The Holy Inquisition commenced proceedings against them for heresy; the government stopped the proceedings, and even, says Count Daru, had the Inquisitor thrown into prison.

The Venetian senate accredited to the court of Henry IV.

the same ambassador who had been at Henry III.'s; and, on returning to Tours, on the 21st of November, 1589, the king received him to an audience in state.

A little later on he did more; he sent the republic, as a pledge of his friendship, his sword--the sword, he said in his letter, which he had used at the battle of Ivry.

"The good offices were mutual," adds M.
de Daru; the Venetians lent Henry IV.