Introduction
In 1668, Charles II formed the ‘Triple Alliance’ to stop Louis XIV of France from forcing Holland, a Protestant country, into a European league of Catholic states. Just two years later, egged on by his brother James, Duke of York, Charles not only offered to carve up Holland with Louis, but engaged to bring England along too. Barely a soul knew until Sir John Dalrymple broke the story a hundred years later.
THE same zeal which made the Duke [of York] avow his conversion, as soon as it was completed, persuaded him, that he could not expiate former errors, without extending the effects of that conversion to the rest of human kind. So early as the 25th of January 1669-70,* a plan was formed in his closet with Lord Clifford and Lord Arundel of Wardour,* both of the popish religion, and Lord Arlington who was well affected to it,* for a secret treaty with France for that purpose. In an evil hour for Charles II Clarendon* had taught him, in the very first years of his reign, to receive money from France, unknown to his people.
Presuming upon the same aid, the Duke, and his three associates, formed the project of a treaty between the Kings of France and England:
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In 1670, Charles II concluded a treaty in which Louis XIV of France agreed to help him force Protestant England to become a Catholic state. As Charles had been receiving covert financial support from Paris for years, and as his brother James had already converted, all this seemed quite natural, though they took care to keep the treaty secret.
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In 1670, Charles II concluded a treaty in which Louis XIV of France agreed to help him force Protestant England to become a Catholic state. As Charles had been receiving covert financial support from Paris for years, and as his brother James had already converted, all this seemed quite natural, though they took care to keep the treaty secret.
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