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Charles V. resigning the Crown of Spain, gave it over to his son / Philip II., who married Mary, Queen of England. He had already ceded / to him the kingdom of Naples. With the Crown of Spain went the / Netherlands; and Charles would have wished his son to receive the / Imperial title also. The Electors of Germany, however, refused to / elect Philip and, with the assent of Charles, Ferdinand, Charles's / younger brother, became the new Emperor.
Charles, although a firm supporter of the authority of the Church of / Rome, had done his best, by the publication of that "Interim" / mentioned in the last chapter, and by a merciful treatment of the / defeated Protestants, to bring the two parties together again. He / failed; but he had made the effort. The character of Philip did not / dispose him to follow his father in any attempts at peace-making. He / was ardently jealous for the ecclesiastical authority of Rome and / appears to have had much of the tyrant's spirit: he was very / impatient of opposition, and showed no favour to any who differed / from him in opinion. Heresy was, in his view, a sin against the / Church, which it was his duty to put down by the most effective means / in his power, wherever he might find it among his subjects. Wherever / it was even so much as suspected, the strictest search should be made / for its unmasking.