Let Grafigni be summoned." Grafigni immediately made his appearance.
Burghley.--"You will please to explain how you came to enter into this business." Grafigni.--"The first time I went to the States, it was on my private affairs; I had no order from any one to treat with the Prince of Parma.
His Highness, having accidentally heard, however, that I resided in England, expressed a wish to see me.

I had an interview with the Prince.
I told him, out of my own head, that the Queen had a strong inclination to hear propositions of peace, and that--as some of her counsellors were of the same opinion--I believed that if his Highness should send a negotiator, some good would be effected.

The Prince replied that he felt by no means sure of such a result; but that, if I should come back from England, sent by the Queen or her council, he would then despatch a person with a commission to treat of peace.

This statement, together with other matters that had passed between us, was afterwards drawn up in writing by command of his Highness." Burghley.--"Who bade you say, after your second return to Brussels, that you came on the part of the Queen?
For you well know that her Majesty did not send you." Grafigni.--"I never said so.

I stated that my Lord Cobham had set down in writing what I was to say to the Prince of Parma.