[The prince of Orange and the States of Holland and Zeeland considered many articles in the Perpetual Edict unacceptable and intended to write their objections down and to send them] to the States General and to explain to them at the same time that it was now the right time to request, to insist on and to obtain, after the example of our ancestors, an extension and an augmentation of the privileges, rights and freedoms they have handed down to us, because we now have such a good opportunity to make sure that we should not relapse into the same unpleasant situation. But when they were engaged on drawing up and writing down these points and articles, they were given a copy of the missive which the said gentlemen of the States had written to Don John, from which they gathered that the States promised to come to an agreement with Don John without waiting for an answer to the said articles and asked him to sign these articles with the promise to have them published and to receive him in the country.