Name Index

To

Queen Henrietta Maria in Exeter,
and her escape therefrom, 1644

Trans. Devon. Assoc., vol. 8 (1876) pp. 467-479.

by

Paul Q. Karkeek

Prepared by Michael Steer

The heavily pregnant Queen Henrietta Maria left Oxford to journey to France via a Cornish port, and arrived in Exeter on 1st May 1644. Princess Henrietta Anne, as the new baby was christened, was born on the 16th June 1644, at a time when the Parliamentary forces led by Lord Essex were yet again threatening the west. The Queen fled to France leaving her sickly infant daughter to be cared for by her governess, Lady Dalkeith. The child was baptised in a new font, in the cathedral on 21 July 1644. King Charles arrived in Exeter, to take on Essex, and saw his still surviving baby daughter for the first and only time on 26 July 1644. Google with the Archive Organization has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. The Internet Archive makes available, in its Community Texts Collection (originally known as Open Source Books), books that have been digitised by Google from a number of libraries. These are books on which copyright has expired, and are available free for educational and research use. This rare book was produced from a copy held by Princeton University Library, and is available from the Internet Archive.