Your Majesty knows that its effects will be the tranquillity and preservation of all your realms.

The reasons for making the attempt, even without the aid of France, become demonstrations now that she is unanimously in favour of the scheme.

The most Christian King is resolutely bent--so far as I can comprehend the intrigues of Villeroy--to carry out this project on the foundation of a treaty with the Guise party.

It will not take much time, therefore, to put down the heretics here; nor will it consume much more to conquer England with the armies of two such powerful Princes.

The power of that island is of little moment, there being no disciplined forces to oppose us, even if they were all unanimous in its defence; how much less then, with so many Catholics to assist the invaders, seeing them so powerful.