Did he falter in his opposition to the States--did he cease to goad them for their policy in the duchies--did he express sympathy with Bohemian Protestantism, or, as time went on, did he dare to lift a finger or touch his pocket in behalf of his daughter and the unlucky Elector-Palatine; did he, in short, move a step in the road which England had ever trod and was bound to tread--the road of determined resistance to Spanish ambition--instantaneously the Infanta withheld, and James was on his knees again.

A few years later, when the great Raleigh returned from his trans-Alantic expedition, Gondemar fiercely denounced him to the King as the worst enemy of Spain.

The usual threat was made, the wand was waved, and the noblest head in England fell upon the block, in pursuance of an obsolete sentence fourteen years old.
It is necessary to hold fast this single clue to the crooked and amazing entanglements of the policy of James.

The insolence, the meanness, and the prevarications of this royal toad-eater are only thus explained.
Yet Philip III.

declared on his death-bed that he had never had a serious intention of bestowing his daughter on the Prince.
The vanity and the hatreds of theology furnished the chief additional material in the policy of James towards the Provinces.