[15] But in the Netherlands England and Holland were determined to allow him nothing.

What he really obtained in Italy was little more than a splendid provision for a cadet of his house.
Guipuscoa was then in truth the price in consideration of which France consented that the Electoral Prince of Bavaria should be King of Spain and the Indies.

Guipuscoa, though a small, was doubtless a valuable province, and was in a military point of view highly important.

But Guipuscoa was not in the Netherlands.

Guipuscoa would not make Lewis a more formidable neighbour to England or to the United Provinces.