their worke and gave him eleven blows with a barre and laid him on
the wheele. Hee was two houres dying. All about Monsr Daillie I
heard from his own mouth for I went to wait on him because it was
reported hee had said something concerning the King of England butt
hee could tell mee nothing of that. There was a flying report that
he should say going from the Chastelet--The Duke of York hath done
mee a great injury--The Swisses they say resented his [Marsilly's]
taking and misst butt half an hour to take them which betrayed him
[the monk] after whom they sent. When he was on the wheele hee was
heard to say Le Roy est grand tyrant, Le Roy me traitte d'un facon
fort barbare. All that you read concerning oaths and dying en
enrage is false all the oaths hee used being only asseverations to
Monsr Daillie that he was falsely accused as to the King's person.

Sr I am etc

FRANS. VERNON.

*State Papers, France, vol. 126.

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Note VI. The Ambassador Montague to Arlington.*

Paris: June 22, 1669.

My Lord,

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