This again he had most reluctantly conceded.

The ratification of the Ghent treaty, he had peremptorily refused.

He had come to the provinces, at the instant of its conclusion, and had, of course, no instructions on the subject.
Nevertheless, slowly receding, he had agreed, under certain reservations, to accept the treaty.

Those reservations relating to the great points of Catholic and royal supremacy, he insisted upon subjecting to his own judgment alone.

Again he was overruled.