[190] Mezeray asserts, and with greater probability, that Henry’s parting words were:  “Since you will not speak out, adieu, Baron” (Hist, de France, vol. x. p. 201); while Perefixe gives a third version, asserting that the King took leave of him by saying:  “Well then, the truth must be learnt elsewhere; adieu, Baron de Biron” (Hist, de Henri le Grand, vol. ii. p. 371).

[191] Sully, Mem. vol. iv. pp. 108, 109.

[192] Daniel, vol. vii. pp. 415-417.  Matthieu, Hist, des Derniers Troubles, book ii. pp. 413-415.  Mezeray, vol. x. pp. 196-202.  Perefixe, vol. ii. pp. 369-372.

[193] Mezeray, vol. x. p. 203.

[194] Matthieu, Hist. des Troubles, book ii. pp. 415, 416.

[195] Francois de la Grange d’Anquien, Seigneur de Montigny, Sery, etc., afterwards known as the Marechal de Montigny, served with the Catholics at Coutras, where he was taken prisoner.  In 1601 Henri IV made him Governor of Paris; in 1609, lieutenant of the King in the Three Bishoprics; and subsequently, in 1616, Marie de Medicis procured for him the baton of Marshal of France.  He commanded the royal army against the malcontents in Nivernais, and died in the same year (1617).  He had but one son, who left no male issue; but his brother had, among other children, Henri, Marquis d’Anquien, whose daughter, Marie Casimire, married Sobieski, King of Poland, and died in France, in 1716, two years after her return to her native country.

[196] Mezeray, vol. x. p. 204.

[197] L’Etoile computes them at one hundred and twenty-seven.—­Journ. de Henri IV, vol. iii. p. 21.

[198] Mezeray, vol. x. p. 205.

[199] Matthieu, Hist. des Troubles, book ii. pp. 426, 427.

[200] Monttaucon, vol. v. p. 410.

[201] Perefixe, vol. ii. p. 377.  Mezeray, vol. x. p. 209.

[202] Rene de Maree-Montbarot, Governor of Rennes in 1602.  Wrongly suspected of complicity with Biron, he made no effort to evade the consequences of the accusation, but suffered himself to be arrested in the seat of his government, whence he was conveyed to the Bastille; and although he succeeded in establishing his innocence, he found himself, on his liberation, deprived of his office.

[203] Guy Eder de Beaumanoir de Lavardin, Baron de Fontenelles, was a Breton noble, who, according to De Thou, had been a celebrated Leaguer and brigand.  From the year 1597 he had held, in the name of the Duc de Mercoeur, the fort of Douarnenez in Brittany, and the island of Tristain in which it is situated.  Since that period he had continually been guilty of acts of piracy upon the English, and had even extended his system of theft and murder indiscriminately both on sea and land.  He might, had he been willing so to do, have profited by the benefit of the edict accorded to the Duc de Mercoeur in 1598, but he affected to hold it as a point of honour to obtain a distinct