[418] So writes Richard Weston to Buckingham: 'The prince elector hath conformed himself to what was demanded, that the count Mansfelt and Duke of Brunswik, the pretended obstacles of the treatie, are now with all their forces removed.' Sept. 3, 1622. Cabala 201. How difficult this was for him we see from a letter of Nethersole to Carlisle, Oct. 18, 1622. 'The slowness of resolution of this side may move H. Mai. [the King of Bohemia] to precipitate his before the time, which will be then to lose the fruits of two long years patience.'
[419] Valaresso: 'Temendo di se stesso e di riuscir l'oggetto di tutta la colpa e forse della pena.'
[420] Valaresso: Disp. 19 Luglio 1623.
[421] A true relation of the arrival and entertainment given to the Prince Charles: in Somers' Tracts ii. 625.
[422] Arcana quatuor capitula ad religionem pertinentia: in Dumont v. ii. 442. Their contents also appear in the Spanish reports.
[423] 'That you now take unto yourself liberty to throw down the laws of the land at your pleasure.' Cabala 13.
[424] The Duke and the Prince to the King, 6 June. Hardwicke Papers i. 419.
[425] Instructions received from His Highness June 7, 1623: in Clarendon State Papers I. xviii. App.
[426] Protestation of the Conde Oñate, in Khevenhiller, Ann. Ferd. viii. 66.
[427] From Khevenhiller's letter, Ann. Ferd. x. 95.