He was to command the governors of every province to prohibit the entrance of all foreign levies.

He was forthwith to release captives, restore confiscated property, and reinstate officers who had been removed; leaving the details of such restorations to the council of Mechlin and the other provincial tribunals.

He was to engage that the Count Van Buren should be set free within two months.

He was himself, while waiting for the appointment of his successor, to take up his residence in Luxemburg, and while there, he was to be governed entirely by the decision of the State Council, expressed by a majority of its members.

Furthermore, and as not the least stinging of these sharp requisitions, the Queen of England--she who had been the secret ally of Orange, and whose crown the Governor had secretly meant to appropriate--was to be included in the treaty.
It could hardly excite surprise that Don John, receiving these insolent propositions at the very moment in which he heard of the triumphant entrance into Brussels of the Prince, should be filled with rage and mortification.