[Footnote 213: Add. MS., 15,392, f. 75.] [Footnote 214: Green: _Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria_, p. 25.] [Footnote 215: Except for Herefordshire, the Isle of Wight, Anglesea, and Merionethshire, among the collectors' names appear those of members of such well-known Catholic families as the Englefields, the Howards, and the Chichesters.] [Footnote 216: The sum is given as £40,000 in _The Life and Death of that matchless mirror of Magnanimity and Heroick Vertue, Henrietta Maria de Bourbon_ (1669).] [Footnote 217: Mme de Motteville says that Henrietta was averse from making peace with the Scotch, but whether now or after the second Bishops' War does not appear.] [Footnote 218: "Salmacida Spolia, a Masque, Presented by the King and Queenes Majesties, at Whitehall, on Tuesday, January 21st, 1639."] [Footnote 219: The names of the masquers:-- The King's Majesty Duke of Lennox Earle of Carlisle Earle of Newport Earle of Leimricke Lord Russell Lord Herbert Lord Paget Lord Feilding Master Russell Master Thomas Howard The Queenes Majesty Dutchesse of Lennox Countesse of Carnarvon Countesse of Newport Countesse of Portland Lady Andrew Lady Margaret Howard Lady Kellymekin Lady Francis Howard Mistress Carig Mistress Nevill] [Footnote 220: Hist. MSS. Con. Rep. III, p. 79.] [Footnote 221: Cf. an extract from a letter of M. de Balzac to "M. de Corznet, gentleman-in-ordinary to the most illustrious Queen of Great Britain": "If the tempests which threaten the frontiers of Bayou arrive at us we must think of another way of safetie and resolve (in any case) to passe the sea and go and dwell in that region of peace and that happie climate where your divine Princesse reigns."--September 20th, 1636. _Letters of M. de Balzac_, translated into English by Sir Richard Bahn and others (1654): a collection of some modern epistles of M. de Balzac, p. 16.] [Footnote 222: He was made Earl of Strafford January 12th, 1640.] [Footnote 223: Aff. Etran. Ang., t. 47.] [Footnote 224: The name of Sir Kenelm Digby was mentioned in connection with the post, but the Queen's choice fell upon Sir John Winter, a Catholic gentleman, who was cousin to the Marquis of Worcester.] [Footnote 225: Father Philip to Barberini: P.R.O. Roman Transcripts.] [Footnote 226: MS. Français, 15,995, f. 85.] [Footnote 227: Her son Henry was born July 6th, 1640.] [Footnote 228: Salvetti. October 22nd, 1638. Add. MS., 27,962.] [Footnote 229: Add. MS., 15,392, f. 162.] [Footnote 230: See Rosetti correspondence, P.R.O. Roman Transcripts, specially Barberini to Rosetti, June 30th, 1640, and Rosetti's answer, August l0th, 1640. "... de peró quando S. M^{ta} dichiaresse tale [Catholic] di qua non si guaderebbe a mandarli denari."--Barberini to Rosetti, June 30th 1640.] [Footnote 231: Salvetti. September, 1640. Add. MS., 27,962, I, f. 109.]