The history of the League. . The Hiftory of the League. they proteft in all their Articles, andthat with all manner of refped: in thejpoft formal terms, that nothing fhallbe done, but with his good liking, andby his Orders, though in purluanceof this, all things were managdto a quite contrary end. But it fre-quently happens that men engagethemfeives with an honeft meaning^and$reled by motives of true zeal, infomeaffairs, whereof they forefee not thedangerous confluences, which pro-duce fuch pernicious effe&s, as neverenterd into their firft imagination. Behold then, this Treaty in eighteenArti


The history of the League. . The Hiftory of the League. they proteft in all their Articles, andthat with all manner of refped: in thejpoft formal terms, that nothing fhallbe done, but with his good liking, andby his Orders, though in purluanceof this, all things were managdto a quite contrary end. But it fre-quently happens that men engagethemfeives with an honeft meaning^and$reled by motives of true zeal, infomeaffairs, whereof they forefee not thedangerous confluences, which pro-duce fuch pernicious effe&s, as neverenterd into their firft imagination. Behold then, this Treaty in eighteenArticles, together with the fubicripti-9ns of the Gentlemen and Officers,whereof forne are written in fuch awk-ward Characters, and fo little legible,that I could never have unriddled them,without the ailiftencepf aperfon veryskilli4ll in that difficult art of deciphe-ring all forts of ancient writing. Imean Dm John Herkart an ancientman in Holy Orders, of the Abbey ofSt. Nicholas aux Bois in Fkardy; whohaving labourd to pla


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