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History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Volume IV. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER X
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He has come home to Heidelberg with a retinue of Jesuits about him; to whom the poor old gentleman, looking before and after on this troublous world, finds it salutary to give ear.
His nibblings at Protestant rights, his contrivances to slide Catholics into churches which were not theirs, and the like foul-play in that matter, had been sorrowful to see, for some time past.

The Elector of Mainz, Chief-Priest of Germany, is busy in the same bad direction; he and others.

Indeed, ever since the Peace of Ryswick, where Louis XIV.
surreptitiously introduced a certain "Clause," which could never be got rid of again, ["CLAUSE OF THE FOURTH ARTICLE" is the technical name of it.

FOURTH ARTICLE stipulates that King Louis XIV.

shall punctually restore all manner of towns and places, in the Palatinate &c.


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