Note 262 — Chapter VIII · THE QUEEN AND THE WAR
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Walter Montagu. Aff. Etran. Ang., t. 47.
[263]The following is a specimen of it: "You are the abstracted Quintessence of artificiall Nature: your glorious countenance is crowned with Majestie, your brow interwoven with occasionall Lenity and discreet austerity, your eye (like mounted Phoebus in his meridian pride) shoots such reflective beams of radiant brightnesse that it captivates the dazled beholder; your Cupidinean cheeks are clothed with intermixed Lillies and Roses; your purpureous lips (like a Nectarean current) do redound with expressed Oratory; your Murcurian tongue is gilded with such admirable Rhetorick that the Muses themselves seem to inhabit there and make it their Helicon: your Aromatick smelling-breath is so oderiferous that it exceeds the Arabian Odours, and seems rather celestial than breathed from a mortal creature, your melodious voice is so harmonious that Apollo may lay down his Harpe, and the Sphears themselves become astonished."—The Prince of Orange, his Royall Entertainment to the Queen of England (1641).
[264]Mme de Motteville: Mémoires (1783), I, 270.
[265]Sister of Séguier the Chancellor: she was a great friend of Mazarin.
[266]Printed in Green: Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria.
[267]Green: Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, p. 60.
[268]Ibid., p. 70.
[269]"I send you this man express, hoping that you will not have passed the militia bill. If you have, I must think about retiring for the present, into a convent, for you are no longer capable of protecting any one, not even yourself."—Ibid., p. 69.
[270]Ibid., p. 117.
[271]"May Heaven load you with as many benedictions as you have had afflictions, and may those who are the cause of your misfortunes, and those of your Kingdom, perish under the load of their damnable intentions."—Henrietta Maria to Charles. Ibid., p. 71.
[272]Green: Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, p. 72.
[273]"The Puritan imagination saw the Queen gathering in contributions from the religious houses of the Low Countries, many of which were English. The pamphlet which describes these contributions is marked by just the slight inaccuracies of a forgery, and if any money came from this source it was probably a very small sum."—Queen's Proceedings in Holland (1642). See Appendix III.
[274]"... others thought that some witches were made use of to raise these winds. But all saw that if any such villainy came from Hell it was curb'd by Heaven in the merciful preservation of the Quene, and that when God will help the Devill cannot hurt us."—A true relation of the Queens Maiesties returne out of Holland, etc. Written by me in the same storme and ship with her Majesty. Printed at York and reprinted at Oxford (1643).
[275]Letter of Lady Denbigh. Hist. MSS. Cam. Ap. to 4th Rep.
[276]Green: Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, p. 161.
[277]Montagu to Mazarin (apparently), February 9th, 1642. Aff. Etran. Ang., t. 49. See Appendix IV.
[278]The Funerall Sermon of the Queen of Great Britain (Bossuet), translated by Thomas Carre. Paris, 1670.
[279]It is said that Charles did not believe this.
[280]Henrietta was always fond of animals. Evelyn records how in August, 1662, he went to visit her, and she told him "many observable stories of the sagacity of some dogs she formerly had."—Evelyn: Diary. Under date August 22nd, 1662.
[281]Green: Letters of Henrietta Maria, p. 167.
[282]Green: Letters of Henrietta Maria, p. 167.
[283]He was her great-great-grandfather.
[284]See l'Angleterre Paisible (1644).
[285]A man named Dennys. See Anthony Wood's account in his Life.
[286]Mercurius Aulicus, July 14th, 1643.
[287]Now part of the general college buildings.
[288]Salvetti says the Parliamentary party regretted him "come quello che aveva sempre assicurato detto Parlamento per bocca dell' Ambasciatore di Francia che era qui, che da quella banda haverebbe havuto ogni assistenza per mantenimento della sua libertà e privilegii: certo è che l'Ambasciatore fece la parte sua et causò in buona parte la divisione et cattiva intelligenza che passa fra il re e il Parlamento!"—Add. MS., 27,962, K., f. 32b.
[289]This document, which is among the Archives of the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères Ang., t. 48, is unsigned and without date, but it is in the handwriting of Montagu, and is among the documents of 1641; it speaks of "la rebellion presente d'Angleterre," which points to its having been drawn up after the final rupture in 1642.
[290]Montagu had a good many enemies in France among the Importants, who disliked him as a friend of Mazarin and as a foreigner who had great influence with the Queen-Regent.
[291]Perfect Diurnall, October, 1643.
[292]Green: Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, p. 215.
[293]Kingdom's Weekly Intelligencer, May, 1643.
[294]Ibid.
[295]Sieur de Marsys: Histoire de la Persecution Presente des Catholiques en Angleterre (1646), from which the above account is chiefly taken. The Capuchins were sent back to France by Parliament, April, 1643.
[296]Mercurius Aulicus, July, 1643.
[297]"De l'entretient que j'ay eu avec le Reyne d'Angleterre j'ay bien compris qu'elle mésprise autant qu'elle peut hayr le Comte de Hollande."—Brienne to Sabran, December 21st, 1644. Add. MS., 5460.
[298]The opinion of Bossuet was probably derived from the Queen through Mme de Motteville: "... si la reine en eût été crue, si au lieu de diviser les armées royales et de les amener contre son avis aux siéges infortunés de Hull et de Gloucester, on eût marché à Londres, l'affaire était décidée, et cette campagne eût fini la guerre."—Oraison funèbra de la reine d'Angleterre.
[299]Du Perron: Proces verbal de l'assemblie du Clergé, 1645.
[300]The Spie (1643).
[301]Green: Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, p. 243.
[302]Ibid.
[303]"Declaratio servenissimi potentissimique principis Caroli magnae Britanniae, etc., regis Ultramarinis Protestantium Ecclesiis transmissa."—Dupuy MS., 642.
[304]Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, p. 243.
[305]Now Falmouth.
[306]Francis Basset to his wife. Polwhele: Traditions and Recollections, Vol. I, p. 17.
[307]Mercurius Pragmaticus, October, 1644.