Note 608 — Chapter XIV

Ven. Cal., vol. vi., pt. i., 479. Manrique told Badoer that the Spaniards said, the King had no cause to gratify the Queen in this respect, nor yet in any other, as she had in fact shown but little conjugal affection for him, and that little could be hoped from her; they also said that not only had the King to pay his own expenses, but also those of a great number of Englishmen, spending so vast a sum of money, and being subjected to so many vexations in that kingdom, on account of the Queen, that were he not bound by this marriage, the imperial and royal courtiers said generally, he ought to be deterred from going thither (427).