secures various princes, [222];
issues ban against recalcitrants, [224];
arrangement with Ferdinand as to succession, [235];
failure of ecclesiastical policy, and of political schemes, [236] ff.;
agrees to Treaty of Passau, [243];
ill-success against France, [244];
Diet of Augsburg, [247];
policy in Netherlands, [317] ff.;
abdication, [250];
death, character of, [251] ff.