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ST. JAMfcls's PALACE. i 75
According to Bishop Godwin, the queen declared in her
latter hours that "she should die, though they were
yet strangers to the cause of her death; but if they would
know it hereafter, they must dissect her, and they Mould
find Calais at her heart." Her meaning, was that she had
received her death-pang from the loss of that strong key
to the continent, the last of the possessions retained by the
English in France, although lor several centuries after the
British sovereign kept the barren title of King of France.
The queen died of dropsy, the symptoms of which her
ignorant physicians mistook for those indicating that she
was about to give a successor to the throne. By James I.
the palace was presented to his accomplished son, Henry,
Prince of "Wales, The prince held his court here, and so
popular was he that the attendance at his levees was more
numerous than at those of the monarch himself. Prince
Henry died in St. James's Palace in November, 1612, at
the early age of nineteen, and there were dark rumours
afloat at the time that a slow and subtle poison had been
employed to terminate a career which dawned so brightly,
and from which such goodly promise was anticipated.
Charles II. and James II. were born in this palace, and
here their unfortunate sire was brought from Windsor on
January 19th, lfi49, his apartment being hastily furnished
by his servant, Mr. Kinnersley, of the wrardrobe. The
intervening days between the last-named day and the 27th,
were spent in Westminster Hall, and at the house of Sir
Robert Cotton, contiguous to the tribunal. On the 27th
he was taken back to St. James's palace, whence on the
30th he was carried through the park to the place of exe-
cution. During the reign of Charles II. this edifice was
granted as a state residence to his brother the Duke of
York, who when he became King frequently held his
court here. In this palace his first wife, Anne Hyde, died,
and several of his children were horn here, among them
the prince, afterwards known as the Pretender, and Queen
Anne and Queen Mary II. Pennant writes that James II.
"sent to the Prince of Orange when he approached in
According to Bishop Godwin, the queen declared in her
latter hours that "she should die, though they were
yet strangers to the cause of her death; but if they would
know it hereafter, they must dissect her, and they Mould
find Calais at her heart." Her meaning, was that she had
received her death-pang from the loss of that strong key
to the continent, the last of the possessions retained by the
English in France, although lor several centuries after the
British sovereign kept the barren title of King of France.
The queen died of dropsy, the symptoms of which her
ignorant physicians mistook for those indicating that she
was about to give a successor to the throne. By James I.
the palace was presented to his accomplished son, Henry,
Prince of "Wales, The prince held his court here, and so
popular was he that the attendance at his levees was more
numerous than at those of the monarch himself. Prince
Henry died in St. James's Palace in November, 1612, at
the early age of nineteen, and there were dark rumours
afloat at the time that a slow and subtle poison had been
employed to terminate a career which dawned so brightly,
and from which such goodly promise was anticipated.
Charles II. and James II. were born in this palace, and
here their unfortunate sire was brought from Windsor on
January 19th, lfi49, his apartment being hastily furnished
by his servant, Mr. Kinnersley, of the wrardrobe. The
intervening days between the last-named day and the 27th,
were spent in Westminster Hall, and at the house of Sir
Robert Cotton, contiguous to the tribunal. On the 27th
he was taken back to St. James's palace, whence on the
30th he was carried through the park to the place of exe-
cution. During the reign of Charles II. this edifice was
granted as a state residence to his brother the Duke of
York, who when he became King frequently held his
court here. In this palace his first wife, Anne Hyde, died,
and several of his children were horn here, among them
the prince, afterwards known as the Pretender, and Queen
Anne and Queen Mary II. Pennant writes that James II.
"sent to the Prince of Orange when he approached in