[ [23] L'Entrée superbe magnifique faite à la Royne de la grande Bretagne dans la Ville d'Amiens, le Samedy septisme de Juin, 1625. Sur les fideles relations d'un seigneur de qualité. A. Paris, MDCXXV.
[ [24]Ibid.
[ [25]On the question of the authorship of this letter see Avenal: Lettres de Richelieu, VIII., p. 27. There seems no doubt that it was written by Bérulle. Among the Bérulle papers (Archives Nationales, M. 232) is an authenticated copy, whose note of authentication states that "ce discours à este composé par nostre très révérend père" (i.e. Bérulle), as the copyist was informed in 1660. Bérulle in 1627 wrote another letter for Mary de' Medici to send to her daughter. See chap. IV.
[ [26]Sir Tobie Matthew. Tanner MS., LXXII.
[ [27]Ibid.
[ [28]Tanner MS., LXXII, 40.
CHAPTER II
THE BRIDE OF ENGLAND
Parents lawes must beare no weight When they happinesse prevent. And our sea is not so streight, But it room hath for content. William Habington