Those terms would suffice, because, although not expressly stated, it was clear that the Bishop was an ordinary inquisitor; but it was necessary to expunge words that gave offence.
It was difficult, however, with all the Bishop's eloquence and dexterity, to construct an agreeable inquisition.

The people did not like it, in any shape, and there were indications, not to be mistaken, that one day there would be a storm which it would be beyond human power to assuage.

At present the people directed their indignation only upon a part of the machinery devised for their oppression.

The Spanish troops were considered as a portion of the apparatus by which the new bishoprics and the edicts were to be forced into execution.

Moreover, men were, weary of the insolence and the pillage which these mercenaries had so long exercised in the land.