[Footnote 73: Renard; Noailles; Machyn; _Grey Friars' Chronicle_.] [Footnote 74: Renard to Charles V.: _Rolls House MSS._] The emperor had recommended mercy; but he had not advised a general indemnity, as Renard made haste to urge. The imperialist conception of clemency differed from the queen's; and the same timidity which had first made the ambassadors too prudent, now took the form of measured cruelty. Renard entreated that Lady Jane should not be spared; "conspirators required to be taught that for the principals in treason there was but one punishment; the duke must die, and the rival queen and her husband must die with him." "We set before her"--Renard's own hand is the witness against him--"the examples of Maximus and his son Victor, both executed by the Emperor Theodosius; Maximus, because he had usurped the purple; Victor, because, as the intended heir of his father, he might have been an occasion of danger had he lived."[75] [Footnote 75: Et luy fust propose l'exemple de Maximus et Victor son filz que Theodose l'Empereur feit mourir pour s'estre attribue le nom d'Empereur par tyrannie et l'avoir voulu continuer en son diet filz Victor, escripvant l'histoire que l'on feit mourir le filz pour le scandale et danger qu'en eust peu advenir.--Renard to Charles V.: _Rolls House MSS._ For the story, see Gibbon, cap. xxvii.] Looking also, as Renard was already doing, on the scenes which were around him, chiefly or solely as they might affect the interests of his master's son, he had been nervously struck by the entourage which surrounded Elizabeth and the popularity which she, as well as the queen, was evidently enjoying.