and Surrey and Salisbury were decapitated on the spot by order of the mayor. The fair The fair young queen, thus cruelly deceived and disappointed, was also made prisoner, and kept in close confinement at Haveringatte-Bower, where she remained until her father, who had confirmed to Henry the truce of twenty-eight years made with Richard, demanded that she should be sent back to France-a demand to which Henry replied by asking her in marriage for the Prince of Wales. Faithful, however, to the memory of her noble husband, Isabella entirely refused to listen to the pleadings of the gallant suitor, Henry of Monmouth, who seems to have been as much influenced by personal admiration of the fair virgin widow, as by political motives, in his pursuit of her.

Her own fixed determination against the match, joined to certain objections on the part of her royal relatives in France, at length compelled Henry to restore her to them, which he did the more unwillingly, that it raised a question relative to the return of her jewels and dower, which question was long and warmly agitated between the two sovereigns; though it appears to little purpose, for there is every reason to believe that they never were restored.

In the month of July, 1402, Isabella, who had not yet completed her fifteenth year, once more landed in her native country, where she was received with a warm and joyous welcome by all whom her youth, beauty, and misfortunes had interested in her behalf.

About three years afterwards, the young widow-against her own wishes at the time-was betrothed to the son of the Duc d'Orleans, who succeeded to the title in the year 1407, by the death of his father, who was savagely murdered by the Duc de Bourgogne. Two years afterwards, the marriage (to which the betrothal had only been the prelude) was celebrated between herself and her cousin, whose many virtues, added to brilliant talents and elegance of mind and person, had completely succeeded not only in reconciling her to the match, but in winning her affection and esteem.

Nothing could exceed the felicity that attended this union, too soon, alas! to be destroyed by the untimely death of Isabella, who expired in 1410, after giving birth to a female infant.

Her virtues and charms have been chronicled by the poems of her gifted husband, whose grief for her loss was as passionate as his love had been true and ardent. Years afterwards it was his fate to suffer nearly a quarter of a century's captivity in the country which had been the scene of his fair wife's misfortunes, being made prisoner by Henry the Fifth at Agincourt.

JOANNA OF NAVARRE,

THE WIFE OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH.

THE name and character of this queen are but little known to the readers of English history, although she took a distinguished part in the politics of her times. As the wife of our first sovereign of the house of Lancaster, she becomes an object of interest; while her prudence, talents, and virtues recommend her still more to our consideration.

This princess, by both her parents, was descended from the royal family of France.

Her grandmother, Donna Joanna, was the daughter of the French king, Lewis Hutin, and upon his death was declared by the States to be the rightful heir to the crown, in opposition to the claims of the English monarch, Edward the Third; but "might overcame right" in this instance, and Philip "de Valois" obtained possession of the throne, leaving however to the Princess Joanna the peaceable inheritance of the kingdom of Navarre.

In these dominions she ruled, after the death of her husband, with great dignity and discretion. By her consort, Philip of Evreux, she had three sons and four daughters. Her eldest son became distinguished in history as Charles "le Mauvais," and was the father of Joanna of Navarre, the subject of this memoir.

All the children of Donna Joanna formed noble alliances, through the consummate prudence and high reputation of this queen, which rendered the house of Navarre infinitely more important than it had previously been, and gave it greater influence both in France and Spain. The Queen of Navarre conducted Donna Blanca, or Blanche, her third daughter, into France, to be united to the eldest son of Philip de Valois; but Philip was so struck with the beauty and merit of this princess that he married her himself, in spite of the disparity of their age. Two months after these nuptials, Donna Joanna died, on the 6th of October, 1346, at Conflans, and was buried at St. Denis.