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... took it ; but this time it was Elizabeth who refused . Henry , however , met his difficulties with vigour and resolution . He sent Biron with 4,000 or 5,000 men to blockade Amiens , and that body was soon converted into a regular army ...
... took it ; but this time it was Elizabeth who refused . Henry , however , met his difficulties with vigour and resolution . He sent Biron with 4,000 or 5,000 men to blockade Amiens , and that body was soon converted into a regular army ...
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... took the oath of allegiance to the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia , and to her destined husband , the Archduke Albert , who had now resigned the cardinalate . The Infanta was also proclaimed in the County of Burgundy ( Franche - Comté ) ...
... took the oath of allegiance to the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia , and to her destined husband , the Archduke Albert , who had now resigned the cardinalate . The Infanta was also proclaimed in the County of Burgundy ( Franche - Comté ) ...
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... took the important town of Gran . Shortly after Visse- grad and Waitzen also yielded to the Imperialists , and the Turks lost several places on the Danube . So great was the alarm at Constantinople that prayers were offered up in the ...
... took the important town of Gran . Shortly after Visse- grad and Waitzen also yielded to the Imperialists , and the Turks lost several places on the Danube . So great was the alarm at Constantinople that prayers were offered up in the ...
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... took place . The Austrian commissaries who had been sent to take possession of Transylvania were seized and imprisoned ; Sigismund took a new oath to the States that he would make no innovations in religion , and the Jesuits were again ...
... took place . The Austrian commissaries who had been sent to take possession of Transylvania were seized and imprisoned ; Sigismund took a new oath to the States that he would make no innovations in religion , and the Jesuits were again ...
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... took place in other Roman Catholic countries . At the beginning of the seventeenth century , the ancient monastic orders , the Benedictines , Dominicans , and Franciscans were vigo- rously reformed in France ; and to such a degree were ...
... took place in other Roman Catholic countries . At the beginning of the seventeenth century , the ancient monastic orders , the Benedictines , Dominicans , and Franciscans were vigo- rously reformed in France ; and to such a degree were ...
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Page 427 - King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between King and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, had abdicated the government, and that the throne had thereby become vacant.