[ [72]Mary, who married the Prince of Orange; James, afterwards King of England; Elizabeth; Henry, Duke of Gloucester; Henrietta Anne, Duchess of Orleans; Anne, who died as an infant, and another daughter, who also died in infancy.
[ [73]Her character is described at length in "The Character of the Most Excellent Lady Lucy of Carlisle," by Sir Tobie Matthews, prefixed to A Collection of Letters made by Sir Tobie Matthews, K.C. (1660).
[ [74]Those of Rochefoucault.
[ [75]In 1626 she was in debt to the amount of £6662 16s. 9d. to various tradesmen; it was her custom, as that of former Queen-Consorts, to employ chiefly foreign tradesmen and workmen.
[ [76]The Queen saw it twice; the music was written by Simon Ivy and Henry Lawes.
[ [77]Cal. S.P. Dom., 1625-6, p. 273.
[ [78]In later days Henrietta Maria could say with Katharine of Aragon,
"I am not such a truant since my coming As not to know the language I have liv'd in."
for her children grew up unable to speak French, and Mme de Motteville says that she had spoilt her French by talking English. Perhaps even now it was only the accent which was at fault. Probably she never wrote English with ease. Her first letter written in that language is to Lord Finch; the date is about 1641. Green: Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, p. 28.
[ [79]The Shepherd's Paradise: a comedy (1659).