The history of the League. . ( which always vwas maintaind by force of Arms, byplaces of caution and fecurity, whichupon conftraint were granted to theHuguenots, and by the treafonable in-telligence they held with Strangers,even till the time wherein it was to-tally extinguifhd by the taking ofRoche 11, and of their other Cities, andfortified places, under the Reign of thelate King of glorious memory,) ob-liged fome Catholiques oftentimes, tounite themfelves without the partici-pation of the King in certain Provin-ces ,• as particularly, in Languedoc^Guyenne, and Poitou, not onely to de-fend t
The history of the League. . ( which always vwas maintaind by force of Arms, byplaces of caution and fecurity, whichupon conftraint were granted to theHuguenots, and by the treafonable in-telligence they held with Strangers,even till the time wherein it was to-tally extinguifhd by the taking ofRoche 11, and of their other Cities, andfortified places, under the Reign of thelate King of glorious memory,) ob-liged fome Catholiques oftentimes, tounite themfelves without the partici-pation of the King in certain Provin-ces ,• as particularly, in Languedoc^Guyenne, and Poitou, not onely to de-fend themfelves againfl the encroach-ments of the Huguenots, but alfo toat-tacque them, and to exterminate them,if they had been able, from all thofeplaces, of which they had poflefsdthemfelves in thofe Provinces. Buthe who employd his thoughts at theutmofl ftretch in that affair, andwas the firft who invented the projectof a General League amongft the Ca-tholiques , under another Head thanthe King, was the Cardinal of Lor- ruin. The Hi [lory of the League. rain, at that time affifting at theCouncil of Trent. That Prince, whofe name is fo wellknown in Hiftory, and who had amod prompt and moll: piercing un-derftanding, fiery by nature, impetu-ous, and violent, endud with a rare,natural eloquence, more learning thancoud reafbnably be expedted from aPerfon of his Quality, and which his e-loquence made appear to be much grea^ter than it was; the boldeft of anyman alive iti Councils^ Cabals, and inContrivance of daring and vaft defigns,was alfo the moft pufillanimous andweakeft man imaginable, when itcame to the point of Execution, andthat he faw there was danger in theundertaking. But above all, it can-not be denied, that through the wholeferies of his Life, he had a moft im-moderate paffion for the greatnefs ofhis Family. Infomuch, that when hefaw the great Duke of Guife^ his Bro-ther, at the higheft point of glory af-ter the Battel of Dreux, where it mightbe faid that he was the fafe
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