Unmoved by the loyal concessions and assurances they received, the advisers of the crown thought no longer of anything but getting speedily rid of the presence of the estates, so as to be free from the trouble of maintaining the discussion with them.

The deputies saw through the device; their speeches were stifled, and the necessity of replying was eluded.

"My lord chancellor," said they, at an interview on the 2d of March, 1484, "if we are not to have a hearing, why are we here?
Why have you summoned us?
Let us withdraw.

If you behave thus, you do not require our presence.

We did not at all expect to see the fruits of our vigils, and the decisions adopted after so much trouble by so illustrious an assembly rejected so carelessly." The complaints were not always so temperate.