[ [338]Her husband warned her in January, 1645, not to give "much countenance to the Irish agents in Paris."—King's Cabinet Opened. She replied, "That troubles me much, for I fear that you have no intention of making a peace with them [the Irish] which is ruinous for you and for me."—Green: Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, p. 290. February 28th, 164-4/5.
[ [339]King's Cabinet Opened.
[ [340]"... D. Baro Germanus qui in maxima apud Reginam Angliae gratia nec minore quam Cardinalis Mazarinus apud Reginam Galliae."—Grotius: Epistolae ineditae (1806), p. 71.
[ [341]There is little doubt that Henrietta would have been willing to cede to France the Channel Islands, the last remains of the great heritage of the Conqueror, in return for help.
[ [342]See Letters of Charles I to Henrietta Maria in 1646, ed. Bruce. Camden Society.
[ [343]This is Berkeley's own account taken from his memoirs. Clarendon's is very different, and says that Berkeley was a vain man who was delighted to undertake the mission.
[ [344]Tanner MS., LX.
[ [345]These articles are published among the documents at the end of Rinuccini's Embassy in Ireland, p. 573; among the Roman Transcripts P.R.O. are very similar articles endorsed "in the handwriting of Sir Kenelm Digby." They are among the papers of 1647, and very possibly belong to the later date.
[ [346]In May, 1647, the Queen wrote to the Pope asking him not to receive communications from unauthorized persons who approached him in her name, but only from Digby. P.R.O. Roman Transcripts.
[ [347]"The grounds of obedience and government by Thomas White, gentleman (1635), dedicated 'to my most honoured and best friend Sir Kenelm Digby.'" White knew Hobbes, but his political theory is rather an anticipation of that of Locke and the eighteenth-century Whigs.