ELIZABETH, PRINCESS PALATINE. THE original of the following Letter of this unfortunate Princefs, daughter of James the First, King of England, is in the Collection of Royal Letters in the British Museum. 66 SIR, "I have received your kind letter and learned "difcourfe with much contentement. Indeed, "we have fuffered much wrong in this world, yet I complain not at it, because when God pleafeth we fhall have right. In the mean "time, I am much beholden to you for your "good affection, hoping you will not be wearie "to continue your friendlie offices towards me, "in the place where you fitt, which shall never "be forgotten by "Your most affured friend, LADY ARABELLA STUART. "THE great match that was lately ftolen be"twixt the Lady Arabella* and young Beau champ †, provides them both of fafe lodgings: "the lady clofe prisoner at Sir Thomas Perry's "houfe at Lambeth, and her husband in the "Tower. Melvin, the poetical Minifter, wel"comed him thither with this diftich: "Communis tecum mihi caufâ eft carceris. Ara"-Bella tibi caufa eft, araque facra mihi. "WYNWODE's State Papers." Lady Arabella escaped from her confinement, and got on board a French veffel beyond Gravefend. In a letter of Mr. More to Sir Ralph Winwood, it is faid, "Now the Kyng and the Lords being "much disturbed with this unexpected accident, 166 my Lord Treasurer fent orders to a pinnace * Lady Arabella was the daughter of Charles Stuart, younger brother to James the Firft's father. Sir William Beauchamp, fon of Edward Lord Beauchamp, and grandfon to the Earl of Hertford. He was made Governor to Charles the Second when Prince of Wales, and created Marquis of Hertford by Charles the First, "that lay at the Downes to put presently to fea, "first to Calais Roade, and then to scoure the "coaft towards Dunkirke. This pinnace spying "the aforefaid French bark, which lay lingering "for Mr. Beauchamp, made to her, which there upon offered to fly towards Calais, and endured "thirteen fhot of the pinnace before she would ftryke. In this bark is the Lady taken, with "her followers, and brought back towards the "Tower; and not fo forrye for her own restraint, "as fhe fhould be glad if Mr. Seymour might "efcape, whose welfare fhe protesteth to affect "much more than her own." Lady Arabella became afterwards difordered in her mind, and died in confinement. ANNE, COUNTESS OF DORSET, PEMBROKE, AND MONTGOMERY. Or this extraordinary perfon, Dr. Donne used to say, that she knew every thing, from predeftination to flane-filk. The Portrait of her in the Castle of Skipton in Craven, represents her in the midst of her library, in which are Hickes on Providence and Cornelius Agrippa. She has been been long known in the world for her spirit and intrepidity. The following Memoirs of the early part of her life have a claim to our curiofity, as having been written by her, and as exhibiting a very striking picture of the fimplicity of the manners of the times in which fhe lived, and difplaying the naiveté of her own character. They are now printed for the first time. IN THE YEARE OF OUR LORD "1603. "In Christmas I vfed to goe much to the "Court, and fometymes did lye in my Aunt of "Warwick's chamb' on a pallet, to whom I was "much bound for hir continuall care and loue of in fo much as if Queene Elizabeth had "liued, fhe intended to have prefered me to be "of y priuie chamber; for at that tyme ther "was as much hope and expectation of me both "for my perfon and my fortunes as of any other yeonge lady what foever, 66 I was at Queene Eli: death 13 yeeres old and 2 moneths and this day Mr. Richard Sack "A little after the Queene remoued to Ritch"mond she began to grow ficklie: "my La: vsed to goe often thither "andcaried me wh hir in the coach, "and vfeinge to wait in the coffer "chamber, and many tymes came P4 "home ville was just 14 yeeres old, he beinge then at Dorfet Houfe wth his grandfather and that great familie. At ye death of this worthy Queene my mother and I laie at Auftin Friers in the fame chamber wher afterwards I was married. "home verie late. About the 21th or 22th of March my Aunt of "Warwicke fent my mother word "about 9 of y* clock at night, she licinge then at Clerkenwell, y' fhe "fhould remove to Auften Friers "hir houfe for feare of fome com"otion, thoughe God in his mercie "did deliuer vs from it, Uppon "the 24th Mr. Hocknell, my Aunt "of Warwick's man, brought us "word from his La: that the Queene died about of y° clock 43 "in the morneinge. This meffage was delivered "to my mother and me in the fame chamber "wher afterwards I was married. About 10 of "the clock Kinge James was proclaimed in "Cheapfide by all ye Counfell with great joy "and triumphe, which triumphe I went to fee " and heare, The first tyme the Kinge fent to the Lords in Eng he gaue comaund that the Earles of Northumberland and Cumberland the Lo: Tho. Howard and ye Lo: Mount. joy should be "This peaceable comeinge in " of the Kinge was vnexpected of "all forts of people. Whin 2 or 3 daies we returned to Clerken "well againe. A little after this "Queene Elizabeth's corps came by night in a barge from Ritch"mond to Whithall, my mother "and a great companie of ladies 66 "attending |