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 ANNE OF BOHEMIA. 149 the 26th July, St. Anne's day, while others name the 3d of August; and a splendid monument was erected to her memory. Richard mourned her loss long and deeply, and the people universally deplored their "good Queen Anne," to whose gentle influence they had many times owed their escape from the evils brought upon them by their readiness to listen to the counsels of those interested in alienating them from their sov- ereign, and by the struggles of the times in which she lived. Happy would it have been both for the king and country, had "good Queen Anne" lived as long as her husband. Her gentle influence would probably have restrained Richard from the follies and crimes which precipitated him from the throne, and saved the nation from many calamities.