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

158 THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH. [1G42.
enjoy in their troublous pilgrimage. In the succeeding
February, she had to bid farewell to her beloved mother
and sister, whom she never saw again, for the Queen set
sail for Holland, early in the year 1642, with the youthful
bride of Orange. The King her father returned to London
no more. The Prince of Wales and the young Duke of
York, accompanied him into Yorkshire, and Elizabeth was
left with her baby brother, Henry Duke of Gloucester, in
St. James's Palace, under the care of the Countess o±
Roxburgh and Mrs. Murray, her governesses.
The Parliament, soon after, took possession of these
harmless, unprotected innocents, although puzzled to find
some fund for their maintenance. As early as May, 1642,
Archbishop Laud, then under arrest, complained that
seventy pounds of his rents were seized by the Parliament,
to assist in the maintenance of the king's children.*
Lord Saye and Sele advanced a loan of seven hundred
and eighty pounds, for this purpose, and the Parliament
seized a little trunk, carefully sealed, from Sir David
Cunninghame, the King's receiver for the tin mines in
Cornwall, which he assured them was intended for the
use of these children, then at St. James's palace.f
There was a humble petition presented by Thomas
Atkinson, his majesty's faithful servant and chariotman,
(coachman), who had been appointed, by the King and
Queen, to the service of the Duke of Gloucester and •
the Princess Elizabeth, at St. James's palace, praying for
his wages, which were in arrear. Parliament ordered
Cornelius Holland, who had been lately appointed as
paymaster to the Prince of Wales, to satisfy Atkinson,
which he accordingly did, preferring the service of the
Parliament to that of his royal master.J
* White Kennet's ' History of England.'
f ' Journals of the House of Commons,' folio ii. $ Ibid.