As that visit lasted, however, but ten or eleven days, there was no great opportunity for shewing much zeal.
At the same period one William Knuttel was despatched by Orange on the forlorn hope of gaining the old Landgrave's consent, without making any vital concessions.

"Will the Prince," asked the Landgrave, "permit my granddaughter to have an evangelical preacher in the house ?"--"No," answered Knuttel.

"May she at least receive the sacrament of the Lord's Supper in her own chamber, according to the Lutheran form ?"--"No," answered Knuttel, "neither in Breda, nor any where else in the Netherlands.

If she imperatively requires such sacraments, she must go over the border for them, to the nearest Protestant sovereign." Upon the 14th April, 1561, the Elector, returning to the charge, caused a little note to be drawn up on the religious point, which he forwarded, in the hope that the Prince would copy and sign it.

He added a promise that the memorandum should never be made public to the signer's disadvantage.
At the same time he observed to Count Louis, verbally, "that he had been satisfied with the declarations made by the Prince when in Dresden, upon all points, except that concerning religion.