permitted. The emperor urged instant and summary justice
both on her and on Courtenay; the irritation, should irritation arise,
could be allayed afterwards by an amnesty.[264] The lords, however,
insisted obstinately on the forms of law, the necessity of witnesses,
and of a trial; and Renard watched their unreasonable humours with
angry misgivings. It was enough, he said, that the conspiracy was
undertaken in Elizabeth's interests; if she escaped now, the queen
would never be secure.[265] In fact, while Elizabeth lived, the prince
could not venture among the wild English spirits, and Charles was
determined that the marriage should not escape him.

[Footnote 263: "Pour desguyser le regret qu'elle
a," says Renard, unable to relinquish his first
conviction.]

[Footnote 264: Renard was instructed to exhort the
queen: "Que l'execution et chastoy de ceulx qui le
meritent se face tost; usant a l'endroit de Madame
Elizabeth et de Cortenay comme elle verra convenir
a sa seurete, pour apres user de clemence en
l'endroit de ceulx qu'il luy semblera, afin de tost
reassurer le surplus."--The Emperor to Renard:
_Granvelle Papers_, vol. iv. pp. 224, 225.]

[Footnote 265: Il est certain l'enterprinse estoit
en sa faveur. Et certes, sire, si pendant que
l'occasion s'adonne elle ne la punyt et Cortenay,
elle ne sera jamais asseuree.--Renard to Charles
V.: Tytler, vol. ii. p. 311.]

As soon as the rebellion was crushed, Egmont, attended by Count Horn,
returned to complete his work. He brought with him the dispensations
in regular form. He brought also a fresh and pressing entreaty that
Elizabeth should be sacrificed. An opportunity had been placed in the
queen's hand, which her duty to the church required that she should
not neglect; and Egmont was directed to tell her that the emperor, in
trusting his son in a country where his own power could not protect
him, relied upon her honour not to neglect any step essential to his
security.[266] Egmont gave his message. The unhappy queen {p.116}
required no urging; she protested to Renard, that she could neither
rest nor sleep, so ardent was her desire for the prince's safe
arrival.[267] Court