The loyal official was thus required in certain circumstances to remonstrate with and even to disobey his sovereign to show his concern for the monarch.
When his officers remonstrated him for his former concessions, he calmed them down by telling them that he had no intention of complying with those parts of the agreement.
Just as he was, with his face covered with lather..., he mounted a barrel in the middle of the street and remonstrated with the crowd, attempting to stop it.