text:  "According to his own account he went to the foot of the great staircase and called to the alabarderos to discontinue firing lest they should alarm the queen!" but the noise of the musketry was such that he could not make himself heard even with the aid of a trumpet! Things however had not gone as the conspirators wished; the gallant defence of the halbardiers which they had not reckoned upon had caused them to lose much time and after a short consultation Concha and Leon took to flight