rs to all provosts, marshals, and other officers, and to
all our subjects in general, to lend whatever assistance is necessary to
carry out above order; and they are commanded by these presents to obey
all orders given by the said Sieur; and all governors and
lieutenants-general are also hereby commanded to furnish the said Sieur
with whatever aid he may require at their hands."

This document being the completion of the other, it was immediately
resolved, in order to show that they had the royal authority at their
back, and as a preventive measure, to arrest Grandier at once, without
any preliminary investigation. They hoped by this step to intimidate any
official who might still be inclined to take Grandier's part, and any
witness who might be disposed to testify in his favour. Accordingly,
they immediately sent for Guillaume Aubin, Sieur de Lagrange and
provost's lieutenant. De Laubardemont communicated to him the commission
of the cardinal and the order of the king, and requested him to arrest
Grandier early next morning. M. de Lagrange could not deny the two
signatures, and answered that he would obey; but as he foresaw from their
manner of going to work that the proceedings about to be instituted would
be an assassination and not a fair trial, he sent, in spite of being a
distant connection of Memin, whose daughter was married to his
(Lagrange's) brother, to warn Grandier of the orders he had received.
But Grandier with his usual intrepidity, while thanking Lagrange for his
generous message, sent back word that, secure in his innocence and
relying on the justice of God, he was determined to stand his ground.

So Grandier remained, and his brother, who slept beside him, declared
that his sleep that night was as quiet as usual. The next morning he
rose, as was his habit, at six o'clock, took his breviary in his hand,
and went out with the intention of attending matins at the church of
Sainte-Croix. He had hardly put his foot over the threshold before
Lagrange, in the presence of Memin, Mignon, and the other conspirators,
who had come out to gloat over the sight, arrested him in the name of the
king. He was at once placed in the custody of Jean Pouguet, an archer in
His Majesty's guards, and of the archers of the provosts of Loudun and
Chinon, to be taken to the castle at Angers. Meanwhile a search was
instituted, and the royal seal affixed to the doors of his apartments, to
his presses, his other articles of