Note 420 — Chapter IX · THE THIRD CIVIL WAR. [1568–1570.]
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Journal de Lestoile. The Orange Societies were originally bound by a similar oath to “pay allegiance to the king and his successors so long as they support the Protestant ascendancy.” The loyal Catholics threatened to shut up Charles in a convent, and put another in his place, if he tried to protect the Huguenots. De Thou, v. p. 516.