^{page 69 note 1} Wood's Fasti Oxonienses, ed. Bliss, i, 332.

^{page 69 note 2} Cal. S.P. Dom., 1619–23, 364, 476.

^{page 69 note 3} Ibid, 1627–8, 97.

^{page 69 note 4} Ibid, 1628–9, 42.

^{page 69 note 5} Ibid, 1631–3, 224; Gardiner, History of England, vii, 139–41.

^{page 69 note 6} 30th Report of the Deputy Keeper, Appendix, 240.

^{page 69 note 7} Court and Times of Charles I, ii, 168.

^{page 70 note 1} Instructions to Boswell, October 22, 1632, quoted by Gardiner, vii, 210–4.

^{page 70 note 2} Elizabeth of Bohemia, ed. 1909, 309–15; Stratford Letters, i, 225; Cal. S.P. Dom., 1633–4, 518.

^{page 71 note 1} Charles proposed to send an agent to Vienna to request an explanation of the Treaty of Prague.

^{page 71 note 2} Elizabeth of Bohemia, 330–1.

^{page 71 note 3} Cal. S.P. Dom., 1631–3, 375.

^{page 72 note 1} Cal. S.P. Dom., 1633–4, 30, 280, 317–8, 447; Gardiner, vii, 316–6.

^{page 72 note 2} Shaw, Knights, ii, 201.

^{page 72 note 3} Cal. S.P. Dom., 1633–4, 318.

^{page 72 note 4} Laud's Works, 1857, vi, pt. ii, 528, 529–30. Letters of May 24 and July 5, 1638. The reference is to Laud's speech censuring Prynne, Bastwiok and Burton in the Star Chamber.

^{page 72 note 5} Gardiner, viii, 218–9.

^{page 73 note 1} Elizabeth to Roe, October 2,1638.—Elizabeth of Bohemia, 339; Gardiner, viii, 378. Marie de Medici landed October 19, 1638.

^{page 73 note 2} Boswell to Land, June 12, 1640.—Harleian Miscellany, vii, 541–2.

^{page 73 note 3} Prynne's Bome's Matter-Piece, 1643. Reprinted in Laud's Works vol. iv ; the documents are also in Bushworth and in Harl. Misc., vol. viii. These quotations are from pp. 469 and 484 of Laud's Works.

^{page 74 note 1} Laud's Works, iv, 474.

^{page 74 note 2} Ibid, 468.

^{page 74 note 3} Sir Edward Nicholas to Charles, October 15, 1641.—Diary of John Evelyn, 1879, vol. iv, 106. The contractions have been expanded.

^{page 74 note 4} Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, Mrs. Everett Green, 1857, 54.

^{page 74 note 5} Letters of Henrietta Maria, 101–2.

^{page 75 note 1} Letters of Henrietta Maria, 164–5. Dated February 25, 1643.

^{page 75 note 2} Lords' Journals, vi, 187. See ibid, 188, for a protest against the sale of goods, seized by Parliament “with a strong hand,” in Holland.

^{page 75 note 3} An intercepted letter, quoted by Gardiner, Great Civil War, iv, 83–4.

^{page 76 note 1} Abridged translation, Cal. S.P. Dom., 1648–9, 345–6; Clarendon, Great Rebellion, ed. Macray, xi, 212–4. The Dutch did make representations to England on behalf of Charles I, but unavailingly.

^{page 76 note 2} Thurloe, i, 112, 129.

^{page 76 note 3} Elizabeth of Bohemia, 315. Elizabeth to Roe, March 10–20, 1634

^{page 77 note 1} Vaughan, Protectorate of Cromwell, ii, 361. Cavendish to Pell, Antwerp, March 20, 1645.

^{page 77 note 2} Diary and Correspondence of Dr. Worthington, 59–60. Chetham Society, vol. xiii, 1847.

^{page 77 note 3} The Works of Joseph Mede, 1677. General Preface, by Worthington.

^{page 77 note 4} Ibid. The author's Life, p. vii.

^{page 77 note 5} 30th Report of the Deputy Keeper, Appendix, 251. The then Deputy Keeper, Sir T. Hardy, made one of his rare blunders in identifying “Mr. Mede” with a certain Matthew Mead. The reference is of course to the edition of Joseph Mede's Works, ed. by Worthington, which appeared in 1677.

^{page 78 note 1} Ashmole MSS., 1783, ff. 157, 158. Bodleian Library. No doubt Jan. 1672 should be 1673 N.S., when England was at war with Holland.

^{page 78 note 2} Ibid, ff. 151–2. Cf. Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Clark, i, 211–12.

^{page 79 note 1} Vaughan's Protectorate, ii, 376–7, with note.

^{page 79 note 2} His death is mentioned in a letter dated May 12. Cal. Clar. S.P., ii, 58; Mercurius Politicus, June 13–20, 1650,

^{page 80 note 1} Rawl. MSS., D. 682, f. 56.