e heretics were repressed and
chastised, with all publicity and rigor, as their faults deserved,
without respect of persons, and without regard to any plea in their
favor." The rest of the paper is filled with directions for his funeral,
and with a list of legacies to forty-eight servants, and many thoughtful
arrangements for the comfort of those who had followed him from
Flanders. Though willing to send all his Protestant subjects to
martyrdom, he watched with fatherly kindness over the fortunes of his
grooms and scullions. It is said that Fray Juan de Regla proposed that
Don Juan of Austria should be named in the will as next heir to the
crown after Philip, his sister, and his children; but if this incredible
advice were given by the confessor, the dying man had energy enough left
to reject it with indignation.

Day by day the tide of life continued to ebb with visible fall. The sick
man, however, was still able to attend to his devotions, to confess, and
to receive the sacrament. He would not allow his confessor, Regla, to be
absent from his bedside, and the poor man, who could hardly find a
moment for his repasts, was nearly worn out with incessant watching. On
every Sunday and feast day, at half-past three in the afternoon, the
chaplain, Villalva, preached in the church, the window of the sick-room
being left open, and the doors being shut to all but the friars. The
patient likewise frequently caused passages of Scripture to be read to
him, and was never weary of hearing the psalm which begins, _Domine!
refugium factum es nobis_. On the 19th of September, towards evening,
the patient asked for the rite of extreme unction. By the desire of the
prior, Luis Quixada, who was ever at his pillow, inquired whether he
would have it administered according to the form for friars, or after
the briefer fashion of the laity. He chose the former, in which the
seven penitential psalms were read, as well as a litany and sundry
prayers and verses of scripture. During the reading of the psalms, it
was observed that he joined in the responses of the monks with an
audible voice. When the ceremony was over, instead of being exhausted,
he seemed to have been revived by it. His appetite for food having
entirely failed him for some days, Quixada seized the opportunity of
urging him to take some. "Trouble me not, Luis Quixada," said he; "my
life is going out of me, and I cannot eat." The next morning, the 20th,
he asked for the eucharist.