Renard visited at that house, he said, and was received there on a much more intimate footing than was becoming.

Eight days before the satire was circulated, there had been a conversation in Egmont's house, of a nature exactly similar to the substance of the pamphlet.

The man, in whose hands it was first seen, continued Granvelle, was a sword cutler, a godson of the Count.

This person said that he had torn it from the gate of the city hall, but God grant, prayed the Cardinal, that it was not he who had first posted it up there.

'Tis said that Egmont and Mansfeld, he added, have sent many times to the cutler to procure copies of the satire, all which augments the suspicion against them.
With the nobles he was on no better terms than with the people.