Each Province, on the contrary, retaining its sovereignty over its own inhabitants, obedience will not be so promptly and completely rendered to the commands of the lieutenant-general of your Majesty, and many, a good enterprise and opportunity, will be lost.

Where there is not a single authority it is always found that one party endeavours to usurp power over another, or to escape doing his duty so thoroughly as the others.

And this has notoriously been the case in the matter of contributions, imposts, and similar matters." Thus much, and more of similar argument, logically urged, made it sufficiently evident that twenty years of revolt and of hard fighting against one king, had not destroyed in the minds of the leading Netherlanders their conviction of the necessity of kingship.

If the new commonwealth was likely to remain a republic, it was, at that moment at any rate, because they could not find a king.

Certainly they did their best to annex themselves to England, and to become loyal subjects of England's Elizabeth.