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[Illustration: HENRIETTA MARIA

FROM THE PAINTING BY VAN DYCK AT WINDSOR]




HENRIETTA MARIA

by

HENRIETTA HAYNES

With Twelve Illustrations







New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.
1912




PREFACE


A bibliography of the sources from which this book has been written would
extend to many pages: much information has been derived from the
collections of MSS. preserved in Paris in the Bibliotheque Nationale, in
the Archives Nationales, and in the Bibliotheque Mazarine; from the
valuable series of Roman Transcripts in the Public Record Office, London;
from the curious and interesting documents in the archives of the See of
Westminster, and from the newspapers and pamphlets which form a branch of
the literature of the Civil War.

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