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

1044.] DISMISSAL OF HER SERVANTS. 167
Some modern authors have asserted that the Princess
Elizabeth broke her leg at this period,* but the post-mor-
tem examination of her body, by Dr. Ernest Wilkins of
Newport, proves that this statement is perfectly unfounded,
for there were not the slightest marks of fracture on the
bones of either leg, which must have been indelible had
such accident ever occurred.
Notwithstanding the spirited interference of the House
of Lords, the Commons were indefatigable in their attempts
at forcing the covenant on the members of Elizabeth's
household, and succeeded in ejecting the chaplains ap-
pointed by King Charles, under the pretext of popery.
The change is thus described by one of the parliamentary
writers : — *
'•' All ill-disposed servants about them, were ordered to
be removed, and good ministers placed in the room of bad
ones, and to preach monthly by turns, at St. James's,
reverend and godly Mr. Stephen Marshall and Mr.
Obadiah Sedgewick, being appointed two and two of
them, for this service. Much about the same time, by
an ordinance of Parliament, there was again further order
taken, for the more holy and happy institution and educa-
tion of his majesty's two children, at St. James's, where
several new officers and attendants, were appointed to wait
upon the Duke of Gloucester and the Princess Elizabeth,
as namely : reverend, religious, and learned Mr. Torshell
to be household chaplain, and that truly pious and
gracious gentleman, Mr. Humphrey, to be comptroller, &c,
and that those which were malignant, corrupt, and popishly
affected, should be quite displaced and removed thence,
and the former prelatical priests to be also utterly cashiered
and displaced, and in their stead reverend, truly pious/
.and orthodoxly learned, Mr. Stephen Marshall, Mr. Jeremiah
* Green's 'Lives of the Princesses,' vol. vi. p. 346.