The Evolution of States

by J. M. Robertson

[771] See it analysed in Motley, pp. 134, 135.

[772] Asked by his viceregent Margaret of Parma to introduce the Spanish Inquisition, he pointed out that already "the Inquisition of the Netherlands is much more pitiless than that of Spain" (Motley, p. 174; cp. p. 81).

[773] It was an old source of income (Davies, i, 617; cp. Motley, p. 78).

[774] "The aristocracy of the Netherlands was excessively extravagant, dissipated, and already considerably embarrassed in circumstances" (Motley, p. 129; cp. pp. 125, 130, 131).

[775] Cp. Grattan, p. 106; Motley, as last cited.

[776] See the admissions of Motley, p. 131.

[777] Motley, p. 125.

[778] See Davies, ii, 149, 150, for a criticism of William's development, worth considering as against the unmixed panegyric of Motley.

[779] Cp. M'Cullagh, p. 211.

[780] Motley, pp. 462-67, 506, 527, 829.