E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Alex Gam, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 38294-h.htm or 38294-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38294/pg38294-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38294/38294-h.zip) Transciber's note: Scribal abbreviations are depicted as "v[~re]" when in the original the tilde appeared above the letters enclosed in brackets. The carat character (^) indicates that the following letter is superscripted (example: advancem^t). If two or more letters are superscripted they are enclosed in curly brackets (example: Ma^{tie}). [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 Bibliothèque Nationale, in the Archives Nationales, and in the Bibliothèque 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. Mère Louise Eugénie 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