Whilst they were removing him thither, Conde exclaimed loudly against this brazen violation of all the promises of safety by which he had been lured on when urged to go to Orleans.

The only answer he received was his committal to absolutely solitary confinement and the withdrawal of his servants.

The King of Navarre vainly asked to have his brother's custody confided to him; he obtained nothing but a coarse refusal; and he himself, separated from his escort, was kept under ocular supervision in his apartment." The trial of the Prince of Conde commenced immediately.

He was brought before the privy council.

He claimed, as a prince of the blood and knight of the order of St.Michael, his right to be tried only by the court of Parliament furnished with the proper complement of peers and knights of the order.