The history of the League. . em to me from Venice morethan three years fince. And tis evi-dent from the Letters of this CardinalLegat, to Cardinal Mont alto, Nephewof Pope Sixtiis the fifth, to whom hegives a mofl exadt account, of all thepafTages on the twenty third of De-cember, and the following days, thatwhatfoever importunity he had usdat the requeft of Madam de Nemours,to obtain an Audience of the King,on the morning of that day, the en-trance even of the Caflle was refusdto him, notwithftanding that he usdhis utmoft endeavours at the Gate toget admiffion, and that he cou d neverprocure
The history of the League. . em to me from Venice morethan three years fince. And tis evi-dent from the Letters of this CardinalLegat, to Cardinal Mont alto, Nephewof Pope Sixtiis the fifth, to whom hegives a mofl exadt account, of all thepafTages on the twenty third of De-cember, and the following days, thatwhatfoever importunity he had usdat the requeft of Madam de Nemours,to obtain an Audience of the King,on the morning of that day, the en-trance even of the Caflle was refusdto him, notwithftanding that he usdhis utmoft endeavours at the Gate toget admiffion, and that he cou d neverprocure an Audience till the twentyfixth, which was three days after theMurther of the Cardinal. After thiswhat will become of all thole fine dif-courles, and all the particular circum-fiances of that pretended Conferencein the Caftle Court, on the twentythird ? and of that eafie and uncon-*rnd, or ratjjpr light behaviourof the Cardinal to the King, whenhe whifperd in his Ear and laughd lbheartily; which gave men occafion D d 4 to w. The Hiftory of the League. to believe, that according to his Or-ders from Rcme, he was of intelligencewith the King, who feeing him fo fne-rily difposd, was refolvd to profecutehis defign yet farther, and to rid hishands of the Cardinal ofGuife > Whatelfe is this, than to turn Hiftory in-to Romance; as on this very occafiontwo Proteftant Writers have alfo done,I mean d Auhigne, and the Authourof the Difcourie of that which pafsdat Blois9 untill the death of the DukeOf Guife ? And our Catholtque Hifto-rians who have followed their Autho-rity, having fufferd themfelves tobe imposd on by thofe Huguenots ,have confequently imposd upon theirReaders. There is fo little appearancethat the complaifant Difcourfes ofthe Legat Morofini, had given theKing occasion to refolve on the deathof the Cardinal de Guife, that you feeon the contrary he refusd to granthim an Audience, becaufe he woudnot hear what he coud urge in favourof that Cardinal, whofe death alreadywras
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