[Footnote 432: "Aulcuns particuliers proposaient en ladicte chambre basse que le dict S. roy deust demeurer roy absolut dudict royaulme mourant ladicte dame sans hoirs sa vie durant."--Ibid. vol. iv. p. 348.] [Footnote 433: "Ruy Gomez est alle vers l'Empereur pour faire entendre les difficultez qu'ilz trouvent de faire demeurer ceste couronne a son dict filz, au cas que la royne sa femme allast de vie a trespaz sans enfans, et d'aultant qu'ilz ont congneu la volunte de ceulx cy estre bien loin de leur intention; et pour ce scavoir par quelz moyens il semblera bon audict Empereur qu'on puisse mettre cela en termes devant la fin de ce parlement."--Noailles.] [Footnote 434: "Et quant a la declaration de bastardise l'on n'est d'opinion qu'elle se doige entamer aux dict parlement, puisque l'apparence d'heretier est certaine et pour l'evident et congneue contrariete que seroit en toute le royaulme."--Renard to the Emperor: _Granvelle Papers_, p. 348.] [Footnote 435: Ibid.] But the peers, whom the Commons had refused to consult on the new form of the measure, would not part so easily with their own opinions; they adopted the phraseology of the Lower House, but this particular and precious feature in it they pared away. The bill, as it eventually passed, declared Philip regent till his child should be of age, and so long as he continued in the realm; but, at the same time, fatally for the objects at which he was aiming, it bound him again to observe all the articles of the marriage treaty, "which, during the time that he should hold the government, should remain and continue in as full force and strength, as if they were newly inserted and rehearsed in the present act."[436] [Footnote 436: 1 and 2 Philip and Mary, cap. 10.]