It was, however, not formally published in the Netherlands until the month of June of the same year.
This edict will remain the most lasting monument to the memory of Cardinal Granvelle.

It will be read when all his other state-papers and epistles--able as they incontestably are--shall have passed into oblivion.

No panegyric of friend, no palliating magnanimity of foe, can roll away this rock of infamy from his tomb.

It was by Cardinal Granvelle and by Philip that a price was set upon the head of the foremost man of his age, as if he had been a savage beast, and that admission into the ranks of Spain's haughty nobility was made the additional bribe to tempt the assassin.
The ban consisted of a preliminary narrative to justify the penalty with which it was concluded.

It referred to the favors conferred by Philip and his father upon the Prince; to his-signal ingratitude and dissimulation.
It accused him of originating the Request, the image-breaking, and the public preaching.