"Their outrages are most execrable," wrote Marquis Havre; "they demand the most exquisite food, and drink Champagne and Burgundy by the bucketfull." Nevertheless, on the 4th of December, the Prince came to Ghent.

He held constant and anxious conferences with the magistrates.

He was closeted daily with John Casimir, whose vanity and extravagance of temper he managed with his usual skill.

He even dined with Imbue, and thus, by smoothing difficulties and reconciling angry passions, he succeeded at last in obtaining the consent of all to a religious peace, which was published on the 27th of December, 1578.

It contained the same provisions as those of the project prepared and proposed during the previous summer throughout the Netherlands.