[413] Rene de Sainte Marthe de Chateauneuf, who became Keeper of the Seals under the regency of Marie de Medicis.

[414] Madame Henrietta Marie de France, who was married by procuration, by the Cardinal de la Rochefoucauld, in the cathedral of Notre Dame, on the 11th of May 1625, to Charles I of England.  This unfortunate Queen died suddenly at her country-house at Colombes in 1669.

[415] Daniel, vol. vii. pp. 502, 503, by whom these details were obtained from manuscript letters in the library of the Abbe d’Estrees.

[416] Hector de Preau was a Calvinist nobleman and Governor of Chatellerault.

[417] Mezeray, vol. x. p. 374.

[418] Mezeray, vol. x. p. 384.

[419] Mezeray, vol. x. p. 387.  L’Etoile, vol. iv. p. 16.

[420] Memoires, p. 70.

[421] Rambure, MS. Mem. vol. vi. pp. 27, 28.

[422] Rambure, MS. Mem. vol. vi. pp. 28, 29.

[423] Rambure, MS. Mem. vol. vi. pp. 29, 30.

[424] Mezeray, vol. x. p. 385.

[425] Mezeray, vol. x. pp. 376, 385.

[426] Mem. pour l’Hist. de France, vol. ii. p. 309.

[427] Dupleix, p. 411.

[428] L’Etoile, vol. iv. p. 31 n.

[429] Mezeray, vol. x. pp. 390, 391.

[430] Bassompierre, Mem. p. 70.  Rambure, MS. Mem. vol. vi. p. 33.

END OF VOL.  I