[198] Duke of Lorraine to Ormonde, February 8, 1646, in _Confed. and War_, v. 259; Dumoulin to Mazarin, May and June, _ib._ 346; Cousin's _Madame de Chevreuse_; Mazarin to Anne of Austria, April 1651, in Ravanel's _Lettres du Cardinal Mazarin_. I have followed Martin and the _Biographie Universelle_, as well as the Duke's own agreement with the Irish, in writing Charles IV.--Gardiner and others call him Charles III. [199] Nicholas to Ormonde, February 11/21, 1649-50, in Carte's _Original Letters_; Long to Ormonde, _ib._; Duke of Lorraine to Ormonde, April 29, 1650, in _Contemp. Hist._ ii. 399; Ormonde to Synnott, June 25, _ib._ 428. See also Carte's _Ormonde_, book v., and _Hibernia Dominicana_, p. 695; Clarendon's _Hist._ xiii. 176. Rochfort reached Jersey January 12, 1649-50, see Hoskin's _Charles II. in the Channel Islands_, ii. 367. Letters from Charles I. to the Queen, in the _King's Cabinet Opened_, February-March, 1644-5. [200] Taaffe to Ormonde, January 3 and 5, 1650-51, in Clanricarde's _Memoirs_; Letters of James and Henrietta Maria, _ib._ 40-42; Clarendon's _Hist._ xiv. 66; _Clarendon State Papers_, iii. 128; De Retz _Mémoires_, part ii. vol. ii. 197, in the Grands Ecrivains edition. 'Les biographes de Charles nous racontent qu'à cette époque de sa vie il était revenu à l'idée d'aller tenter au loin quelque grande aventure et à peu près décidé à céder aux instances que les évêques catholiques d'Irlande lui faisaient continuellement adresser par le Pape, afin qu'il leur vînt en aide contre la tyrannie de Cromwell. Ils nous le représentent comme occupé à signer aux Irlandais réfugiés à Bruxelles des patentes de colonels et d'officiers dans son armée de secours, armant des vaisseaux pour passer le détroit et déjà tout prêt à s'embarquer.'--D'Haussonville's _Hist. de la Réunion de Lorraine_, ed. 1860, chap. 23, pp. 221-2. [201] Duke of Lorraine to Innocent X., February 11, 1651, in _Spicilegium Ossoriense_, ii. 84; _ib._ 92 for French's movements; Letters in Clanricarde _Memoirs_, February 27, 1650-1 till April 4, when the agreement was signed; Clarendon's _Hist._, xiii. 182. According to D'Haussonville (chap. 23), the state of French politics was what really prevented Duke Charles from going to Ireland. He could not afford to be out of the way just when Mazarin's flight seemed to give him a chance. Ireton was well informed about these intrigues, as may be seen from William King's letter to him, March 24, 1650-51, printed in Z. Grey's _Examination of Neal_, iv. appx. 7.