[ [264]Mme de Motteville: Mémoires (1783), I, 270.
[ [265]Sister of Séguier the Chancellor: she was a great friend of Mazarin.
[ [266]Printed in Green: Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria.
[ [267]Green: Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, p. 60.
[ [268]Ibid., p. 70.
[ [269]"I send you this man express, hoping that you will not have passed the militia bill. If you have, I must think about retiring for the present, into a convent, for you are no longer capable of protecting any one, not even yourself."—Ibid., p. 69.
[ [270]Ibid., p. 117.
[ [271]"May Heaven load you with as many benedictions as you have had afflictions, and may those who are the cause of your misfortunes, and those of your Kingdom, perish under the load of their damnable intentions."—Henrietta Maria to Charles. Ibid., p. 71.
[ [272]Green: Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, p. 72.
[ [273]"The Puritan imagination saw the Queen gathering in contributions from the religious houses of the Low Countries, many of which were English. The pamphlet which describes these contributions is marked by just the slight inaccuracies of a forgery, and if any money came from this source it was probably a very small sum."—Queen's Proceedings in Holland (1642). See Appendix III.