[12] In ordinary circumstances the courts of Spain and of Rome would have eagerly applauded a prince who had made vigorous war on heresy.

But such was the hatred inspired by the injustice and haughtiness of Lewis that, when he became a persecutor, the courts of Spain and Rome took the side of religious liberty, and loudly reprobated the cruelty of turning a savage and licentious soldiery loose on an unoffending people.

[13] One cry of grief and rage rose from the whole of Protestant Europe.

The tidings of the revocation of the edict of Nantes reached England about a week before the day to which the Parliament stood adjourned.

It was clear then that the spirit of Gardiner and of Alva was still the spirit of the Roman Catholic Church.