You will also see that the name of the Emperor is mentioned neither in the preamble nor the articles of the treaty.

It would be contrary to all our policy since 1610.

You may be firmly convinced that malice is lurking under the Emperor's name, and that he and the King of Spain and their adherents, now as before, are attempting a sequestration.

This is simply a pretext to bring those principalities and provinces into the hands of the Spaniards, for which they have been labouring these thirty years.

We are constantly cheated by these Spanish tricks.