[313.] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1651-2, No, 51. It will be seen from the above letter that fear of a change in their son's religion was still a very real one in the minds of parents. See also A Letter of Advice to a Young Gentleman of an Honorable Family, Now in his Travels beyond the Seas. By a True Son of the Church of England, London, 1688. The writer hopes that above all things the young man may return "A well-bred Gentleman, a good Scholar, and a sound Christian."
[314.] "Newly printed at Paris, and are to be sold in London, by John Starkey, 1670." Lassels, a Roman Catholic, passed most of his life abroad. He left Oxford for the College of Douay. See D.N.B.
[315.] The Voyage of Italy, Preface to the Reader.
[316.] Op. cit., Preface to the Reader.
[317.] Thomas Carte, Life of James, Duke of Omond, vol. iv. p. 632. "He passed several months in a very cheap country, and yet the bills of expenses sent over by the governor were higher than those which used to be drawn by Colonel Fairfax on account of the Earl of Derby, when he was travelling from place to place, and appeared in all with so much dignity."
[318.] Anthony Weldon, Court and Character of King James, London, 1650, p. 92.
[319.] Winwood Memorials, vol. iii. p. 226.
[320.] Ben Jonson, Conversations with Drummond, ed. Sidney, 1906, pp. 34-5.
[321.] Life of James, Duke of Ormond, vol. iv. pp. 487-90.
[322.] Court and Times of James I., vol. i. p, 285.