This was better than the naked promises originally suggested, but even in this there was neither heartiness nor sincerity.

Meantime the Prince of Neuburg, negotiations being broken off, departed for Germany, a step which the Advocate considered ominous.

Soon afterwards that prince received a yearly pension of 24,000 crowns from Spain, and for this stipend his claims on the sovereignty of the duchies were supposed to be surrendered.
"If this be true," said Barneveld, "we have been served with covered dishes." The King of England wrote spirited and learned letters to the Elector-Palatine, assuring him of his father-in-law's assistance in case he should be attacked by the League.

Sir Henry Wotton, then on special mission at the Hague, showed these epistles to Barneveld.
"When I hear that Parliament has been assembled and has granted great subsidies," was the Advocate's comment, "I shall believe that effects may possibly follow from all these assurances." It was wearisome for the Advocate thus ever to be foiled; by the pettinesses and jealousies of those occupying the highest earthly places, in his efforts to stem the rising tide of Spanish and Catholic aggression, and to avert the outbreak of a devastating war to which he saw Europe doomed.

It may be wearisome to read the record.