When the King had been first requested to withdraw them, we have seen that he had burst into a violent passion.

He had afterward dissembled.

Promising, at last, that they should all be sent from the country within three or four months after his departure, he had determined to use every artifice to detain them in the provinces.

He had succeeded, by various subterfuges, in keeping them there fourteen months; but it was at last evident that their presence would no longer be tolerated.

Towards the close of 1560 they were quartered in Walcheren and Brill.