They were angry that your Majesty should have dared to solicit such an arrangement at Rome, without, first obtaining their consent.

They wish to reduce your Majesty's authority to so low a point that you can do nothing unless they desire it.

Their object is the destruction of the royal authority and of the administration of justice, in order to avoid the payment of their debts; telling their creditors constantly that they, have spent their all in your Majesty's service, and that they have never received recompence or salary.

This they do to make your Majesty odious." As a matter of course, he attributed the resistance on the part of the great nobles, every man of whom was Catholic, to base motives.

They were mere demagogues, who refused to burn their fellow-creatures, not from any natural repugnance to the task, but in order to gain favor with the populace.