Philip's exactness in conforming to his instructions is sufficiently apparent, on comparing his statements with the letters previously received from the omnipresent Cardinal.
Beyond the limits of those directions the King hardly hazarded a syllable.

He was merely the plenipotentiary of the Cardinal, as Montigny was of the Regent.

So long as Granvelle's power lasted, he was absolute and infallible.

Such, then, was the amount of satisfaction derived from the mission of Montigny.

There was to be no diminution of the religious persecution, but the people were assured upon royal authority, that the inquisition, by which they were daily burned and beheaded, could not be logically denominated the Spanish inquisition.