League, The, specially a coalition organised in 1576 by the Duke of Guise to suppress the Reformed religion in France by denying civil and religious liberty to the Huguenots, and specially to prevent the accession of Henry IV. as a Protestant to the throne.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
League and Covenant, Solemn * Leamington