The emperor agreed to maintain ninety thousand men in the field against France; the proportion of the states was limited to one hundred and two thousand; and that of England did not exceed forty thousand, to act in conjunction with the allies.
On the fourth day of November the king arrived in England, which he found in a strange ferment, produced from the mutual animosity of the two factions.

They reviled each other in words and writing with all the falsehood of calumny, and all the bitterness of rancour; so that truth, candour, and temperance, seemed to be banished by consent of both parties.

The king had found himself deceived in his new ministers, who had opposed his measures with all their influence.

He was particularly disgusted with the deportment of the earl of Rochester, who proved altogether imperious and intractable; and, instead of moderating, inflamed the violence of his party.

The king declared the year in which that nobleman directed his councils was the un-easiest of his whole life.