Editing Constantijn Huygens (section)

===London===
In January 1621, he traveled to England as the secretary of six envoys of the [[Dutch Republic|United Provinces]] with the object of persuading James I to support the [[German Protestant Union]]. They lodged in [[Lombard Street, London|Lombard Street]] and were taken by coach to [[Whitehall Palace]] to King James and then to [[Charles I of England|Prince Charles]] at [[St James's Palace]] where they realised they had delivered the letters for the prince to the king, and Huygens made an excuse of the poor light. On Shrove-Tuesday they saw a masque at Whitehall presented by the gentlemen of the [[Middle Temple]]. They returned in April of that year, Huygens with the king's gift of a gold chain worth £45.<ref>John Nichols, ''Progresses of James the First'', (London, 1828), pp. 649, 653, 663, quoting from [[John Finet]], ''Philoxenis''.</ref> In December 1621 he left with another delegation, this time with the aim of requesting support for the United Provinces, returning after a year and two months in February 1623. There was yet another trip to England in 1624.{{cn|date=February 2024}}