If his Majesty should proceed to ampler information, causes enough would be found.

It was better, however, that they should be furnished by others than by themselves.

His Majesty would then find that the public and general complaint was not without adequate motives.

They renewed their prayer to be excused from serving in the council of state, in order that they might not be afterwards inculpated for the faults of others.

Feeling that the controversy between themselves and the Cardinal de Granvelle in the state council produced no fruit for his Majesty's affairs, they preferred to yield to him.