The heretic was excluded, so far as ecclesiastical dogma could exclude him, from the pale of humanity, from consecrated earth, and from eternal salvation.
The decrees contained many provisions which not only conflicted with the privileges of the provinces, but with the prerogatives of the sovereign.
For this reason many of the lords in council thought that at least the proper exceptions should be made upon their promulgation.

This was also the opinion of the Duchess, but the King, by his letters of October, and November (1564), expressly prohibited any alteration in the ordinances, and transmitted a copy of the form according to which the canons had been published in Spain, together with the expression of his desire that a similar course should be followed in the Netherlands.

Margaret of Parma was in great embarrassment.

It was evident that the publication could no longer be deferred.

Philip had issued his commands, but grave senators and learned doctors of the university had advised strongly in favor of the necessary exceptions.