As for the Stork, its very rooms were named in remembrance of the envoys and merchant traders who flocked to it on all great occasions.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
This prince insulted David's envoys, he caused their beards to be shaved off, and their garments to be cut away as high as the middle.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
"I do not think he need have gone quite so far as Spain for a bride," she had said then, with the freedom of her tender years; even now, nearly a year later, she felt such an interest in her prospective bridegroom, that by the help of an old servant she borrowed his portrait from one of the English envoys who was accustomed to wear it round his neck, and, having carried it off to her private apartments, she gazed at it for the space of an hour, blushing the while at her own audacity.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes