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But Henry IIL knew, none better, how little the acts and words of the Queen of England were apt to cor- respond ; how often the shortest performance would follow her largest promises. In any case, Elizabeth and Navarre were far away, the Queen-Mother was at his ear and her creatures, who formed the majority in the royal council, played upon the fearsof the King, exaggerating the strength of the League, the dangerous discontent of the Pa- risians. The rebels already held many of the most ) V 148... Henry of Navarre. [1586 important towns and fortresses. " The penitential sackcloth of the King, " writes a contemporary, " was not of proof like the cuirasses of the League, they had already mounted their horses and he was on foot. " On July 5th (1586) their demands were granted in the King's name by Catherine de' Medici. On July i8th the King summoned the Parliament of Paris and caused the revocation of the Edicts of Toleration to be read and entered upon the rolls in his presence. Turning to the Cardinal of Bourbon who accompanied him, he said : " Against my con- science, but very willingly, I came here on a pre- vious occasion to seek the relief of my people by the proclamation of that Edict of Toleration which I have now come to revoke, in accordance, it is true, with my conscience, but most unwillingly, since from this act will follow the ruin of my realm and of my people.
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