Lives of the last four princesses of the royal house of Stuart

152 MARY, PRINCESS-ROYAL. [1660.
Stuart, Princess-dowager of Orange, daughter of his
majesty Charles I., King of Great Britain, &c, who died in
London, 3rd of January, 1661," was represented and recited
by more than seventy persons at the theatre at Amster-
dam. This poem of more than ten pages was written by
John Vos, and is dedicated to Konstantyn Huegens,
president of the council of the Prince of Orange her son.*
Other tokens of respect were paid to her memory in
Holland.
Her death caused much regret in London, and produced
a strong impression, following so immediately on that of
her brother, Henry Duke of Gloucester.
A small volume, destitute of facts ; but overflowing
with bombastical eulogiums and declamatory lamentations
of their early deaths, was published in London, professing
to contain the lives of Henry Duke of Gloucester, and
Mary Princess-royal and dowager of Orange.f
The funeral of the Princess-royal was solemnized in
Westminster Abbey, on Saturday, December 26'th, only
three days after her death.
The infectious nature of the malady which conducted
her to the grave, rendered hasty arrangements necessary
for the sake of the living. The nobility assembled in the
House of Peers, at night, to attend the remains of the
Princess, which were brought about nine o'clock at night
in solemn procession, by torchlight from Somerset House,
through a line of guards of the Duke of Albemarle's
regiment of foot.
First went gentlemen and knights, next the servants of
the Duke of York, then the servants of the Queen, after
whom came his majesty's servants, next those of the
* Eoyal Library, Hague.
f May's ' Lives of Henry Duke of Gloucester, and Mary Princess of
Orange.'