[Footnote 338: Her husband warned her in January, 1645, not to give "much countenance to the Irish agents in Paris."--_King's Cabinet Opened_. She replied, "That troubles me much, for I fear that you have no intention of making a peace with them [the Irish] which is ruinous for you and for me."--Green: _Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria_, p. 290. February 28th, 164-4/5.] [Footnote 339: _King's Cabinet Opened._] [Footnote 340: "... D. Baro Germanus qui in maxima apud Reginam Angliae gratia nec minore quam Cardinalis Mazarinus apud Reginam Galliae."--Grotius: _Epistolae ineditae_ (1806), p. 71.] [Footnote 341: There is little doubt that Henrietta would have been willing to cede to France the Channel Islands, the last remains of the great heritage of the Conqueror, in return for help.] [Footnote 342: See _Letters of Charles I to Henrietta Maria in 1646_, ed. Bruce. Camden Society.] [Footnote 343: This is Berkeley's own account taken from his memoirs. Clarendon's is very different, and says that Berkeley was a vain man who was delighted to undertake the mission.] [Footnote 344: Tanner MS., LX.] [Footnote 345: These articles are published among the documents at the end of Rinuccini's _Embassy in Ireland_, p. 573; among the Roman Transcripts P.R.O. are very similar articles endorsed "in the handwriting of Sir Kenelm Digby." They are among the papers of 1647, and very possibly belong to the later date.] [Footnote 346: In May, 1647, the Queen wrote to the Pope asking him not to receive communications from unauthorized persons who approached him in her name, but only from Digby. P.R.O. Roman Transcripts.] [Footnote 347: "The grounds of obedience and government by Thomas White, gentleman (1635), dedicated 'to my most honoured and best friend Sir Kenelm Digby.'" White knew Hobbes, but his political theory is rather an anticipation of that of Locke and the eighteenth-century Whigs.] [Footnote 348: Later it was even believed that he was favourable to the Roundheads. An English gentleman who was in Rome in 1650 complained of his discourtesy, "who was the English (I say rebels') Protector."--John Bargrave: _Pope Alexander VII and the College of Cardinals_.] [Footnote 349: _Blacklo's Cabal Discovered_, p. 6. This curious book, which was published in 1679, consists of a collection of letters which throws much light upon Sir Kenelm Digby's mission and the events of 1647.]