152-154.
[230] Cayet, _Chron.Septen_., 1604.
[231] Emeric Gobier, Sieur de Barrault, ambassador at the Court of Spain.
[232] Antoine de Silly, Damoiseau de Commercy, Comte de Rochepot, knight of the Order of the Holy Ghost.
[233] Antoine de Brienne de Lomenie, Seigneur de la Ville-aux-Clercs, ambassador-extraordinary to England in 1595, and secretary of state, was the representative of a distinguished family of Berry, whose father, Marechal de Brienne, registrar of the council, fell a victim to the massacre of St.Bartholomew.He himself died in 1628, bequeathing to the royal library three hundred and forty manuscript volumes, known as the _Manuscripts of Brienne_.
[234] The Prevots des Marechaux were magistrates whose duties consisted in trying vagrants and persons who could not prove their identity, culprits previously sentenced to corporal punishment, banishment, or fine, soldiers, highway robbers, and the members of illicit societies.
The Prevots des Marechaux took the title of Equerry-Councillors of the King, and their place on the bench of the criminal court was immediately after that of the presiding judge.
[235] L'Etoile, vol.iii.pp.

185-193.

Matthieu, _Hist, des Derniers Troubles,_ book ii.pp.

435-437.

Sully, _Mem._ vol.v.pp.