The History of the Life of King Henry the Second: And the Age in Which He Lived, in Five Books ... 6
The History of the Life of King Henry the Second: And the Age in Which He Lived, in Five Books ... 6
Lyttelton George Lyttelton Baron
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n 83. BOOK V. they would maintain, for the future, ^ perpc-» tual peace among themfelves, according to the terms which he fliould be pleafed to prefcribe, A day was then fixed for the barons of Aqui- taine, included in this agreement, to meet them and their father at Mirebeau in Anjou : but, thefe not attending, the latter fent his fon GeofFry, to endeavour to perfuade thert^ to lay down their arms, and come with him to that eaftle. Inftead of which he again con- federated with them, and made i...nroads, at the head of his rapacious Brabanters, into the lands; of his father. Hereupon the young Henry was impowered by that monarch to propofe td him and them, that every thing ftiould be put into the fame ftate as it was a year before this difturbance, or that they (hould agree to. iland to the judgement of his father's court in that province, on all the points in difpute^ He went ,to treat with them in the eaftle of Limoges, a very (Irong fortrefs, which was now their head-quarters. From thence he fen^ ameffage to let his father know, that nothing but his prefence at Limoges was wanting for the reftoration of concord.
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