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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.

I have to express my thanks to His Eminence Cardinal Bourne, who kindly
permitted me to consult the archives of the See of Westminster and to print
three of the documents in the Appendix; to Mr. Edward Armstrong, Provost of
Queen's College, Oxford, and to the Rev. H. Thurston, S.J., who have given
me much help and advice; to the nuns of the Convent of the Visitation,
Harrow-on-the-Hill, who lent me the rare _Vie de la Ven. Mere Louise
Eugenie de la Fontaine_; and, finally, to my friend, Miss H. M. Morris, who
with unwearied kindness read through nearly the entire MS. of the book, and
helped me much by her criticisms and suggestions.




ERRATA


  Page 65, line  7. For "complimentary" read "complementary."
    "  66,   "  24. For "neither of whom" read "who, neither of them."
    "  69,   "  14. For "were" read "was."
    "  72,   "  16. For "new" read "own."
    "  77,   "   7. Omit "to" between "turns" and "a street."
    "  77,   "  32. For "imaginares" read "imaginaires."
    " 110, note  1. For "Anglicans" read "Anglicanus."
    " 138,   "   1. For "Anglians" read "Anglicanus."
    " 155, line 28. For "In" read "For."
    " 155, note  2. For "Corznet" read "Coignet."
    " 155,   "   2. For "Bahn" read "Baker."
    " 227,   "   1. For "Magasin" read "Mazarine."
    " 244,   "   2. For "trois" read  "train."
    " 275,   "   2. For "Lovel" read "Loret."




CONTENTS


  CHAPTER                                      PAGE

        Introduction                             xi

     I. The Daughter of France                    1

    II. The Bride of England                     28

   III. The Queen of the Courtiers               61

    IV. The Queen of the Catholics               92

     V. The Queen's Converts                    130

    VI. The Eve of the War. I                   141

   VII. The Eve of the War. II                  167

  VIII. The Queen and the War. I                193

    IX. The Queen and the War. II               217

     X. The Queen of the Exiles                 252

    XI. The Foundress of Chaillot               276

   XII. The End                                 302

        Appendix                                321

