Is there anything else you seek ?" De Dieu.--"There is a special point: it concerns our, or rather your Majesty's, city of Flushing.

We hope that Russelius--( so he called Sir William Russell)--may be continued in its government, although he wishes his discharge." "Aha!" said the Queen, laughing and rising from her seat, "I shall not answer you; I shall call some one else to answer you." She then summoned Russell's sister, Lady Warwick.
"If you could speak French," said the Queen to that gentlewoman, "I should bid you reply to these gentlemen, who beg that your brother may remain in Flushing, so very agreeable has he made himself to them." The Queen was pleased to hear this good opinion of Sir William, and this request that he might continue to be governor of Flushing, because he had uniformly supported the Leicester party, and was at that moment in high quarrel with Count Maurice and the leading members of the States.
As the deputies took their leave, they requested an answer to their memorial, which was graciously promised.
Three days afterwards, Walsingham gave them a written answer to their memorial--conceived in the same sense as had been the expressions of her Majesty and her counsellors.

Support to the Netherlands and stipulations for the free exercise of their religion were promised; but it was impossible for these deputies of the churches to obtain a guarantee from England that the Popish religion should be excluded from the Provinces, in case of a successful issue to the Queen's negotiation with Spain.
And thus during all those eventful days-the last weeks of July and the first weeks of August--the clerical deputation remained in England, indulging in voluminous protocols and lengthened conversations with the Queen and the principal members of her government.

It is astonishing, in that breathless interval of history, that so much time could be found for quill-driving and oratory.
Nevertheless, both in Holland and England, there had been other work than protocolling.

One throb of patriotism moved the breast of both nations.