I will not allow nullification here of that which I brought about with so much difficulty in Italy.  My Parliament would set up for a Venetian Senate; let it confine its meddling to the cause of justice, which is worse administered than it has been for a hundred years; I ought, perhaps, to drag it about at my heels, like the Grand Council, and watch more closely over its conduct.”  The two deputies made an attempt to prolong their stay at Amboise:  but, “If before six to-morrow morning,” said the king, “they be not gone, I will send some archers to take them and cast them into a dungeon for six months; and woe to whoever dares to speak to me for them!”

On returning to Paris the deputies were beginning to give their fellows an account of how harsh a reception they met with, when Louis de la Tremoille, the most respected amongst the chiefs of the army, entered the hall.  He came by order of the king to affirm to the Parliament that to dismiss the Concordat was to renew the war, and that it must obey on the instant or profess open rebellion.  Parliament upheld its decision of July 24, 1517, against the Concordat, at the same time begging La Tremoille to write to the king to persuade him, if he insisted upon registration, to send some person of note or to commission La Tremoille himself to be present at the act, and to see indorsed upon the Concordat, “Read, published, and registered at the king’s most express command several times repeated, in presence of . . . , specially deputed by him for that purpose.”  Tremoille hesitated to write, and exhibited the letters whereby the king urged him to execute the strict orders laid upon him.  “What are those orders, then?” asked the premier president.  “That is the king’s secret,” answered La Tremoille:  “I may not reveal it; all that I can tell you is, that I should never have peace of mind if you forced me to carry them out.”  The Parliament in its excitement begged La Tremoille to withdraw, and sent for him back almost immediately.  “Choose,” said the premier president to him, “between Saturday or Monday next to be present at the registration.”  La Tremoille chose Monday, wishing to allow himself time for an answer even yet from the king.  But no new instructions came to him; and on the 22d of March, 1518, Parliament proceeded to registration of the Concordat, with the forms and reservations which they had announced, and which were evidence of compulsion.  The other Parliaments of France followed with more or less zeal, according to their own particular dispositions, the example shown by that of Paris.  The University was heartily disposed to push resistance farther than had been done by Parliament:  its rector caused to be placarded on the 27th of March, 1518, in the streets of Paris, an order forbidding all printers and booksellers to print the Concordat on pain of losing their connection with the University.  The king commanded informations to be filed against the authors and placarders of the order, and, on the