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Excerpt from The History of the Life of King Henry the Second, and the Age in Which He Lived, in Five Books, Vol. 3 of 5: To Which Is Prefixed, a History of the Revolutions of England, From the Death of Edward the Confessor, to the Birth of Henry the Second
13ook 11 refide, (0011 after Eafier. But a gm't change Hf - J had been made in the difpofitions of Louis with relation, to him by the arts of the queen of France and the earl of Champagne. Being related to Victor, and friends to the emperor, they were defirous, if pofiible, to draw the king off from the part he had taken with Alex ander; and they (0 far prevailed, that he was perfuaded to receive an agent from Vic'tor, with an epiftle, in which that pontiff, on the enc'oua ragement they had given, ventured to exprefs very confident hppes otis favour. This letter is dated in Pébruéjyg and-hefm Ea¿er Louis fent the earl o'fchampagheihis embaffador ex traordinary to thgiimpbfgtaj'tpurt, Upon a pro pofal made tonhirni {mgtlpe emperor F rc derick, by the mdutlf-dfi'thisoearl, that, in or der to refiore the peace of the church, they (hould hold another council in the town of Avignon; where, after impartially rehearing the caufe, both popes being prefent, they {hould either agree to acknowledge one of them, and thereby end the fchifm, or depofc them both, and cleft another. I do not be lieve, that, in making this offer to Louis, the emperor really intended'to give up, or bring in quefiion, the election of Victor: but it was a lure by which he tried to induce the king of France to call a new council; hoping that Alexander would refufe to appear before this afiembly, with the fame contumacy as he hac' before 'rejeéted the citation to the council-oi.
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