Note 1245 — Chapter XIII

C. S. P. For., No. 2,296, June 22, 1568. They feared a plot to capture them by trickery, as Egmont and Hoorne had been trapped in Flanders. According to report, Lavallette was to have seized the prince, Chavigny the admiral, and Tavannes D’Andelot. The warning was probably given by some secretary whom Coligny had corrupted, for shortly after this time several secretaries to the Catholic leaders were dismissed (ibid., No. 2,256, June 7, 1568; cf. D’Aumale, Histoire des princes de Condé, II, 12, n. 2, and p. 287). Coligny also bribed the secretary of Don Francesco de Alava, Spanish ambassador in France (see C. S. P. For., No. 1,230, May 24, 1568 and Introd., p. xxvi).