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CARISBROOKE CASTLE.
detention of his children, and there is a touching ftory of one
of them connected with the place.
After the death of Charles I., Carifbrooke became the place
of confinement of two of his children, Henry, Duke of
Gloucefter, and the princefs Elizabeth. Charles and James
were on the continent, as well as the infant princefs Henrietta,
who was with her mother in Paris. As if to add to the unhap-
pinefs of thefe children, they were on the execution of their
father removed from London to Carifbrooke, the fcene of his
former imprifonment. Elizabeth was about thirteen years of
age, Henry about eight. The parliament had talked of putting
Elizabeth apprentice to a button-maker, and Henry to a fhoe-
maker. Henry was not of an age to feel much their fituation;
but Elizabeth is defcribed by Pere Gamache as a princefs of a
high and courageous fpirit, pofleffing a proud confcioufnefs of
the grandeur of her birth and defcent. Meditating in her
folitude on the calamities of her father, and the fall of her
houfe, fhe fank into a flow and fatal fever. When fhe found
herfelf ill, fhe refufed to take medicine. She expired alone,
fitting in her apartments at Carifbrooke, her fair cheek refting
on the Bible, the laft gift of her father, and which had been
her only confolation during the concluding months of her life.
She died on the eighth of September, 1650, in her fifteenth
year : and was obfcurely buried at Newport on the twenty-
fourth of the fame month. “ All the royal family,” fays Pere
Gamache, “ confidering her great talents and charms of perfon,
had reckoned on her as a means of forming fome high alliance,
which would better their fortunes.”
CARISBROOKE CASTLE.
detention of his children, and there is a touching ftory of one
of them connected with the place.
After the death of Charles I., Carifbrooke became the place
of confinement of two of his children, Henry, Duke of
Gloucefter, and the princefs Elizabeth. Charles and James
were on the continent, as well as the infant princefs Henrietta,
who was with her mother in Paris. As if to add to the unhap-
pinefs of thefe children, they were on the execution of their
father removed from London to Carifbrooke, the fcene of his
former imprifonment. Elizabeth was about thirteen years of
age, Henry about eight. The parliament had talked of putting
Elizabeth apprentice to a button-maker, and Henry to a fhoe-
maker. Henry was not of an age to feel much their fituation;
but Elizabeth is defcribed by Pere Gamache as a princefs of a
high and courageous fpirit, pofleffing a proud confcioufnefs of
the grandeur of her birth and defcent. Meditating in her
folitude on the calamities of her father, and the fall of her
houfe, fhe fank into a flow and fatal fever. When fhe found
herfelf ill, fhe refufed to take medicine. She expired alone,
fitting in her apartments at Carifbrooke, her fair cheek refting
on the Bible, the laft gift of her father, and which had been
her only confolation during the concluding months of her life.
She died on the eighth of September, 1650, in her fifteenth
year : and was obfcurely buried at Newport on the twenty-
fourth of the fame month. “ All the royal family,” fays Pere
Gamache, “ confidering her great talents and charms of perfon,
had reckoned on her as a means of forming fome high alliance,
which would better their fortunes.”