CHAPTER IX

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LATTER DAYS OF CHARLES THE FIFTH.

Charles at Yuste--His Mode of Life--Interest in Public Affairs--Celebrates his Obsequies--Last Illness--Death and Character 120

## Book II.

## CHAPTER I .

VIEW OF THE NETHERLANDS.

Civil Institutions--Commercial Prosperity--Character of the People--Protestant Doctrines--Persecution by Charles the Fifth 146

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