to make a convention or treaty with king Charles the third, for putting the States in a condition of safety by means of the said barrier, the queen of Great Britain will do what depends upon her, that all the foregoing particulars relating to the barrier of the States may be inserted in the aforesaid treaty or convention; and that her said majesty will continue her good offices, until the abovementioned convention between the States and the said king Charles the third be concluded agreeably to what is beforementioned: and that her majesty will be guarantee of the said treaty or convention.
ARTICLE XIV.
And, that the said States may enjoy from hence forward, as much as possible, a barrier for the Spanish Low-countries, they shall be permitted to put their garrisons in the towns already taken, and which may hereafter be so, before the peace be concluded and ratified. And in the mean time the said king Charles III shall not be allowed to enter into possession of the said Spanish Low-countries, neither entirely nor in part: and during that time the queen shall assist their high mightinesses to maintain them in the enjoyment of the revenues, and to find the million of livres a year abovementioned.
ARTICLE XV.
And whereas their high mightinesses have stipulated by the treaty of Munster, in the fourteenth article, that the river Schelde, as also the canals of Sas, Swyn, and other mouths of the sea bordering
