They pledged themselves to stand by each other in case of need, and fixed the amount of force which each member of the league was to furnish if it should be necessary to repel aggression.

[223] The name of William did not appear in this instrument: but all men knew that it was his work, and foresaw that he would in no long time be again the captain of a coalition against France.

Between him and the vassal of France there could, in such circumstances, be no cordial good will.

There was no open rupture, no interchange of menaces or reproaches.

But the father in law and the son in law were separated completely and for ever.
At the very time at which the Prince was thus estranged from the English court, the causes which had hitherto produced a coolness between him and the two great sections of the English people disappeared.