The history of the League. . ^j^J***without confidering he had alreadyone of Cardinalfhip, that threefcoreandten came fail upon him, and that theKing was not yet thirty five, he quit-ted Ills Habit of Cardinal, and appearedin publique, like the General of anArmy; which gave men occafion tobelieve, that his great age had atleaflcrazd his underftanding, if it had notquite deftroyd it. Yet this opinionof the world hinder d him not, fromcalling himfelf the Heir prefumptiveof the Crown, nor from declaringhimfelf openly the Head of the League,againft his Nephew the King of Na-varre ; efpecially when
The history of the League. . ^j^J***without confidering he had alreadyone of Cardinalfhip, that threefcoreandten came fail upon him, and that theKing was not yet thirty five, he quit-ted Ills Habit of Cardinal, and appearedin publique, like the General of anArmy; which gave men occafion tobelieve, that his great age had atleaflcrazd his underftanding, if it had notquite deftroyd it. Yet this opinionof the world hinder d him not, fromcalling himfelf the Heir prefumptiveof the Crown, nor from declaringhimfelf openly the Head of the League,againft his Nephew the King of Na-varre ; efpecially when he law thatparty, in which he thought himfelfalready fo firmly rooted, become eve-ry day more powerfull and formi-dable, by the conjun&ion of the par-ticular League of the Tarifians, whichcausd fuch furious diforders, underthe famous name of the Jixteen;and which was framd in Paris, aboutthis time, in that manner which I amnow going to relate. After that, by the vigilance of thefirft Prefident, Chrtftopher de Thou, and. The Hiftory of the League. and fome other Magiftrates, thecourfeof the League was ftoppd at Paris*where it had begun to make fome im-preflion, after it had been fignd bythe Picards, all things were in a peace-able condition there, none daring tohold any fecret Cabals againfl theState; till fuch time as on occafionof the Conference betwixt the Kingof Navarre and the Duke d Efpernonin Guyenne , a malicious report wasraisd, that the King protefted the Hu-guenots ^ who fo foon as their Headlliould mount the Throne, which hepretended to be his right, woud notfail to abolifli the Catholique Religionin France. For then it was, that amean Citizen of Paris calfd La RocheBlonde a man rather weak and filly,than wicked, prejudiced by the calum-nies, which the fa&ious publifhd a-gainft the King, got it into his head,through a falfe zeal of Religion, thatthe good Catholiques of Paris ihoudunite themfelves together, and oppofewith ail their force the King s defigns,(who, as i
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