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Continuing this woeful account of conditions in the rebellious Netherlands and other countries under Spanish rule, the author of The Rise of the Dutch Republic says: “Charles V introduced and organized a papal institution, side by side with those horrible ‘Placards’ of his invention, which constituted a masked inquisition even more cruel than that of Spain. … The execution of the system was never permitted to languish. The number of Netherlanders who were burned, strangled, beheaded, or buried alive, in obedience to his edicts, and for the offense of reading the scriptures, of looking askance at a graven image, or of ridiculing the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ in a wafer, have been placed as high as one hundred thousand by distinguished authorities, and have never been put at a lower mark than fifty thousand.”