[14] Burnet, Own Time, i. 120, 133, ed. 1833.
[15] The date of Stouppe's mission is not easy to fix. M. Chéruel first puts it in 1651, but on second thoughts assigns it to 1653 (Ministère de Mazarin, i. 63, ii. 81). A letter from Barrière, dated Feb. 20, 1654, seems to refer to the sending of Stouppe, and he was certainly at Paris early in that year.
[16] Barrière to Condé, Dec. 25, 1654.
[17] Nicholas Papers, ii. 14.
[18] The Interest of Princes and States, 1680, p. 319.
[19] Ludlow, Memoirs, i. 415, ed. 1894.
[20] Thurloe Papers, i. 553, 578.
[21] On these events see Chéruel, Ministère de Mazarin, i. 44-7. The royalist sentiment in the letter is assumed.
[22] For these extracts I am indebted to the kindness of Dr. S. R. Gardiner, who has allowed me to use the transcripts of Barrière's correspondence with Condé, placed at his disposal by the Duc d'Aumale. The originals of the letters are preserved at Chantilly, and the copies quoted were made by M. Gustave Macon, the librarian and archivist of the Duc d'Aumale.
[23] Cal. State Papers Dom. 1654, p. 160.