The Archbishop of Canterbury commenced praying, breaking off at intervals; twice the queen signed to him to go on.

Her advisers returned in the evening, and begged her to indicate to them by signs if she were still of the same mind; she raised her arms and crossed them above her head.

Then she seemed to fall into a dreamy state.

At three o'clock, during the night, she quietly passed away.

Some few hours afterwards, her counsellors in assembly resolved to proclaim James Stuart, King of Scotland, King of England, as the nearest of kin to the late queen, and indicated by her on her death-bed.
At the beginning of the seventeenth century Henry IV.