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A26222 The novels of Elizabeth, Queen of England containing the history of Queen Ann of Bullen / faithfully rendered into English by S.H. Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine), 1650 or 51-1705.; Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.; Hickman, Spencer. 1680 (1680) Wing A4221; Wing A4222; ESTC R16671 69,475 292

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magnificence of her Apparel in the face of a mourning Scaffold and a doleful assembly wholly invested with tears and grief The Queen appeared with the same Grace that was constantly admired in her her Countenance was undisturbed and nothing could be seen in her Visage but Security and Majesty she was Veiled all over with Mourning and in the midst of all these dismal objects her Looks which were cast upon all her spectators infused grief and despair into all their hearts Even Blunt her self that fierce and implacable Enemy of the Queen's now felt that guilt hath its limits and that fear and trembling are constantly its Attendants the constancy of the Princess made her to shiver and she could not hinder her self from considering that she was the cause of all those evils These reflections wrought a beseeming pensiveness upon her and if her eyes had been examined they would have been found much more troubled than the Queen 's The Maids of Honour to this Princess were extreme disconsolate she exhorted them oftentimes to be constant according to her example and seeing the Executioner attended only her order she spake in particular to her Divine and afterwards addressed her self to all that could hear her As I die your Queen said she and the Artifices of Envy cannot bereave me of that quality although they have rob'd me of the Kings tenderness which was much more dear unto me I am joyful that I can assure ye in the last moments of my life that I have never dishonoured him either in my Actions or Thoughts but in protesting my own innocence to ye I do not pretend to render his Majesty criminal I do declare that I have great cause to extol him and his great favours to me do sufficiently perswade that without most powerful reasons he had never abandoned me to so deplorable a Fortune I die without repining imitate my stayedness and pardon yours as I do mine Enemies and let that pity which my misfortunes can create in you be declared in the favour of a little Princess whom I leave to the Kingdoms and who is now going to be left to the hatred of the King her Father and to the cruelty of those who have destroyed me Her Birth is illustrious and although my Blood is not so noble as the Kings yet at least it merits the esteem and protection of honest people Assist one day if there be occasion those legitimate Rights which her Condition hath given her I recommend her in general to the People to the Nobility and Gentry and in particular to all those who are concerned at my misfortune After this I die praying for Prosperity to the King and Peace and Plenty to his Kingdoms After these words she turn'd her last thoughts towards Heaven and received her Death like a true Heroine Blunt beheld her Head severed from her Body with horror to which was joyned a more sensible amazement when she saw the Viscount Rochefort appear She had loved him as far as her ambition was able to permit her the deplorable Condition wherein he was his innocence which she so well knew and his sad and languishing Countenance gave her most mortal stabs to the very heart He fixed his eyes upon her and reserving a large proportion of kindness for her notwithstanding all her Intrigues he sighed at the remembrance of their former pleasures and not being able to comprehend that a person whom he had adored should come to be an eye-witness of his death and of a death of this nature he expressed to her by his dying looks the astonishment that her cruelty had caused him he utter'd many sighs which reached Blunt's ears and Pierced her heart which till then had been impenetrable in her seeing the fatal blow given to the Viscount Rochefort she felt all the injustice he suffered remorse bereaved her of her soul a mortal paleness spread it self over all her face and not being able to continue longer upon this dismal place she was carried off before the Execution of Norris which followed the Queen's and Viscount Rochefort's The King heard the news of this Catastrophe not without some confusion and was inclinable to have been touched therewith but flatterers who always make it their chief business to extol the weaknesses of Kings soon stifled these motions and exhorted his Majesty to be resolute wherein they so well succeeded that the Queen was scarcely expired but he married Jane Seymour His Constancy for this Queen was of longer continuance than her life she dyed within a year after the marriage in Childbed with Prince Edward The fury of Queen Anne's Enemies was extended even to her Daughter and they obliged the King to declare Queen Anne's Marriage null as he had that of Queen Katherine's and the two Princesses Mary and Elizabeth to be illegitimate After the Queens death Piercy lived but a few languishing days and wanted incredible strength to hinder the effects of his resentment he quitted the Court and sought for employments answerable to the sad state of his condition As for Blunt she was punished for all her crimes by the Kings constant inconstancy and by the death of her Son upon whom she had laid the foundation of so great hopes and to whom Fortune had decreed such glorious advantages She dyed suffering that misery her cruelties had justly deserved being despised by the King and hated by all the world Queen Anne was generally bewailed and notwithstanding all that her enemies have been able to speak against her many sage Persons who knew her vertue have conserved a just veneration for her memory and have inspired the same sentiments into succeeding Ages She was not only Beautiful Generous and Benificent but was endowed with a true and real wisdom and was altogether worthy of that Grandeur to which she was raised The Princess Elizabeth her Daughter who now Governs England with so great splendor and glory inherits her Vertue as well as the Crown which is her undoubted right The Queen who had retired into her Apartment to give the Earl of Northumberland an intire liberty to relate the several interests which gave the occasion to that cruel Spectacle or rather perhaps to spare her self the grief of hearing the recital of those things wherein she was obliged to take so great a part no sooner learnt that the History of Anne Bullen her Mother was ended but she returned to the Company where perceiving that every one to make their Court was preparing to condole the destiny of this Princess whose Innocence Misfortunes and the Cruelty of her Enemies appeared so worthy to be lamented She believed it was sufficient to have made them comprehend that all the Calumnies invented and spread abroad against the honour of the Queen her Mother were only meer invectives formed by her Enemies or by those who acted the greatest part in this Tragedy Wherefore without dwelling longer upon a subject which she was too sensible of she promised them that at her return she would