[435] Hacket, Life of Williams 169. 'Scarce any in all the Consulto did vote to my Lords satisfaction.'

[436] The Earl of Carlisle to His Majesty, Feb. 14, 1624. He signs himself 'Your Majesty's most humble, most obedient obliged creature subject and servant.'

[437] Valaresso already observes this, March 8, 1624: 'Nell'ultimo parlamento si chiamava felonia di parlare di quello, che hora si transmette alla libera consultatione del presente.'

[438] A. Valaresso, Dec. 15, 1623: 'Col re usa qualche minor rispetto; agli altri da maggior sodisfattione del solito. Parla con Più liberta della Spagna.'

[439] Of all Buckingham's letters to the King, without doubt the most remarkable. Hardwicke i. 466: 'Risolve constantly to run one way.'

[440] Valaresso, April 26. 'La persona merita male perche certo fu d'affetto Spagnola.' He accuses him of a 'Somma scarsezza di pagare.' Chamberlain says of him at his appearance on the scene October 1621: 'whom the King, in his piercing judgment, finds best able to do him service.'

[441] Robert Philips to Buckingham, August 9, 1624. 'You have to your perpetual glory already dissolved and broken the Spanish party.'

[442] 'Not to attempt any act of hostility upon any of the lawful dominions or possessions of the king of spain or the Archiduchess.' He then at any rate supposed certain cases in which this might take place. Hardwicke Papers i. 548.

[443] Escrit particulier: 'qu'il permettra a tous ses subjects Catholiques Romains de jouir de plus de liberté et franchise en ce qui regarde leur religion qu'ils n'eussent fait en vertu d'articles quelconques accordés par le traité de mariage fait avec l'Espagne, ne voulant que ses subjects Catholiques puissent estre inquiétés en leurs personnes et biens pour faire profession de la dite religion et vivre en Catholiques pourvu toutesfois qu'ils en usent modestement, et rendent l'obéissance que de bons et vrays subjects doivent à leur roy, qu'il par sa bonté ne les restreindra pas à aucun sentiment contraire à leur religion.' Hardwicke Papers i. 546. The English ambassadors complain that the word 'liberté' had been inserted by the French without first informing them.

[444] Conway to Carlisle, Feb. 24, 1624-25: 'In contemplation of H. Majesty the king of Denmark hath come to the propositions—upon which H. M. upon good grounds hath made dispatche to the king of Denmark agreeing to the kings of Denmarks propositions.' Hardwicke Papers i. 560.