Du Maurier had written to all his friends warmly to solicit the issuing of the warrant for the sum granted him: it was sent at length, but there was no money in the treasury.

The King was absent, and when he returned to Paris, the thing, it was said, would be done.

The Prince of Conde openly interested himself for him.

What made Grotius uneasy was, that on the promises made him he had hired a house.

His wife came to Paris in October, 1621[136], and their expences so much exceeded the small revenue which he had still left, that he wrote to Du Maurier, December 3, 1621, that if something were not done for him soon, he must seek a settlement in Germany, or hide himself in some corner of France.