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[1] Thomas Flatman, On the Death of the Illustrious Prince Rupert, A Pindarique Ode, (London: 1683) p. 2.
[2] Prince Rupert's life story, probably written by his secretary, Colonel Bennet, quoted in Eliot Warburton, Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers, Vol.1 (London: 1849) p. 447.
[3] Sir John Harington, Nugae Antiquae, vol. III (London: 1779) p. 156
[4] Ibid., vol. II, p. 237
[5] Ibid., pp. 239-40
[6] A. Le Fere de la Boderie, Ambassades (Paris: 1750), quoted in Carola Oman, The Winter Queen (London: 1938) p. 36
[7] Sir Walter Raleigh, Works vol.VIII, p. 234, quoted in Oman, The Winter Queen, p. 51
[8] The Spanish ambassador, Don Pedro Zuniga, to the King of Spain, 2 August 1612, quoted in M. A. Everett-Green, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, (London: 1909) p. 28.
[9] James Medlus, ‘and one of his Majesties Chaplaines’, A Sermon, Preached before the two high borne and illustrious Princes, Fredericke the 5 Prince Elector Palatine, Duke of Bavaria. And the Princesse Lady Elizabeth ... Together with a short narration of the Prince Elector's greatness, his Country ..., (London: 1613) pp. 57-8.
[10] From p. 3 of 'The Epistle to the Reader' introducing A Full Declaration of the Faith and Ceremonies professed in the Dominions of the most Illustrious and noble Prince Fredericke 5, Prince, Elector Palatine, trans. John Rolte (London: 1614).
[11] A Vow of Teares, For the losse of Prince Henry, pp. iv-v of the Epistle Dedicatory by E. C., ‘publike Preacher' to Bristol (London: 1612).
[12] Nichols, The Progresses, p. 464, quoted in Brennan C. Pursell, The Winter King (London: 2003) p. 18.
[13] Quoted in Pursell, The Winter King, p. 18.
[14] Journal of Sir Roger Wilbraham, quoted in The Camden Miscellany, vol. 10 (London: 1902) p. 110.
[15] Gardiner History, vol. II, p. 160 [quoted in ‘The Camden Miscellany’, vol. 10, p. 110 (London: 1902).
[16] John Beale, A Sermon ... Together with a short narration of the Prince Elector’s greatness, his Country, his receiving of her Hi ghnesse, (London: 1613) pp. 65-6.
[17] Letter of Doncaster to Naunton, 30 May/9 June 1619, in S. R. Gardiner, Letters and other Documents, vol. I, (London: 1865) p. 107
[18] A Briefe Description of the reasons that make the Declaration of the Ban made against the King of Bohemia, as being Elector Palataine, Dated the 22 of Januarie last past, of no value nor worth ..., published by Arthur Meuris (London: 1621) p. 13.
[19] Letter from Prince Frederick Henry to James I, quoted in Elizabeth Godfrey, A Sister of Prince Ruper
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[20] Nathaniel Butter and Nicholas Bourne, The Swedish Intelligencer, ‘the third and fourth parts’, (London: 1633) p. 171.
[21] Newes from Sea, concerning Prince Rupert, Capt. Plunket, Capt. Munckel, And Others, printed by J. C. (London: 1650).
[22] Caricatures of the Winter King (Oxford: 1928), quoted in Gerhard Benecke, Germany in the Thirty Years’ War (London: 1978).
[23] Frederick to Elizabeth, 20/30 August 1622, in A Collection of Original Royal Letters, ed. Sir George Bromley (London: 1787) p. 16.
[24] John Evelyn’s Diary, 29 July 1641.
[25] Frederick Henry to Charles Louis, quoted in Godfrey, A Sister of Prince Rupert, p. 30.
[26] Frederick to Elizabeth, from The Hague, 30 September 1622, in A Collection of Original Royal Letters, p. 21.
[27] Sophie, Electress of Hanover to Charles Louis, Elector Palatine, 13 July 1667, in the French translation of Briefwechsel der Herzogin Sophie von Hannover mit ihrem Bruder, dem Kurfuersten Karl Ludwig von der Pfalz, ed. Eduard Bodemann (Leipzig: 1885) p. 121.
[28] Electress Sophie, quoted in Godfrey, A Sister of Prince Rupert, p. 42.
[29] Elector Frederick V’s instruction to Madame de Plessen, quoted in Godfrey, A Sister of Prince Rupert, p. 44.
[30] Princess Sophie’s recollections, quoted in Godfrey, A Sister of Prince Rupert, p. 55.
[31] Ibid.
[32] Quoted in Warburton, Memoirs of Prince Rupert vol. I, p. 44.
[33] Elizabeth of Bohemia to Sir Thomas Rowe, quoted in Godfrey, A Sister of Prince Rupert, p. 49.
[34] Frederick Henry to James I, quoted in Godfrey, A Sister of Prince Rupert, p. 44.
[35] Frederick V to Charles I, 10/20 January 1629, PRO, SP, 81/35, f. 125, quoted in Pursell, The Winter King, p. 261.
[36] Frederick V to Charles I, quoted in Godfrey, A Sister of Prince Rupert, p. 49.
[37] Carlisle to Nethersole, 6/16 March 1627, Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Munich, Kasten Blau, 122/21, quoted in Pursell, The Winter King, p. 257.
[38] Frederick to Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, 7/17 May 1632, in A Collection of Original Royal Letters, p. 38.
[39] Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, to Charles I, 24 December 1624, in L. M. Baker (ed.), Letters of Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, (London: 1953) p. 86.
[40] Nathaniel Butter and Nicholas Bourne, The Swedish Intelligencer, ‘the third and fourth parts’, pp. 173-4.
[41] Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, to Charles I, 24 December 1624, in Baker, Letters of Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, p. 86.