E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from scanned images of public domain material generously made available by the Google Books Library Project (http://books.google.com/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 38128-h.htm or 38128-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38128/pg38128-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38128/38128-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through the the Google Books Library Project. See http://books.google.com/books?vid=MaYBAAAAQAAJ&id Transcriber's note: Obvious typographical errors have been corrected, but otherwise the original spelling has generally been retained, even where several different spellings have been used to refer to the same person. The printed book contained footnotes and endnotes. The endnotes have been treated as footnotes, and marked with anchors prefixed by E, as in [E01]. When one endnote is referenced twice, the second occurence is marked by adding a b, as in [E12b], and the text of the endnote is repeated in the appropriate place. The printed book contained a few features, such as Greek text and illustrations, that could not be reproduced in this format. These have been marked in the text using {curly braces}. A list of corrections is at the end of this e-book. MEMOIRS OF LEONORA CHRISTINA Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 Translated by F. E. Bunnett London Henry S. King & Co., 65 Cornhill 1872 London: Printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square and Parliament Street All rights reserved PREFACE. In placing the present translation of LEONORA CHRISTINA ULFELDT'S Memoirs before the English reading public, a few words are due from the Publishers, in order to explain the relation between this edition and those which have been brought out in Denmark and in Germany. The original autograph manuscript of Leonora Christina's record of her sufferings in her prison, written between the years 1674 and 1685, belongs to her descendant the Austrian Count Joh. Waldstein, and it was discovered only a few years ago. It was then, at the desire of Count Waldstein, brought to Copenhagen by the Danish Minister at Vienna, M. Falbe, in order that its authenticity might be thoroughly verified by comparison with documents preserved in the Danish archives and libraries, and known to be in the hand-writing of the illustrious authoress. When the existence of this interesting historic and literary relic had become known in Denmark, a desire to see it published was naturally expressed on all sides, and to this the noble owner most readily acceded.