It was openly resisted in Holland, its proclamation was flatly refused in Antwerp, and repudiated throughout Brabant.

It was strange that such disobedience should be tolerated, but the King wanted money.

He was willing to refrain for a season from exasperating the provinces by fresh religious persecution at the moment when he was endeavoring to extort every penny which it was possible to wring from their purses.
The joy, therefore, with which the pacification had been hailed by the people was far from an agreeable spectacle to the King.

The provinces would expect that the forces which had been maintained at their expense during the war would be disbanded, whereas he had no intention of disbanding them.

As the truce was sure to be temporary, he had no disposition to diminish his available resources for a war which might be renewed at any moment.