It was scarcely five years ago that the king who was now publishing the edict of Nantes had become a Catholic; the Parliaments enregistered the decree.

The Protestant malcontents resigned themselves to the necessity of being content with it.

Whatever their imperfections and the objections that might be raised to them, the peace of Vervins and the edict of Narrtes were, amidst the obstacles and perils encountered at every step by the government of Henry IV., the two most timely and most beneficial acts in the world for France.
Four months after the conclusion of the treaty of Vervins, on the 13th of September, 1598, Philip II.

died at the Escurial, "prison, cloister, and tomb all in one," as M.Rosseeuw St.Hilaire very well remarks [_Histoire d'Espagne,_ t.x.

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