[Footnote 210:  The author of the Life of this Archbishop and Lord Keeper, a voluminous folio, but full of curious matters.  Ambrose Phillips the poet abridged it.]

[Footnote 211:  A letter from Mr. Mead to Sir Martin Stuteville, October, 1625.  Sloane MSS. 4177.]

[Footnote 212:  There is a very rare print, which has commemorated this circumstance.]

[Footnote 213:  Mr. Pory to Mr. Mead, July, 1626.  Harl.  MSS.  No. 383.  The answer of the king’s council to the complaints of Bassompierre is both copious and detailed in vol. iii., p. 166, of the “Ambassades” of this marshal.]

[Footnote 214:  A letter from Mr. Pory to Mr. Mead contains a full account of this transaction.  Harl.  MSS. 383.]

[Footnote 215:  A letter among Tanner’s MS. in the Bodleian Library notes—­“When they were turned away from Somerset House the passage was somewhat rough;” and adds, “I know not what revilings took place betwixt them and the king’s guard, but one of the soldiers told me that for furious speech, he would rather have taken common thieves to prison.”  A stanza of a popular song of the day testifies to the joy of the Commons of England on the event:—­

    Harke!  I’ll tell you news from court;
    Marke, these things will make you good sport. 
      All the French that lately did prance
        There, up and downe in bravery,
      Now are all sent back to France,
        King Charles hath smelt some knavery.

]

[Footnote 216:  A letter from the Earl of Dorchester, 27th May, 1630.  Harl.  MSS. 7000 (160).]

[Footnote 217:  The letters he sent to Buckingham are full of tender respect for the queen, lamenting her (certainly unwarrantable) neglect of reciprocity of attention, and silly squabbles in favour of her servants.]

[Footnote 218:  Clarendon details the political coquetries of Monsieur La Ferte; his “notable familiarity with those who governed most in the two houses;” ii. 93.]

[Footnote 219:  Hume seems to have discovered in “Estrades’ Memoirs” the real occasion of Richelieu’s conduct.  In 1639 the French and Dutch proposed dividing the Low Country provinces; England was to stand neuter.  Charles replied to D’Estrades, that his army and fleet should instantly sail to prevent these projected conquests.  From that moment the intolerant ambition of Richelieu swelled the venom of his heart, and he eagerly seized on the first opportunity of supplying the Covenanters in Scotland with arms and money.  Hume observes, that Charles here expressed his mind with an imprudent candour; but it proves he had acquired a just idea of national interest, vi. 337.  See on this a very curious passage in the Catholic Dodd’s “Church History,” iii. 22.  He apologises for his cardinal by asserting that the same line of policy was pursued here in England “by Charles I. himself, who sent fleets and armies to assist the Huguenots, or French rebels, as he calls them; and that this was the constant practice of Queen Elizabeth’s ministry, to foment differences in several neighbouring kingdoms, and support their rebellious subjects, as the forces she employed for that purpose both in France, Flanders, and Scotland, are an undeniable proof.”  The recriminations of politicians are the confessions of great sinners.]