[Footnote 439: It is necessary to say a few words as to the alleged marriage between Henrietta Maria and Jermyn. It was believed by some contemporaries (e.g. Pepys and Reresby) that they were married, but it is very unlikely that this was the case. In a note to Smeaton's reprint (1820) to _The Life and Death of that matchless mirror of Magnanimity and Heroick Vertue Henrietta Maria de Bourbon_, it is asserted that a document was in existence in which Jermyn settled property on Henrietta Maria at the time of his marriage with her. This statement is absolutely unsupported, and even if the document ever existed it may have been a forgery. Henrietta as a Catholic could not have married Jermyn, a Protestant, without a dispensation from the Pope, which it would have been very difficult to obtain without the transaction becoming known. No trace of a dispensation has ever been found. The Queen's closest friends, Mme de Motteville and the Chaillot nuns, give no hint of such marriage, of which, had it existed, they must have been aware.] [Footnote 440: Now the Hôpital Laënnec in the Rue de Sèvres.] [Footnote 441: William Clifford, whom Henrietta Maria recommended to the Pope in 1656 as a suitable bishop for England. P.R.O. Roman Transcripts.] [Footnote 442: Bib. Mazarin, MS. 3368.] [Footnote 443: Hist. MSS. Com. MSS. of Duke of Buccleuch at Montagu House. Vol. I, p. 423.] [Footnote 444: It is usually said that he was buried at the Incurables, but both the contemporary Gazette and Abbess Neville's Annals (of the English Benedictines at Pontoise) say that he was buried at S. Martin's, and the latter authority, which gives many details of his later life, adds that the interment took place in the chapel of S. Walter, and there is no doubt that their statement is correct. How the mistake arose is seen from a document preserved in the Archives de l'Assistance Publique, fonds des Incurables, carton 22, which speaks of a monument "posée, sur les entrailles de M. de Montagu en la nef de l'èglise dud" hospital [des Incurables].] [Footnote 445: William Browne.] APPENDIX I ARCHIVES OF THE SEE OF WESTMINSTER _The answer given by the Commissioners of the Counsell to the French Embassadour Mareshall Bassompiere_