Those present withdrew dumbfounded at the crime, the prisoner's rage, the execution, and the scene.
When the question of conspiracies and conspirators--with Spain against France and her king had thus been publicly raised and decided, it entailed another: had the Spanish monks, the Jesuits, to call them by their own name, taken part therein?
Should proceedings accordingly be taken against them?
They were no longer in France; they had been banished on the 29th of December, 1594, by a solemn decree of Parliament, after John Chatel's attempt.

They were demanding their return.

The pope was demanding it for them.

If at other times," they said, "the society had shown hostility to France and her king, it was because, though well received everywhere else, especially in the dominions of the King of Spain, they had met in France with nothing but persecutions and insults.
If Henry would be pleased to testify good will towards them, he would soon find them devoted to his person and his throne." The question was debated at the king's council, and especially between Henry IV.

and Sully when they were together.
[Illustration: Henry IV.