[ [214]Green: Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, p. 25.
[ [215]Except for Herefordshire, the Isle of Wight, Anglesea, and Merionethshire, among the collectors' names appear those of members of such well-known Catholic families as the Englefields, the Howards, and the Chichesters.
[ [216]The sum is given as £40,000 in The Life and Death of that matchless mirror of Magnanimity and Heroick Vertue, Henrietta Maria de Bourbon (1669).
[ [217]Mme de Motteville says that Henrietta was averse from making peace with the Scotch, but whether now or after the second Bishops' War does not appear.
[ [218]"Salmacida Spolia, a Masque, Presented by the King and Queenes Majesties, at Whitehall, on Tuesday, January 21st, 1639."
[ [219] The names of the masquers:
The King's Majesty Duke of Lennox Earle of Carlisle Earle of Newport Earle of Leimricke Lord Russell Lord Herbert Lord Paget Lord Feilding Master Russell Master Thomas Howard The Queenes Majesty Dutchesse of Lennox Countesse of Carnarvon Countesse of Newport Countesse of Portland Lady Andrew Lady Margaret Howard Lady Kellymekin Lady Francis Howard Mistress Carig Mistress Nevill
[ [220]Hist. MSS. Con. Rep. III, p. 79.
[ [221]Cf. an extract from a letter of M. de Balzac to "M. de Coignet, gentleman-in-ordinary to the most illustrious Queen of Great Britain": "If the tempests which threaten the frontiers of Bayou arrive at us we must think of another way of safetie and resolve (in any case) to passe the sea and go and dwell in that region of peace and that happie climate where your divine Princesse reigns."—September 20th, 1636. Letters of M. de Balzac, translated into English by Sir Richard Baker and others (1654): a collection of some modern epistles of M. de Balzac, p. 16.
[ [222]He was made Earl of Strafford January 12th, 1640.