Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest 5
Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest 5
Strickland, Agnes, 1796-1874
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took pleasure in speaking of his mother by the ffunilUr name he called her in his infimqy. He mentions ^ChariflilL * Letter of Ho&B,State^Fi^i)er office. * Madame de Motte^e, red. vi. 460 HENRIETTA MABIA. her thus in one of his letters to his sister^ the duchess of Orleans^ March 22, 1669, saying that a man of the name of Mercer, by whom she had sent letters and presents, had yen- tared finom Havre to England in an open shallop, and was drowned in the passage. " I hear Mam sent me a present by ...him, which I beUeve brought him the ill -luck ; so she ought in conscience to be at the charges of praying for his soul, for 'tis her bad fortune has caused the poor man's disaster.''^ This letter, in which he alludes to the constant stormy weather that always attended his mother's voyages, was written but a few days before her health assumed alarming symptoms. ^' Our queen," says father Cyprian, '^ was not destined to see the end of the year 1669. Ever since her return firom her last sojourn in London she had laboured under compUcated maladies, which caused her perpetual in- somnolence and intense suffering: from time to time the baths of Bourbon softened these pains, but could not cure them.
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