Up to that time the United Provinces had borne the principal burden of the war.

The emperor alone reaped the fruit of it.

One would have said that the Hollanders kept the temple of peace, and that they had the keys of it in their hands." The king offered the Hollanders a very extended barrier in the Low Countries, and all the facilities they had long been asking for their commerce.

He accepted the abandonment of Spain to the archduke, and merely claimed to reserve to his grandson Naples, Sardinia, and Sicily.
This was what was secured to him by the second treaty of partition lately concluded between England, tine United Provinces, and France; he did not even demand Lothringen.

President Rouille, formerly French envoy to Lisbon, arrived disguised in Holland; conferences were opened secretly at Bodegraven.
The treaties of partition negotiated by William of Orange, as well as the wars which he had sustained against Louis XIV.