however, to see that a minister with such views was likely to be as
congenial to his master as he was odious to the people. For already, in
the beginning of 1562, Granvelle was extremely unpopular. "The Cardinal
is hated of all men," wrote Sir Thomas Gresham. The great struggle
between him and the leading nobles had already commenced. The people
justly identified him with the whole infamous machinery of persecution,
which had either originated or warmly made his own. Viglius and
Berlaymont were his creatures. With the other members of the state
council, according to their solemn statement, already recorded, he did
not deign to consult, while he affected to hold them responsible for the
measures of the administration. Even the Regent herself complained that
the Cardinal took affairs quite out of her hands, and that he decided
upon many important matters without her cognizance. She already began to
feel herself the puppet which it had been intended she should become;
she already felt a diminution of the respectful attachment for the
ecclesiastic which had inspired her when she procured his red hat.

Granvelle was, however, most resolute in carrying out the intentions of
his master. We have seen how vigorously he had already set himself to
the inauguration of the new bishoprics, despite of opposition and
obloquy. He was now encouraging or rebuking the inquisitors in their
"pious office" throughout all the provinces. Notwithstanding his
exertions, however, heresy continued to spread. In the Walloon provinces
the infection was most prevalent, while judges and executioners were
appalled by the mutinous demonstrations which each successive sacrifice
provoked. The victims were cheered on their way to the scaffold. The
hymns of Marot were sung in the very faces of the inquisitors. Two
ministers, Faveau and Mallart, were particularly conspicuous at this
moment at Valenciennes. The governor of the province, Marquis Berghen,
was constantly absent, for he hated with his whole soul the system of