“My Cousin, Understanding that you had been vexed respecting a letter I wrote to the Queen my mother, and that you think that I distrust you, I beg you to dismiss the idea and to believe that I am not so ungrateful for the services which you have rendered me as to avoid you. M. le Duc [probably the Duc de Chevreuse] will tell you about the affair as it happened; and, as for myself, I can assure you that my intention never was to offend you, for I should be most blameworthy to act thus against persons who testify affection for me, particularly against you, whom I honour, and to whom my obligations are so great that I shall ever remain, “Your affectionate cousin, “HENRIETTE-MARIE.” It is perhaps to this episode that Bassompierre here refers. [78] Perhaps Robert Ker, afterwards Earl of Roxburgh. [79] Probably, Endymion Porter (1587-1649), groom of the bedchamber to Charles I, whom he had accompanied on his journey to Spain, where he sometimes acted as interpreter, having been educated in that country. He was a generous patron of literature and art, and Herrick declares that poets would never be wanting so long as they had a patron like Porter, “who doth give Not only subject for our art, But oil of maintenance to it.” Porter was devoted to Buckingham, to whose favour he owed his rise to fortune, and in his will, dated the year before his death, he “charged all his sons, upon his blessing, that, leaving the like charges to their posterity, they did all of them observe and respect the children and family of his Lord Duke of Buckingham, deceased, to whom he owed all the happiness he had in the world.” [80] Charles de Brouilly, Marquis de Piennes. [81] Pierre Gobelin, counsellor to the Parlement in 1618, was appointed _maître des requêtes_ in 1624. [82] Wallingford House. It stood near Charing Cross, upon the site of the Old Buildings of the Admiralty.