puisqu’elles t&ehent, etc. By intermarriages

Page 135. — 1. les rois d’Ecosse. James VI of Scotland, who was James I of England, was paternal grandfather to Henrietta.

2 . que par l’autoritl, etc. Possibly an allusion to the stormy career of English sovereigns, who ruled rather by the will of Parliament than by divine right.

3. pour la donner k la France. Henrietta, left in England by her mother, soon fell into the hands of Parliament. But shortly afterwards (July, 1646) her governess contrived to escape with her to France. See page 149, line 18 — page 150, line 6.

4 . son incomparable douceur. The quality which contemporaries insist upon in their allusions to Henrietta.