The Embassy of Everaard van Weede 63 



launched against James which was to make him a refugee a little 

 over a year later. 299 



Dykvelt's Negotiations with Other Personages 



Dykvelt's visit to Rachel Lady Russell admits us into his 

 character of adroit diplomat. The members of the Shrewsbury 

 party seem to have thought highly of Dykvelt. He has already 

 been characterized as knowing how to draw out information from 

 someone else while giving none himself. 300 It was not that he 

 was taciturn and reserved. The conference which Lady Russell 

 describes gives another aspect to his nature. 301 Dykvelt came "to 

 condole on the part of the Prince and Princess of Orange my ter- 

 rible misfortunes." It was not a brief, formal expression of 

 sympathy that Dykvelt presented. The Lady expatiates upon 

 the interview. Dykvelt assured her "that if ever it came to be in 

 their [the Prince and Princess's] power there was nothing I could 

 not ask that they should not find content in granting." Dykvelt 

 continued his condolences by telling Lady Russell all "the high 

 thoughts the Prince always had and still preserved of my excellent 

 Lord." 



And he said with protestation that he did so with design to make an agreeable 

 compliment to me that he found the very same justice given to his memory here, 

 and that so universal, that even those who pretended no partiality to his person or 

 actings yet bore a reverence to his name; all allowing him that integrity, honor, 

 courage, and zeal to his country to the highest degree a man can be charged with, 

 and in this age, perhaps, singular to himself and he added at this completed with a 

 great piety. 



the invitation. Halifax and Nottingham could not bring themselves to perform 



the deed. The key was as follows: 



Lord Halifax 21 Lord Lumley 29 



Lord Nottingham 23 Lord of Bath 30 



Lord Devonshire 24 Bishop of London 31 



Lord Shrewsbury 25 Mr. Sidney 33 



Lord of Danby 27 Mr. Russell 35 



* Klopp, p. 283. 



300 Supra, p. 16. 



301 Russell, Lady Rachel, Letters, March 24, 1687, vol. i, p. 205. 



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