Note 1730 — Chapter XVIII
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Dr. Dale to Sir Thomas Smith and Walsingham. All the fair promises of the delivery of Bourges and La Charité are like to come to nothing, as may appear by the enclosed letter of Monsieur to the Court of Parliament. There is a secret League between Guise, Nemours, Nevers, Maine, and others of that house, together with the Chancellor, against all that would have any peace, and if it should be made, to begin a sharp war afresh (C. S. P. For., No. 583, anno 1576). From the first Languet was skeptical. He anticipated reaction (Epist. secr., I, Part II, 181, 205).