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[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote 281: Green: _Letters of Henrietta Maria_, p. 167.]

[Footnote 282: Green: _Letters of Henrietta Maria_, p. 167.]

[Footnote 283: He was her great-great-grandfather.]

[Footnote 284: See _l'Angleterre Paisible_ (1644).]

[Footnote 285: A man named Dennys. See Anthony Wood's account in his Life.]

[Footnote 286: _Mercurius Aulicus_, July 14th, 1643.]

[Footnote 287: Now part of the general college buildings.]

[Footnote 288: Salvetti says the Parliamentary party regretted him ”come quello che aveva sempre a.s.sicurato detto Parlamento per bocca dell'

Ambasciatore di Francia che era qui, che da quella banda haverebbe havuto ogni a.s.sistenza per mantenimento della sua liberta e privilegii: certo e che l'Ambasciatore fece la parte sua et caus in buona parte la divisione et cattiva intelligenza che pa.s.sa fra il re e il Parlamento!”--Add. MS., 27,962, K., f. 32_b._]

[Footnote 289: This doc.u.ment, which is among the Archives of the Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres Ang., t. 48, is unsigned and without date, but it is in the handwriting of Montagu, and is among the doc.u.ments of 1641; it speaks of ”la rebellion presente d'Angleterre,” which points to its having been drawn up after the final rupture in 1642.]

[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote 291: _Perfect Diurnall_, October, 1643.]

[Footnote 292: Green: _Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria_, p. 215.]

[Footnote 293: Kingdom's _Weekly Intelligencer_, May, 1643.]

[Footnote 294: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote 296: _Mercurius Aulicus_, July, 1643.]

[Footnote 297: ”De l'entretient que j'ay eu avec le Reyne d'Angleterre j'ay bien compris qu'elle mesprise autant qu'elle peut hayr le Comte de Hollande.”--Brienne to Sabran, December 21st, 1644. Add. MS., 5460.]

[Footnote 298: The opinion of Bossuet was probably derived from the Queen through Mme de Motteville: ”... si la reine en eut ete crue, si au lieu de diviser les armees royales et de les amener contre son avis aux sieges infortunes de Hull et de Gloucester, on eut marche a Londres, l'affaire etait decidee, et cette campagne eut fini la guerre.”--_Oraison funebra de la reine d'Angleterre._]

[Footnote 299: Du Perron: _Proces verbal de l'a.s.semblie du Clerge_, 1645.]

[Footnote 300: _The Spie_ (1643).]

[Footnote 301: Green: _Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria_, p. 243.]

[Footnote 302: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 303: ”Declaratio servenissimi potentissimique principis Caroli magnae Britanniae, etc., regis Ultramarinis Protestantium Ecclesiis transmissa.”--Dupuy MS., 642.]

[Footnote 304: _Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria_, p. 243.]