The money had been furnished and the troops enrolled.
So much had been already bestowed, and could not be recalled, but it was not probable that, in her present humor, the Queen would be induced to add to her favors.
The Prince, obliged by the necessity of the case, had prescribed the terms and the title under which Alencon should be accepted.

Upon the 13th of August the Duke's envoy concluded a convention in twenty-three articles; which were afterwards subscribed by the Duke himself, at Mons, upon the twentieth of the same month.

The substance of this arrangement was that Alencon should lend his assistance to the provinces against the intolerable tyranny of the Spaniards and the unjustifiable military invasion of Don John.

He was, moreover, to bring into the field ten thousand foot and two thousand horse for three months.

After the expiration of this term, his forces might be reduced to three thousand foot and five hundred horse.