Shortly after the trial of STRAFFORD, it became ARUNDEL’S duty as Earl Marshal to attend the mother of the queen (MARY of Medicis), on her return to Holland; and he received the King’s license to remain beyond the seas during his pleasure. [Sidenote: LATEST EMPLOYMENTS.] He returned however to England in October of the same year. [Sidenote: Rushworth, vol. iv, pp. 317, 318.] In the following February, a similar ceremonial mission was his last official employment. He then conducted Queen HENRIETTA MARIA on her journey into France, and took his own last farewell of England. [Sidenote: 1642. February.] It was an unconscious farewell. [Sidenote: Sir E. Walker, in MS. Harl., as before.] Nor does his departure appear to have been dictated by any desire to shrink from sacrifices on behalf of the cause with which—whether rightly or wrongly—all his personal sympathies, as well as the political views of his whole life, were bound up. At the hands of the first STUART he had met with capricious favour, and with enduring injustice. By the second, during several years, he was treated with marked and causeless indignity; and then, during several other years, rewarded grudgingly for zealous service. In exile, his contributions in support of the royal cause were upon a scale which impoverished both himself and his family.[33] Such a fact is a conclusive proof of magnanimity of spirit, whatever may be thought of its bearings in regard to political insight. [Sidenote: COLONIZING EFFORTS OF LORD ARUNDEL.] Opinion is less likely to differ with respect to exertions of quite another order which occasionally occupied Lord ARUNDEL’S mind and energies during at least twenty years of his political life. One of the best known incidents in his varied career is also one of its most honourable incidents. His friendship for RALEGH grew out of a deep interest in colonization. And the calamitous issue of that famous voyage to Guiana in 1617 which ARUNDEL had promoted was very far from inducing him to abandon the earnest advocacy of a resumption, in subsequent years, of the enterprise which RALEGH had had so much at heart. His efforts were more than once repeated, but the same influences which ruined RALEGH foiled the exertions of ARUNDEL and of those who worked with him. [Sidenote: _Grant Book_, James I, pp. 307, seqq. _Domest. Corresp._, James I, vol. cviii, § 85.]