For in this same eventful month of July a great meeting was held by the members of the Compromise at St.Trond, in the bishopric of Liege.

They came together on the thirteenth of the month, and remained assembled till the beginning of August.

It was a wild, tumultuous convention, numbering some fifteen hundred cavaliers, each with his esquires and armed attendants; a larger and more important gathering than had yet been held.

Brederode and Count Louis were the chieftains of the assembly, which, as may be supposed from its composition and numbers, was likely to be neither very orderly in its demonstrations nor wholesome in its results.

It was an ill-timed movement.