. The last of the Valois and accession of Henry of Navarre, 1559-1589. , who, in the Netherlands, as hisfirst act of authority, had arrested Count Egmontand Count Horn, and brought them before histribunal of blood. The two chiefs of the French Protestant partywere secretly informed of this design by DeLHopital, as supposed. Conde was to be con-demned to perpetual imprisonment, Coligny todeath. Hitherto they had restrained the Hugue-nots, though with difficulty, from again taking uparms. All France was, indeed, in a state of fer-ment. Murders and dastardly attacks by night onthe Protestants wer
. The last of the Valois and accession of Henry of Navarre, 1559-1589. , who, in the Netherlands, as hisfirst act of authority, had arrested Count Egmontand Count Horn, and brought them before histribunal of blood. The two chiefs of the French Protestant partywere secretly informed of this design by DeLHopital, as supposed. Conde was to be con-demned to perpetual imprisonment, Coligny todeath. Hitherto they had restrained the Hugue-nots, though with difficulty, from again taking uparms. All France was, indeed, in a state of fer-ment. Murders and dastardly attacks by night onthe Protestants were committed with impunity,while similar offences on their part, whatever theprovocation, were punished with cruel rigour. Now, however, it had become evident thataction in self-defence was a necessity. Colignytherefore proposed the bold plan of calling on theProtestants to rise en masse; to attack anddestroy the Swiss before they could join the royaltroops; to arrest the Cardinal de Lorraine; to Gaspard de Col/gjiw Admiral of France. Photo-etching from an old A HOSTILE ENCOUNTER AVERTED 253 seize the person of the king, his mother andbrothers, and to govern in the name of CharlesIX. The Protestant nobility of the northernprovinces were to assemble at Rosay, in Brie, andto begin the attack on the 29th of September. The queen-mother, the king, and the courtwere amusing themselves at the queens Chateauof Monceaux, while awaiting the news of the sur-prise and capture of the Protestant prey. Butwhen, instead of that welcome intelligence, Cath-erines messengers informed her that large bodiesof armed Huguenot cavaliers were arriving in Briefrom various parts, she took alarm, and with theking and the court fled in all haste to , courier after courier was despatched re-quiring the Swiss to hasten on to Meaux. Opin-ions were divided as to the best course to the queen-mother and the king remain atMeaux and negotiate, or, with their escort — eightor nine
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