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 6^S Appendix E

The name Loys^ de Bourbon contains 13 letters, so does the name Anne d'Autriche.

Louis was 13 years old when this marriage was decided on. Anne was the same age.

He was the thirteenth king of France bearing the name of Louis, and she was the thirteenth infanta of the name of Anne of Austria.

On the 23rd of April, 1616, died Shakspeare : on the same day of the same month, in the same year, died the great poet Cervantes.

On the 29th May, 1630, King Charles IL was born.

On the 29th May, 1660, he was restored.

On the 29th May, 1672, the fleet was beaten by the Dutch.

On the 29th May, 1679, the rebellion of the Covenanters broke out in Scotland.

The Emperor Charles V. was bom on February 24th, 1500 ; on that day he won the battle of Pavia, in 1525, and on the same day was crowned in 1530.

On the 29th January, 1697, M. de Broquemar, president of the Parliament of Paris, died suddenly in that city ; next day his brother, an officer, died suddenly at Bergue, where he was governor. The lives of these brothers present remark- able coincidences. One day the officer, being engaged in battle, was wounded in his leg by a sword-blow. On the same day, at the same moment, the president was afflicted with acute pain, which attacked him suddenly in the same leg as that of his brother which had been injured.

John Aubrey mentions the case of a friend of his who w? born on the 15th November ; his eldest son was born on the 15th November ; and his second son's first son on the sam^ day of the same month.

At the hour of prime, April 6th, 1327, Petrarch first sav

Louis as Loys.
 * Up to Louis XI I L all the kings of this name spellet