Protestantism in France From Death of Francis I to Edict of Nantes - James Aitken Wylie

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numbers of the Protestants and their courage daily increased. It was now seen that scarcely was there a class of French society which did not furnish converts to the Gospel. Mezeray says that there was no town, no province, no trade in the kingdom wherein the new opinions had not taken root. The lawyers, the learned, nay, the ecclesiastics, against their own interest, embraced them.[18] Some of the greatest nobles of France now rallied round the Protestant standard. Among these was Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome, and first prince of the blood, and Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Conde, his brother. With these were joined two nephews of the Constable Montmorency, the Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, and his brother, Francois de Chatilion, better known as the Sire d'Andelot. A little longer and all France would be Lutheran. The king's alarm was great: the alarm of all about him was not less so, and all united in urging upon him the adoption of yet more summary measures against an execrable belief, which, if not rooted out, would most surely overthrow his throne, root out his house, and bring his kingdom to ruin. Might not the displeasure of Heaven, evoked by that impious 38
sect, be read in the many dark calamities that were gathering round France. It was resolved that a "Mercuriale," as it is called in France, should be held, and that the king, without giving previous notice of his coming, should present himself in the assembly. He would thus see and hear for himself, and judge if there were not, even among his senators, men who favored this pestilent heresy. It had been a custom from the times of Charles VIII (1493), when corruption crept into the administration, and the State was in danger of receiving damage, that representatives of all the principal courts of the realm should meet, in order to inquire into the evil, and admonish one another to greater vigilance. Francis I had ordered that these "Censures" should take place once every three months, and from the day on which they were held--namely, Wednesday (Dies Mercurii)-- they were named "Mercuriales."[19] On the 10th of June, 1559, the court met in the house of the Austin Friars, the Parliament Hall not 39
Page 1 and 2: PROTESTANTISM IN FRANCE FROM DEATH
Page 3 and 4: withhold from him the praise of a g
Page 5 and 6: who inhabited the high-lying valley
Page 7 and 8: may be built there."[4] The preside
Page 9 and 10: land, but, alas! we are unable to r
Page 11 and 12: performed when he was alive. When t
Page 13 and 14: passions and ambitions of these par
Page 15 and 16: awe if not the love of the king, an
Page 17 and 18: and had been the wife of Seneschal
Page 19 and 20: ascendency over the royal mind, the
Page 21 and 22: 12. Davila, lib.1, pp. 13,14. 13. L
Page 23 and 24: kindling the fires by which he thou
Page 25 and 26: to be the cause of these cruel pers
Page 27 and 28: Reformed opinions, only served to i
Page 29 and 30: Vendome, and Florent Venot, of Seda
Page 31 and 32: had fled to Geneva were confiscated
Page 33 and 34: member of the Reformed Church.[11]
Page 35 and 36: the door for the entrance of the Pr
Page 37: etrieve it. He recovered in the Low
Page 41 and 42: of France sprang out of its religio
Page 43 and 44: But before the day of Du Bourg's ex
Page 45 and 46: efore, in which she saw him tilting
Page 47 and 48: 17. Laval, volume 2, p. 107. 18. Me
Page 49 and 50: courageous of their number expounde
Page 51 and 52: silks and jewelry--a deception for
Page 53 and 54: many crimes and woes. If the facts
Page 55 and 56: inhabitants received the truth, and
Page 57 and 58: through which the court passed, and
Page 59 and 60: that that man might be called to he
Page 61 and 62: France and Spain made peace between
Page 63 and 64: judgment of individual Christians,
Page 65 and 66: Dieppe, Angers, Orleans, Tours, Poi
Page 67 and 68: to follow the rule of the Word; of
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Page 71 and 72: Bible, and that the depository of i
Page 73 and 74: the ministry, with the sword and th
Page 75 and 76: Chapter 4 A Gallery of Portraits HE
Page 77 and 78: had just descended stood the crafty
Page 79 and 80: together, and made their rivalry a
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their faith, to their country, to t
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spirit, measures for the Reformatio
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Roman Catholic was respected, and o
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permitted to grow up uneducated, no
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7. Brantome, tom. 3, p. 204. 97
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crown; a sort of general superinten
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severe edicts against the Reformed.
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day.[6] We have already related the
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that lived in it, "the Little Genev
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moderate Reform; but instead of Ref
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with which his lawn was be-spotted
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which one complained. None were saf
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Entering with prodigious zeal into
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were in progress? Glimpses of his t
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the terrible seenes which were bein
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so, Lord God Almighty, true and rig
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Such was now the unhappy condition
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had breathed his last; the year wou
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the entire train behind the funeral
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Chapter 6 Charles IX The Triumvirat
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her ambition, and the Huguenots,[1]
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misery to the country -- the prodig
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doomed to extermination a third of
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the two former reigns; these three
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proposal in question, laid down the
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there unite the two religions, and
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Bible is enough," said he; "to this
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simply attired. They wore the usual
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ought the conference together, he p
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discomfiture, though they strove to
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cardinal. The prestige that encompa
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Beza, "like the Lutherans of German
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monstrous characters which the prie
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congregation of worshippers. It was
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only, but its symbols also; nor the
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1617. 6. See very lengthened accoun
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concerning the way in which many of
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spiritual songs, and reading to and
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professed to grant. The Protestants
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Church, dry up her revenues, and pa
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But matters so fell out that the du
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Guise, who could not brook the idea
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The walls and galleries of the said
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een printed the year before. He car
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the duke and the mob were masters o
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addition to civil liberty, tke batt
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in the ocean. The Duke of Guise now
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odies dangling from the trees, mang
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are some of them in dungeons, and o
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may be seen in Memoires de Conde, t
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greatly beloved for his amiable qua
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command at Lyons, where, acquitting
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the order, the prosperity, and the
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contemplate the opposing ranks whic
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and not counted. Protestantism in F
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was thought, continue to flood Fran
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husband, which we have already quot
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the Triumvirate for the violation o
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presence of a crafty enemy, who con
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soldiers into France was one the wi
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Chapter 9 The First Huguenot War, a
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Coliguy, though serving as Conde's
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had had time to complete their prep
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the supplies from Paris, the Triumv
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now rose a bristling wall of hostil
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The King of Navarre commanded in th
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egretted by neither party. After th
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the night in the same bed;[12] the
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standard, and with this mighty host
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The assassin was John Poltrot, a pe
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Huguenotism was at his feet: his ar
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their displeasure by the demolition
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6. Davila, lib. 3, p. 105. 7. Laval
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of the kingdom. Besides, the observ
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in her every look and movement; but
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France and deepening infamy to hers
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Coligny, and it was uncertain on wh
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oth wife and mother as an imbecile,
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scattering around her prodigally, y
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ands of that King whom God hath set
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The royal calvacade now drew nigh t
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eyond the boy's capacity--that mass
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amusement and feasting, there was h
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Assembly of Notables at Moulins. Bu
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354. 257
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other D'Andelot counselled instant
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The army under Conde melted away, a
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y rivers, and beset by the worse da
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command of the Huguenot army at the
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aised up others worthy to succeed h
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that dimmed his eye--" Yes, God is
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defeat, desertion, outlawry, and th
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Chapter 12 Synod of la Rochelle WE
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had foretold, they are now nearing
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defend their faith and liberties ti
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matter, by "artifice and opportunit
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spirit full of resentment, and abov
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though they died in armor. The form
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We have already related the meeting
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Chapter 13 The Promoters of the St.
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Catherine de Medici and Charles IX
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"The genius of the son," says his b
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upon as the only man fit to cope wi
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ever and anon the cry "To massacre!
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unmistakable that this was the shap
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Moulins, in Bourbonnes, whither the
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Footnotes: 1. Gaberel, volume 2, p.
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Chapter 14 Negotiations of the Cour
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not new ideas. The marriage had bee
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perfectly how to dissemble."[3] The
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of France, and that would be tantam
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thought it not impossible that it m
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indefectible obedience to the 'Holy
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unpremeditated, and that it was a s
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at Rome in October, 1572, entitled,
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Chapter 15 The Marriage, and Prepar
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on. When it was over, the bride and
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efused, his successor Gregory XIII
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the outrage mine; but," added he, w
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would be got rid of, and yet the ha
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cruel, vindictive though he was. To
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dig up the roots," but were afterwa
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Chapter 16 The Massacre of St. Bart
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of the morning to ring the bell of
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of Sienna, creatures of the Duke of
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slaughtered in their bed-rooms and
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carts, and driven away to be shot i
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whereupon the king gave them three
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the Innocents, for having inferred
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obsequious members sustained the ki
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horrible massacre of our brethren h
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distribution of clothes or victuals
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procession to the Church of Minerva
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Footnotes: 1. Maimbourg, livr. 6, p
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of the Huguenot party." The book wa
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Chapter 17 Resurrection of Huguenot
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And truly, had French Protestantism
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"The poor people had to feed on dog
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gentlemen, as well as of peasants,
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of Anjou saw his army dwindling awa
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mean? Had not Alva and Catherine du
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their heads in France. The infatuat
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compesed mostly of men who were the
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alance, Charles IX died.[5] His lif
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of any original vigor it ever posse
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3. Maimbourg, lib. 6, p. 489. 4. Da
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Chapter 18 New Persecutions Reign a
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dash in the field. His soldiers nev
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oath to support it with their goods
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that the main object of the League
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disdaining retreat he passed on. Hi
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dealing him the unkindest cut of al
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taken up his position at Meudon. It
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in a great strait about this bad wo
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who rubbed his lips with a clove of
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agreeable to you to have a godless
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manner of peoples around his standa
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victory crowned the cause of Henry
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Henry's affairs made no progress; a
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appeared to be deserting him. Shorn
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great a fool as to sacrifice a king
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By the one you may pass through a m
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Church of Rome." He was straightway
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The Huguenot council applied to Hen
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Divine worship in their castles, an
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their blood. Some two millions of l
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Elizabeth of England, for humbling
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kissing the queen, he set out, acco
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supreme aim and end of all his toil
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