. The history of the civil wars of France . uke of AUncon and the King of Nivarre, neareft of the Blood Royal, andby that prerogative chief of the Council of State, were held as guilty of a mod hai-nous crime, and ftraitly guarded as prifoners. The Prince oi Conde, though veryyoung, yet of an ancient reputation by the fame of his Anceftors, not only abfent andfled from Court, but proteded by the favour of the Proteftant Princes, and ready byforeign Forces to bring in new Inundations. The Hugonots up in Arms in everyProvince, and manifeftly intent by all means poilible to furprife and poffefs t
. The history of the civil wars of France . uke of AUncon and the King of Nivarre, neareft of the Blood Royal, andby that prerogative chief of the Council of State, were held as guilty of a mod hai-nous crime, and ftraitly guarded as prifoners. The Prince oi Conde, though veryyoung, yet of an ancient reputation by the fame of his Anceftors, not only abfent andfled from Court, but proteded by the favour of the Proteftant Princes, and ready byforeign Forces to bring in new Inundations. The Hugonots up in Arms in everyProvince, and manifeftly intent by all means poilible to furprife and poffefs the chiefeftCities and FortrefTcs. Many of the grcatert Lords, fome fecretly, fome openly, werealienated i and divers of thofe who had mort experience in affairs, moll: authoritywith the people, and moO reputation in war, were already (if I may fe that worci)Cantou/zed in their feveral Provinces and Governments i the Treafury empty, or ra-ther deftroyed •> the Gentry wearied and i^overiflied ; the Militia wafted and con- D d 2 Ciraed i. 20A. The Hiftorj of the Civil U^ars 1574. fumed i the people ruined and undone j and yet not only the diflentions in inattersof Religion, but alfo the emulations and enmities of the great ones were ftill morethan ever kindled and ftirred up. In this miferable condition no other prop upheldthe State from a final fubverfion contrived and plotted by fo many , fave only thewifdom and magnanimity of the Queen-Mother, who by long ufe accuftomed to refifl:the heavielt Ikokes of Fortune , having prefently after the Kings death taken poffef-fion of the Regency, endeavoured conliantly by the beft means (he could, to flop thedangerous precipice of the prefent affairs. But the difeafes ot that Kingdom were not fo light, nor the humours that di-ftcmpcred it fo weak, as could by gentle medicines be cured in a fliort time, efpe-cially in the Kings abfencei wherefore the Queen, by the experience of fo manyyears, well acquainted with the nature and quality o
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