The history of the League. . he had held a lecret correfpon-dence with the Huguenots, and playdbooty with the League, by a counterfeitihew of ruining its Enemies. Thereare thofe who have gone fo far as toreport, that at this very time they hadlaid a terrible Plot againft the King,in which they engaged the Duke ofMayenne, who had made himfelf theirHead, in the abfence of his Brother ;and that the Confpirators had refolvdto put all the Guards of his Majeftyto the Sword ,• to feize his Royal Per-fon, and afterwards, either to confinehim to a Monaftery, or to imprifonhim in a Tower ; to cut the th
The history of the League. . he had held a lecret correfpon-dence with the Huguenots, and playdbooty with the League, by a counterfeitihew of ruining its Enemies. Thereare thofe who have gone fo far as toreport, that at this very time they hadlaid a terrible Plot againft the King,in which they engaged the Duke ofMayenne, who had made himfelf theirHead, in the abfence of his Brother ;and that the Confpirators had refolvdto put all the Guards of his Majeftyto the Sword ,• to feize his Royal Per-fon, and afterwards, either to confinehim to a Monaftery, or to imprifonhim in a Tower ; to cut the throats ofthe Chancellour, the firft Prefident,and all the Principal Officers, to putothers in their places, and to create anew Council confifting wholly of theirown party ; to poflefs themfelves ofthe Bafitlle, the Arfenal, the Chaftelets,the Palace and the Temple; to giveentrance to the Spanijb Armada, whichwas then prepaid againft England,by Boulogne; and a hundred other par-ticularities of that Confpiracy, which M 4 the. The Hiftory of the League. the Prefident de Thou thought fit toinfert in his Hiftory, upon the creditof one Nicholas Poulain, Lieutenant inthe Provoftfhip of the Ifle of France;who having been of the Council of theLeague, reveald, as he relates himfelf,the whole fecret to the Chancellorde Chivernyy Monjteur Villeroy, chiefSecretary of State, and alfo to theKing. But, befides that no creditought in reafon to be given to a manof double dealing, who has betraydboth fides, and who to fet himfelfright with that party he had forfaken,may affirm a thoufand things whichhe cannot prove; which is a crimethat hath often brought the infor-mer to the Gallows; there is nothingof all this matter to be feen in tholePapers, which were written at thattithe, either for or againfl the League;efpeciaUy in thofe of the Huguenot sywho woud be fure to omit nothingthat cou d poffibly make againft theirEnemies, or for themfelves, neitherin the Memolresof theChancellour^fcChiverny, n
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