Her death, they said, was evidently a judgment for her crime.

God had, from the top of Sinai, in thunder and lightning, promised length of days to children who should honour their parents; and in this promise was plainly implied a menace.

What father had ever been worse treated by his daughters than James by Mary and Anne?
Mary was gone, cut off in the prime of life, in the glow of beauty, in the height of prosperity; and Anne would do well to profit by the warning.
Wagstaffe went further, and dwelt much on certain wonderful coincidences of time.

James had been driven from his palace and country in Christmas week.

Mary had died in Christmas week.