He had large claims upon the royal treasury for service and expenditure.

He had besides ample sums to receive from the ransoms of the prisoners of St.Quentin and Gravelines, having served in both campaigns.

The amount to be received by individuals from this source may be estimated from the fact that Count Horn, by no means one of the most favored in the victorious armies, had received from Leonor d'Orleans, Due de Loggieville, a ransom of eighty thousand crowns.

The sum due, if payment were enforced, from the prisoners assigned to Egmont, Orange, and others, must have been very large.

Granvelle estimated the whole amount at two millions; adding, characteristically, "that this kind of speculation was a practice" which our good old fathers, lovers of virtue, would not have found laudable.