[ [379]"Le veritable entretien de la Reyne d'Angleterre avec le roy et la Reyne à S. Germain-en-Laye en presence de plusieurs Seigneurs de la Cour et autres personnes de consideration (1652)."
[ [380]It was this nobleman of whom Charles I said that he had no religion at all.
[ [381]Nicholas Papers, I, 293.
[ [382]To which the following extract from a Roundhead newspaper bears witness: "Onely one thing we have notice of that she [the Queen] hath begged of his Holiness a Cardinalls Hat for Wat Montaue. Then (boyes) for sixpence a peece you may see a fine sight in the Tower if the Axe prevent not and send him after the Cardinall (would have been) of Canterbury, who went before to take up lodging for the rest of the Queen's favourites in Purgatory."—Mercurius Britannicus, February, 1645.
[ [383]In March, 1649, he was given permission to go abroad. The sentence of banishment is dated August 31st, 1649; he was on the Continent considerably before the latter date.
[ [384]Nicholas Papers, I, 220.
[ [385]He was appointed Abbot Commendatory in 1654, succeeding Gondi, the first Archbishop of Paris, but "sur certaines difficultes survenues sur ses Bulles en leur fulmination," he did not take possession of the Abbey until 1657. See Histoire de l'Abbaye de S. Martin de Pontoise Bibliothèque Mazarine. MS. 3368. Pontoise ... Auttore, D. Roberto Racine (1769).
[ [386]"I do not at all marvel that any man who can side with the Presbyterians, or that is Presbyterian cloth, turn Papist, I would as soon be the one as the other."—Sir E. Nicholas to Lord Hatton, Nicholas Papers, I, 297.
[ [387]Mercurius Pragmaticus, October 12-20, 1647. This newspaper (a feature of which was four topical verses prefixed to each number) was written by Nedham, a journalist who had formerly written the parliamentary newspaper Mercurius Britannicus, and who afterwards returned to the Roundheads. He was pardoned after the Restoration. In 1661 he collected and published the verses of Mercurius Pragmaticus under the title of A Short History of the English Rebellion.
[ [388]"If the King ... take the covenant, God will never prosper him nor the world value him."—Nicholas Papers, I, 165.