When Doncaster had left Paris to follow the Prince into Spain, Herbert writes (Egerton MS. 2595, fol. 181) (23rd March 1622-3):—

Your Lordship's letters of exchange I delivered Mr. Langherac, who hath sent them after your Lordship, to Bordeaux; your Lordship's present hath been delivered to the King, who seemed much to esteem it. Your Lordship must have heard before now of the death of the good President Jannin.

The postscript runs :—

I desire infinitely to hear the success of his Highness' journey, whom God bless, but know not how far I may presume of your Lordship's leisure.

The last extant letter written during his embassy was addressed by Herbert to the King, and discussed the opinions held in France of the Spanish marriage treaty after the failure of the negotiations:

MY MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,-Now that I thank God for it, his Highness, according to my continual prayers, hath made a safe and happy return unto your sacred Majesty's presence, I think myself bound, by way of complete obedience to those commandments I received from your sacred Majesty, both by Mr. Secretary Calvert and my brother Henry, to give your sacred Majesty an account of that sense which the general sort of people doth entertain here, concerning the whole frame and context of his Highness' voyage. It is agreed on all parts that his Highness must have received much contentment in seeing two great kingdoms, and consequently in enjoying that satisfaction which princes but rarely, and not without great peril obtain. His Highness' discretion, diligence, and princely behaviour every where, likewise is much praised. Lastly, since his Highness' journey hath fallen out so well, that his Highness is come back without any prejudice to his person or dignity they say the success hath sufficiently commended the council. This is the most common censure (even of the bigot party, as I am informed) which I approve in all but in the last point,

in the delivery whereof I find something to dislike, and therefore tell them, that things are not to be judged alone by the success, and that when they would not look so high as God's providence, without which no place is secure, they might find even in reason of state so much as might sufficiently warrant his Highness' person, and liberty to return.

I will come from the ordinary voice, to the selecter judgment of the ministers of state, and more intelligent people in this kingdom, who, though they nothing vary from the above-recited opinion, yet as more profoundly looking into the state of this long-treated-of alliance betwixt your sacred Majesty and Spain in the persons of his Highness and the Infanta, they comprehend their sentence thereof (as I am informed) in three propositions :

First, That the protestation, which the King of Spain made to his Highness upon his departure, whereby he promised to chase away, and disfavour all those who should oppose this marriage, doth extend no further, than to the said king's servants, or at furthest, not beyond the temporal princes his neighbours, so that the Pope, being not included herein, it is thought his consent must be yet obtained, and consequently that the business is in little more forwardness than when it first began.

Secondly, That the Pope will never yield his consent, unless your sacred Majesty grant some notable privileges and advantage to the Roman Catholic religion in your sacred Majesty's kingdoms.

Thirdly, That the said King of Spain would never insist upon obtaining those privileges, but that he more desires to form a party in your sacred Majesty's kingdoms, which he may keep always obsequious to his will, than to maintain a friendly correspondence betwixt your sacred Majesty and himself. I must not, in the last place, omit to acquaint your sacred Majesty very particularly with the sense which was expressed by the bons François, and body of those of the Religion, who heartily wish that the same greatness which the King of Spain doth so affect over all the world, and still main tains even in this country, which is to be protector of the Jesuited and bigot party, your sacred Majesty would embrace in being Defender of our Faith. The direct answer to which though I evade, and therefore reply little more than that this council was

much fitter when the Union in Germany did subsist than at this time; yet do I think myself obliged to represent the affection they bear unto your sacred Majesty. This is as much as is come to my notice, concerning that point your sacred Majesty gave me in charge, which therefore I have plainly laid open before your sacred Majesty's eyes, as understanding well, that princes never receive greater wrong than when the ministers they put in trust do palliate and disguise those things which it concerns them to know. For the avoiding whereof, let me take the boldness to assure your sacred Majesty that those of this King's Council here will use all means they can, both to the King of Spain, and to the Pope (in whom they pretend to have very particular interest) not only to interrupt but if it be possible to break off your sacred Majesy's alliance with Spain. For which purpose the Count de Tillieres hath strict command to give either all punctual advice, that accordingly they may proceed. It rests that I most humbly beseech your Sacred Majesty to take my free relation of these particulars in good part, since I am of no faction, nor have any passion or interest, but faithfully to perform that service and duty which I owe to your sacred Majesty, for whose perfect health and happiness I pray, with the devotion of your sacred majesty's Most obedient, most loyal, and most affectionate subject and servant,

HERBERT.1

From MERLOU CASTLE, the 31st of October 1623. Stil. No.

The Princess Elizabeth's gratitude to Herbert for his devotion to her cause is shown in the following undated letter which she addressed to him from the Hague :-"I pray be assured that my being in childbed hath hindered me all this while from thanking you for your letter, and no forgetfulness of mine to you to whom I have ever had obligations from your love, which I will ever acknowledge and seek to requite in what I can."- Warner's Epistolary Curiosities.

1 Printed in "The Cabala," p. 231, and Ellis's Original Letters, Ist ser. iii. 1636.

INDEX.

Andrews, 240.

Anglesea, 14, 40.

Anne of Austria, 195 and n.,

214, 231.

212-

Anne, Queen of Denmark, 128 and

n., 129, 130, 189.

Antwerp, 126.

Augsbourg, 151.

Aurora Medicorum, 56 and n., 59.
Ayres, Lady, xix., 136.

Ayres, Sir John, 129-138, 141.

BACON, FRANCIS, xlviii., 48 n., 50 n.,
261-265, 324.

Balagni, Count, xvii., 106 and n.,

113-115, 122, 200 n.

Baldwin, Timothy, 264.

Baltimore, Lord. See Calvert, Sir
George.

Banbury, battle near, 12, 15 n.,

Barker, John, of Hamon, 94.

Basle, 175.

Bassetts of Beaupré, 312.

16 n.

Bath, Knighthood of the, 83 and n.,
84 and n., 85.

Bauderon, Brice, 55 and n.

Bavaria, Duke of, 255.

Baxter, Richard, on Herbert's philo-
sophy, liii.

Areskin or Erskine, Sir James, 119 Bayonne, 232, 240.

and n., 124-126, 331.

Aristotle, xxxvi., 59.

Beaumaris, 138.

Beaumont, Sir Thomas, 324.

Arnauld, Antoine de la Mothe, 221 n., Bedford, Earl of, 130 n.