"We must give place to these sedition-mongers, or put them down." A decree, published by sound of trumpet on the 14th of March, 1594, throughout the whole city, prohibited the Sixteen and their partisans from assembling on pain of death.

That same day, Count de Brissac, governor of Paris, had an interview at the abbey of St.Anthony, with his brother-in-law, Francis d'Epinay, Lord of St.Luc, Henry IV.'s grand-master of the ordnance; they had disputes touching private interests, which they wished, they said, to put right; and on this pretext advocates had appeared at their interview.

They spent three hours in personal conference, their minds being directed solely to the means of putting the king into possession of Paris.

They separated in apparent dudgeon.
Brissac went to call upon the legate Gaetani, and begged him to excuse the error he had committed in communicating with a heretic; his interest in the private affairs in question was too great, he said, for him to neglect it.

The legate excused him graciously, whilst praising him for his modest conduct, and related the incident to the Duke of Feria, the Spanish ambassador.