The Cardinal found no one in the city to welcome him.

None of the great nobles were there.

"The people looked upon the procession with silent hatred.

No man cried, God bless him." He wrote to the King that he should push forward the whole matter of the bishoprics as fast as possible, adding the ridiculous assertion that the opposition came entirely from the nobility, and that "if the seigniors did not talk so much, not a man of the people would open his mouth on the subject." The remonstrance offered by the three estates of Brabant against the scheme had not influenced Philip.

He had replied in a peremptory tone.