Note 1579 — Chapter XVI

Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, IV, 270 and Appendix 43. Schomberg and Louis of Nassau drew up the articles of the proposed treaty. In Appendix 44 will be found the articles as originally drawn up, and on p. 116 the modified form of them as they were changed by the prince of Orange. The most important change is that whereby the prince altered the word “subjection” as applied to the Netherlands to “protectorate.” The further idea is expressed that these negotiations would be fruitless unless the Edict of Pacification were established with full force in France (ibid., IV, 270, 271). On the whole subject of French negotiations in Germany after St. Bartholomew see Waddington, Rev. hist., XLII, 269 ff.