Excerpt from History of the Reign of Henry IV, Vol. 1 of 2: King of France and Navarre, From Numerous Unpublished Sources, Including Ms. Documents in the Bibliotheque Imperiale, and the Archives Du Royaume De France, Etc During the remainder of the year 1602, judicial investigations, connected with the trial of the duke de Biron, continued to occupy king Henry, his council, and his parliament. Hebert, the confiden tial secretary of the duke de Biron, was subjected to interrogatories of extraordinary severity; and was once stretched on the rack, to extort admissions which might furnish a clue to the complete sifting of the late conspiracy. No fact of importance was elicited; but Hebert was condemned to perpetual incarceration in the Bastille - a sentence which the king remitted after the expiration of five years. The baron de Luz received a mandate to appear and justify his late relations with Biron; for the duke, on the morning after his arrest, had warned the king to take possession without delay of the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.