The chancellor did not give himself the trouble to draw up sentences.

"The decree is at the tip of my staff," replied Picot, captain of his guards, when he was asked to show his orders.

The executions were numerous in Higher and Lower Normandy, and the Parliament received the wages of its tardiness.

All the members of the body, even the most aged and infirm, were obliged to leave Rouen.

A commission of fifteen councillors of the Parliament of Paris came to replace provisionally the interdicted Parliament of Normandy; and, when the magistrates were empowered at last to resume their sitting, it was only a six months' term: that is, the Parliament henceforth found itself divided into two fragments, perfect strangers one to the other, which were to sit alternately for six months.