NOTES:
[483] Al. Contarini, Aug. 14, 1628. 'Carleton mi soggionse che certamente la flotta si volgerebbe in ajuto del re di Danimarca, quando Più non fosse necessaria in Francia.'
[484] The first intimation of this design occurs in an anonymous letter to the King, which probably belongs to the year 1623: Cabala 223. In the correspondence of the ambassadors the project is assumed as certain.
[485] Ruszdorf: 'Magnos apparatus instituit, quibus sperat structuram et molem rumpere'
[486] From the letter of Dudley Viscount Dorchester, in Bruce's Calendar.
[487] 'The remonstrance in the last Parliament and that the duke was the cause of the public grievances, it came into his mind that it would be a good service to God and the Commonwealth to take him away.' Relation of the Duke of Buckingham's death. (St. P. O.)
[488] From the report of Duppa (St. P. O.), which admirably supplements that which is given in the State Trials iii. 370.
[489] 'That the common good could no way be a pretense to a particular mischief.'
[490] Rushworth i. 654: 'To avow a breach upon just cause given, not sought by the King.'
[491] Fragmentary memoranda of a sitting of the Privy Council at the beginning of February 1628-29. (St P. O.)