It is important that he should think that you depend immediately upon him.

If you see that after his arrest they take severe measures against him, you will have a thousand ways of parrying the blame which posterity might throw upon you.

History teaches you plenty of them." He added that neither Sully nor anyone else thought much of the Poitou conspiracy.

Those implicated asserted that they had intended to raise troops there to assist the King in the Cleve expedition.

Some people said that Henry had invented this plot against his throne and life.