Thus Maurice was deprived of a considerable part of his army and obliged to act on the defensive.

Elizabeth also insisted upon the carrying out of Leicester's placard forbidding trade with the enemy.

This clause of the treaty was very unpalatable to Amsterdam and the Hollanders generally, and only a sullen acquiescence was given to it.

From the first it was systematically evaded.

The English government on their part undertook to support the French king with a force equal in strength to that furnished by the Provinces, _i.e._ 4000 men, but at the same time a secret treaty was drawn up by which Henry agreed to a reduction of the English troops by one-half.