THe Kinges maiestie calling to his remembrance , diuers supplications presented vnto hym sondrye times ( as it appeareth by the date of the sayd supplications ) by the Lordes of Guyse and by the Ladies the Duchesses of Guyse , the mother and wife to the late Duke of Guyse , to be permitted of his sayd maiestie to sue into the courtes of Parliament against all those which shall be charged and giltie , of the murther committed on the person of the said late Duke of Guyse , & namely agaynst the Lord of Chastillon Admirall of Fraunce . And where as the rehearsing and declaring of euery worde of the sayd supplications and euidences should be to tedious , the translatour hereof vseth asmuch shortnes as may be to let euery man vnderstand brieflye , how the king spent for both parties to appeare before his maiestie , at Moulins in Bourbonnois , for to be examined vntill the triall of the truth of the cause should be knowen , to the ende to geue a full sentence as right reason and iustice shall require . Wherupon , the king assisted with the Queene his mother , and in the presence of the princes of the kynges bloude , Lordes , Knights of hys order , &c. Whose names are vnderwritten .

AFter the declarations of the parties aboue mentioned haue bene well considered and their causes well examined , the kinges maiestie with the aduise of the princes , Lordes , and of his counsaile , hath declared and pronounced , the Lord of Chastillon Admirall of Fraunce , to be purged , clearely discharged and innocent of the deathe of the late Duke of Guyse and of all charges and thinges that haue bene imputed vnto hym heretofore , or should bee imputed vnto him hereafter , touching the said death : Did likewyse commaunde a perpetuall silence to his generall Attourney and to all other , forbidding aswel the sayd parties as all other to do hereafter any search or sute one against an other : Be it by the way of lawe or other wyse , and to all iudges to take any knowledge of the same : And the sayd soueraigne Lord hath taken the sayd parties in his tuition and safegard , and enioyning them to liue louingly vnder hys obedience without some enterpryse of any acte one agaynst an other directlye or indirectlye , Declaring at this present to the said parties , their parents and frendes , or acquaintaunce , which will be disobedient to thys sentence to be giltie of hys maiesties displeasure as breakers of the peace and perturbatours , of the tranquilitie of the common wealth and their bodies and goods confisked , the which ( for such offence ) he hath aswell at this present as for the tyme to come vnited and incorporated , to the dominion of hys crowne . Also the said soueraigne lord forbiddeth , vnder the paine aboue declared , to all persons of what qualitie soeuer they be , to disobey to thys present sentence nor to put any doubt , controuersie , and disput to it . And willed the same Sentence to be sent to all hys Courtes of Parliament , &c. for to be red openly and registred to the end no man shoulde be ignoraunt of the same . Geuen in the said Counsaile , to the which were present my Lorde the kings brother , the Lordes the Cardinall of Bourbon , Prince of Counde , Duke of Montpensier & Prince Doulphyn , Princes of the Kinges bloud , the Lordes the Dukes of Longueuille , and of Neuers , Peer of Fraunce , the Lord Duke of Montmorency also Péer and Constable of Fraunce , the Lord Chauncellor , the Lords of Vieilleuille and of Bourdillon Mareshals of Fraunce , the Lordes of Moruillier and the byshop of Valence , the Lordes of Crussell and the Gonnort knightes of the order , the bishop of Lymoges , the Lordes of Lanssac of Chaulne and Baron of the Garde also Knightes of the order , Maister Christofle of Thou fyrst President & Peter Seguier also president in the Court of Parliament at Parys , the Lords of Laubespine and of the Cazedieu , all Counsaillors in hys sayd priuie Counsaile , and maister Baptiste de Mesuill lykewyse hys Counsaillor and aduocate in the sayd Court of Parliament . The 29. of Ianuary . 1566. in the Castell of Moulyns in Bourbonnois and pronounced to the parties the last day of the same month .