cere Intention to treat in earnest of Peace, nor to restore Spain and the Indies; but that they have broken off the Conferences, without leaving any Caufe for Subject for deliberating about continuing or discontinuing them, and that there is nothing to be done therefore but to push the War vigorously, their High Mightineffes do not at all doubt, that the faid Lords the States will in a cordial, patient, and unanimous manner, ufe all poffible and ima ginable means to promote the common Caufe, in hopes that God will continue to bestow his Benediction thereon, and that by his Goodness and Affistance the Enemy will be reduc'd to better Sentiments.

That befides, the faid M. de Randwijck and the other Deputies of their High Mightineffes for Foreign Affairs, fhall be requir'd and commiffion'd, as they are by thefe Prefents, to enter a-new into Conference with the Minifters of the High Allies, and deliberate in what manner and by what means the War may be pufh'd every where with more Vigour, and to make Report of all to this Affembly.

[This agrees with the Regifter.] F. Fagel.

Extract of Her Majesty's Inftructions to the Duke of Marlborough, and the Lord Viscount Townshend, concerning the BarrierTreaty; dated May 2. 1709.

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HEREAS by our particular Inftructions to you John Duke of Marlborough, bearing date the 21ft Day of March 170, you were among other things to declare to the Penfionary of Holland, and fuch others of the States-General, as you fhould judg proper for our Service; That it was our Opinion, that no Negotiation of Peace fhould be entred upon with France, till the Preliminaries were first adjusted between Us and the States-General. In purfuance of which, We did fet forth feveral Matters of the higheft Confequence to Us and our Realms, and did infift that they fhould be agréed

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to as Preliminaries previous to any Treaty of Peace. And at the fame time, you the faid John Duke of Marlborough were directed in our Name to reprefent to the Penfionary, and other Members of the States as might be proper, how defirous We were, that fuch farther Preliminaries fhould be adjusted, as fhould be requifite for the Security and Intereft of the States; and, as far as was poffible, of the reft of the Allies. And particularly, you were to propose that without lofs of time a fufficient Barrier for Holland fhould be fettled, for the maintaining of which, We were willing to become Guarantee; not doubting, in like manner, but that the States would be Guarantees to the Succeffion to the Crown of Great Britain in the Proteftant Line. And these our Inftructions having been communicated to the Penfionary, and fome others of the States, and they having fent over a Project of a Treaty for the Security of the faid Succeffion, and alfo for fecuring a fufficient Barrier for Holland, which We having confider'd and agreed to with fuch Alterations as are reafonable, We cannot doubt but they will give Satisfaction, and are firmly perfuaded, that this Treaty fo defirable for the mutual Intereft of both Nations will be fpeedily concluded. You therefore the faid John Duke of Marlborough, and Charles Viscount Townshend, as foon as you have receiv'd thefe our Inftructions, are to repair with all poffible diligence to the Hague, and upon your Arrival there, you are to communicate to the Penfionary, and fuch others as may be convenient and neceffary, how far We have concur'd with the Project lately fent over, by agreeing to a fufficient Barrier, and providing for the Intereft and Security of our own, and the Dominions of the States-General.

And for the greater Extent and Strength of the intended Barrier, you are likewife hereby directed to infift, that the Towns and Forts of Furnes, Knoque, Ipres, Menin, Lifle, Tournay, Conde, Valenciennes, and Maubeuge, be at a Treaty of Peace yielded up, and deliver'd by France to Charles the Third King of Spain, to be garifon'd in fuch manner, as fhall be agreed on by the Treaty concerning the faid Barrier, to be forthwith made and concluded between Us and the States-General.

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Copy of Her Majesty's Private and Additional Inftruction to the Duke of Marlborough, and the Lord Viscount Townshend; May 2. 1709.

WHEREAS it is expected, that feveral Towns now belonging to and in the hands of France, fhould be given up and yielded by the Treaty of Peace, to be garifon'd by the Forces of the States-General for the Security of their Barrier; if therefore the Revenues of fuch Towns, their Dependencies and Territories fo deliver'd up and garifon'd,be not found fufficient to answer the neceffary Expences to be made for that Service; in fuch cafe, you have liberty to confent to the adding fuch farther Sum or Sums, as fhall be thought requifite and reafonable for that purpose, out of the Incomes and Revenues arifing in general from the Spanish Low-Countries.

The Treaty between Her Majefty and the States General, for fecuring the Succession to the Crown of Great Britain, and for fettling a Barrier for the States-General against France; concluded October 29. 1709.

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ER Majefty, the Queen of Great Britain, and the Lords the States-General of the United Provinces, having confider'd how much it concerns the Quiet and the Security of their Kingdoms and States, and the publick Tranquillity, to maintain and to fecure on one fide the Succeffion to the Crown of Great Britain, in fuch manner as it is now eftablifh'd by the Laws of that Kingdom; and on the other fide, That the faid States-General of the United Provinces fhould have a ftrong and fufficient Barrier against France, and others, who would furprize or attack them. And her Majefty and the States-General apprehending, with just reafon,

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the Troubles and the Mischiefs which may happen, in re lation to this Succeffion, if at any time there fhould be any Perfon or any Power who fhould call it in question; and that the Countries and States of the faid Lords the States-General, were not furnifh'd with fuch a Barrier. For thefe faid Reafons, her faid Majefty the Queen of Great Britain, tho in the Vigour of her Age, and enjoying perfect Health (which may God preferve her in many Years) out of an effect of her ufual Prudence and Piety, has thought fit to enter, with the Lords the States-General of the United Provinces, into a particular Alliance and Confederacy, the principal End and only Aim of which, fhall be the publick Quiet and Tranquillity; and to prevent, by Measures taken in time, all the Events which might one day excite new Wars. It is with this View that her British Majefty has given her full Power to agree upon fome Articles of a Treaty,` in addition to the Treaties and Alliances that fhe has already with the Lords the States-General of the United Provinces, to her Ambaffador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Charles Viscount Townshend, Baron of Lyn-Regis, Privy-Counsellor of her British Majefty, Captain of her faid Majefty's Yeomen of the Guard, and her Lieutenant in the County of Norfolk: And the Lords the StatesGeneral of the United Provinces, to the Sieurs John de Welderen, Lord of Valburgh, Great Bailiff of the Lower Betuwe, of the Body of the Nobility of the Province of Guelder, Frederick Baron of Reede, Lord of Lier, St. Anthony and T'er Lee, of the Order of the Nobility of the Province of Holland and Weft-Frizeland; Anthony. Heinfius, Counsellor Penfionary of the Province of Holland and West-Frizeland, Keeper of the Great Seal, and Super-Intendant of the Fiefs of the fame Province; Cornelius van Gheel, Lord of Spanbroek Bulkefteyn, &c. Gedeon Hoeuft, Canon of the Chapter of the Church of St. Peter at Utrecht, and elected Counsellor in the States of the Province of Utrecht; Heffel van Sminia, Secretary of the Chamber of Accounts of the Province of Frizeland Ernest Itterfum, Lord of Ofterhof, of the Body of the Nobility of the Province of Overyffel; and Wicher Wichers, Senator of the City of Groningen; all Deputies to the Affembly of the faid Lords the StatesGeneral on the part, refpectively, of the Provinces of

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Guelder, Holland, Weft-Frizeland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Frizeland, Overyffel, and Groninguen and Ommelands; who, by virtue of their full Powers, are agreed upon the following Articles.

I. The Treaties of Peace, Friendship, Alliance and Confederacy between her Britannick Majefty and the States-General of the United Provinces, fhall be approv'd and confirm'd by the prefent Treaty, and fhall remain in their former Force and Vigour, as if they were inserted word for word.

II. The Succeffion to the Crown of England having been fettled by an Act of Parliament pafs'd the twelfth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King William the Third, the Title of which is, An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better Securing the Rights. and Liberties of the Subject: And lately, in the fixth Year of the Reign of her prefent Majefty, this Succeffion having been again establish'd and confirm'd by another Act made for the greater Security of her Majefty's Perfon and Government, and the Succeffion to the Crown of Great Britain, &c. in the Line of the most Serene House of Hannover, and in the Perfon of the Princess Sophia, and of her Heirs, Succeffors and Defcendants, Male and Female, already born or to be born. And tho no Power has any Right to oppofe the Laws made upon this Subject, by the Crown and Parliament of Great Britain, if it fhould happen nevertheless, that under any pretence, or by any caufe whatever, any Perfon, or any Power or State may pretend to dispute the Establishment which the Parliament has made of the aforefaid Succeffion in the moft Serene Houfe of Hannover, to oppofe the faid Succeffion, to af fift or favour those who may oppofe it, whether directly or indirectly, by open War, or by fomenting Seditions and Confpiracies against Her or Him to whom the Crown of Great Britain fhall defcend, according to the Acts aforefaid; the States-General engage and promife to aflift and maintain, in the faid Succeflion, Her or Him to whom it shall belong, by virtue of the faid Acts of Parliament, to affift them in taking poffeflion, if they fhould not be in actual Poffeflion, and to oppose those who would disturb them in the taking fuch Poffeflion, or in the actual Poffeffion of the aforefaid Succeflion.