Agents of Catharine have been trying to persuade her to go with her son to Paris; but fortunately, she discovered that there was a plot to seize her, and the young prince her son, at the same time that we were to be entrapped in Burgundy.

De Lossy, who was charged with the mission of seizing her at Tarbes, was fortunately taken ill; and she has made her way safely up to Nerac.
"All Guyenne swarms with her enemies.

D'Escars and four thousand Catholics lie scattered along from Perigueux to Bordeaux, and other bands lie between Perigueux and Tulle.

If once past those dangers, her course is barred at Angouleme, Cognac, and Saintes.
"I want her to know that I will meet her on the Charente.

I do not say that I shall be able to take those three towns, but I will besiege them; and she will find me outside one of them, if I cannot get inside.