Four hundred thousand florins were to be paid by the authorities as a fine.

The patriot garrison was to leave the city with arms and baggage and all the honours of war.
This capitulation gave more satisfaction to the hungry portion of the Antwerpers than to the patriot party of the Netherlands.

Sainte Aldegonde was vehemently and unsparingly denounced as a venal traitor.

It is certain, whatever his motives, that his attitude had completely changed.
For it was not Antwerp alone that he had reconciled or was endeavouring to reconcile with the King of Spain, but Holland and Zeeland as well, and all the other independent Provinces.

The ancient champion of the patriot army, the earliest signer of the 'Compromise,' the bosom friend of William the Silent, the author of the 'Wilhelmus' national song, now avowed his conviction, in a published defence of his conduct against the calumnious attacks upon it, "that it was impossible, with a clear conscience, for subjects, under any circumstances, to take up arms against Philip, their king." Certainly if he had always entertained that opinion he must have suffered many pangs of remorse during his twenty years of active and illustrious rebellion.