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their_o parliament_n vote_v it_o and_o their_o preacher_n be_v the_o trumpeter_n of_o war_n against_o the_o king_n so_o our_o own_o camden_n tell_v 557._o we_o the_o leaguer_n of_o france_n do_v populus_fw-la ubique_fw-la magistratibus_fw-la parere_fw-la dedignatus_fw-la regias_fw-la aedes_fw-la lutetiae_n diripuit_fw-la conjurati_fw-la novo_fw-la consilio_fw-la instituto_fw-la novo_fw-la sigillo_fw-la ad_fw-la res_fw-la administrandas_fw-la confecto_fw-la regiam_fw-la sibi_fw-la authoritatem_fw-la arrogarunt_fw-la munitissima_fw-la quaeque_fw-la loca_fw-la immo_fw-la integras_fw-la provincias_fw-la sibi_fw-la raptarunt_fw-la regni_fw-la redditus_fw-la interceperunt_fw-la auxiliares_fw-la hispanos_fw-la è_fw-la belgio_fw-la evocarunt_fw-la parliamentis_fw-la suffragantibus_fw-la &_o ecclesiasticis_fw-la bellum_fw-la in_o regem_fw-la ubique_fw-la buccinantibus_fw-la the_o 561._o king_n after_o all_o this_o be_v straighten_a for_o money_n and_o entertain_v no_o thought_n but_o of_o 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