They did by _Choler_, the Protestants because they had been so ill used, in the time of _Francis_ I. and _Henry_ II. and lately by the _Guisians_. And the discontented, for to pull down their power, it was also by an _intestine hatred_, because the Constable could not brook to be dispossessed of his Office of great Master, which was given to the Duke of _Guise_; and the others to see themselves from the management of Affairs, and the Protestants by the spirit of a contrary Religion. Their _conspiracy_ tended to expel the _Guisians_, and to seise upon the Queen, the King, and his Brothers. To compass their end, they secretly sent some trusty persons of their own, who nevertheless feigned to be their Enemies; insomuch that the King of _Navarre_ sent them word, that he would be always of their party, though apparently he took the Courts part. But _the Old his own_, saith the fourth Verse, that is to say, the Kings old friends shall raise _Sedition_ against them, which happened in the year 1650. when the _Guisians_ having discovered the conspiracy that was made at _Nantes_, the 1. of _February_ 1560. whose chief Ring-leader was the Lord _La Renaudie_; they presently got the King out of _Blois_, and carryed him to _Amboise_, caused the Town to be fortified, and set strong Guards upon all the passages. The day appointed for the execution of the conspiracy at _Blois_, was the 10th of _March_: But the King being got to _Amboise_, the Conspirators went thither in such great numbers, and under such specious pretences, that had they not been betrayed, no body would have suspected them. All the Suburbs and the Countrey Towns thereabouts were full of them. The Prince of _Condé_, the Admiral, d’_Andelot_, and his Brother the Cardinal, were all there. Then the _Guisians_ began to fall to work, and to set upon the Conspirators on all sides. Abundance were taken, some in the City, some in the Suburbs, others in the Countrey round about. Most of these were slain before they could come to Town, or be carried to Prison. And their process was so short that they were hanged in their Boots and Spurs. The Scouts did every where kill those they met withall. To conclude, it proved a very Bloody Tragedy. _La Renaudie_ the Chief of the Conspirators, was met with by the Lord _Pardaillan_ a _Gascon_. At the first approach _La Renaudie_ killed him; but himself was killed by _Pardeillan_’s Servant, and his dead body brought and hanged at _Amboise_. The second History is concerning _England_, which palpably makes this Prophecie good, if we make reflection upon what hath happened in this last Century of years, concerning banished people that have conspired against their King and Countrey, as we may see through all the Life of Queen _Elizabeth_, and by that famous Plot of the Gun-powder-Treason in King _James_’s time, which must be understood here by the _Mine_. XIV. French.