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HENRIETTA MARIA OF FRANCE. 469 a violent antipathy to the remedy, which in previous years she had learned from Dr. Mayerne was inimical to her constitu- tion. Her objection was fatally overruled, and in other respects some ignorance and want of skill appear to have been exhibited in the treatment of the supposed disorder, which evinced features nearly allied to those of decline. A continued stupor beyond the expected interval of repose alarmed her attendant, who summoned the physicians, but even then it was some time before the fatal truth could be perceived in the reluctance of affection to acknowledge it. Henrietta expired August 31, 1669,, at the age of sixty years ; her remains being removed to Chaillot, were, after lying in state, conducted at night, with all the sepulchral magnificence of departed majesty, to the Abbey of St. Denis, and her heart inclosed in a vessel of silver, with the following inscription in Latin, was deposited in the chapel of the convent : HENRIETTA MARIA, QUEEN OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND; DAUGHTER OF HENRY IV., THE CONQUEROR OF FRANCE J WIFE OF CHARLES I., THE MARTYR; MOTHER OF CHARLES II., THE RESTORER.