[Footnote 37: As, for instance, Sir Lewis Lewknor, an official charged with the reception of ambassadors: he received £2000 per annum from Richelieu, and he was particularly useful to the French, whom he did not openly favour, because, being a Catholic, he received the confidences of the Spaniards and the Flemings.] [Footnote 38: Bérulle to P. Bertin, Superior of French Oratory at Rome. Arch. Nat., M. 232.] [Footnote 39: La Hermana y Mujer [of Buckingham] son Eresas muy perniciosas. Spanish news-letter, P.R.O. Roman Transcripts.] [Footnote 40: "My Wyfe beginnes to mend her maners."--Harleian MS., 6988, f. 5.] [Footnote 41: _Verissima relacion en que se da cuenta en el estado en que estan los Catholicos de Inglaterra, ete Sevilla_ (1626).] [Footnote 42: See chapter IV.] [Footnote 43: Bishop of Mende to Ville-aux-clercs. MS. Français, 3693.] [Footnote 44: "Seeing daylie the malitiusness of the Monsers by making and fomenting discontentments in my Wyfe I could tarie no longer from adverticing of you that I meane to seeke for no other grounds to casier my Monsers,"--Harleian MS., 6988, f. I.] [Footnote 45: Arch. Nat., M. 232, from which the account in the text is taken: perhaps an account written by Charles or Buckingham would have been somewhat different: it is printed in an article entitled "L'Ambassade de M. de Blainville," published in _Revue des Questions Historiques_, 1878, t. 23.] [Footnote 46: Bishop of Mende to (apparently) Richelieu, June 24th, 1626. "La Royne ma maitresse est reduite de fouiller dans nos bourses, si ces choses dureront sa maison durera fort peu."--Affaires Etrangères Ang., t. 41, f. 133.] [Footnote 47: The date is not certain, it was probably at the time of the Jubilee, June, 1626: in February Henrietta had written to the Pope asking that she, her household, and the Catholics of England might share in the privileges of the Jubilee.--P.R.O. Roman Transcripts.] [Footnote 48: Archives of See of Westminster. See Appendix, Doc. I.] [Footnote 49: _Court and Times of Charles I_, I, 119.] [Footnote 50: Such petty malice was part of Charles' character: cf. his refusal to allow Sir John Eliot to be buried at his home in Cornwall.] [Footnote 51: Aff. Etran. Ang., t. 41: it is endorsed "copie," and is perhaps a rough draft; it is apparently in Henrietta's handwriting. "Mamie" is Madame S. Georges.] [Footnote 52: Charles wrote a violent note to Buckingham, commanding him to see to the departure of the French. "If you can by faire meanes (but stike not longe in disputing) otherways force them away, dryving away so manie wild beasts untill you have shipped them and so the Devill go with them." The French landed at Calais, August 3/13, 1626.] [Footnote 53: Bishop of Mende to Mary de' Medici. Aff. Etran. Ang., t. 41.]