Two mottoes--"non gregem aed ingratos," and "invitus desero"-- expressed his opinion of Dutch ingratitude and his own fidelity.
The Hollanders, on their part, struck several medals to commemorate the same event, some of which were not destitute of invention.

Upon one of them, for instance, was represented an ape smothering her young ones to death in her embrace, with the device, "Libertas ne its chara ut simiae catuli;" while upon the reverse was a man avoiding smoke and falling into the fire, with the inscription, "Fugiens fumum, incidit in ignem." Leicester found the usual sunshine at Greenwich.

All the efforts of Norris, Wilkes, and Buckhurst, had been insufficient to raise even a doubt in Elizabeth's mind as to the wisdom and integrity by which his administration of the Provinces had been characterised from beginning to end.

Those who had appealed from his hatred to the justice of their sovereign, had met with disgrace and chastisement.

But for the great Earl; the Queen's favour was a rock of adamant.