Before her death, however, she sent a forgiving message to her sister; and after her decease, the earl of Sunderland effected a reconciliation between the king and the princess, who visited him at Kensington, where she was received with uncommon civility.

He appointed the palace of St.James for her residence, and presented her with the greater part of the queen's jewels.

But a mutual jealousy and disgust subsisted under these exteriors of friendship and esteem.

The two houses of parliament waited on the king at Kensington, with consolatory addresses on the death of his consort; their example was followed by the regency of Scotland, the city and clergy of London, the dissenting ministers, and almost all the great corporations in England.* * The earls of Rochester and Nottingham are said to have started a doubt, whether the parliament was not dissolved by the queen's death; but this dangerous motion met with no countenance.
[Illustration: 2-056-william3.jpg WILLIAM III.].