[Footnote 155: Archives of See of Westminster. This unfavourable description occurs in a curious paper, drawn up in 1625, headed: "Que les ecclesiastiques qui seront aupres de la Royne d'Angleterre doivent etre natives d'Angleterre mesme." A later section of the same paper is headed: "Que les ecclesiastiques qui seront aupres de la Royne d'Angleterre doivent plustost estre Prestres seculiers que Religieux." See note 1 on p. 113, which contains an extract from the same paper.] [Footnote 156: _Vita Mariæ Stuartæ Scotiæ Reginæ Dotariæ Galliæ, Angliæ et Hibernis Heredis, scriptore Georgia Conæo._ MDCXXIV.] [Footnote 157: P.R.O. Roman Transcripts. Henrietta Maria to Urban VIII, 163-8/9.] [Footnote 158: P.R.O. Roman Transcripts.] [Footnote 159: Archives of See of Westminster.] [Footnote 160: See chapter III.] [Footnote 161: She never made any great effort to bring up her children as Catholics. She took Prince Charles to Mass sometimes, but desisted at her husband's request. In the marriage contract all that was said about the religion of the children of the marriage was, that they were to have free exercise of the Catholic religion, but it was provided that they were to be brought up by their mother until they reached the age of thirteen years.] [Footnote 162: Bib. Nat., Paris, MS. Cinq Cents de Colbert, 356. Greffier to Du Perron, December 9th, 1632.] [Footnote 163: P.R.O. Roman Transcripts.] [Footnote 164: There were two oaths which troubled the Catholics, that of supremacy and that of allegiance; the first declared the King "supremo Capo della Chiesa Anglicana," the second was aimed at the deposing power of the Pope, and was drawn up in 1606. A good many Catholics, particularly the Benedictines, believed that the second, or oath of allegiance, could lawfully be taken by Catholics (who suffered commercially from their refusal) notwithstanding its condemnation by Paul V. Panzani's Relazione, Add. MS., 15,389.] [Footnote 165: Archives of See of Westminster.] [Footnote 166: _Ibid._] [Footnote 167: _Ibid._] [Footnote 168: _Deus, Natura, Gratia_ (1635). The real name of the author was Christopher Davenport; he died in 1680.] [Footnote 169: Archives of See of Westminster.] [Footnote 170: "Il Laboru sacerdote secolare m'ha detto che pochi giorni sono il Cantuarieuse diose alia Duchessa di Buchingam che presto questo Regno sarà reconciliata alia Chiesa Romana. Io non volevo credere questo ma detto Laboru me l'ha giurato. Io manco lo credo e se l'ha detto havrà burlato."--Panzani to Barberini, April 9th, 1636. Add. MS., 15,389.] [Footnote 171: Archives of See of Westminster. Letter of Peter Fitton, agent of English secular clergy in Rome, July, 1636.] [Footnote 172: Add. MS., 15,389.] [Footnote 173: P.R.O. Roman Transcripts. Henrietta Maria to Cardinal Barberini, October, 1637.]