The history of the League. . nty of Mohtlelliard, took hisway to Nancy, whither he had invitedall the Princes of his houfe, to aflem-ble in the Month of January, there totake their refolutions, in reference totheprefent condition of affairs; and ofthat happy fuccefs which they had inthe War againft the Reyters. Someof them there were, as it is reported,fo fwoln with that Vi&ory , and foblinded with their profperity, thatthey proposed in this Conference, themoll dangerous and mod violent ex-pedients ; to which the Duke of Lor-rain a moderate and wary Prince woudby no means lifteri. Howfoever it
The history of the League. . nty of Mohtlelliard, took hisway to Nancy, whither he had invitedall the Princes of his houfe, to aflem-ble in the Month of January, there totake their refolutions, in reference totheprefent condition of affairs; and ofthat happy fuccefs which they had inthe War againft the Reyters. Someof them there were, as it is reported,fo fwoln with that Vi&ory , and foblinded with their profperity, thatthey proposed in this Conference, themoll dangerous and mod violent ex-pedients ; to which the Duke of Lor-rain a moderate and wary Prince woudby no means lifteri. Howfoever itwere, (for I find nothing to confirmthefe relations, not even in the Me-moires of their greatefl Enemies, whohave written mofl exa&ly of that Af-fembly,) tis mofl undoubted, that ifthey proceeded not fo far as to thofeterrible extremities, yet what wasthen concluded, pafs*d in the Worldfor a mofl unjufl and unlawfull ui>dertaking, and was condemned by allthofe who were not blandly devotedSothsLeagfie. 1 Y x it ?. The Hiftory of the League. It was, that a Requeft fhoud be pre-ferred to the King, containing Arti-cles, which under the ordinary pre-tence of their defire to preferve inFrame the Catholique Religion, ten-ded manifeftly to defpoil him of hisAuthority and Power, and to inveftthe Heads of the League in both. Forthofe fcandalous Articles bore this fub-fiance in them, that for the fervice ofGod, and the maintenance and fecu-rity of Religion, the King fhoud notonely be raoft humbly Petition d, butalfo fummond to eftablifh the Ho-Jy Inquifition in his Realm ; to caufethe Council of Trent to be there Pub-lifli?d, fufpending neverthelefs that Ai*-ticle which revokes the exemptionpretended by fome Chapters and Ab-beys againft the Bifliops: to continuethe War againft the Huguenots, andto caufe the goods both of them andof their Aflbciates to be fold, withwhich to defray the charges of thatWar; and to pay the Debts in whichthe Heads of the League had been con-ftraind to involv
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