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The Rise of the Dutch Republic
Volume III.(of III) 1574-84

CHAPTER IV
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Thus much for England at that juncture.

Not inimical, certainly; but over-cautious, ungenerous, teasing, and perplexing, was the policy of the maiden Queen.

With regard to France, events there seemed to favor the hopes of Orange.

On the 14th of May, the "Peace of Monsieur," the treaty by which so ample but so short-lived a triumph was achieved by the Huguenots, was signed at Paris.
Everything was conceded, but nothing was secured.

Rights of worship, rights of office, political and civil, religious enfranchisement, were recovered, but not guaranteed.


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