But on examining here and there, where they did not expect search would be made, their cellars were found to be stored with gunpowder, of which they had taken good care to say no word.
What they meant to do with it is uncertain.

It was carried away, and as they were Jesuits nothing was done.
During the course of this siege, the King suffered a cruel disappointment.

James II.

of England, then a refugee in France, had advised the King to give battle to the English fleet.

Joined to that of Holland it was very superior to the sea forces of France.