The Duke of Aumont held them both back, saying, "Gentlemen, we must wait for the king's orders." Orders came to arrest them both, and confine them in a small room over the council-chamber.

They had "eggs, bread, wine from the king's cellar, their breviaries, their night-gowns, a palliasse, and a mattress," brought to them there; and they were kept under ocular supervision for four and twenty hours.

The Cardinal of Guise was released the next morning, but only to be put to death like his brother.
The king spared the Archbishop of Lyons.
"I am sole king," said Henry III.

to his ministers, as he entered the council-chamber; and shortly afterwards, going to see the queen-mother, who was ill of the gout, "How do you feel ?" he asked.

"Better," she answered.