It seemed reasonable, if he came thither at all, that he should come in that elevated capacity.

The Staten wished it.

The Earl ardently longed for it.
The ambassador, who knew more of Netherland politics and Netherland humours than any man did, approved of it.

The interests of both England and Holland seemed to require it.

No one but Leicester knew that her Majesty had forbidden it.
Accordingly, no sooner had the bell-ringing, cannon-explosions, bonfires, and charades, come to an end, and the Earl got fairly housed in the Hague, than the States took the affair of government seriously in hand.
On the 9th January, Chancellor Leoninus and Paul Buys waited upon Davison, and requested a copy of the commission granted by the Queen to the Earl.