The history of the League. . France, hadvery much altered his opinion, afterhe had been better informed-of theFrench affairs: For having made fplidreflexions on the paft, without fuf-fering himfelf to be prepoffefsd, heclearly understood the great merits ofthe King, then endeayourdto reconcile to the Church by gentleufage; The Ambition of the Heads ofthe League, the indirect dealing andcoufenages of their Agents, (who hadfb often deceived him by falfe Relati-ons ; and more than all the reft, thepernicious defigns of the Spaniards,who that they might irrevocably in-gage him in their Int
The history of the League. . France, hadvery much altered his opinion, afterhe had been better informed-of theFrench affairs: For having made fplidreflexions on the paft, without fuf-fering himfelf to be prepoffefsd, heclearly understood the great merits ofthe King, then endeayourdto reconcile to the Church by gentleufage; The Ambition of the Heads ofthe League, the indirect dealing andcoufenages of their Agents, (who hadfb often deceived him by falfe Relati-ons ; and more than all the reft, thepernicious defigns of the Spaniards,who that they might irrevocably in-gage him in their Interefts, were Ve-hemently urgent with him to Excom-municate all the Catholiques whofollowed the King, and that he fhoudbind himfelf by Oath, never to re-ceive him into the Bofbm of theChurch, what fubmiffion foever hefhould make 5) had opened his eyes*and causM him to take much othermeafures. For they proceeded atlength to plain threatnings, that ifhe denyM them this fatisfa6Hon, theywoud proteft in a full AfTembly a- gainft. 8 24 The Hiftory of the League. 4^j$i. gainft him, and make provifion of^ other means for the prefervation ofthe Church which he had fo far inragd him, as he was theMan amongft all the Popes, who wasthe leaft capable of bearing fuch af-fronts, that oppofing threatnings tothreatnings, he told the EmbaffadorOlivares in plain terms, he wou*d outoff his Head if he Ihoud prefiime toftir any farther in that warning he was wife enough totake, as well knowing the fiery tem-per of the Pope, who was like enoughto have kept his word. Nay, there are fbme who are aptto think, that far from joyning withthe League againfl: the King, to whichthe Spaniards perpetually fblicited himfor their own intereft, he had refblvdto employ the five Millions of Gold,which he had heapd up in the Caftleof St. Angehy during his Popedom, tomake War againfl: them, and to beatthem out of the Kingdom of his meafiires were all broken bya fiidden death,
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