The history of the League. . ail himfelf of fo favourable an op-portunity, to obtain the thing whichhe demanded ,• and which doubtlefshad put him into condition of moun-ting the throne after the King sdeceafe,and becoming abiblute Matter of allaffairs even during his Life. In effed:, the Queen having under-taken to make the reconcilement, asbelieving that thereby fhe might reen-ter into the management of bufinefs,from which the Favourites had re-moved her, and having askd him whatwere his pretenfions, he proposed fuchextravagant terms, and with fo muchhaughtinefs and refolvdnefs, fpeakinglike
The history of the League. . ail himfelf of fo favourable an op-portunity, to obtain the thing whichhe demanded ,• and which doubtlefshad put him into condition of moun-ting the throne after the King sdeceafe,and becoming abiblute Matter of allaffairs even during his Life. In effed:, the Queen having under-taken to make the reconcilement, asbelieving that thereby fhe might reen-ter into the management of bufinefs,from which the Favourites had re-moved her, and having askd him whatwere his pretenfions, he proposed fuchextravagant terms, and with fo muchhaughtinefs and refolvdnefs, fpeakinglike a Conquerour , who took uponhim to difpofe at his pleafure of theVanquifhd, that as dextrous as fhewas, in the art of managing MensTninds, from the very beginning ofthe conference flie defpaird of her fuc-cefs. For inhancing upon the Ar- tides of Nancy , he demanded thatcc for the Security of the Catholique Religion in this Realm,theKingofJV^- varr?,and all the Princes of the Houfe of Bourbon , who had followed himA a 4 in. The Hi ft ory of the League. in thefe laft Wars, fhoud be declar*df to have forfeited for ever theirV right of fucceeding to the Crown : That the Duke of Efpemon, La Va-* kite his Brother , Francis d* O. the!* Marfhals of Retzand of i?im?,Golonel Atyhonfo dy Ornano, and all others<c who like them were favourers of%i the Huguenots, or were found tof have held any correfpondenee with^ them, fhouM be deprived of their Governments and Offices, and ba-€- niflid from the Court, without hope of ever being reftord again. That the fpoils otall thefe fhou d be given•c to the Princes of his Houfe, and to*c thofe Lords who had ingagd with him, of whom he made a long Lift :iC That the King fhouM cafheer hisu Gmrd of five and forty, as a thing- unknown in the times of his Prede**c ceflburs, protefting that otherwrife he* coud place no manner of confidenceP in him, nor ever ctere to approachic his perform That it woud pleafe his Majefly to declare him his Lieu-¥
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