James had suggested this, Lewis had agreed to it.

Yet before the ink had dried in James's pen, he was proposing that the names of the mediating sovereigns should be omitted from the document?
And why?
Because Gondemar was again whispering in his ear.

"They are renewing the negotiations in England," said the Advocate, "about the alliance between the Prince of Wales and the second daughter of Spain; and the King of Great Britain is seriously importuning us that the Archdukes and My Lords the States should make their pledges 'impersonaliter' and not to the kings." James was also willing that the name of the Emperor should appear upon it.

To prevent this, Barneveld would have had himself burned at the stake.

It would be an ignominious and unconditional surrender of the whole cause.
"The Archduke will never be contented," said the Advocate, "unless his Majesty of Great Britain takes a royal resolution to bring him to reason.
That he tries to lay the fault on us is pure malice.