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Updated: June 23, 2025
At this moment the Duc d'Anjou, who had been summoned to attend the council, entered. "My brother," said Henri, "M. de Morvilliers comes to announce a plot to us." The duke threw a suspicious glance round him. "Is it possible?" he said. "Alas, yes, monseigneur," said M. de Morvilliers. "Tell us all about it," said Chicot. "Yes," stammered the duke, "tell us all about it, monsieur."
He had already, at the king's request, set forth in a long memorial all the reasons for his policy of a war with Spain; the king had appeared struck with them; but, "as he only sought," says De Thou, "to gain time without its being perceived," he handed the admiral's memorial to the keeper of the seals, John de Morvilliers, requesting him to set forth also all the reasons for a pacific policy.
But Morvilliers cut him off, saying: 'My Lord of Charolais, I am not come of ambassage to you, but to my Lord your father. The said earl besought his father divers times to give him leave to answer, who in the end said unto him: 'I have answered for thee as methinketh the father should answer for the son, notwithstanding if thou have so great desire to speak bethink thyself to-day and to-morrow speak and spare not."
She at the same time ordered that Master Philip de Morvilliers, heretofore councillor of the Duke of Burgundy, should go to Amiens, accompanied by several clerics of note and by a registrar, and that there should be held there, by the queen's authority, for the bailiwicks of Amiens, Vermandois, Tournai, and the countship of Ponthieu, a sovereign court of justice, in the place of that which there was at Paris.
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