That if any Prince, State, or other Person whatever, without Exception,
shall under any Pretext, invade or attempt to invade the _United
Provinces_, or any Places situated within the Jurisdiction of the said
_States General_, or garrison'd by their Soldiers; or shall exercise any
Act of Hostility by Land or by Sea, against the said _States General_ or
their Subjects; the said King shall be obliged, as by Virtue of these
Presents he is obliged, to send forty Ships of War well furnished with
all things necessary, to assist the said _States General_, to oppose,
suppress and repel, all such Insults and Acts of Hostility, and to
procure due Reparation for any Damages sustained by them: That is to
say, fourteen of the said Ships shall carry from sixty to eighty great
Guns, and four hundred Men; a just Allowance and Computation being made,
as well with regard to those Ships that carry a greater, as those that
carry a lesser Number of Men: Fourteen other Ships shall carry from
forty to sixty Guns, and one with another three hundred Men at the
least; Allowance to be made as before; and none of the rest to carry
less than six and thirty Guns, and a hundred and fifty Men. Besides
which, he shall assist them with six thousand Foot Soldiers, and four
hundred Horse; or shall pay a Sum of Money, with due regard to the just
Value of such an Assistance, either for the whole or a part, at the
Choice of the said States. All these Aids shall be furnished within six
Weeks after they shall be demanded: And the said States shall reimburse
the whole Charge to the said King, within three Years after the
Conclusion of the War.