The whole land for awhile was terror-stricken.

All organised opposition was crushed, and no one dared to raise his voice in protest.
The Prince of Orange was summoned to appear in person before the council within six weeks, under pain of perpetual banishment and confiscation of his estates.

He refused to come, and energetically denied that the council had any jurisdiction over him.

The same sentence was passed upon all the other leaders who had placed themselves out of reach of Alva's arm--Sainte Aldegonde, Hoogstraeten, Culemburg, Montigny, Lewis of Nassau and others.

Unable to lay hands upon the prince himself, the governor-general took dastardly advantage of William's indiscretion in leaving his eldest son at Louvain to pursue his studies at the university.