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With Mr . Mil < Jmay , to whom the especial care of the princess and her brother was ' entrusted , there were in attendance on them :- — John Burmiston , gentleman usher ; Judith Briot , gentlewoman ; Elizabeth Janet , laundriemayde ; John Clarke , groom of the chamber ; and , in order to render their lodgings as comfortable and as far
as possible equal to those they had been accustomed to , a large quantity of their father ' s household furniture was brought by Mildmay from Penshurst , having , according to the inventory , been received by him " for y use of y late king ' s children . " But it is probable that this furniture did not arrive at its destination sufficiently early to afford any comfort to the princess ; for , within a week after her entrance into the castle , on the Monday following , " being at
bowls , a sport she much delighted in , there fell a sudden shower , and being . of a sickly constitution it caused her to take cold . The next day she complained of headache and a feverish distemper , which by fits increased upon her . For the first three or four days she had the advice of Dr . Bignall , a worthy and able physician of Newport ; and then care was taken by Dr . Treherne , in London , to send a physician and remedies of election to her . But , notwithstanding
the care of that honest and faithful gentleman . Anth Aonv Mildmav . the care ol that honest and faithful gentleman , nthony Mildmay , Esq ., and all the art of her physicians , her disease grew upon her , " and " after many rare ejaculatory expressions abundantly demonstrating her unparalleled piety , to the eternal honour of her own memory and the astonishment of those who waited on her , she took leave of the world on Sunday , the 8 th September , 1650 . "
" On the 11 th September , Sir Henry Mildmay reported to the House that the Lady Elizabeth was indisposed , and had some inclination to go to her sister , the princess of Orange , which the council think she should do ; and on the same day , the House having been informed of her death , it was ordered that it be referred to the
committee of the revenue to consider of and give orders for her interment in the Isle of Wight , and for providing mourning for her brother Henry and his servants , and also for the servants of the said lady as they should think fit . " The resolution of the House had been anticipated at Carisbrooke , her body being embalmed and carefully disposed of in a coffin of lead ; and , after lying for sixteen clays , on the 24 th September , " was brought in a borrowed coach from the castle to the town of
. Newport , attended thither with her late servants . At the end of the town the corpse was met and waited on by the mayor and aldermen thereof , in all their formalities , to the church , where about the middle of the east part of the chancel , in St . Thomas ' s chapel , her highness was interred in a small vault purposely made , with an inscription of the date of her death engraved on her coffin . "
The interment of the princess was long and accurately remembered amongst the townspeople of Newport ; ihry nearly seventy years afterwards , an inquiring visitor in church notes hi tho Isle of Wight was told that the inscription on the coDin was— " The Lady Elizabeth , daughter to King Charles the 1 st , Sept . 8 , MDCL . "
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With Mr . Mil < Jmay , to whom the especial care of the princess and her brother was ' entrusted , there were in attendance on them :- — John Burmiston , gentleman usher ; Judith Briot , gentlewoman ; Elizabeth Janet , laundriemayde ; John Clarke , groom of the chamber ; and , in order to render their lodgings as comfortable and as far
as possible equal to those they had been accustomed to , a large quantity of their father ' s household furniture was brought by Mildmay from Penshurst , having , according to the inventory , been received by him " for y use of y late king ' s children . " But it is probable that this furniture did not arrive at its destination sufficiently early to afford any comfort to the princess ; for , within a week after her entrance into the castle , on the Monday following , " being at
bowls , a sport she much delighted in , there fell a sudden shower , and being . of a sickly constitution it caused her to take cold . The next day she complained of headache and a feverish distemper , which by fits increased upon her . For the first three or four days she had the advice of Dr . Bignall , a worthy and able physician of Newport ; and then care was taken by Dr . Treherne , in London , to send a physician and remedies of election to her . But , notwithstanding
the care of that honest and faithful gentleman . Anth Aonv Mildmav . the care ol that honest and faithful gentleman , nthony Mildmay , Esq ., and all the art of her physicians , her disease grew upon her , " and " after many rare ejaculatory expressions abundantly demonstrating her unparalleled piety , to the eternal honour of her own memory and the astonishment of those who waited on her , she took leave of the world on Sunday , the 8 th September , 1650 . "
" On the 11 th September , Sir Henry Mildmay reported to the House that the Lady Elizabeth was indisposed , and had some inclination to go to her sister , the princess of Orange , which the council think she should do ; and on the same day , the House having been informed of her death , it was ordered that it be referred to the
committee of the revenue to consider of and give orders for her interment in the Isle of Wight , and for providing mourning for her brother Henry and his servants , and also for the servants of the said lady as they should think fit . " The resolution of the House had been anticipated at Carisbrooke , her body being embalmed and carefully disposed of in a coffin of lead ; and , after lying for sixteen clays , on the 24 th September , " was brought in a borrowed coach from the castle to the town of
. Newport , attended thither with her late servants . At the end of the town the corpse was met and waited on by the mayor and aldermen thereof , in all their formalities , to the church , where about the middle of the east part of the chancel , in St . Thomas ' s chapel , her highness was interred in a small vault purposely made , with an inscription of the date of her death engraved on her coffin . "
The interment of the princess was long and accurately remembered amongst the townspeople of Newport ; ihry nearly seventy years afterwards , an inquiring visitor in church notes hi tho Isle of Wight was told that the inscription on the coDin was— " The Lady Elizabeth , daughter to King Charles the 1 st , Sept . 8 , MDCL . "