Note 155 — ERRATA

[202]Mme de Motteville records how Henrietta told her that Charles brought the new Scotch liturgy to her, asking her to read it, that she might see how similar were their religious beliefs.

[203]Among the archives of the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères is a document dated 1629 enumerating the reasons why it was desirable to have an agent in Scotland; one reason given is "to keep the Scotch nobility in their devotion towards the cause of France."—Aff. Etran. Ang., t. 43. The great importance the French attached to preserving the good-will of the Scotch is apparent in the French diplomatic literature concerning the Civil War.

[204]"L'année ne se passera pas que le roi et la reine d'Angleterre ne se repentent d'avoir refusé les offres que vous leur aves faites de la part du roy."—Richelieu to Estrades, December, 1637. Estrades: Ambassades et Negotiations (1718), p. 13.

[205]Digby to Montagu, March 5th, 1638. Aff. Etran. Ang., t. 47.

[206]Ibid., March 19th, 1638.

[207]Montagu to Chavigny, February 14th, 1638. Aff. Etran. Ang., t. 4.

[208]The Duke of Chevreuse had been made a Knight of the Garter at the time of the marriage of Charles and Henrietta.

[209]Avenel: Lettres de Richelieu, VI, p. 122.

[210]Histoire de l'entrée de la reyne mere du roy très-chrestien dans la Grande Bretaigne. Par le S^r de la Serre, Historiographe de France (1639).

[211]Montagu to Digby, June, 1638. Aff. Etran. Ang., t. 47.

[212]Con gives the details, Add. MS., 15,391: Salvetti (Add. MS., 27,962) says that the King asked for the money, but did not formally authorize the contribution.

[213]Add. MS., 15,392, f. 75.

[214]Green: Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, p. 25.

[215]Except for Herefordshire, the Isle of Wight, Anglesea, and Merionethshire, among the collectors' names appear those of members of such well-known Catholic families as the Englefields, the Howards, and the Chichesters.

[216]The sum is given as £40,000 in The Life and Death of that matchless mirror of Magnanimity and Heroick Vertue, Henrietta Maria de Bourbon (1669).

[217]Mme de Motteville says that Henrietta was averse from making peace with the Scotch, but whether now or after the second Bishops' War does not appear.

[218]"Salmacida Spolia, a Masque, Presented by the King and Queenes Majesties, at Whitehall, on Tuesday, January 21st, 1639."

[219] The names of the masquers:

[220]Hist. MSS. Con. Rep. III, p. 79.

[221]Cf. an extract from a letter of M. de Balzac to "M. de Coignet, gentleman-in-ordinary to the most illustrious Queen of Great Britain": "If the tempests which threaten the frontiers of Bayou arrive at us we must think of another way of safetie and resolve (in any case) to passe the sea and go and dwell in that region of peace and that happie climate where your divine Princesse reigns."—September 20th, 1636. Letters of M. de Balzac, translated into English by Sir Richard Baker and others (1654): a collection of some modern epistles of M. de Balzac, p. 16.

[222]He was made Earl of Strafford January 12th, 1640.

[223]Aff. Etran. Ang., t. 47.

[224]The name of Sir Kenelm Digby was mentioned in connection with the post, but the Queen's choice fell upon Sir John Winter, a Catholic gentleman, who was cousin to the Marquis of Worcester.

[225]Father Philip to Barberini: P.R.O. Roman Transcripts.

[226]MS. Français, 15,995, f. 85.

[227]Her son Henry was born July 6th, 1640.

[228]Salvetti. October 22nd, 1638. Add. MS., 27,962.

[229]Add. MS., 15,392, f. 162.

[230]See Rosetti correspondence, P.R.O. Roman Transcripts, specially Barberini to Rosetti, June 30th, 1640, and Rosetti's answer, August l0th, 1640. "... de peró quando S. M^ta dichiaresse tale [Catholic] di qua non si guaderebbe a mandarli denari."—Barberini to Rosetti, June 30th 1640.

[231]Salvetti. September, 1640. Add. MS., 27,962, I, f. 109.

[232]Perhaps justly; among the archives of the See of Westminster is a certificate of his saying Mass 1630-1; he was thought to be a Jesuit.

[233]Bib. Nat., MS. Français, 15,995.