Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1917 — Permanent Embassies. [ARTICLE]

Permanent Embassies.

It was not untilthe.close of the fifteenth century that the permanent embassy became at all common, and not until the end of the sixteenth that it became a generally recognized institution. In 1487 Dr. Itoderigo Gondesalvl de Puebla was appointed permanent Spanish ambassador to England, and, as he was still in London in 1500, the Spanish embassy in the British capital must be regarded as the oldest among the permanent embassies of the world. , s