Part 15 (1/2)

[Footnote 238: Bellievre, the French amba.s.sador in England, wrote, in August, 1639, of a _femme de chambre_ of the Queen who was going to France, that she was ”tres bien sans l'esprit de la Reine sa maitresse.”--Aff.

Etran. Ang., t. 47.]

[Footnote 239: The following account is from a private letter written by a Catholic: ”Mr. Montague and Sir Kenelme appeared, the former said little but what was barely necessary to answer their interrogations which were about superiours of orders engaged in that business and his answers were soe sparing and wary that they told him he squiborated with them and co[~m]anded him next day to attend again. The latter spake soe home and soe frankly as he left them little to saye against him but to co[~m]and his attendance the next daye: the su[~m]e of what he said was being the Scotts were declared rebells by the Kinge and Counsell his Ma^{tie} actively in the field against them, that all the n.o.bility, Counsell, Bishops, Judges and Innes of Court having contributed voluntarily to the warre, he could make noe doubt but hee and all Catholickes were obliged to followe their examples, and this the rather because her Ma^{tie} was pleased to aske parte of all that his Ma^{tie} might have taken without askinge such being the condition of Catholickes in England whereof he confessed himselfe to be one.”--Archives of See of Westminster.]

[Footnote 240: The Queen's message to the House of Commons is printed in Green: _Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria_, p. 36.]

[Footnote 241: P.R.O. Roman Transcripts. See Appendix, No. II.]

[Footnote 242: P.R.O. Roman Transcripts. See Appendix No. II.]

[Footnote 243: Barberini also refers to the reports which were about concerning the complicity of France in the Scotch rebellion.]

[Footnote 244: It is probable that the offer was made by the Queen alone at this time, as Barberini says that security from the Parliament or in some other way would be necessary. ”Non parendo bastante la promessa della Regina.”--Barberini to Rosetti, February l6th, 1641. P.R.O. Roman Transcripts.]

[Footnote 245: The tenor of the Cardinal's answer is gathered from his letter to Rosetti. P.R.O. Roman Transcripts.]

[Footnote 246: P.R.O. Roman Transcripts. Henrietta Maria to Barberini, February 6th, 1641.]

[Footnote 247: ”Je vous remest a Montagu pour faire savoir le particulier de tout et les moyens que je propose pour continuer l'intelligence ce que je desire pa.s.sionement.”--Henrietta Maria to Barberini, February 6th, 1641.

P.R.O. Roman Transcripts.]

[Footnote 248: P.R.O. Roman Transcripts. Walter Montagu to Barberini, February 6th, 1641.]

[Footnote 249: This statement rests on the authority of Mme de Motteville.

It seems incredible that the Queen went out alone into the street; it is probable that she went to the apartments of n.o.blemen living in the palace.]

[Footnote 250: ”Cette princesse dict a plusieurs personnes qu'elle n'avoit que Mr. Goring et son fils en qui elle se put a.s.seurer si les Escossais continuent leur manche en Angleterre.” April 18th, 1641. MS. Francais, 15,995, f. 226.]

[Footnote 251: ”Che la ferisce al vivo.”--Salvetti. Add. MS., 27,962, I, f.

232.]

[Footnote 252: Francois Faure, in his funeral sermon on Henrietta Maria.

Mme de Motteville in her memoirs makes almost the same remark (ed. 1783).

I, 261.]

[Footnote 253: Diurnall Occurrences, May, 1641.]

[Footnote 254: Add. MS., 27,962, I, f. 233. Cf. the remark of Giustiani, May 24th, 1641: ”Li piu savii pero p.r.o.nosticano a piena bocca che l'habbi ben tosto a reduirsi questa monarchia a governo interamente democratica.”--P.R.O. Venetian Transcripts.]

[Footnote 255: A little later (October 30th, 1641) the French amba.s.sador in England, remembering that Father Philip belonged to the anti-Richelieu party, wrote asking if he should work for his ”l'esloignement.” Aff. Etran.

Ang., t. 48.]

[Footnote 256: Charles left the room after a few words with Rosetti, leaving his wife to make the offers described above, but there is no reason to doubt that she had his authority.]

[Footnote 257: _Lettres de Henriette Marie a sa soeur Christine_, August 8th, 1641, pp. 57-9.]

[Footnote 258: Pym, Hampden, Haselrig, Holles, Strode, in the Commons; in the Lords, Lord Kimbolton, the brother of Walter Montagu, who had been the King's personal friend and had accompanied him to Spain in 1624.]