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== Second Peace of Westminster ==
In this situation Charles felt that continuing the alliance was a grave threat to his personal position and that Parliament would no longer fund a war. He informed the French ambassador [[Colbert de Croissy]] that to his regret, he had to terminate the English war effort.{{sfn|Troost|2005|p=126}} He told the Dutch via the Spanish consul in London, the Marquess del Fresno,{{sfn|Troost|2005|p=126}} that, his main war aim to install his noble nephew as stadtholder having been attained, he no longer objected to concluding a lasting peace between the two Protestant brother nations, if only some minor "indemnities" could be paid. At first the States of Holland were disinclined to grant Charles's demands: as England had accomplished nothing in the war, it was, in their opinion, not entitled to any reward. But William convinced them that there was some chance of bringing Charles into the war ''against'' France eventually. Furthermore, Spain had not yet declared war on France and was willing to do so only if England made peace, because it feared English attacks on its American colonies.{{sfn|Shomette|Haslach|2002|p=291}}

After a short exchange of proposals by means of trumpeters, the [[Treaty of Westminster (1674)|Treaty of Westminster]] was publicly proclaimed in London on 17 February Old Style. It was approved by the States of Holland and West Frisia on 4 March (New Style),{{sfn|Shomette|Haslach|2002|p=294}} and ratified by the States General on 5 March.{{sfn|Shomette|Haslach|2002|p=294}}

The treaty stipulated that New York—formerly [[New Netherland]]—would henceforth be an English possession and that [[Suriname]], captured by the Dutch in 1667, would remain their colony, confirming the status quo of 1667.{{sfn|Prud'homme van Reine|2015|p=275}} An "indemnity" of two million guilders was to be paid by the Dutch.{{sfn|Shomette|Haslach|2002|p=292}} Eventually, William would force Charles to [[Set-off (law)|set off]] these indemnities against the debts he owed to the [[House of Orange]], so the English king actually received very little.

Despite the peace, [[James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth|Monmouth's]] brigade would not be withdrawn from the French army and it would be allowed to recruit in Britain until the end of the Franco-Dutch War.{{sfn|Zwitzer|1990|p=33}} In April that year, William attempted to convince his uncle to enter the war against Louis but failed. Until the end of the War of Holland in 1678, Charles tried to negotiate between the two parties,{{sfn|Troost|2001|p=132}} at times pretending to consider a conflict with France, when such pretence was beneficial to him.{{sfn|Troost|2005|p=142}} In 1677, he forced his niece [[Mary II of England|Mary]] to marry William; this would later prove to be a fundamental cause of the fall of his brother in 1688.{{sfn|Panhuysen|2016|pp=114–116}}