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Charles * thus , accounts for the ci ' vil war which pijpved his destruction : —** My father being dead , strange rumouis wej * e spread of it . ' Not long afterwards , I married , with the Daughter of-France , " and
in the beginning of my reign made two unfortunate wars . A Par-Uament being called at Oxford , [ 1 <>? 5 ] I lost the love of my ptQ . pie for dissolving it $ at that instant when the Duke of Buckingham was questioned for having a hand
in my father ' s death . At this I perceived that the people did repine , but I was too constant always to my own counsels , and al . though many parliaments were afterwards called , I dissolved them all . This inforced me to put unusual taxes upon my people , by
which , and by the entertainment of the Queen Mother , of France , ( a lady most extremely hated by the generality of the nation , ) I wonderfully increased their evil opinion of me . " p . 6 . The Queen
Mother was Mary de Medicis ^ widow of Henry the Fourth . That intriguing princess had been driven out of France , by the more successful intrigues of Richelieu and the hatred of her son Louis the
Thirteenth . She arrived in England in l 633 , and remained * ' here about three years . ' Charles , according to Oldmixpn , ( Fol . p . 173 ) , was accused of having " allowed her near 40 ^ 000 pounds a year ,
when France wpuld not allow her a livre" and ihis when he " had oilier occasions enough for ship , money . " Mary de Medicts largely experienced the mutability of fortune . During the long minority of her . son , she had commanded
ibe treasure amassed by Jier hus T band , and indulged her taate for magnificence .,,, ¦ , %$ } * durmg the last ten years of her life , except
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the interval passim England , she appears to ta ^ e been , f even in . necessitous circumstances . Thus writes one of her biographers : — La ftine se vU obligee \ de fair d
Bruxeltes en * 1631 . JDepuis cc moment , tile ne revit plus son Jils , ni Paris , quelle avoit embelli de ce Palais superbe , app . ell eLuxembour gh , des aqu&ducs ignores jusqu * & elle et de la vrorneriade
publique , qui porte encore lenom de la reine . —Quelle lecon et quelle consolation pour les malheureux ? La veuve de Henri le Grand , la mere d ' un Roi de France , la belle-mere de trois souverains , manque du
necessaire et meurt dans I'indigence . ( Nov . Diet . Hist . 1772 . iv . 362 . ) On hearing Charles ' s confession of his political indiscretions , Henry , like Satan metamorphosed
into an angel of light , makes this just observation , — " The greatest prejudice that can arrive unto a prince is the loss of his people s love . " He instances in his " niece ,
Mary , Queen of Scotland , who " lost the affections of that nation , and amongst other things , suffered for that indiscretion , by the loss of her head in England . " p . _ 6 V To Henry ' s enquiry why Charles was not buried with the ancestors of
whom he boasted , rather than * interrupt his peace at Windsor , " Charles replies : — 44 I dying did desire to be buried at West-Minster , but my stars which did shine but cloudily
and obscurely on me , in my life , were as inauspicious to me at my death . I suffered many things grievous to relate . At West-Minster I received rny fatal sentence , where my predecessors were accustomed to be crowned . At
Saint James I was kept in custody , a place much beloved of nie by reason of my childhood spent
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358 Book W . TVorm *— No . VI .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 358, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/2/
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