Secret drowning was substituted for public burning, in order that the heretic's crown of vainglory, which was thought to console him in his agony, might never be placed upon his head.
In the course of the summer, Magaret wrote to her brother that the popular frenzy was becoming more and more intense.

The people were crying aloud, she said, that the Spanish inquisition, or a worse than Spanish inquisition, had been established among them by means of bishops and ecclesiastics.

She urged Philip to cause the instructions for the inquisitors to be revised.

Egmont, she said, was vehement in expressing his dissatisfaction at the discrepancy between Philip's language to him by word of mouth and that of the royal despatches on the religious question.

The other seigniors were even more indignant.
While the popular commotion in the Netherlands was thus fearfully increasing, another circumstance came to add to the prevailing discontent.