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XVI. Unpublished Letters from the Queen of Bohemia, daughter of James I. to Sir Edward Nicholas. In a Letter from John Evans, Esq., F.S.A., to J. Y. Akerman, Esq., Secretary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
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I have great pleasure in sending you for communication to the Society of Antiquaries copies of a series of letters written by the Queen of Bohemia, the daughter of James I., which are I believe unpublished, and which, like all the letters of that unfortunate princess, will be found of some interest. They are all addressed to Sir Edward Nicholas, who, as you are well aware, was Secretary of State to both the Charleses. The letters which passed between the Queen and Sir Edward, from August 1654 to January 1655, fifteen in number, have already been published in the Appendix to Evelyn's Diary, edited by the late Mr. Bray; and the twenty-five I now send you may be regarded as a continuation of the same correspondence, embracing as they do the period from April 1655 to January 1656.
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page 225 note a The enmity that at this time existed between Elizabeth and Christina of Sweden is well known.
page 226 note a Afterwards William III.
page 226 note b Nicholas Armourer.
page 228 note a Middleton.
page 228 note b See Whitelock, p. 608.
page 228 note c Prince Adolphus, brother of the King of Sweden, who had proposed for the Princess Sophia in October previous. (See Evelyn, vol. iv. p. 213.) It does not appear why this match was broken off. Sophia married into the House of Brunswick in 1658.
page 230 note a Sir Balth. Gerbier.
page 232 note a The Spanish Ambassador.
page 232 note b Edward, the Queen's fourth son, who had adopted the Roman Catholic religion and married the Princess of Nevers, daughter of the Duke of Mantua.
page 232 note c See Bromley's Royal Letters, p. 196, &c.
page 233 note a Charles Gustavus.
page 233 note b George William, grandfather of the first King of Prussia.
page 234 note a John Casimir.
page 235 note a Mary Princess of Orange.
page 236 note a There is some doubt as to the correct reading of this name.
page 240 note a This letter refers to the execution of Manning, a servant of Sir Edward Hyde's, who, Whitelock says, was shot as a spy.—(See Whitelock, p. 618.) The letter published in Evelyn's Diary under the date December 27, 1654, is of December 27, 1655, as it refers to Manning, who, it appears, was assassinated and not judicially executed. The subsequent letter of January 10 is also to be referred to this year 165⅚