The basis of the treaty was, as usual, the nominal supremacy of the Catholic religion, with toleration for the Reformed worship.

The necessary effect would be, as in Harlem, Utrecht, and other places, to establish the new religion upon an entire equality with the old.

It was arranged that no congregations were to be disturbed in their religious exercises in the places respectively assigned to them.

Those of the Reformed faith were to celebrate their worship without the walls.

They were, however, to enjoy the right of burying their dead within these precincts, and it is singular how much importance was attached at that day to a custom, at which the common sentiment and the common sense of modern times revolt.