We have seen their effects in that lingering sentiment of shame which prevented the Spanish stipendiaries who governed the kingdom from throwing down the mask as cynically as they were at first inclined to do.
Not less manful and statesmanlike was the language held to the King of Great Britain and his ministers by the Advocate's directions.

The news of the assassination reached the special ambassadors in London at three o'clock of Monday, the 17th May.

James returned to Whitehall from a hunting expedition on the 21st, and immediately signified his intention of celebrating the occasion by inviting the high commissioners of the States to a banquet and festival at the palace.
Meantime they were instructed by Barneveld to communicate the results of the special embassy of the States to the late king according to the report just delivered to the Assembly.

Thus James was to be informed of the common resolution and engagement then taken to support the cause of the princes.

He was now seriously and explicitly to be summoned to assist the princes not only with the stipulated 4000 men, but with a much greater force, proportionate to the demands for the security and welfare of Christendom, endangered by this extraordinary event.