Note 275 — ERRATA

[367]"Amyd the Arrests lately made one is for the seazure of the King's revenue to the use of the Parliament and in other things they doe soe imitate the late proceedings of England that it plainly appears in what schoole some of their members have been bred who make them believe they are able to instruct them how to make a rebellion wth out breaking their allegiance."—Dispatch of Sir R. Browne, January 22nd, 1649. Add. MS., 12,186, f. 9.

[368]"Letters from Paris received January 15th, 1648," p. 6.

[369]"Une sainte et la mère des pauvres."—Mme de Motteville.

[370]Quoted by Mme. de Motteville with reference to this occasion.

[371]The Chaillot tradition, which is found in the MS. Histoire chronologique de tout l'ordre de la Visitation, 1693 (Bib. Mazarine, MS. 2436), and in La Vie de la très haute et très puissante Princesse Henrietta Marie de France, reine de la Grande Bretagne, of Cotolendi, who derived much of his information from the Chaillot nuns, places the scene of Henrietta's reception of the news of her husband's death in the Carmelite convent, and Cotolendi represents the King's letter as delivered on that occasion; but, Father Cyprien, in his account, says that the Queen was at the Louvre when she heard of her husband's fate, and though he is not always accurate, it seems probable that the scene of such an event would remain in his mind. Moreover, Madame de Motteville says no word of the Carmelite convent in this connection. It seems likely that the nuns of Chaillot confused the Queen's account of the reception of the news of her husband's death with that of his last letter. The above account has been written on this hypothesis; the letter which Cotolendi quotes was no doubt preserved with other memorials of the Queen among the Chaillot archives.

[372]John Ward: Diary, 1648-79 (1839), p. 161.

[373]"Exhortation de la Pucelle d'Orléans à tous les princes de la terre de faire une Paix générale tous ensemble pour venger la mort du roy d'Angleterre par une guerre toute particulière. A Paris. MDCXLIX."

[374]Fonds Français MS., 12,159. Remonstrances aux Parlementaires de la mort ignominieuse de leur roy dédiées a la Reyne d'Angleterre.

[375]The same argument is developed in a curious tract, which shows the rather cool attitude of some of the English Catholics to Charles, entitled, Nuntius a Mortuis, hoc est, stupendum ... ac tremendum colloquium inter Manes Henrici VIII et Caroli I Angliae Regum (1649).

[376]MS. Français, 12,159.

[377]Henrietta, even before the lesson of her husband's death, urged the Queen-Regent to show moderation. She prevailed upon her to receive the members of the rebellious Parliament on the day of Barricades.

[378]"Vous diriés que Dieu veut humilier les Roys et les princes. Il a commencé par nous en Engleterre; je le prie que la France ne nous suive pas, les affairs ysy alant tout le mesme chemin que les nostres."—Lettres de Henriette Marie à sa sœur Christine, p. 100.

[379]"Le veritable entretien de la Reyne d'Angleterre avec le roy et la Reyne à S. Germain-en-Laye en presence de plusieurs Seigneurs de la Cour et autres personnes de consideration (1652)."

[380]It was this nobleman of whom Charles I said that he had no religion at all.

[381]Nicholas Papers, I, 293.

[382]To which the following extract from a Roundhead newspaper bears witness: "Onely one thing we have notice of that she [the Queen] hath begged of his Holiness a Cardinalls Hat for Wat Montaue. Then (boyes) for sixpence a peece you may see a fine sight in the Tower if the Axe prevent not and send him after the Cardinall (would have been) of Canterbury, who went before to take up lodging for the rest of the Queen's favourites in Purgatory."—Mercurius Britannicus, February, 1645.

[383]In March, 1649, he was given permission to go abroad. The sentence of banishment is dated August 31st, 1649; he was on the Continent considerably before the latter date.

[384]Nicholas Papers, I, 220.

[385]He was appointed Abbot Commendatory in 1654, succeeding Gondi, the first Archbishop of Paris, but "sur certaines difficultes survenues sur ses Bulles en leur fulmination," he did not take possession of the Abbey until 1657. See Histoire de l'Abbaye de S. Martin de Pontoise Bibliothèque Mazarine. MS. 3368. Pontoise ... Auttore, D. Roberto Racine (1769).

[386]"I do not at all marvel that any man who can side with the Presbyterians, or that is Presbyterian cloth, turn Papist, I would as soon be the one as the other."—Sir E. Nicholas to Lord Hatton, Nicholas Papers, I, 297.

[387]Mercurius Pragmaticus, October 12-20, 1647. This newspaper (a feature of which was four topical verses prefixed to each number) was written by Nedham, a journalist who had formerly written the parliamentary newspaper Mercurius Britannicus, and who afterwards returned to the Roundheads. He was pardoned after the Restoration. In 1661 he collected and published the verses of Mercurius Pragmaticus under the title of A Short History of the English Rebellion.

[388]"If the King ... take the covenant, God will never prosper him nor the world value him."—Nicholas Papers, I, 165.

[389]Nicholas Papers, I, p. 298.

[390]In 1651 she dismissed her servants "that will not turn papists, or cannot live of themselves without wages."—Nicholas Papers, I, p. 237.

[391]Henrietta was so much attached to him that she went to see him in his sickness at the Oratorians' House in the Rue S. Honoré. See Histoire des troubles de la Grande Bretagne, by Robert Monteith (Salmonet), 1659.

[392]Walter Montagu became Henrietta's Grand Almoner about this time; probably he succeeded Du Perron.

[393]The Church of England party was extremely annoyed at the publication of a book entitled La Chaine du Hercule Gaulois, in which it was asserted that Charles I died a Catholic. Add. MS., 12,186.

[394]Lettres de Henriette Marie à sa soeur Christine, p. 104.

[395]The letter of the Duchess is among the Roman Transcripts P.R.O.

[396]An exact narrative of the attempts made upon the Duke of Gloucester (1654), p. 15.

[397]An exact narrative of the attempts made upon the Duke of Gloucester (1654), p. 13.

[398]Lord Hatton. Nicholas Papers, II, p. 143.

[399]Dante: Paradiso, XVII.

[400]Green: Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, p. 388. Madame de Motteville: Mémoires (1783), V, p. 276.

[401]Loret: La Muse Historique (1857), t. I, p. 174.