[Footnote 111: He seems to have been much liked by the English Catholics; he is said to have held a special commission to advance their interests. P.R.O. Roman Transcripts.] [Footnote 112: Arch. Nat., M. 232.] [Footnote 113: Aff. Etran. Ang., t. 44. This document goes on to say that the request of the Parliament for the execution of the recusancy laws was founded "sur la crainte des Espagnols desquels les Catholiques sont tenus pour fauteurs et pensionnaires," and also in the fear that the liberty promised at the time of the marriage would enable the Catholics "de faire quelque entreprise contre le bien de l'Estat." Dod, in his _Church History_, gives the names of only two priests who suffered the death penalty during the years of Charles' power.] [Footnote 114: See the letters which, just before her marriage, she wrote to her brother the King of France and to the Pope on this subject. Green: _Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria_, pp. 8, 9.] [Footnote 115: P.R.O. Roman Transcripts.] [Footnote 116: Charles wished Father Philip to be consecrated Bishop, but this suggestion did not meet with the approval of the French Government. Aff. Etran. Ang., t. 43.] [Footnote 117: P.R.O. French Transcripts.] [Footnote 118: "Je ne dis rien de l'assiduite de ces pères a ouir les confessions depuis six heures du matin iusques a midi et demy, l'assistance qu'ils rendoyent aux malades et aux prisonniers. . . ."--Henrietta Maria to Card. Barberini, 1658. P.R.O. Roman Transcripts.] [Footnote 119: A translation of these memoirs is published at the end of the _Court and Times of Charles I_; they are inaccurate in detail, and though amusing reading, do not give a high opinion of the intellect of the writer.] [Footnote 120: Panzani: P.R.O. Roman Transcripts.] [Footnote 121: Salvetti: Add. MS., 27,962, I, f. 263.] [Footnote 122: Aff. Etran. Ang., t. 47.] [Footnote 123: A chapel had been built at St. James's at an earlier date; the "new chapel at St. James's" is mentioned in 1630.] [Footnote 124: "Les royales ceremonies faites en l'edification d'une chapelle de Capucins a Londres en Angleterre dans le Palais de la Roine; faite par son commandement et par la permission du Roy; en laquelle chapelle elle a posé la premiere pierre."--Paris, 1632.] [Footnote 125: "Si cette genereuse Princesse, soeur du plus juste et du plus vaillant de tous les roys . . . s'est ainsi acquise ceste liberté de conscience chez elle, pensez-vous qu'elle en demeure la? et qu'elle ne l'acquiere pas bien tost en faveur de tous les Catholiques qui sont en Angleterre."--_Ibid._] [Footnote 126: The French were inclined from experience in their own land to believe that Protestants and Catholics could live peaceably together. See _Remonstrance au roy d'Angleterre sur la miserable condition des Catholiques ses subjects en comparaison du favorable traictement que Huguenots recoivent en France_. MDCXXVIII.]