ria 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.)

[492] Statement of the printer. Parliamentary History viii. 247.

[493] His declaration before the Lords. Parliamentary History viii.
208.

[494] We learn this from a letter of Nethersole to the queen of
Bohemia, Jan. 28. (St. P. O.)

[495] Nethersole to the Queen of Bohemia: 'That what at the first
propounding seemed a very reasonable motion--was at last upon this
reason that the bill is in truth and is intituled a bill of subsidy.'

[496] Holograph declaration of Charles I. (St. P. O.)

[497] Information in Star Chamber. Rushworth i. 675.

[498] Autobiography of Sir Symond d'Ewes i. 405: 'Being only misled by
some Machiavellian politics who seemed zealous for the liberty of the
common wealth.'

[499] Observation of Contarini, March 16, 1629. 'Quello che importa e
il parlamento si e conservato nell'intero possesso dei suoi privilegi,
senza cader un tantino: il re per queste due volte ha ceduto sempre
qualche cosa.'

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