While the evidence was accumulating, Menocchio sensed that something was shaping up against him. So he had gone to the vicar of Polcenigo, Giovanni Daniele Melchiori, a childhood friend who urged him to present himself voluntarily to the Holy office, or at least to obey immediately if he should be called. He warned Menocchio: "Tell them what they want to know, and try not to talk too much; do not go out of your way to discuss these things. Answer only their questions." Even Alessandro Policreto, an ex-lawyer who Menocchio had met casually in the home of a friend, a lumber merchant, had advised him to present himself before the judges and admit his guilt, but also to declare that he had never believed his own hereticals tatements. And so Menocchio went to Maniago in response to the summons of the ecclesiastical court. But the next day, 4 February, the inquisitor himself the Franciscan Fra Felice da Montefalco, who had followed the course of the inquest, ordered him arrested and "conducted in handcuffs" to the prison of the Holy Office in Concordia. On 7 February 1584 Menocchio faced his first interrogation.