The memorialls of Margaret de Valoys, first wife to Henry the fourth, King of France and Navarre compiled in French by her owne most delicate and royall hand : and translated into English by Robert Codrington ...

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The memorialls of Margaret de Valoys, first wife to Henry the fourth, King of France and Navarre compiled in French by her owne most delicate and royall hand : and translated into English by Robert Codrington ...
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Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1615.
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London :: Printed by R. H.,
1641.
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Marguerite, -- Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1615.
France -- Court and courtiers.
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"The memorialls of Margaret de Valoys, first wife to Henry the fourth, King of France and Navarre compiled in French by her owne most delicate and royall hand : and translated into English by Robert Codrington ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a51922.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.

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The Argument of the Third Book.

HER departure from Court, and travells with the Queen her Mother to the King of Navarre her Husband. The sawcy zeale of Du Pin. The uni∣ted happinesse of their Majesties conjugall affections during their five yeeres abode in Gascogny. The King of Navarre too great with Fosseusa. Foosseusa became too great by the King, and being

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burdened by the Queen with it, af∣ter an obstinate deniall, she not long after, in safe Child-bed was delivered of her burden, and had shee received the Queens saving counsell, she had been delivered with it of the burden of her feares and shame. New tumults of arms, and war against the Huguenots, which was silenced by a Peace, concluded by the wisedome of the Duke of Alenson, and this Queen his Sister. Her preparations into the Court of France, which being furthered by the spiteful assistance of the King of France her Bro∣ther, began to languish into delays, by the perswasions, and the re∣formed love of the King of Na∣varre her Husbnnd.

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