The history of the League. . , as he did, when he declaredhimfelf the Head of it, he authorisdthofe very Articles, which manifeftlyfhockd his Royal Authority; put theLeague in condition, and even gaveit a lawfull right, according to thatTreaty which he approved , to ad:againft himfelf, in cafe he fhoud difturbit, or finally break with it, which wasimpoflible not to happen in fome time;he infringd the Peace which he hadgiven his Subje&s by the Edict ofPacification granted to the Huguenotsyand precipitated France into that bot-tomlefs gulf of miferies, that are infe-parable trom a Civil War, whi
The history of the League. . , as he did, when he declaredhimfelf the Head of it, he authorisdthofe very Articles, which manifeftlyfhockd his Royal Authority; put theLeague in condition, and even gaveit a lawfull right, according to thatTreaty which he approved , to ad:againft himfelf, in cafe he fhoud difturbit, or finally break with it, which wasimpoflible not to happen in fome time;he infringd the Peace which he hadgiven his Subje&s by the Edict ofPacification granted to the Huguenotsyand precipitated France into that bot-tomlefs gulf of miferies, that are infe-parable trom a Civil War, which him- -ielf renewed, and which was of fmalladvantage to him. I fhall not defcribe the particulari-ties of it, becaufe they belong to theHiftory of France, and have no rela-tion to the League, which on that oc-cafion a&ed not, on its own account,againft the Authority of the whofe orders two Armies, the onecommanded by the Duke d3 Alanfon,the other by the Duke de Mayenne,gttacqud the Huguenots; from whom they. The Hiftory of the League. they took La Char it ey Iffoite, Brouageand fome other places of lefs impor-tance ; I iliall onely fay, that the Kingquickly growing weary of the Caresof War, which were not mitable tohis humour, loving, as he paffionatelydid, his cafe and pleafures, AnewPeace enfued, which was granted tothe Huguenots at the end of Sept em-let, in the fame year, by the Edift ofPoitiers, little different from that ofMay, onely with this refervation, thatthe exercife of Cahinifm was reftrain dwithin the limits of the former pacifi-cations, and that it was forbidden, inthe Marquifate of Salujfes% and theCounty of Avignon.^^2^ Farther, it was during this intervalof Peace, which was highly difplea-fing to the Leaguers , that the Kingto ftrengthen himfelf againft theLeague, by making himfelf Creatures,who ilioud inviolably be ingagd tohis Service by an Oath, more particu-lar and more folemn, than that whichuniverfally obligd his Subje&s,- efta-bliffrd and fole
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