The history of the League. . o the Peace, while the Spa- A^2^iwxAs 1H11 imployd all their Canningmd their Friends, in the Eftates, to(perpetuate the War by the election ofa King. Tor even before the Conference ofnne was begun, the Duke of Fe-rU , AmbalTador Extraordinary fromthe King of Spain to the General fi-xates at Parifj accompanied by DonBern at din Mendoza , AmbalTador inOrdinary , Don Diego £ Ibarra , andJohn Baptifta Tt&U printed in afull Affembly, (where he was receive!with great Honour J his Mafters Let-ters, in which he exhorted them toproceed without delay to the eledionof a Catho
The history of the League. . o the Peace, while the Spa- A^2^iwxAs 1H11 imployd all their Canningmd their Friends, in the Eftates, to(perpetuate the War by the election ofa King. Tor even before the Conference ofnne was begun, the Duke of Fe-rU , AmbalTador Extraordinary fromthe King of Spain to the General fi-xates at Parifj accompanied by DonBern at din Mendoza , AmbalTador inOrdinary , Don Diego £ Ibarra , andJohn Baptifta Tt&U printed in afull Affembly, (where he was receive!with great Honour J his Mafters Let-ters, in which he exhorted them toproceed without delay to the eledionof a Catholick King. Twas that in-deed, which King Philip infinitely de-fied, as well thereby to continue theEnmity betwixt the two Parties,which doubtlefs woud have been ef-fe&ed by the choice of a new King,as to procure the Crown for hisDaughter the Infanta, as he had ex-plained himfelf more than once alrea-dy. In effe£t, thole Spaniards werenot wanting fbme time after, to pro-pofe her pretended Pught of Proximi-L 11 2 ty,. Tk Hiftory of the League. ty, is being iflued from the Daughterof King Henry the Second. But fee-ing afterwards, that they were bentupon a King, they renewd the Propo-fal of marrying her to the ArchdukeErneflm; till at laft perceiving, thatboth thefe Propofitions were ill re-lifhd , even by their mod zealousPartifans, who adher d to all the reft,in the election of a King who fhouMbe a Frenchman, and to whom theKing of Spain might give his Daugh-ter in Marriage; they made a newOverture, after they had taken timeto deliberate on an Affair of that im-portance , and faid, That the Kingtheir Mafter,that he might give themfull fatisfaftion, was ready to agreeon the Marriage of the Infant a, withIbme French Prince, whom he woudnominate, therein comprehending theFamily of Lorrain, fince it was but rea-fbnable that himfelf fhou d have thechoice of the Perfbn whom he inten-ded for his Son in-law: but that itwas alfb neceffary that the Eftatesfhoud ele£tthem, and fhouM decl
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