not without suspicion of poison, as several writers observe. And, indeed, she herself was apprehensive of unfair dealings, and roundly reproached the admiral on her death-bed for his great unkindness to her.

Where she died, or in what place she lies buried, we know not; nor can we meet with any information on the head among English historians, though many of them mention her death, and speak of her with such regard as makes the omission of such a circumstance appear somewhat extraordinary; but we have an epitaph composed in memory of her by Dr. Parkhurst, one of her domestic chaplains, and afterwards Bishop of Norwich. It bears the following title, and is as follows:

AN EPITAPH

ON THE INCOMPARABLE LADY CATHARINE, LATE QUEEN OF
ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND IRELAND, MY MOST
AMIABLE MISTRESS.

This new-erected tomb contains

The mortal, but revered remains

Of her, who shone through all her days
Her sex's ornament and praise.

To Henry, Albion's mighty king,
With whose renown all nations ring,
She proved a most accomplish'd wife--
The crown and comfort of his life.
Her lord no more, in Hymen's bands
With Seymour next she joins her hands;
Seymour, who o'er the watʼry plains
Wielding the' imperial trident reigns:
To him a female babe she bore;
But when the sun had travell❜d o'er
For seven successive days the skies,
A breathless corpse the mother lies.
Her family her loss bemoans;
Britannia echoes to their groans:
In night and griefs we pine away
She triumphs in the blaze of day,
And, with the' angelic choirs above,
Attunes the harp of joy and love.

Jane, Queen of Navarre.*

JANE of Albert, the subject of our memoirs, was daughter of Henry the Second, King of Navarre, and Margaret of Orleans, sister to Francis the first of that name, King of France, and was carefully educated in the Protestant religion from her childhood, to which she steadfastly adhered all her days. She married Anthony of Bourbon, son to Charles Duke of Vendome, by whom she had Henry, the fourth of that name, King of France by his father's right, and King of Navarre by his mother's.

This Anthony, King of Navarre, in the minority of Charles the Ninth, being the first prince of the blood, was to be his protector; but the queen-mother, and the Guises, aiming to get the power and management of affairs into their own hands, endeavoured by all means to detach the King of Navarre from the Protestant interest, that so, by weakening it, they might carry everything according to their pleasure. For which purpose they employed the ambassador of Spain,

Navarre was a small kingdom south of France, near the Pyrenean mountains. It is now part of France itself.

Navarre, which had
The Pope also con-

the Cardinal of Tournon, Escars, and some other of his flatterers, who persuaded him, that by his observing a neutrality, and causing the prince, his son, to go once to the mass, the King of Spain would give him the kingdom of Sardinia in recompense for that of lately been taken from him. firmed him in this hope, though he was only depriving him of all means for the recovery of the kingdom of Navarre, whenever he should attempt it. The king, overcome by these artifices, estranged himself by degrees from the Protestants, and solicited the queen, his wife, to return into the bosom of the Romish Church, and induce her children to follow her steps. But she, being better grounded in the truth than so easily to renounce it, refused; upon which a breach took place between her and her husband.

The above-mentioned persons seeing this, seized the advantage, and persuaded him that heresy was a sufficient cause of dissolving marriage, and that, therefore, he might be divorced from his queen, as she had imbibed its poison. They also suggested, that notwithstanding his divorce. he would retain to himself the possession of all the dominions and territories belonging to his abdicated queen, of which she, upon the account of her heresy, would be deprived, as unworthy of

"Most benign Lord Jesus, grant me thy grace, that it may always work in me, and persevere with me unto the end!

"Grant me that I may ever desire and will that which is most pleasant and acceptable unto thee! "Thy will be my will; and my will, to follow always thy will!

"Let there be always in me one will, and one desire with thee, and that I have no desire to will or not to will, but as thou wilt!

"Lord, Thou knowest what thing is most profitable, and most expedient for me!

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Give me, therefore, what thou wilt, as much as thou wilt, and when thou wilt!

"Do with me what thou wilt, as it shall please thee, and as shall be most to thine honour!

"Put me where thou wilt, and freely do with me in all things after thy will!

Thy creature I am, and in thy hands: lead me and turn me where thou wilt!

"Lo! I am thy servant, ready to do all things that thou commandest; for I desire not to live to myself, but to thee!

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'Lord Jesus! I pray thee grant me thy grace, that I never set my heart on the things of this world, but that all carnal and worldly affections may utterly die, and be mortified in me!

"Grant me, above all things, that I may rest in