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HENRIETTA MARIA
FROM THE PAINTING BY VAN DYCK AT WINDSOR

HENRIETTA
MARIA

BY
HENRIETTA HAYNES

WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS

NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
LONDON: METHUEN & CO. LTD.
1912

PREFACE

A bibliography of the sources from which this book has been writtenwould extend to many pages: much information has been derived from thecollections of MSS. preserved in Paris in the Bibliothèque Nationale, inthe Archives Nationales, and in the Bibliothèque Mazarine; from thevaluable series of Roman Transcripts in the Public Record Office, London;from the curious and interesting documents in the archives of the See ofWestminster, and from the newspapers and pamphlets which form a branch ofthe literature of the Civil War.

I have to express my thanks to His Eminence Cardinal Bourne, who kindlypermitted me to consult the archives of the See of Westminster and to printthree of the documents in the Appendix; to Mr. Edward Armstrong, Provost ofQueen's College, Oxford, and to the Rev. H. Thurston, S.J., who have givenme much help and advice; to the nuns of the Convent of the Visitation,Harrow-on-the-Hill, who lent me the rare Vie de la Ven. Mère LouiseEugénie de la Fontaine; and, finally, to my friend, Miss H. M. Morris,who with unwearied kindness read through nearly the entire MS. of the book,and helped me much by her criticisms and suggestions.

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