[249] Gachard, Correspondance de Guillaume le Taciturne (Letters from the Regent to Philip II.), i. 382-86.
[250] Gachard, Correspondance de Guillaume le Taciturne, etc. ii. 42f., 106-110, 170.
[251] He wrote to Philip about their excesses as early as Dec. 29th, 1555, Gachard, Correspondance de Guillaume le Taciturne, i. 282, and about the exasperation of the Netherlanders in consequence (ibid. i. 291).
[252] In a letter to the Regent (March 16th, 1566), William declared that the heads of the policy of Philip which he most strongly disapproved of were: l’entretènement du concile de Trente, favoriser les inquisiteurs ou leur office et exécuter sans nulle dissimulation les placars. Correspondance, etc. ii. 129.
[253] Brandt, The History of the Reformation, etc. i. 150.
[254] Brandt, The History of the Reformation, etc. i. 160.
[255] Gachard, Correspondance de Guillaume le Taciturne, ii. 434 ff.
[256] At meals they sang:
“Par ce pain, par ce sel, et par cette besace,
Jamais les Gueux ne changeront pour chose que l’on fasse.”
William of Orange wrote to the Regent that he was met in Antwerp by crowds, shouting Vive les Gueux (Correspondance, ii. 136, etc.).