Neither side would at first give way, and it was not until after some months that an accommodation was patched up.
The general question of the fishery privileges remained however just as far from settlement as ever, for the States stood firm upon their treaty rights.

At length it was resolved by the States to send a special mission to England to discuss with the king the four burning questions embittering the relations between the two countries.

The envoys arrived in London, December, 1618.

For seven months the parleyings went on without any definite result being reached, and in August, 1619, the embassy returned.

Very important events had meanwhile been occurring both in the United Provinces and in Germany, which made it necessary to both parties that the decision on these trade questions, important as they were, should be postponed for awhile, as they were overshadowed by the serious political crises in Holland and in Bohemia, which were then occupying all men's attention.
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