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Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

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of the Protestants, drafted a list of privileges which<br />

Anjou was to grant to the Protestants of <strong>Pol<strong>and</strong></strong>,<br />

<strong>and</strong> of concessions which Charles IX. was to make<br />

to the Protestants of France; <strong>and</strong> Montluc was<br />

required to sign these, or see the rejection of his<br />

c<strong>and</strong>idate. The ambassador promised for the<br />

monarch.<br />

Henry of Valois hav<strong>in</strong>g been chosen, four<br />

ambassadors set out from <strong>Pol<strong>and</strong></strong> with the diploma<br />

of election, which was presented to the duke on the<br />

10th September, 1573, <strong>in</strong> Notre Dame, Paris. A<br />

Romish bishop, <strong>and</strong> member of the embassy,<br />

entered a protest, at the beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g of the<br />

ceremonial, aga<strong>in</strong>st that clause <strong>in</strong> the oath which<br />

secured religious liberty, <strong>and</strong> which the duke was<br />

now to swear. Some confusion followed. The<br />

Protestant Zborowski, <strong>in</strong>terrupt<strong>in</strong>g the proceed<strong>in</strong>gs,<br />

addressed Montluc thus:~"Had you not accepted, <strong>in</strong><br />

the name of the duke, these conditions, we should<br />

not have elected him as our monarch." Henry<br />

feigned not to underst<strong>and</strong> the subject of dispute,<br />

but Zborowski, advanc<strong>in</strong>g towards him, said -- "I<br />

repeat, sire, if your ambassador had not accepted<br />

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