From this time forth, this prelate began to be regarded with a daily increasing aversion.

He was looked upon as the incarnation of all the odious measures which had been devised; as the source of that policy of absolutism which revealed itself more and more rapidly after the King's departure from the country.

It was for this reason that so much stress was laid by popular clamor upon the clause prohibiting foreigners from office.

Granvelle was a Burgundian; his father had passed most of his active life in Spain, while both he and his more distinguished son were identified in the general mind with Spanish politics.

To this prelate, then, were ascribed the edicts, the new bishoprics, and the continued presence of the foreign troops.