Note 307 — Chapter X · BREACH BETWEEN THE KING AND THE PARLIAMENT.
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La Ferté: ‘Comme le parti de ce jour n’étoit pas bien fait pour le parlement j’en avertis mes amis qui y pouveurent, un quart heure devant.’ Probably La Ferté is ‘the noble person who wishes well to this nation,’ by whom, according to D’Ewes, Langres, a Frenchman by origin, was sent: the ambassador’s friend would then be Fiennes, for the tidings came to him, and he informed the Speaker. There is scarcely any room for the treachery often imputed to Lady Carlisle.