[20] The Earl of Bristol's defence. _Camden Society Miscellany_, vol. vi.
[21] A very interesting and, as I believe, unpublished contemporary manuscript account of the proceedings of Charles and Buckingham in Madrid, and of the events that followed their return to London, so far as regards the Spanish match, has been brought to my notice whilst this chapter is being written. The manuscript, evidently an original, appears to have been the work of someone who accompanied the Prince in his journey. Many expressions in it are the same as those which I have quoted from other sources, especially from certain letters of Endymion Porter in the Record Office, and from those of Buckingham to the King, most of which were written by Porter. I am therefore led to the conclusion that this interesting new document, which is the property of Dr. Rosedale of the Royal Society of Literature, is the work of Endymion Porter. I am informed that it will shortly be published by the Society.
[23] Howel's _Familiar Letters_. Howel was in Madrid at the time.
[25] _Fragmentos Historicos de la Vida de Caspar de Guzman_, etc. MS. by Count de la Roca in my possession.
[26] _Fragmentos Historicos_, etc. MS. by Count de la Roca, the great friend and confidant of Olivares.
[27] _Hecho de los Tratados_, etc., British Museum MS., Add. 14,043, and Camden Society.
[28] Gondomar had been raised to the Council of State during the early morning sitting, and on his first visit that day (Saturday) to the English embassy he came rushing to the Prince in his usual boisterously jocose fashion, saying that he had a strange piece of news to convey. "An Englishman had been sworn a Privy Councillor of Spain," meaning, as Howel (who tells the story) says, himself, who, he professed, was an Englishman at heart. This was the kind of joke by which he had managed to dominate King James.
[29] _Familiar Letters_. The sequence of events, meetings, etc., as given in _Life and Times of James I._, is untrustworthy.
[31] Hardwicke, _State Papers_. Charles and Buckingham to the King.
[32] We are told that on this occasion Olivares, notwithstanding the Prince's remonstrance, insisted upon taking the humble seat at the carriage doorstep; and that throughout the whole visit he treated Charles with the same honours as he did the King, kneeling when he spoke to him, kissing his hand, etc. Charles, on the other hand, appears to have been equally polite to Olivares; but Buckingham soon got tired of an attitude so unusual to him, and behaved himself with extraordinary rudeness and ill-breeding, as will be told later. _Hecho de los Tratados_, etc.