[56] History of England, ch. vi.
[57] Cardinal Mazarin employed many secret agents under the Protectorate; he spoke of them as "double-dealing minds, whom no one can trust" (Correspondence, 25th April 1656).
[58] Lettres, mémoires et instructions de Colbert, vii. p. 372.
[59] Savile, Correspondence, p. 112.
[60] A. Villien, L'abbé Renaudot, p. 56.
[61] Madame de la Fayette, Histoire de Madame Henriette d'Angleterre, p. 182.
[62] Ibid. p. 205.
[63] See for details Sir Sidney Lee, French Renaissance.
[64] Life of Waller.
[65] Lettres sur les François et les Anglois, p. 10.