamed of tormenting a poor woman, who takes fo little precaution to de"fend herself."

Active and indefatigable on the breaking outof the troubles, fhe went to Holland to fell her jewels, and returned to England with several vesfels loaded with provifions for her husband's army. The veffel that carried her was once in great danger; but she fat upon the deck with perfect tranquillity, and faid laughingly," Les Reines ne fe noyant pas-Queens are never drowned.”

This Princefs, according to Sir William Waller, in his "Recollections," endeared herself to the inhabitants of Exeter by the following act of benevolence. "As fhe was walking out north"ward of the city of Exeter, foon after her

lying-in, she stopped at the cottage of a poor "woman, whom he heard making doleful "cries: fhe fent one of her train to enquire "what it might be which occafioned them. The

page returned, and faid the woman was for"rowing grievoufly, because her daughter had

"been

"been two days in the ftrawe, and was almost "dead for want of nourishment, fhe having no"thing to give her but water, and not being "able, for the hardness of the times, to get any "thing. On this the Queen took a small chain "of gold from her neck, at which hung an "Agnus. She took off the Agnus, and put it in "her bofom; and making the woman be called "to her, gave her the chain, and bade her go "into the city to a goldsmith and fell it, and "with the money to provide for the good wo66 man in the ftrawe: and for this," adds Sir William, "her Confeffor did afterwards rebuke "her, because they were heretics. When this "thing was told to the King, he afked, jeftingly, "if her Confeffor had made the Queen do a penance for it, as fhe had done once before "for fome innocent act, when fhe was made to "walk to Tyburn; fome fay bare-foot."

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In 1664, Henrietta went to Paris, where fhe found the Queen of France not very able, and perhaps lefs willing to aflift her: fo that she says of herself, fhe was obliged to afk alms of the Parliament of Paris for her fubfiftence: De de"mander une aumone au Parliament pour pouvoir "fubfifter."

Indeed this Queen, the daughter of Henry the Fourth, the beloved Monarch of France, was in

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fuch diftrefs at Paris, that fhe and her infant daughter were obliged to lay in bed in their room at the palace of the Louvre in that city, as they could not get wood to make their fire with. The celebrated Omer Talon in his Memoirs tells us, "Le Mecredi, 13 Janvier 16.13. La Reine "d'Angleterre logée dans le Louvre, & reduite à "la dernière extremitć, demande fecours au Parle"ment de Paris, qui lui ordonna 2000 livres pour fa fubfiftence."

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The learned and excellent Pascal, in the first edition of his celebrated work "Les Penfees fur la

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Religion," printed about the year 1650, fays, "Qui auroit eu l'amitié du Roi d'Angleterre "(Charles I.), du Roi de Pologne (Cafimir V.), "&de la Reine de Suede (Chriftina), auroit il

cru pouvoir manquer de retraite d'azyle au "monde ?----Could any perfon that poffeffed the friendship of a King of England, a King of "Poland, or a Queen of Sweden, have thought "it poffible that he could have been in want of a place to put his head in ?"

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Madame de Baviere, in her Letters, fays, "Charles the Firft's widow made a clandeftine "marriage with her Chevalier d'Honneur, Lord "St. Alban's, who treated her extremely ill; fo that whilft fhe had not a faggot to warm her"felf with, he had in his apartment a good fire, " and

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