Działyński insultingly informed Elizabeth that Sigismund was outraged about the policy of having her vessels capture ships of Polish and Hanseatic merchants trading with the Spanish, which he found intolerable. He stressed that hostilities would have commenced if the English had not rescinded her orders to interdict trade, release the captured ships, and restore the confiscated cargo or make restitution. Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley was intended provide an answer in the name of the Queen, however, Elizabeth herself rose "lionlike" and delivered her rebuke; she compared his speech to a declaration of war and manners to that of "a herald than an ambassador." She reminded that England was instrumental in halting the Turkish attack and added "I can hardly believe that if the King himself were present he would have used such language." Sigismund emerged successful in securing trade with the Spanish Crown and with England, though the relations between the two nations became strained. According to historians Kavita Mudan Finn and Valerie Schutte, William Shakespeare might have used Elizabeth's political anger at the Polish ambassador as an inspiration for Queen Margaret who employs similar strategies in the play "Richard III".