Viglius, who rarely participated in the deliberations of the board, being already afflicted with the chronic malady under which he was ere long to succumb, also escaped the fate of his fellow-senators.

The others were carried into confinement.

Berlaymont and Mansfeld were imprisoned in the Brood-Huys, where the last mortal hours of Egmont and Horn had been passed.

Others were kept strictly guarded in their own houses.

After a few weeks, most of them were liberated.