If we needed any fresh proof that the great Abbey of Westminster is a sign and symbol of reconciliation, here is one. Within its walls Kings and Covenanters, Puritan women, and gallant young Cavalier nobles who fought against those women's husbands and fathers, lie side by side. The feuds, the hatreds, the heart-burnings, the differences, political and religious, are all forgotten; and nothing is left but the common brotherhood of man with man, in the still peaceful atmosphere of the Abbey Church of St. Peter. FOOTNOTES: [80] Stanley. "Memorials of Westminster." p. 237. [81] Clarendon. Vol. I. p. 16. [82] "Short History of English People." Green, p. 488. [83] "Life of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham." Bryan Fairfax. [84] Fairfax. [85] Clarendon. Vol. XI. p. 102. [86] Ibid. Vol. XI. p. 102. [87] When he left London he ordered his steward, Mr. John May, to bring him a list of his debts, and he so charged his estate with them, that the Parliament, who seized on the estate, payed the debt.--FAIRFAX. [88] Clarendon. Vol. XI. p. 104. [89] Fairfax. [90] Clarendon. Vol. XI. p. 105. [91] "Court and Times of Charles the First." Vol. I. p. 391. [92] Carlyle's Cromwell. Vol. I. p. 295. [93] Commonwealth Mercury. Sep. 2-9, 1658. CHAPTER XI. ANNE, AND HENRY, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER. In 1637 a little daughter was born to King Charles the First, at St. James's Palace. Archbishop Laud christened her privately twelve days later; and she was named after her aunt, Anne of Austria, Queen of France. There were great rejoicings at the baby's birth. The University of Cambridge alone produced more than one hundred and thirty odes, in which she and her sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, were compared to Juno, Minerva, Venus, the Fates, the Graces, the Elder Muses, and many other classic celebrities. In the face of all these protestations of loyal affection no one would imagine that within six years Princess Anne's father would be fighting with his own subjects for his throne and his liberty, and that two of his children would be in the hands of his enemies. But little Anne was spared these sad experiences. Very soon after her birth she was assigned her place in the royal nursery at Richmond, with her regular suite of attendants, ten in number. From her earliest infancy she was extremely delicate. "A constant feverish cough showed a tendency to disease of the lungs;" and before she was four years old she died of consumption. The short account of her death is most touching: Being minded by those about her to call upon God even when the pangs of death were upon her; "I am not able," saith she, "to say my long prayer" (meaning the Lord's Prayer), "but I will say my short one: _Lighten mine eyes, O Lord, lest I sleep the sleep of death._" This done the little lamb gave up the ghost.[94] She was buried in the tomb of her great-grandmother, the beautiful Mary, Queen of Scots, in the South Aisle of Henry the Seventh's Chapel.