I crave leave to depart to-morrow morning, and with safe-convoy, as I had in coming." After the envoy had taken leave, the Duke summoned Andrea de Loo, and related to him the conversation which had taken place.

He then, in the presence of that personage, again declared--upon his honour and with very constant affirmations, that he had never seen nor heard of the book--the 'Admonition' by Cardinal Allen--and that he knew nothing of any bull, and had no regard to it.' The plausible Andrew accompanied the Doctor to his lodgings, protesting all the way of his own and his master's sincerity, and of their unequivocal intentions to conclude a peace.

The next day the Doctor, by agreement, brought a most able protocol of demands in the name of all the commissioners of her Majesty; which able protocol the Duke did not at that moment read, which he assuredly never read subsequently, and which no human soul ever read afterwards.

Let the dust lie upon it, and upon all the vast heaps of protocols raised mountains high during the spring and summer of 1588.
"Dr.Dale has been with me two or three, times," said Parma, in giving his account of these interviews to Philip.

"I don't know why he came, but I think he wished to make it appear, by coming to Bruges, that the rupture, when it occurs, was caused by us, not by the English.