[Footnote 382: To which the following extract from a Roundhead newspaper bears witness: "Onely one thing we have notice of that she [the Queen] hath begged of his Holiness a Cardinalls Hat for Wat Montaue. Then (boyes) for sixpence a peece you may see a fine sight in the Tower if the Axe prevent not and send him after the Cardinall (would have been) of Canterbury, who went before to take up lodging for the rest of the Queen's favourites in Purgatory."--_Mercurius Britannicus_, February, 1645.] [Footnote 383: In March, 1649, he was given permission to go abroad. The sentence of banishment is dated August 31st, 1649; he was on the Continent considerably before the latter date.] [Footnote 384: _Nicholas Papers_, I, 220.] [Footnote 385: He was appointed Abbot Commendatory in 1654, succeeding Gondi, the first Archbishop of Paris, but "sur certaines difficultes survenues sur ses Bulles en leur fulmination," he did not take possession of the Abbey until 1657. See _Histoire de l'Abbaye de S. Martin de Pontoise Bibliothèque Mazarine_. MS. 3368. Pontoise ... Auttore, D. Roberto Racine (1769).] [Footnote 386: "I do not at all marvel that any man who can side with the Presbyterians, or that is Presbyterian cloth, turn Papist, I would as soon be the one as the other."--Sir E. Nicholas to Lord Hatton, _Nicholas Papers_, I, 297.] [Footnote 387: _Mercurius Pragmaticus_, October 12-20, 1647. This newspaper (a feature of which was four topical verses prefixed to each number) was written by Nedham, a journalist who had formerly written the parliamentary newspaper _Mercurius Britannicus_, and who afterwards returned to the Roundheads. He was pardoned after the Restoration. In 1661 he collected and published the verses of _Mercurius Pragmaticus_ under the title of _A Short History of the English Rebellion_.] [Footnote 388: "If the King ... take the covenant, God will never prosper him nor the world value him."--_Nicholas Papers_, I, 165.] [Footnote 389: _Nicholas Papers_, I, p. 298.] [Footnote 390: In 1651 she dismissed her servants "that will not turn papists, or cannot live of themselves without wages."--_Nicholas Papers_, I, p. 237.] [Footnote 391: Henrietta was so much attached to him that she went to see him in his sickness at the Oratorians' House in the Rue S. Honoré. See _Histoire des troubles de la Grande Bretagne_, by Robert Monteith (Salmonet), 1659.] [Footnote 392: Walter Montagu became Henrietta's Grand Almoner about this time; probably he succeeded Du Perron.] [Footnote 393: The Church of England party was extremely annoyed at the publication of a book entitled _La Chaine du Hercule Gaulois_, in which it was asserted that Charles I died a Catholic. Add. MS., 12,186.] [Footnote 394: _Lettres de Henriette Marie à sa soeur Christine_, p. 104.] [Footnote 395: The letter of the Duchess is among the Roman Transcripts P.R.O.] [Footnote 396: _An exact narrative of the attempts made upon the Duke of Gloucester_ (1654), p. 15.]