King's dishonour and their own discredit.

When we came to Calais, my husband sent me to England, and staying
himself there, intending, as soon as he had received money, to go and
live in Holland until such time as it should please Almighty God to
enable him again to wait on his Majesty, now in Scotland, both to give
him an account of his journey into Spain, as of the rest of his
employments since he kissed his hand. But God ordered it otherwise;
for the case being that the two parties in Scotland being both
unsatisfied with each other's ministers, and Sir E. Hyde and Secretary
Nicholas being excepted against, and left in Holland, it was proposed,
the state wanting a Secretary for the King, that your father should be
immediately sent for, which was done accordingly, and he went with
letters and presents from the Princess of Orange, and the Princess
Royal.

Here I will show you something of Sir Edward Hyde's nature: he being
surprised with this news, and suspecting that my husband might come to
a greater power than himself, both because of his parts and integrity,
and because himself had been sometimes absent in the Spanish Embassy,
he with all the humility possible, and earnest passion, begged my
husband to remember the King often of him to his advantage as occasion
should serve, and to procure leave that he might wait on the King,
promising, with all the oaths that he could express to cause belief,
that he would make it his business all the days of his life to serve
your father's interest in what condition soever he should be in: thus
they parted, with your father's promise to serve him in what he was
capable of, upon which account many letters passed between them.

When your father arrived in Scotland, he was received by the King with