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46 46 REIGN OF JOHN II., OF ARAGON. PART torn from her residence at Olit, in the heart of hei '- own dominions, and forcibly transported across the mountains into those of the count of Foix. On arriving at St. Jean Pied de Port, a little town on the French side of the Pyrenees, being convinced that she had nothing further to hope from human succour, she made a formal renunciation of her right to Navarre in favor of her cousin and for- mer husband, Henry the Fourth, of Castile, who had uniformly supported the cause of her brother Carlos. Henry, though debased by sensual indul- gence, was naturally of a gentle disposition, and had never treated her personally with unkindness. In a letter, which she now addressed to him, and which, says a Spanish historian, cannot be read, after the lapse of so many years, without affecting the most insensible heart, ^'^ she reminded him of the dawn of happiness which she had enjoyed under his protection, of his early engagements to her, and of her subsequent calamities ; and, antici- pating the gloomy destiny which awaited her, she settled on him her inheritance of Navarre, to the entire exclusion of her intended assassins, the count and countess of Foix. '' in;:. On the same day, the last of April, she was de- livered over to one of their emissaries, who con- ducted her to the castle of Ortes in Bearne, where, after languishing in dreadful suspense for nearly 80 Ferreras, Hist. d'Espagne, varra, torn. iv. pp. 590-593. — torn. vii. p. 110. Abarca, Reyes de Aragon, torn. ii. yi Hist. duRoyaumede Navarre, fol. 258, 259. — Zurita, Anales, p. 400. — Aleson, Anales de Na- lib. 17, cap. 38.