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CH. xxii] LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI 9
look over again with very great care all the accounts of
the precious stones. Then when they had seen that
nothing was missing, they let me remain in the Castello
without saying anything further; the lord Pier Luigi,
since it seemed even to him that he had been wrong,
sought with diligence to procure my death. During
the small disturbances of this period King Francis had
already heard in detail how the Pope had kept me
prisoner, and so very wrongfully: having sent as an
Ambassador to the Pope a certain nobleman of his, who
was called Monsignior di Morluc/ he wrote to this man
that he should demand me from the Pope, as one of His
Majesty's servants. The Pope, who was a most able and
wonderful man, but who in this affair of mine acted like
a person of little worth and a simpleton, answered the
said messenger of the King, that His Majesty should not
trouble about me, for I was a man who was very trouble-
some with my weapons, and for this reason he would
have His Majesty warned that he should let me alone,
for he was keeping me in prison for murders and others
of my similar devilries. The King again answered that in
his kingdom there reigned the most excellent justice; and
just as His Majesty rewarded and favoured wondrously
men of merit, so on the contrary he punished the trouble-
^ Jean, brother of the celebrated Marshal, Blaise de Monluc.
He entered the service of Francis I through the favour of Queen
Marguerite of Navarre, and in 1353 was appointed Bishop of
Valence in Dauphine. In 1373 he was sent to Warsaw to bring
about the election of Henry of Anjou to the throne of Poland, and
died in 1579. Qd GW/zh: c%?*zj7zb:%<3, Vol. VI, p. 368. This prelate
was certainly in Rome at this period, but M. PLON's diligent re-
searches amongst his correspondence reveal no trace of his inter-
cession on behalf of Cellini. PLON, rz7., p. 46.
look over again with very great care all the accounts of
the precious stones. Then when they had seen that
nothing was missing, they let me remain in the Castello
without saying anything further; the lord Pier Luigi,
since it seemed even to him that he had been wrong,
sought with diligence to procure my death. During
the small disturbances of this period King Francis had
already heard in detail how the Pope had kept me
prisoner, and so very wrongfully: having sent as an
Ambassador to the Pope a certain nobleman of his, who
was called Monsignior di Morluc/ he wrote to this man
that he should demand me from the Pope, as one of His
Majesty's servants. The Pope, who was a most able and
wonderful man, but who in this affair of mine acted like
a person of little worth and a simpleton, answered the
said messenger of the King, that His Majesty should not
trouble about me, for I was a man who was very trouble-
some with my weapons, and for this reason he would
have His Majesty warned that he should let me alone,
for he was keeping me in prison for murders and others
of my similar devilries. The King again answered that in
his kingdom there reigned the most excellent justice; and
just as His Majesty rewarded and favoured wondrously
men of merit, so on the contrary he punished the trouble-
^ Jean, brother of the celebrated Marshal, Blaise de Monluc.
He entered the service of Francis I through the favour of Queen
Marguerite of Navarre, and in 1353 was appointed Bishop of
Valence in Dauphine. In 1373 he was sent to Warsaw to bring
about the election of Henry of Anjou to the throne of Poland, and
died in 1579. Qd GW/zh: c%?*zj7zb:%<3, Vol. VI, p. 368. This prelate
was certainly in Rome at this period, but M. PLON's diligent re-
searches amongst his correspondence reveal no trace of his inter-
cession on behalf of Cellini. PLON, rz7., p. 46.