Excerpt from Calendar of State Papers: Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I, 1629-1631
The treaty was rendered more palatable to the King by the character of the Ambassadcr who was employed in the preliminary negotiation. In a subsequent eminent instance, which will be in the recollection of every one, national humiliation was brought about by the fascination of a female emissary. Charles I. Was altogether unsus ceptible to such seductions. With him Art led the way instead of Beauty, and the gorgeous pencil of Rubens consecrated a peace which, to the Queen of Bohemia, seemed to be a personal desertion, and to the people of England, an abandonment of the cause of Protes tantism, at the very time when, under the leadership of Gustavus Adolphus, it appeared likely to achieve suc cess Elizabeths feeling is thus cautiously expressed, in a private letter to Honest Thom, as she was in the habit of terming_ Sir Thomas Ro’e, calendared in the present volume. Our Ambassador,1 is now here, and bath brought a message I looked not for, which doth not a little trouble both the King_ and me.
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