The manner in which the hunters of heretics performed their office has been exemplified by slightly sketching the career of a single one of the sub-inquisitors, Peter Titelmann.

The monarch and his minister scarcely needed, therefore, to transplant the peninsular exotic.

Why should they do so?
Philip, who did not often say a great deal in a few words, once expressed the whole truth of the matter in a single sentence: "Wherefore introduce the Spanish inquisition ?" said he; "the inquisition of the Netherlands is much more pitiless than that of Spain." Such was the system of religious persecution commenced by Charles, and perfected by Philip.

The King could not claim the merit of the invention, which justly belonged to the Emperor.

At the same time, his responsibility for the unutterable woe caused by the continuance of the scheme is not a jot diminished.