the King, while going to the verge of imprudence in protecting the
Professor. In March he was heard, three or four hours long, before the
Assembly of Holland, in answer to various charges made against him, being
warned that "he stood before the Lord God and before the sovereign
authority of the States." Although thought by many to have made a
powerful defence, he was ordered to set it forth in writing, both in
Latin and in the vernacular. Furthermore it was ordained that he should
make a complete refutation of all the charges already made or that might
be made during the ensuing three months against him in speech, book, or
letter in England, Germany, the Netherlands, or anywhere else. He was
allowed one year and a half to accomplish this work, and meantime was to
reside not in Leyden, nor the Hague, but in some other town of Holland,
not delivering lectures or practising his profession in any way. It
might be supposed that sufficient work had been thus laid out for the
unfortunate doctor of divinity without lecturing or preaching. The
question of jurisdiction was saved. The independence of the civil
authority over the extreme pretensions of the clergy had been vindicated
by the firmness of the Advocate. James bad been treated with overflowing
demonstrations of respect, but his claim to expel a Dutch professor from
his chair and country by a royal fiat had been signally rebuked.
Certainly if the Provinces were dependent upon the British king in
regard to such a matter, it was the merest imbecility for them to affect
independence. Barneveld had carried his point and served his country
strenuously and well in this apparently small matter which human folly
had dilated into a great one. But deep was the wrath treasured against
him in consequence in clerical and royal minds.

Returning from Wesel after the negotiations, Sir Ralph Winwood had
an important interview at Arnheim with Prince Maurice, in which they
confidentially exchanged their opinions in regard to the Advocate,