278 TWO CHAPTERS ILLUSTRATIVE OF 



this kingdom's loss."* Sir Robert Naunton, the avowed partizan of 

 Rochester, likewise clearly demonstrates that all was not right be- 

 tween the father and son ; for these are some of the mysterious sen- 

 tences of that secretary of state in his letter to Winwood: — 

 " Touching our palladium which we have lost, I hold it neither fit 

 to write what I conceive, and less fit to be written to your lordship. 

 It is given out by his confidant, that he had a design to have come 

 over with the palsgrave, and have drawn Count Maurice along with 

 him with some promises, and done some exploit upon the place 

 which shot the palsgrave's harbinger, and happily to have seen the 

 landgrave's daughter, or I know not what. That this he meant to 

 have done, whatsoever it was, ' clam patrem et senatum suum,' un- 

 known to his father and the council, and hatching some such secret 

 design, which was made subject to misconstruction, it is now become 

 abortive, like that of Henry IV. of France."t None of the cordia- 

 lities of affection existed between Henry and James, as may be easily 

 collected from the angry manner in which the proceedings of the 

 latter were arraigned by his immediate heir. For thirteen years 

 Sir Walter Raleigh had been shut up a prisoner in the tower by 

 order of the king ; " and what other king," was the indignant ex- 

 clamation of the prince, " would have shut up such a bird in a 

 cage.":j: CJpon other occasions, Henry pertinaciously differed from 

 his father, finding many practices in the conduct of affaii's which he 

 would not approve, and some of which he could not forbear to op- 

 pose. || Tutored, also, by his mother, the prince openly ridiculed 

 the follies and weaknesses of James, which, joined with his high 

 daring, his warlike propensities,§ his hatred of popery,** and his 

 desire to reform the Reformation itself,tt were all so many estrange- 

 ments from paternal love. 



* See Birch's Life of Prince Henry, p. 405. 



f Winwood, vol. iii., p. 410, &c. 



% See Coke's Detection, p. 37. 



II See Carte's IliMory of England, vol. iii., p. 747, and Birch's Life of 

 Prince Henry, p. 405. 



§ 111 a letter which Henry addressed to the Prince de Joinviile, he ob- 

 serves that he had sent him a present of the two things he loved best, 

 arms and horses, and when asked by the French Ambassador if he had any 

 message for his royal master, the reply was, " Tell him what I am now doing, 

 tossing the pike." Birch's Life of Prince Henry, p. 75. 



** In the plenitude of his Protestant zeal, we are told by Sir Henry Nevil, 

 he had vowed that never idolatry shovdd come in his bed, and that he consi- 

 dered liis sickness as a deserved punislnneiit upon him, for having 0])eiicd 

 ills cars to admit the treaty of a Popish match. Winwood, vol. iii., p. 41C. 



ft His Governor, Sir Thomas Chaloner, was supposed to be a great favo- 



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