be more than two together without having any Command there then they chuse their Quarters according to their standing And next to the Marshals of France the Dukes and Peers take place for in Armies Dukes and Peers are Lodged always after Marshals of France But in following the Court out of an Army this Order is observed First their Majesties are Lodged then other Royal Persons then the Princes and Princesses then the Great Officers of the Crown after them the Dukes and Peers and lastly the Marshals of France The Chancellour is Lodged next after the Princes and in marking his Lodging the word Pour or for is used the meaning of which we have already explained Besides all which which are called the Ranks there are the Preferred of which we have spoken The Marshals and Harbingers of the Kings Lodgings are also employed by his Majesties special Command to provide Lodgings for the Assemblies of the States General of the Kingdom when any are called or for the States of any particular Province when the King is to be present at them as likewise for the Assemblies of the Clergy which is to be understood when they assemble in any other place but Paris for there no Lodgings are marked for them Likewise when the persons composing any Soveraign Courts or other publick Bodies are to meet at St. Denis in France by the Kings Order and according to Custom to assist at the Funeral Pomps or Solemnities made at the Burials or Anniversary Services for Kings Queens and Princes or Princesses of the Blood or others the Marshals and Harbingers of the Kings Lodgings go thither some dayes before to provide them Lodgings The King too usually sends the said Marshals and Harbingers of his Lodgings to meet Foreign Princes and Princesses that come into or pass through his Kingdom to order and prepare Lodgings for them every where as they pass The Title and Quality of Squires has been conferred and confirmed upon the Marshals and Harbingers in Ordinary of the Kings Lodgings by several Orders of the Council of State Next the Marshals and Harbingers of the Lodgings is the Captain of the Guides with his Company who is a necessary Officer in Journies Of the Captain of the Guides The Office of Captain of the Guides for the Conducting of his Majesty formerly enjoyed by one is now exercised by two Brothers who part between them the following Salary and Profits viz. 2000 l. Salary paid quarterly by the Treasurers of the Houshold 600 l. a Month extraordinary during any Voyage or Journey and 300 l. when the Court is at any of the Royal Houses they eat at the Kings Serdeau's or Water-Servers Table with the Gentlemen Waiters The Captain of the Guides when the King is on his march along the Country is always to keep by one of the Boots or Portals of the Kings Coach to be ready to tell his Majesty the names of the places Cities Castles Towns and Villages upon the Road if he ask them or resolve any other Question concerning them There are commonly at least two Guides on Horseback that wear the Kings Livery that ride a little before his Majesty to Conduct him and place themselves ordinarily at the head of the Light-Horse If there be any need of repairing the High-ways for the Kings Passage the Captain of the Guides usually lays out what is needful for that purpose and is repaid again at the Treasure-Royal For fear the Officers of the Goblet or of the Mouth should fail to come up to the place where the King is to eat when he is travelling along the Country the Captain of the Guides sometimes gives them notice in what part of the Way his Majesty has a mind to Dine He has power to settle Guides to Conduct his Majesty in every Town of the Kingdom and after he has given his Grants to the said Guides they are admitted as such before the Marshals of France These Guides wear the Kings Livery and are exempted from Billeting of Souldiers The Captain of the Guides is sworn by the High Constable of France when there is one or otherwise by the Eldest Marshal of France Of some other Officers necessary in Journies which depend on the Great Master of the Houshold viz. One Waggon-Master of the Kings Equipage that Conducts all the Equipage and commands all the Captains and takes his Orders from the Office of the Houshold This Office was Created in 1668. He has an allowance of 100 l. a Month out of the Chamber of Deniers when the Court is on its march along the Country and 50 l. a Month when it is at Paris and 400 l. besides extraordinary Wages for the extraordinary pains he takes for the Kings Service in doing what is order'd him by the Office allowed him upon the last Bill of every Quarter One Aid or Helping Waggon-Master whose Office was also Created the same year 1668. who has when the Court is at Paris 25 l. a Month and when it is on the march 50 l. a Month allowed him at the Chamber of Deniers We have already spoken of the Captain of the Mules of the Chamber in speaking of the said Chamber of which he depends Two Captains of the Carriages of the Kings Houshold who have a Salary of 300 l. a piece paid by the Treasurers of the Houshold and besides at the Chamber of Deniers an allowance to them for the maintenance of fifty ordinary Horses at the rate of 23 d. a day for each Horse 57 l. 10 d. a day or 21045 l. a year They Conduct all the Carriages of the seven Offices when the Court marches either in Person or by their Servants One Captain-Keeper and Guardian-General of the Tents and Pavilions of the Court and of his Majesties Pavilions of War who has a Salary of 800 l. and 50 l. a Month extraordinary in time of Service and One Keeper of the Tents of the Courts of the Kitchins and of his Majesties Stables who is allowed 50 l. a Month at Paris and 100 l. a Month in the Country at the Chamber of Deniers CHAP. XX. Of the Judge of the Kings Court and Retinue who is the Provost of the Houshold or Great Provost of France THE Provost of the Kings Houshold or Great Provost of France is the ordinary Judge of the Kings Houshold The Title of Great Provost implies two things For first He is Judge of the Kings Houshold and Secondly He is Captain of a Company of a hundred Guards called the Guards of the Provostship which is another part of his Office in the Kings House We shall speak of him here only as in the first quality reserving the latter till we come to the Military Officers of the Houshold His Office is one of the ancientest of the Kings Houshold and one may say that in the Jurisdiction which he retains of administring Justice to all the Kings Officers and other Persons that follow the Court he has succeeded the antient Count or Mayor of the Palace which
with her Husband retired into France where in consideration of an honourable Pension for the support of the dignity of so great a Princess she yielded up all her rights to the Dutchy of Lorain and died without Children at Paris the 21th of February 1657. After which the said late Duke Charles Married for his second Wife at Nancy the 5th of November 1665. the Lady Mary of Apremont of Nantenil by whom he had likewise no Children He in like manner yielded up to the King of France the Property and Soveraignty of his Dutchies of Lorain and of Bar which Donation was verified in Parliament in presence of the King himself who sat there in person on his Bed of Justice in the Month of February 1662. Yet there remain two Natural Children of the said late Duke Charles the Third which he had by the Lady Beatrix of Cusance Princess of Cantecroix viz. a Son and a Daughter 1. The Son is Charles-Henry Legitimated of Lorain Prince of Vaudemont Born the 25th of April 1649. and on the 27th of April 1669. at Bar le Duc Married Anne-Elizabeth of Lorain of Elbeuf Daughter of Charles of Lorain Duke of Elbeuf and Anne-Elizabeth of Lannoy de la Boissiere Widow of Henry of Plessis of Liancourt Count de la Recheguyon his first Wife 2. The Daughter is Anne-Elizabeth Legitimated of Lorain Wife to Francis-Marie of Lorain Count of l' Isle-bone who was Born the 6th of August 1649. The late Prince named Francis-Nicholas of Lorain who died at Nancy the 26th of January 1670. was Brother to the said Duke Charles and likewise Married his Cousin-German Claudia of Lorain younger Sister of the abovesaid Dutchess Nicole by whom he left an only Son who is Charles-Leopold-Nicolas-Sixtus of Lorain the present Duke of Lorain in Title though as yet he has no possession of it as having refused to be included in the late Treaty of Nimguen His Titles are Duke of Lorain Marchis Calabria Bar and Gueldres Marquess of Pont-a-Mousson and of Nomeny Count of Provence and of Vaudemont Blamont Zutphen Sarwerden and Salm He was Born at Vienna the 3d of April 1643. On the 15th of February 1678. He Married the Princess Eleonor-Marie of Austria Sister to the Emperour and Queen Dowager of Poland He has for several Years been Generalissimo of the Imerial Forces He took Philipsburg from the French and has done very noble things against the Turks in Hungary at the relief of Vienna the Battel of Gran and the two Sieges of Buda c. The late Duke Charles had likewise two Sisters 1. Margaret of Lorain called Madame Dowager as being Widow of the late Monsieur Gaston Duke of Orleans Brother to the last and Uncle to the present King of whose Children we have spoken she died the 3d of April 1672. 2. Henriette of Lorain the younger Sister Married to her first Husband Lewis of Lorain Prince of Phalzburg Of the second Branch which is of Guise The late Duke of Joyeuse Lewis of Lorain left a Son and two Daughters by his Wife Margaret of Valois only Daughter and Heir of the Duke of Angouleme and of Henriette de la Guiâ—he Lady de la Palisse 1. The Son was named Lewis-Joseph of Lorain Duke of Guise he died the 30th of July 1671. on the 15th of May 1667. he Married Madamoiselle d' Alençon Isabelle of Orleans to whom he left a Son called Francis-Joseph of Lorain Duke of Alençon of Guise c. who died the 16th of March 1675. 2. Madamoiselle of Guise named Marie of Lorain Dutchess of Guise and Joyeuse c. Born in 1615. and 3. Francise-Renée of Lorain of Guise Abbess of Montmarire Born in 1621. and died the 5th of December 1682. Of the third Branch which is of Chevreuse The late Duke of Chevreuse was named Claudius of Lorain Son of Henry of Lorain Duke of Guise he died in his Palace at Paris the 24th of January 1657. and of three Daughters he had by the Lady Marie of Rohan who was Widow of the Constable of Luyne there is none left but Henriette of Lorain of Chevreuse Abbess of Joüare who was Born in 1631. Of the fourth Branch which is of Elbeuf The late Duke of Elbeuf who died the 8th of December 1657. left four lawful Children by Catherine-Henriette Legitimated of France Sister to the late Caesar Duke of Vendome and Daughter of King Henry the Great and of Gabriele d' Etrées Dutchess of Beaufort I. The Eldest who is at present the head of the House of Lorain in France is Charles Duke of Elbeuf c. and Governour for his Majesty in Picardy of the Country and County of Artois of Hainaut and the particular Governour of the Town and Cittadel of Montreuil on the Sea in the said Province of Picardy He was Born 1620. and Married to his first Wife on the 7th of March 1648. Anne-Elizabeth de Lannoy Daughter of the Count of Lazzon and Widow of Henry du Plessis Count de la Rocheguyon and to his second Wife in the Month of May 1656. Elizabeth de la Tour d' Auvergne Sister to the Duke of Boüillon who died the 23d of October 1680. And to his third Wife on the 25th of August 1684. Francise de Montaut de Navailles Daughter of the Marshal Duke of that Name By his first Wife he has two Children Charles of Lorain Prince of Elbeuf Knight of Malta who was Born the 2d of November 1650. and Anne-Elizabeth of Lorain who was Born the 6th of August 1649. and Married to Charles-Henry Legitimated of Lorain Prince of Vaudemont at Bar-le-Duc the 27th of April 1669. By his second Wife he has four Children 1. Marie-Eleanor of Lorain who was Born the 24th of February 1658. 2. Francise-Marie of Lorain who was Born the 5th of May 1659. She is a Nun at the Nunnery of St. Marie in the Fauxbourg St. Jaqu's 3. Henry of Lorain Prince of Elbeuf who has the Reversion of the Government of Picardie he was Born the 7th of August 1661. and Married to Madamoiselle de Vivonne Named Charlotte de Rochechoüart de Mortemart the 30th of January 1677. by whom he has one Son called the Abbot of Lorain whose name is Lewis of Lorain he was Born the 8th of September 1662. and is Abbot of Orcamp 4. Prince Emanuel of Lorain II. Charles of Lorain Count of Harcourt c. was Born in 1623. He Married in the year 1645. Anne of Ornano Niece to the Marshal of that Name by whom he had three Sons and three Daughters viz. 1. Alphonso-Henry-Charles of Lorain Prince of Harcourt Count of Montlaur c. who about the end of February 1667. Married Marie Francise de Brancas Daughter of the Count de Brancas Lady of Honour or of the Palace to the Queen Their Children are 1. Anne-Marie-Joseph of Lorain-Harcourt Count of Montlaur Born the last of April 1679. 2. Suson of Lorain-Harcourt 3. Francis of Lorain-Harcourt The Prince and Princess of Harcourt had the honourable Office of Conducting into
from all parts of the Kingdom to plead The Provinces out of which Causes are at present brought to Paris are The Isle of France La Beausse Higher and Lower Sologne Berry Auvergne Lyonois Forets the Countries of Aunis and Rochel Anjou Angoumois Maine Perche Picardie Champain Brie Tourain Nivernois Bourbonnois and Maconnois and Tournay with the Adjacent Country The Lands also Erected into Dutchies and Peerages are also obliged to Answer at the Parliament of Paris which is the Court of the Peers The Chief President of this Parliament is M. Nicholas Potier de Novion 2. That of Toulouze Instituted by Philip the Fair in the year 1302. and made Sedentary by Charles the Seventh in 1443. This Parliaments Jurisdiction extends over High and Low Languedoc High and Low Vivarais Velay Gevaudan And the Countries of Albigeois Rouergue Laurageois Quercy Foix and a part of the Lower Gascony The first or Chief President is M. Gaspard de Fieubet 3. Roüen which is the Sovereign Court of Normandie was Established under the name of an Exchequer by Philip the Fair in 1302. and was made perpetual by Lewis the Twelfth in 1499. though it bore not the name of a Parliament till the Reign of Francis the First in the year 1515. It extends to all the whole Province of Normandy The Chief President is M. N .... d' Amfreville 4. Grenoble Instituted by Charles the Seventh in 1452. and at the same time made Sedentary It comprehends Dauphiné or the Dauphinate The Chief President is M. Nicholas de Prunier 5. Bourdeaux which sits at present at Marmande Instituted in 1462. by Lewis the Eleventh and at the same time made Sedentary This Parliament has under it the Countries of Bourdeaux Medoc Saintonge Perigord Limosin Basadois Agenois Condomois Albret Landes Upper Gascony and part of Biscay The Chief President is named M. Charles-Denys d'Olide 6. Dijon Instituted in the year 1476. by Lewis the Eleventh and made Sedentary at the same time It is only for the Dutchy of Burgundy The Chief President is M. Nicholas Brulard des Bordes 7. Aix Established by Lewis the Twelfth in 1501. and made Sedentary at the same time This Parliament is for all Provence by which name it is also called The Chief President is M. Arnold Marin 1. Rennes held at present at Vannes by Henry the Second and made Sedentary at the same time in the year 1553. It was removed to Vannes in October 1675. This Parliament is called the Parliament of Brittany because there is no other Provence under its Jurisdiction It is Semestral i e. One half of the Counsellers serve the first six Months and the other half the last six Months The Chief President is M. Lewis Philipeaux de Pontchartrain 9. Pau Instituted and made Sedentary in 1519. by Henry the First King of Navarre and Prince of Bearn Great Grandfather to Henry the Great King of France and Navarre It comprehends the Bishopricks of Lescars and Oleron The Chief President is M. N. Dalon 10. Mets Instituted by Lewis the Thirteenth in the year 1633. and made Sedentary at the same time It is for the Country of Messin and the three Imperial Towns of Mets Toul and Verdun The Chief President is M. William de Sêve 11. Besançon the present King re-established the Parliament for the County of Burgundy or Franche Comté first at Dole the 17th of June 1674. and since that removed it to Besançon The Chief President is M .... Jobelot The Parliament of Rouen was for a time made Semestral or six Monthly after the Rebellion that happened in Normandy in 1640. But since that that Alteration was abolished and the Parliament restored to the State it was in before The Parliament of Aix was once likewise made Semestral To the Parliaments may be added the other Sovereign Councils which though they are not dignified with the Title of Parliaments yet give Sentence without Appeal which are 1. The Council of Rousillon the Counsellers of which wear Scarlet Robes The Chief President there is M. de Sagare who is likewise Keeper of the Kings Seal there Commissary of the Crown Lands and Judge of the General Captainry or Government 2. The Council at Arras which is Soveraign in Civil Causes 3. That of Tournay 4. That of Pignerol 5. That of Alsatia transferred from Ensisheim to Brisac the 23d of September 1675. CHAP. XXXI Of the Parliament of Paris called by way of Excellence The Parliament THE Court of Parliament of Paris is composed of ten Chambers viz. The Grand Chamber The Tournelle-Civil the Tournelle-Criminal Five Chambers of Inquests and two Chambers of the Requests of the Palace The Presidents au Mortier or of the Mortar-Cap so called from the Fashion of the Caps they wear which are made in the Form of a Mortar when they give Audience and the Counsellers when they march in Ceremony or Assemble about publick Affairs in presence of the King are Clothed in Scarlet with Facings of Black-Velvet which was wont to be practised at the pronouncing of the solemn Sentences four times a year viz. The Day before Christmass Eve the Tuesday before Easter the Day before the Eve of Whitsunday and the 7th of September At their return from giving Audience the Chief President and the Presidents au Mortier are Reconducted by the Ushers in Waiting with their Wands in their hands to the Higher Holy Chappel The Officers of the Parliament and other Officers of Judicature are habited all alike viz. In Cassocks or long Close-Bodied Coats and Square-Caps At the first Institution of the Parliament one Moyety of the Counsellers were of the Short Robe and the other Moyety of the Long but at present they are all of the Long. The particular solemn Ceremonial Habits of the Court of Parliament are for the Presidents Scarlet Mantles Furred with their Mortar-Fashioned Caps The Chief President wears two gold Galoons upon his Mortar-Cap by way of distinction from the other Presidents who have but one Galoon The Counsellers and the Advocates and Proctors General wear Scarlet Robes red Chaperons or little Hats Furred with Ermines The Chief Recorder or Registrer a Scarlet Robe with its Epitoge or small Cloak and the Register or Recorder of the Presentations and the four Notaries and Secretaries of the Court wear also Scarlet Robes and the Chief Usher a Scarlet Gown with a Cap of Cloth of gold Formerly All the Bishops of France had ordinarily Place and Voice in Parliament They still use the Title of Councellours to the King in his Councils The Archbishop of Paris and the Abbot of St. Denis in France are Counsellers by their Places in this Parliament where they place in ordinary and a deliberative Voice Four of the Masters of Requests have likewise the same Priviledge as also the Honorary Counsellours of this Parliament The Parliament of Paris has this particular preeminence above the rest that it alone is called the Court of the Peers where the Dukes and Peers of France ought to be sworn
France are the Presidents of this Chamber of the Treasury or when they think good they go and preside at the Audiences and Processes or Suits managed in Writing And those of Paris give Law to the Councellers of the Treasury when they present themselves for Admission and some among them on set days for that purpose go and examine them and afterwards admit them Their Days of Audience are Wednesdays and Saturdays at which times the Advocates and Proctors of the Parliament go thither to plead The Officers of the Chamber of the Treasury are one Lieutenant-General who is both for Civil and Criminal matters and a particular Lieutenant six Councellers one Advocate and Proctor for the King one Recorder or Registrer in Chief one Recorder of the Presentations and Comptrol one Chief Usher or House-Keeper and three other Ushers Next to the Treasurers of France it will be most proper next to speak of those Jurisdictions which used to sit at the Marble-Table of the Palace as those of the Waters and Forests the Constablery and Marshals of France of the Admiralty c. CHAP. XXXVI Of the Waters and Forests THE Jurisdiction of the Waters and Forests is very ancient and of a very great extent It was establisht to hinder the Abuses Delinquencies and Misdemeanours which might be committed in the Kings Woods which are the goodliest part of his Crown-Lands it likewise takes cognisance of the same abuses committed in the Woods belonging to the Princes of the Blood and other Noblemen and to Prelats Gentlemen and other private Persons as also to Communities or Corporations It also takes cognisance both primarily and by way of Appeal of all Enterprises or attempts made in Woods Warrens Rivers Isles Islets Mills Fishings Chaces and of all Processes or Suits both Civil and Criminal arising upon those Accounts between any Persons of what Quality soever nay and of those too that concern the very Fund or propriety it self in any of them and all Regulations of Customs thirds and tenths of Forests and Woods c. This Chamber is held in the Great Hall of the Palace near the Parquet or Bar of the Kings Advocates and Proctor-General in the Parliament It s Jurisdiction extends farther than that of the Parliament of Paris for besides the Appeals of Masterships of the Game and of the particular Courts of Justice of private Lords in relation to the Waters and Forests that are within the limits of the Jurisdiction of the Parliament of Paris It receives likewise those of the other Parliaments where there is not as yet any Marble Table as of those of Grenoble Bourdeaux Dijon Aix Pau and Mets. And it has likewise an over-ruling Jurisdiction over the Waters and Forests of other Parliaments The principal Officers of the Masterships and Captainships of the Game and of the Louvetry or Wolf-Hunting are admitted in this Chamber or Court Dukes and Peers proceed in all Cases of this nature in this Court rather than in any other Chamber for the Waters and Forests under other Parliaments although the things contested about be scituate within the extent of the Jurisdiction of those other Parliaments They have there too the like priviledge as in the Grand Chamber in which they can have no remedy for these kinds of affairs as they may have in all other Cases because the Ordinances made for this purpose attribute to this Court the full and plenary cognisance of all Causes belonging to it privatively and exclusively to all other Judges notwithstanding any Committimus or any other priviledge whatsoever It is divided into two sorts of Jurisdiction viz. Ordinary and Extraordinary From the Ordinary Jurisdiction Appeals may be made to the Parliament but in the Extraordinary Jurisdiction all Processes or Suits concerning Reformations Misdemeanours Delinquencies and Degradations relating to Woods c. are Judged without Appeal by the Chief President with seven Councellers of the Grand Chamber and four of the Chief Officers of this Marble Table upon the Conclusions of the Kings Advocates and Proctor-General of this Chamber When the Grand Masters of the Waters and Forests are pleased to come to this Court they commonly preside there and the Judgments passed there are intitled by their names in this manner The Grand Masters Chief Inquisitours and Reformers of the Waters and Forests of France at their General Seat at the Marble Table of the Palace at Paris And in the Extraordinary Jurisdiction they are stiled The Judges appointed by the King to judge finally and without Appeal of all Processes or Suits concerning the Reformations of the Waters and Forests of France at the Judgment Seat of the Marble-Table of the Palace at Paris By a Declaration from the King Issued in the Month of December 1675. and Registred in Parliament the 15th of June 1676. The Great Masterships of the Waters and Forests of France are divided into eight Departments of which seven are officiated by Commission and that of the Country of Orleans by Patent These Departments are 1. That of the Isle of France Brie Perche the Country of Blois Picardie and of the Conquer'd and Reconquer'd Countries Of which M. James Francis de Joanne is Grand Master He is likewise Governour of Chambor and Bayliff of Blois 2. The Department of Normandy and Jurisdiction of the Parliament of Roüen the Grand Master by Commission is M. Feron the Father Master of the Waters and Forests at Compiegne 3. In Tourain Anjou Maine Poitou Berry the Country of Bourbon Nivernois Aunix Angouleme Saintonge la Marche and Limosin The Grand Master is M. Florimond Huraut 4. In the Country of Orleans Mr. Peter L' Allemant Lord of L' Estrée c. Lieutenant of the Town of Chaalons is Grand Master by Patent 5. In Champain and within the Jurisdiction of the Parliament of Mets the Grand Master is Charles Renart of Buchsamberg 6. In Burgundy and Bresse and Countries of Lyons Beaujoly Forëts and Auvergne M. de Mauroy 7. In the Government and within the Jurisdiction of the Parliament of Brittany M. Savary 8. In Guienne the Lower Navarre Soule the Country of Labour Languedoc Provence and the Dauphinate M. Froidour is Grand Master In Flanders the Grand Master is M. le Feron du Plessis the Son The Office of Master of the Waters and Forests of Hainaut which was Created in 1661 is possest by M. Talon first Yeoman of the Kings Wardrobe The Office of Grand Master of the Waters and Forests of France was of very ancient Institution and possessed by two persons of Quality Afterwards there was but one till the year 1575. when Henry the third Created six which have since been augmented The present Officers of the Waters and Forests at the Marble-Table at Paris are A Lientenant-General and another particular Lieutenant six Councellers one Proctor and one Advocate-General two Recorders or Registers two Ushers Audiencers The ordinary days of Audience at this Chamber or Court are Wednesdays and Saturdays in the Morning There is likewise a particular Mastership
Horseback divided into six Brigades all about the Neighbourhood of Paris for the security of the Country The Provost of Senlis is Nicholas Bordereau CHAP. XXXVIII Of the Admiralty of France and other Courts kept within the inclosure of the Palace And first Of the Admiralty of France and of Guienne THis Court was formerly held too at the Marble Table but is at present kept in the great Hall of the Palace on that side next the Dauphins Hall It takes cognisance of all Affairs relating to the Admiralty and the splitting of Vessels Shipwracks and Commerce on the Sea both primarily and by way of Appeal and of the abuses and misdemeanours committed by the Officers of the particular subordinate Courts of Admiralty and of other Officers of Maritime Affairs The particular Courts from whence Appeals are made to this are those of Rochelle the Sands of Olonne Marans Callice Boulogâ—e Montreüil Abbeville St. Valery Eu and Hault The present Officers belonging to it are A Lieutenant-General who is the Sieur de Marbrelle and a Lieutenant particular four Counsellours one Proctor for the King one Recorder or Registrer and one Chief Usher The Days of Audience in this Court are Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays There are likewise other Chambers or Courts of Admiralty at Roüen Bourdeaux in Brittany and at Dunkirk and other places Of the Court of the Great Pantler of France This Court takes cognisance of all regulations among the Bakers who are admitted there To it belong A Lieutenant general and particular Mayor and Guardian of the Great Pantry of France who is Nicholas Petit-Jean or Little John one Proctor for the King one Registrer one Chief Usher and 13 Ushers Audiencers that reside some at Paris and some in the Countries The Audience Days in this Court are Mundays and Saturdays Of the Bailywick of the Palace In this Court are these Officers viz. A Bayliff who is Claudius Pelot a Lieutenant General a Proctor for the King and a Registrer This Court judges of all differences arising in the Halls and Court of the Palace The Court of the Masonry Is kept over the Dauphins Hall to it belong Three Counsellours who are Judges general of all Masons work in France The Court called the Court of the Bazoche For the regulation of the Clerks of the Palace and the Court for matters of Justice relating to importing and vending of Sea-Fish are still held too within the inclosure of the Palace And thus having spoke of the Courts of Judicature that are held within the inclosure of the Palace we shall next treat of the others held without it and particularly of the Chatelet or Castle of Paris Which is the ordinary Court of Justice of the City of Paris and the most considerable presidial Court in the Kingdom CHAP. XXXIX Of the Chatelet or Castle of Paris THE Administration of Justice for the Town Provostship and Vicounty of Paris is exercised under the Name of the Provost of Paris and in case of vacancy the Kings Proctor General of the Parliament is Guardian by his place of this Provostship and all Acts passing there during that time run in his name The Officers thereto belonging are A Provost called the Provost of Paris who is Charles-Denis de Bullion Marquiss of Gallerdon c. He had the Grant of this Office the 15th of February 1685. and took the usual Oath for it in Parliament on the 22d of May-following and the same day was solemnly Installed in the Chatelet and put into possession thereof by one of the Presidents à Mortier the Dean of the Lay-Counsellours of the Parliament and the eldest Clergy-man Counsellour of the Grand Chamber He has 8000 Livers yearly Sallary and allowance All Judgments and Sentences given in the Chatelet and all acts of Notaries run in his Name the Assembly of the Nobility of the Provostship of Paris for the Arriere-â—an is held in his House and it belongs to him to Conduct them to the Army This Office was always exercised by Persons of great Quality and Reputation Under him there are the following Officers viz. A Lieutenant Civil who is John le Camus Honorary Master of Requests a Lieutenant for the Policy or Government of the City Gabriel-Nicholas de la Reynie a Lieutenant Criminal James Defita two particular Lieutenants Fifty six Counsellours four Advocates and one Proctor for the King Eight Substitutes two Honorary Counsellours one Chief Recorder or Registrer with divers other Registrers both for Civil and Criminal Affairs and for Audiences Insinuations Presentations and other matters one Chief Usher Audiencer and several other Ushers Audiencers There are likewise belonging to it two Counsellours Judges-Auditours to decide small Suits not amounting to above the summ of 25 Livers one Registrer in Chief of the Auditours and one Chief Usher and two other Ushers-Audiencers of the said Auditours 48 Commissaries and 113 Notaries Together with the Proctors Ushers on Porseback and Ushers carrying Wands and the Ushers of the Provostship of Paris By the Edicts and Declarations of the present King Registred in Parliament the 7th of September 1684. The Court of the New Chatelet Created in 1674. was reunited to that of the old one and accordingly the Offices of Provost of Lieutenant-General Civil and Lieutenant-General Criminal were supprest as likewise that of Kings Proctor of the old Chatelet The Lieutenant Criminal of the Short-Robe of the Provostship and Vicounty of Paris is Reny Chrisanthe le Clere Baron of Sauteray c. He has under him four Lieutenants seven Exempts and 100 Archers or Guards which are also Ushers at the Chatelet The Provost of the Isle of France of whom we have already spoken has also under him several Lieutenants Exempts and Archers or Guards for the Execution of his Sentences and Judgments The Knight of the Watch has likewise under him four Lieutenants eight Exempts one Registrer one Comptroller and Clerk of the Watch one Guidon 40 Archers or Guards on Horseback and 100 on Foot that wear blue Hoquetons or Jackets set with Stars of Silver Besides which number there is a recruit as well of Horse and Foot which is much stronger in Winter than in Summer As for the solemn and Ceremonial Habits of the Officers of the Chatelet they are these The three Lieutenants-General the Kings Advocates and Proctors wear Scarlet-Robes and the Counsellours black ones Formerly there were several little Courts of Judicature held by the several Lords who had their peculiar Jurisdictions in the City Suburbs and Banlieu or Liberties of Paris which were suppressed upon the Creation of the Court of the new Chatelet in the Month of February 1674 and their Jurisdictions incorporated into the Courts of the old and new Chatelets which are now made but one as is abovesaid Having spoken of the ordinary Jurisdiction of the City we will proceed next to treat of the ordinary Jurisdiction for the Taxes Aids and other Dues to the King which is the ordinary Court of Justice for Pari as it
THE Present State OF FRANCE Containing A General Description OF THAT KINGDOM Corrected and purged from the many Gross Mistakes in the French Copy enriched with Additional Observations and Remarks of the New Compiler and digested into a Method Conformable to that of The State of ENGLAND By R. W. M. A. LONDON Printed for Gilbert Cownly at the Popes-Head in the Lower-Walk of the New-Exchange in the Strand 1687. TO THE Right Honourable RICHARD Lord Vicount Preston IN THE Kingdom of SCOTLAND And One of his Majesties Most Honourable Privy-Council MY LORD THis being my first Essay in Print I thought I could not but in duty present it to your Lordship as being a Description of that Renowned Court and Kingdom wherein your Lordship as upon a Most Illustrious Theater Signaliz'd your Self with so much Reputation to your Self and Country and Mutual Satisfaction to those great Princes between whom you were so successful an Instrument of that good Correspondence that has not a little Contributed to the Happiness of Both Monarchies the most Flourishing at present of Europe And indeed France my Lord being the Place too wherein I was honoured and made happy by so many of your Lordship's Favours what more Congruous Mark could I give you of the Lasting and deeply Impressed Sense I have of them than the Present I humbly make you of France it Self or at least of this small Prospect of so vast a Monarchy A Present which though perhaps inconsiderable on the account of the Imperfections it may have contracted from it's Author will I hope be grateful in respect of its noble Subject and by your accustomed Goodness be accepted as a Cordial Testimony of the real Gratitude and Profound Respect I have and shall ever preserve for your Honour of whom I am My Lord The most humble and most devoted Servant R. Wolley THE PREFACE TO THE READER Courteous Reader YOV have in this Treatise the Portraicture of a great and Flourishing Monarchy viz. The Present State of France as it now is under the Government of the Potent and Victorious Prince Lewis the Fourteenth Sirnamed the Great It is very different from that which formerly appeared under the same Title and though a great deal of the matter be taken out of the latest and best Edition of the French Author on that subject yet it is not altogether a Translation and for your better and clearer understanding of what is remarkable in a Country of the particularities of which our Nation above all others is most curious I have Explained all Passages needing Explication added many Observations of my own made during ten Years Travel and Converse in that Magnificent and splendid Court and digested the Whole into a Method as conformable as the matter would suffer to that observed by the Worthy and Ingenious Author of The Present State of England and consequently if I be not mistaken rendred both the Book and the Country much more intelligible to an English Reader than it was before when it was so far from being Illustrated that it was hardly half Translated and left in many of the most material Places almost as much French as in the Original and done in a very perplexed Method which allay'd much the Pleasure of the Reader who I hope will peruse this with more satisfaction and delight Farewel ☞ Note That l. after the several Summs signifies Livers which is something more in value than eighteen pence English and that d. signifies Deniers or Sols which is in value somewhat loss than a Penny English THE Present State OF FRANCE Of France in general CHAP. I. Of its Name Climate Dimensions Divisions Air Soil Commodities Riches Trade Moneys Weight Measures and Buildings THIS Famous Country has its present Name as by most Authors is agreed from the Franci or Franks a People of Germany who seized upon those parts of it nearest the Rhine in the time of Valentinian the Third and having afterward subdued Paris and made it the Seat-Royal of their growing Empire caused the Country thereabouts to be called FRANCE Which Name as they enlarged their Borders they communicated to the rest of the Country and those parts of Germany also that were Conquered by them The Ancient Name was Gallia or Gaul and the people were called Galli or Gauls and with those that write in Latin the ancient name is still in use It is scituated between the degrees of 15 and 29 of Longitude and between 42 and 51 of Latitude in the Northern Temperate Zone between the middle Parallel of the fifth Clime where the longest day is 15 hours and 12 Minutes and the middle Parallel of the Eighth Clime where the longest day is 16 hours and a half It is bounded on the North with the Brittish Ocean and some parts of the Netherlands on the South with part of the Pyrenean Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea on the East with a branch of the Alps and the Countries of Savoy Switzerland and some parts of Germany and the Rhine and on the West by the Aquitanian Sea and the rest of the Pyrenean Mountains The figure of it is according to most squarish and to others roundish or tending to an Oval but all agree that it is almost of equal extent every way and much about 200 Leagues or 600 Miles according to the common account of 3 Miles to a League which is an account by which most Geographers mightily inlarge the extent of other Countries and make England much less than it is for I have observed they reckon all by 3 Miles to a common League whereas I never could find that a common French League was more than 2 common Miles and if it be said that in some places they have much longer Leagues that is balanced by answering that in some parts of England there are likewise very long Miles An eminent Geographer reckons it 660 Italian Miles in length 570 in breadth and 2040 in compass and makes it contain 200 Millions of Arpens of Land which is a measure something more than an Acre The Ancient Gallia or Gaul was distinguisht by several Divisions but as not intending a History but only a short Description I shall take notice of but only two made by the Romans after they became Masters of this Country from the time of Julius Caesar by whom it was divided into these four parts viz. 1. Narbonensis is called so from the City of Narbon then a Roman Colony containing Languedoc Provence Dauphiny and some part of Savoy called also Braccata from the wild habit worn by the people 2. Aquitanica so called from the City of Aquae Augustae now D' Acqu's in Guienne lying upon the Pyrenees and the wide Ocean comprehending the Provinces of Gascoyn Guienne Xiantoygne Limosin Quercy Perigort Berry Bourbonnois and Auvergne extending from the Pyrenees to the River Loyre 3. Celtica so named from the valiant Nation of the Celtae also Lugdunensis from the City of Lyons and Comata from the long hair
worn by the people extending from the Loyre to the British Ocean and containing the Provinces of Brittany Normandy Anjou Tourain Main le Beausse the Isle of France part of Champain the Dukedom of Burgundy and the County of Lyonnois 4. Belgica from the Belgae a potent Nation of that Tract taking up all the East parts viz. Picardy the rest of Champain the County of Burgundy with so much of Germany and the Netherlands as lieth on this side of the Rhine part whereof hath been reconquered lately by the Present King and the rest remaining to the Spaniard the States of the Vnited Provinces and to the Empire In the new Modelling of the Empire by Constantine the Great Gaul was divided into 17 Provinces as 1. Lugdunensis prima 2. Secunda 3. Tertia 4. Quarta 5. Belgica prima 6. Secunda 7. Germania Prima 8. Secunda 9. Narbonensis Prima 10. Secunda 11. Aquitania Prima 12. Secunda 13. Novempopulonia 14. Viennensis 15. Maxima Sequanorum 16. Alpes Graiae Poeninae 17. Alpes Maritimae Of these 17 Germania Prima and Secunda all Belgica Prima and part of Secunda saving only what has been lately Reconquered and all that of the Alpes Graiae and Poeninae and so much of the Maxima Sequanorum as is in Switzerland are now dismembred from the name and account of France The modern Division of France is threefold First According to its Ecclesiastical Government Secondly According to its Civil Government or Administration of Justice And thirdly According to its military Government 1. According to its Ecclesiastical Government it is divided into 17 Archbishopricks containing 106 Bishopricks and Diocesses besides the Archbishopricks of Cambray Besançon and the Bishopricks of Arras St. Omers Ypres and Perpignan in the Conquests which are subdivided into Parishes 2. According to the Civil Government and Administration of Justice it is divided into 10 Parliaments besides several other Sovereign Courts and into many Bayliwicks and Seneschalchies 3. According to the Military Government it is divided into twelve Governments within France and four in the Conquered Countries being sixteen in all Of these sixteen Four lie Northward viz. 1. Picardy 2. Normandy 3. The Isle of France 4. Champaign Four in the middle of France and on each side the Loire viz. 5. Britany 6. Orleanois 7. The Dutchy of Burgundy 8. Lyounois Four are Southern and beyond that River viz. 9. Guienne 10. Languedoc 11. Dauphiny 12. Provence The four last lie Eastwards towards Germany and are 13. The French Low Countries or Netherlands 14. Lorrain 15 Alsatia 16. Franche Comte or the County of Burgundy There are reckoned in the Kingdom of France besides the Conquests 32 Cities above 4000 Towns 27400 Parishes 1450 Abbies 540 Arch-Priories 12320 Priories 567 Nunneries 700 Convents of Fryers 259 Commanderies of Malta several Colledges of Jesuits and other Religious Houses of later Foundations not reckoned and 10 Universities Of all which we shall speak more particularly elsewhere The Air is every where generally temperate and pure and so healthful that it is observed to be less subject to Plagues and Sickness than any other Country in Europe and the Air particularly about Montpelier is held Medicinal for Consumptions The North Wind reigns much there a great part of the Year which is thought to contribute much to the salubrity of the Air the Winter in the Northern parts of it is rather fiercer and sharper than in England though not altogether so long but the Summer much hotter and at Marseilles and some parts that way observed to be hotter than in several parts of Italy It is of an extraordinary fruitful Soil as well in the Mountains as the Vales every where watered with wholesom Springs and Streams and with several great Navigable Rivers and to say the truth there are not many Countries of Europe to which Nature has imparted so rich a Portion of her choicest Blessings the Woods there afford great plenty of Timber and Fuel-Wood and abound with Chesnuts and Walnuts the former producing excellent Pork and Bacon the latter great Quantities of Oyl which in some parts of France they use instead of Butter The Fields are large and open intermingled with Vines and Corn and bordered and interlined with choice of Fruits and the steep sides of Hills and most sandy stony grounds there produce often the strongest and richest Wines In fine it is every where so cultivated that it seems like the Garden of Eden it self Its Commodities Merchandises and Manufactures are many and so necessary to other Countries that of late they hardly barter them but for Money For from this Kingdom are Exported vast quantities of Salt Wine Brandy Corn dried Fruits Silks Stuffs Canvas Linnen Scissars Nuts Nut-Oyl Box-Wood Paper Skins Hats perfumed Gloves and all manner of Toys and trifles and besides they have within themselves and from their own Conquests and Plantations such quantities of Oranges Lemmons Oils Sugars Wooll Stuffs Cloths Sea-fish Stone for Building and all other things for necessity or pleasure that they will hardly barter of late years but Trade only for Money for the most part The Country is every where well stocked with fresh Fish store of Venison though little eaten by them Wildbores there much prised with Rabbits Hares and all sorts of Wild-Fowl and some unknown to us They want not good Beef which is very sweet nor Mutton which is generally sweeter than in England nor excellent Pork and as for tame Fowl they have it in much more abundance than in England and the Provinces of Normandy and Brittany furnish great store of good Butter salt and fresh but for Cheese they buy considerable quantities from the Hollanders and Suitzers By what has been said their Riches cannot but be very great and inexhaustible consisting in so many rich and inland Commodities that like so many Loadstones attract the greatest part of the riches both of Europe and of the whole World into France For their Wines Brandy Salt Canvas Silks Stuffs and Toys are Commodities which constantly bring them vast profits from England Holland and all the Northern Regions and then in the Spanish Dominions they vend so much Corn Linnen Flax Canvas Cordage Stuffs and all sorts of Manufactures that they fill their Country with the Coin of that Nation in return they likewise disperse great quantities of the said Commodities in Italy and Barbary and of late they drive a considerable Trade in the West-Indies and have made some progress in the East Their usual accounts are kept by Deniers Sols and Livers a Liver is twenty of their Sols or Pence which is a little more than eighteen pence of our Money and their Denier is the twelfth part of a Penny and very convenient for buying small quantities of things and reckoning Fractions but these Deniers in Specie or Coyn are used but in the parts of France remote from Paris Next are their Doubles which are worth two Deniers and are the sixth part of a
world and could fix in no place returned at last to this their ancient home finding so fair an opportunity to recover it from the Romans who had been the first occasion of their rambling They are governed chiefly by the Civil Law though they have likewise their Customary Laws peculiar to several Provinces as the Laws in Normandy which were the foundation of several Laws in England since the Norman Conquest Their Religion is the Roman Catholick but yet they are stiff Assertors of the Rights and Priviledges of their particular Church which they call the Gallican Church The Manners of the ancient Gauls as they are described by Caesar and other Historians seem to have been inherited by the present French and to be effects of the Climate for they are very quick-witted and of a nimble apprehension but withal they are generally rash and precipitate impatient hasty inconstant eager and full of fire at the first onset but better at a push than at an obstinate pursuit thus they are naturally But the present King who has much of the sober mixture of a Spaniard in him has made it appear to all Europe That His French well moderated are capable of making as wise discreet and sedate Counsellours as any in the World and as capable of managing secrets which has been thought a thing almost incompatible with the temper of this Nation Then as for Souldiers by providing well for them as for Cloths Victuals and exact pay by good Discipline and by frequent but cautious fleshing them in Wars under experienced and fortunate Commanders and lastly by intermingling Foreign Forces of all Nations with them to stir them up to emulation He has made both his Infantry and Cavalry formidable and it can no more be said now that the French know not how to storm a Town endure the Fatigues of a Siege or rally again when their Ranks are broken As for Commanders they always had store of them and have now the greatest plenty of them and the best of any one Country in Europe This Country has in all Ages produced great numbers of Learned Men of which and of all ingenious Artists their Princes and great Men have in this last Age been very great Encouragers and all the Sons of their Gentry as well those that are designed for Military Employments as for the Gown are bred up at least to a competent knowledge of the Latin Tongue So that as usually it happens under Great and Fortunate Princes they now abound with Great Scholars Great Statesmen and Great Souldiers and their Paris is become the Rendezvous of all the famous Wits and Artists of Europe who flock thither from all places Their Gentry is accomplisht polite and civil to the highest degree They keep up their State and Magnificence with such a Decorum as hinders them not from being familiar and courteous to all the Ceremonies they observe seem natural and they love nothing that is crampt and precise Their Citizens Tradesmen Artisans and very Peasants are generally more civil and courteous to Strangers and in ordinary conversation than those of other Nations They are very airy amorous and full of talk and always in action or motion In bargaining by prevalence of custom they will ask three or four times as much as a thing is worth and will have it if you bargain not and when they buy bid as little but if you stand with them you may buy cheap enough and sell dear enough They are very charitable and good natured and will do any thing for you by spurts if you take them when they are warm They are very quarrelsome and given to Duelling were they not severely restrained but they are easily reconciled and disposed to forget injuries But above all things they are most given to Law-Suits and Contentions there being more Lawyers and Law-Suits there than in all Christendom besides and that between the nearest Relations by which it comes to pass that the Lawyers Judges and other Officers of Justice with the Partisans or Farmers of Taxes are reckoned the richest Body in the Kingdom excepting the Church-men The Women partake less or more according to their Sex in all the Qualities of this Character and are generally very talkative but yet very pleasing in Discourse of a graceful and winning deportment generally good Singers and so free in converse that many Strangers ignorant of their genius are apt at first to mistake them to be what they are not Their punishments for Nobles among which all Gentlemen are reckoned there for smaller offences are Fining and Imprisoning and for greater Confiscation of Lands and Goods Degradation and after that Hanging or Condemnation to the Gallies as meaner persons otherwise Beheading those that are not Gentlemen are Fined or Whipped as here or Hanged for Thefts and some other Crimes but Highway-men Assasinators or wilful Murtherers are generally broken on the Wheel of what Quality soever unless they be favoured Traitors not noble are drawn to pieces by wild Horses or otherwise tormented but Gentlemen are commonly Beheaded Poysoners and Sorcerers are burned Many Crimes there are for which the Criminals are Condemned to the Gallies false Witnesses in Capital Cases are put to Death They use there the torture or Question which is ordinary or extraordinary which is by giving the Party Drenches of Water till they almost burst and tying them up in painful postures France is very populous the number of people being reckoned to be about fifteen Millions of which two hundred and seventy thousand are said to be Church-men besides Nuns about five Millions fit for War Their Language is a mixture of the old Gaulish Gothish Roman and German Tongues not without some smack of the Greek and is now so polished that it is become the sweetest the most courtly and most modish Language of Europe but most especially of the fair Sex and politer part of men It is tender amorous and delicious to the Ear quaint and charming in expression easy enough to learn in part but most difficult to attain in perfection It is rather elegant than copious being not so significant and comprehensive as the English in prose nor so fit for numbers and strong and lofty in Verse yet very melodious when sung and very obedient and plyable to any variety of Airs and Tunes of which they have some of the best and most aiery and sprightly that can be invented Many neat elegant and ingenious works there are in this Language but solid and profound Writers not so many as in some other Tongues Their Stature and Complexion is different according to their quality and according to the different Provinces they inhabit The common people that are exposed to the Sun and hard labour and fare hard besides are commonly not very tall and are tawny tan'd and wither'd both Men and Women but hardy and strong and the Women for their Sex more than the Men. The persons of Quality are generally tall
him to take both that Name and the Arms belonging to it The same Year a Marriage was treated off between him and Françise of Lorrain of Mercoeur only Daughter and Heiress Apparent of Philip-Emanuel of Lorrain Duke of Mercoeur and of Marie of Luxemburg Princess of Martigues who died the 8th of September 1669. which Marriage was Consummated in 1609. He took the Oath of Duke and Peer in Parliament in 1606. He was Governour and Lieutenant-General for the King in Brittany which Place he Resigned in favour of the Queen Regent in the Month of May 1650. for that of High Admiral of France The Crosses and disgraces this Prince had met withal having nothing abated his Zeal for the service of the King and State He died in his Palace at Paris the 22d of October 1665. leaving three Children behind him 1. Lewis Duke of Vendome and Mercoeur Governour of Provence c. and afterward Cardinal who before he was Cardinal Married in the year 1651. Victoria-Mancini Niece to the Late Cardinal Mazarine who died the 8th of January 1657. And died himself at Aix the 6th of August 1669. leaving two Sons by this Marriage of whom we shall speak below 2. His Brother Francis of Vendome Duke of Beaufort Peer of France Knight of the Kings Orders High Admiral or Grand Master of the Seas Head and Super-intendant General of the Commerce and Navigation of France was Born at Paris in the Month of January 1616. and was in April 1669. declared by his Holiness General of all the Forces of Christendom sent to the Relief of Candia and never could be found or heard of since that unhappy attack given by the French to the Turks the 25th of June 1669. He was never Married 3. Their Sister was named Isabel of Vendome and died in May 1664. being the Widow of the late Duke of Nemours Charles-Amedeus of Savoy by whom she left two Daughters as we shall remark afterward The two Sons of the abovesaid Cardinal Duke of Vendome during his said Marriage are yet living and are 1. Lewis-Joseph of Vendome Duke of Vendome c. Great Senechal and Governour of the Country and County of Provence c. was Born the first of July 1654. He won the prize at running at Heads performed at St. Germains in February 1680. and that at running at the Ring the 2d of May the same year 2. Philip of Vendome Grand Prior of France Knight of St. John of Jerusalem c. was Born the 22d of August 1656. The same Henry the Great had during his second Marriage by the Lady Henriette of Balsac D' Antragues Marchioness of Vernueil a Son and a Daughter being 1. The late Henry of Bourbon Duke of Vernueil c. who on the 29th of October 1668. Married Charlote Seguier Dutchess Dowager of Sully who died without Children the 28th of May 1682. 2. The late Gabriele of Bourbon first Wife to the Deceased Duke of Epernon by whom she had the Duke of Candale who died at Lyons and a Daughter who is a Carmelite Nun. By the Lady Jaqueline de Bueil Countess of Moret he had Antony of Bourbon Count of Moret who was killed at the Battel of Castelnau d' Ary in 1632. Lastly By the Lady Charlotte of Essars Countess of Remorantin his fourth Mistress the said King had two Daughters viz. The Lady Joan-Baptist of Bourbon Abbess and Chief of the Order of Fontevrault who was Born in 1608. and died the 16th of January 1669. and the Lady Marie-Henriette of Bourbon Abbess of Chelles who is likewise dead CHAP. IX Of the House of Longueville THE late Henry of that Name Duke of Longueville c. Died at Roan the 11th of May 1663. at the Age of 69 years He Married as we have said the present Prince of Conde's Sister by whom he had two Sons viz. 1. John-Lewis-Charles of Orleans of Longueville called The Abbot of Orleans Duke of Longueville and d' Estouteville Count de Dunois or the Country of Dun c. was Born the 12th of January 1646. and took the Order of Priesthood in 1669. 2. Charles of Orleans Duke of Longueville Count of St. Pauls his Brother was killed at the memorable passage of the Rhine near Tolbuys in Holland the 12th of June 1672. leaving only a natural Son called the Chevalier Longueville who was Legitimated the same year Their Sister by the Fathers side by a former Wise was Anne-Marie of Orleans who was Born the 5th of March 1625. being Widow of Henry of Savoy last Duke of Nemours This Family descended in a direct Male Line from John Natural Son to Lewis of France Duke of Orleans Brother to Charles the Sixth This Count de Dunois did such brave Exploits in the reign of Charles the Seventh against the English under the Names of the Bastard of Orleans and of Count de Dunois That he obtained for his Posterity very singular Priviledges and such as never before or since him were ever granted to any Natural Children but those of the Kings themselves After the Princes of the Blood and those which are Legitimated I thought good to subjoin those Families that the King suffers to enjoy some particular honours which other Dukes and Peers are not allowed which are called Stranger-Princes CHAP. X. Of Stranger-Princes THese Princes though born in France and truly French by Nation yet are called Strangers because they are originally descended from a Foreign House and Principality and bear its Name As those of the House of Lorain Savoy and others of which we shall here speak It is almost impossible to regulate the point of Precedence among the Soveraign Families setled in France and therefore not to meddle with those disputes I shall follow the Order of the time of their respective setling here And since the Branches of the House of Lorain that for these many Ages have been setled in this Kingdom have longer enjoyed the Bank of Princes in France than those of the House of Savoy I hope none will take it ill that I give them the first place for as for the Precedence of some other Houses there being as yet almost nothing determined in France on that subject I shall leave it wholly to the Reader to think of that point what he pleases Of the House of Lorain The better and more distinctly to describe to you all the Princes and Princesses of the House of Lorain that are at present living I shall divide the Family into five Branches and accordingly shall speak first Of the first Branch of Lorain The late Charles the Third of that Name Duke of Lorain who died of a Feaver at Cologne the 17th of September 1675. at the Age of 75 Years Married on the 22d of May 1621. his Cousin-German Nicole of Lorain eldest Daughter of the deceased Henry Duke of Lorain This Charles Duke of Lorain was detained a long time Prisoner in Spain which was the cause that the Princess Nicole Dutchess of Lorain not being willing to fall into the same Misfortune
is performed with a Ger-falcon and any sorry Greyhound to help the Hawk sometimes The Hawks and Flights belonging to the Kings Cabinet entred on the Establishment of the Great Falconry are 1. A Flight for the Crow to which belong A Captain or Chief at 700 l. a Lieutenant-Aid at 300 l. a Master-Falconer at 300 l. six Prickers at 250 l. each and a Porte-Duc or Decoy-Bearer at 250 l. Allowed besides for the keeping of sixteen Hawks at 3 d. apiece a day 873 l. 5 d. And to the Keeper of the Perch of the said Flight and that looks after the Hawks that are not carried out at the rate of 15 d. a day 273 l. 15 d. besides 36 l. more for Shoes which amounts in all to 4233 l. 2. A Flight for the Mag-Pie to which belong A Captain or Chief at 700 l. a Lieutenant-Aid and a Master-Falconer at 300 l. each three Prickers at 250 l. apiece More allowed for the feeding and keeping of eight Hawks and for buying them 838 l. And to the Keeper of the Perch of the said Flight who likewise looks after the Hawks that are not carried out 273 l. and 36 l. for Shoes which amounts in all to 3197 l. 15 d. 3. A Flight for the Pigeon to which belong A Captain or Chief at 700 l. a Lieutenant-Aid at 300 l. and three Prickers at 250 l. apiece More allowed for Keeping eight Hawks and buying them 838 l. and keeping eighteen Spaniels at 4 d. a day each 1314. To the Servant that looks after the said Spaniels 273 l. 15 d. besides 36 l. for Shoes and To the Keeper of the Perch of the said Flight and of the Hawks that are not carried out 273 l. 15 d. and 36 l. for Shoes which amounts in all to 4521 l. 10 d. 4. A Flight of Merlins to which belong A Captain or Chief at 700 l. a Lieutenant-Aid and a Master-Falconer at 300 l. each two Prickers at 250 l. each more allowed for keeping and feeding eight Hawks 438 l. and to the Keeper of the Perch and of the Hawks that are not carried out 273 l. 15 d. and 36 l. for Shoes which amounts in all to 2547 l. 15 d. The Merlins are made use of to flie at the young Partridge whilst the light Hawks are mewing or casting their Feathers they are used likewise for the Quail the Black-bird the Sky-Lark and other small Birds as likewise to fly at the Pigeon Brow-strung The Flight with the Merlins is particular to the Kings Cabinet being in no other Royal Falconry but that of the Cabinet This Flight is performed from the Fist that is when they are minded to let flie at a young Partridge they attack her not till the Dogs have raised her and there is no difference in the way of flying this little Bird and the Falcon called a Blocker but only that one may carry a Merlin without Hood-winking upon the Fist whereas a Falcon must be always carried Hood-winked whether it be let flie one way or the other In flying at the Black-Bird and other small Birds they use Poles to beat them out of the Hedges and Cross-Bowes to have the pleasure of killing them when they cannot be got out of their holds or shelters where they are attacked Of all the several sorts of Birds that the Merlins are used to fly at none is more delightful gives more diversion or shows more the eagerness and courage of the Merlins than the Sky-Larks because they commonly endeavour to save themselves by soaring aloft and so draw the Couragious Merlins up to the very Clouds from whence they force them to descend and to endeavour to light in some Thicket or some other shelter which before they can reach the Merlins commonly take them The manner of flying them at the Pigeon Brow-strung is thus two strings are passed through the lower Eylids of the Pigeon and then tied so together above her Head so that her Eylids are drawn up that she cannot see downwards at all but only upward and then she is thrown with the hand as high into the Air as a Man can throw her where seeing no way but upward she is forc'd to soar upwards by spirts and when she is mounted reasonably high the Falconers send the Merlins who overtake her and never leave pursuing her till they have fastened on her and brought her down which sort of scuffle lasts very often a great while and gives the most pleasure The total summ of the expence of the four Flights belonging to the Cabinet amounts to 14500 l. besides what is allowed for the buying of the Hawks for the Crow and the Merlins the Hens and other charges Other Officers of the Great Falconry After the Great Falconer and the Captains or Chiefs of the different Flights of Hawks above-mentioned there are besides Twenty five Gentlemen of the Falconry of which the five first have 300 l. yearly Salary and the others but 90 l. A Secretary of the Falconry at 300 l. a Marshal of the Lodgings or Chief Harbinger 400 l. He commonly goes and receives Orders of his Majesty when he pleases to go a Hunting two other Harbingers at 300 l. each one Chyrurgion at 250 l. and one Apothecary at 300 l. All the Officers above-named enjoy the same Priviledges as those that are Commoners in his Majesties Houshold Article IV. Of the Great Wolf-Hunter The Great Wolf-Hunter has the super-intendance over the Wolf-Hunting He has 1200 l. standing Salary and 8500 l. by way of Pension Appointments and Wages as Counseller of State Under him there are two Lieutenants and one Deputy-Lieutenant of the Wolf-Hunting who have each 1000 l. Salary Other particular Lieutenants and under Officers in being divided into four Provinces are 1. A Lieutenant of the Wolf-Hunting in the Provostship of Paris 2. A Lieutenant within the extent of the Countries of Anjou and Maint 3. A Lieutenant for the Bayliwick of the Country of Auxerre all which have a Salary of 150 l. each 4. Besides which there is a fourth Lieutenant without Title who has 450 l. Salary Two Wolf-Hunters at 300 l. each two Servants of the Bloodhounds at 150 l. two Servants of the Fleet-hounds 120 l. one Head-Servant to keep and teach the young Blood-hounds 90 l. two other Servants to keep and feed the young Greyhounds and other young Dogs 90 l. each eight Keepers of the Great Greyhounds or Irish Greyhounds of which four belong to the Kings Chamber 260 l. Salary each and 1095 l. for keeping the said Dogs four Serjeants Wolf-Hunters at 80 l. each a Baker to make the Dogs Bread 60 l. and a Captain of the Carriage at 180 l. Salary and 1035 l. for maintaining his Carriage Besides these several Hunting Games there is another Hunting or rather Fishing Divertisement which is performed with Cormorants of which there is one that has the oversight in the Park at Fountain-bleau After the several Divertisement of Hunting we may place that of the Tennis-Court There is
de la Chaize 4. The Bailiff of St. Stephen in the Forests that acts at Montbrison is The Marquiss d' Vrfé 5. The Bayliff of Beaujolois is The Marquiss de Sify To this Government belongs too the Country of Auvergne in which are 1. The Governour General The Duke of Boüillon 2. Two Lieutenants-General viz. A Lieutenant-General of High Auvergne The Chevalier de Noailles who is likewise Lieutenant-General of the Gallies 3. Two Seneschals viz Of Riom The Count d' Alêgre Of Clermont The Marquiss of Canillac Another Dependance is the Province of La Marche in which are 1. A Governour of both the Higher and Lower Province of that Name The Marquiss de St. Germain de Beaupré 2. The Lieutenant-General The Marquiss de la Val-Montmorency 3. The Seneschal of Gueret M. de L' Epau 4. The Seneschal of Dorat M. de Sainte Faire Another Dependance is the Country of Bourbon called Bourbonnois in which are 1. A Governour General The Marquiss de la Valiere 2. A Lieutenant-General The Marquiss of Levis Count of Charlus 12. In the Government of the Country of Orleans which is called the Government of the Countries of Orleans Blois Dune Sologne Chartrain and Vendôme are comprehended likewise besides what are mentioned in the Title The Provinces of Poitou Anjou Touraine or Country of Tours The Country of Saumur and the Government of Rochelle The Isle of Oleron and Ré The Province of Maine with le Perche and the Country of Laval Of Berry and of the Country called Nivernois which we shall take in Order 1. Then the Governour General of what is mentioned in the Title is The Marquiss d' Alluy 2. The Lieutenant-General of Orleannois or Country of Orleans is M. de Laude 3. The Bayliff The Marquiss d' Avarez 4. The Lieutenant-General of the Country of Blois or Blêsois The Marquiss de Thois 5. The Bayliff of the same is M. de Somery Governour of Chambor 6. The Lieutenant-General of the Country of Chartres The Chevalier de Bethune d' Orval 7. The Bayliff of Chartres M. de Servin 8. The Bayliff of Chateauneuf The Count de la Salle 9. The Governour of Orleans The Marquiss d' Alluye 10. The Governour of Chartres The Marquiss of Chatillon In the Province of Poitou are 1. A Governour General of High and Low Poitou and the Countries of Loudun and Chatelleraut The Duke de la Vieuville 2. Two Lieutenants-General viz. In High Poitou and the Countries abovesaid The Count de Parabére In Low Poitou The Count de Pardaillan 3. Two Seneschals of the Country of Poitou viz. one residing at Poitiers The Count d' Olonne de la Tremouille And another at Civray and Maixant M. de la Parisiere 4. The Governour and Lieutenant-General at Poitiers The Marquiss de la Bretêche 5. Loudun the Governour M. de Pyolens 6. Chatelleraut the Governour The Marquiss of Rivau In the Province of Anjou are 1. A Governour General The Count d' Armagnac 2. A Lieutenant-General The Marquiss de Varenne 3. A Seneschal The Marquiss de Sablé 4. The Governour of the Castle of Anger 's M. D' Antichamb 5. Of the Pont or Bridge of Cé M. de la Fons Governour In Touraine or the Country of Tours are these Governours 1. The Governour in chief of Touraine and of the Town of Tours The Marquiss d' Anjeau 2. The Lieutenant-General The Marquiss de Rusilly 3. The Bailiff of Tours and Chinon The Marquiss de Givry 4. The Bailiff of Lôches The Marshal d' Humieres 5. Amboise Town and Castle The Marquiss d' Alluye Governour and Bayliff Of the Country of Saumur of which depend Saumur Richelieu and Mirebeau the Governour of Rochelle and the Country of Aunis and The Count de Cominges Governour also of Saumur 1. The Governour General M ....... 2. The Lieutenant-General M. Millet Sub-Governour to the Dauphin 3. The Grand Seneschal The Count de Motes 4. Of the Town Towers and Haven of Rochelle M. de Guiry Governour 5 ....... M. du Sauzage 6. Isle and Cittadel of Oleron The Count de la Vaugade Governour 7. Isle de Ré and Fort de Prés M. d' Aubarêde Governour In the Province of Le Main le Perche and Laval there are 1. A Governour General The Marquiss de Ferraques 2. A Lieutenant-General The Count de Tessé 3. A Seneschal The Baron of Liscuet In the Province of Berry there are 1. A Governour in Chief The Prince de Soubize 2. A Lieutenant-General that is likewise Seneschal The Count de Crouy de Gaucourt In the Country of Nivernois are 1. A Governour in Chief The Duke of Nevers 2. A Lieutenant-General The Baron de Joux who is Marquiss of Vielbourg and Count de Miêne Other Countries and Governments Incorporated and Reunited to the Crown of France 13. The Government of Navarre and Bearn in which there are 1. A Chief Governour and Lieutenant-General The Duke of Gramont 2. A Lieutenant-General of Bearn The Marquiss de Rébenac de Feuquieres 14. In the Government of Alsatia are 1. A Chief Governour both of High and Low Alsatia who is Governour also of Brisac Town Cittadel and Castle and of La Fére Vitré and Port-Lewis The Duke de Mazarini 2. A Lieutenant-General The Duke of Montausier 3. In their Absence he that Commands in all Alsatia is M. de Monclar 4. Of Strasburg The Marquiss de Chamilly Governour 5. Of the Town of Brisac M. de la Chetardi Governour M. de Farges Lieutenant 6. Hunningen near Bâle The Marquiss de Puisieux Governour M. de la Sabliere Lieutenant 7. Schelestadt M. de Gondreville Governour M. de la Provenchére Lieutenant 8. Beffort M. St. Just Governour M. de Dampiere Lieutenant 9. La Petite Pierce M. Charle Commander 10. Friburg Capital City of Brisgau Town and Castle M. Du Fay Governour In the Town M. de Barége Lieutenant In the Castle M. de Roais Commander 15. In the Government of the three Bishopricks Mets Toul and Verdun there are In the Country and Bishoprick of Mets there are 1. A Chief Governour The Duke de la Ferte-Senneterre 2. A Lieutenant-General The Count de Vaubecourt 3. Town and Cittadel The Duke de la Ferté Governour M. le Roy Commander In the Town M. de Givry Lieutenant In the Cittadel M. de Beraut Lieutenant 2. In the Province County and Bishoprick of Toul there are 1. A Governour in Chief The Duke de Choiseul du Plessis Prâlin 2. A Lieutenant-General The Count de Feuquieres 3. Hombourg Town and Castle The Marquiss de la Bretêche Governour M. de la Gardette Commander 4. Bich Town and Castle M. de Bretêche Governour M. de la Guierle Lieutenant 5. Marsal The Marquiss de la Tournelle Governour M. de France Lieutenant 6. Faltsburg and Sareburg M. de Chamarande Governour M. de Boesse Lieutenant of Sareburg 7. Littemberg M. Bertrandi Commander 8. Castle of Landzcroon M. de Siffredi Commander 3. In the Province County and Bishoprick of Toul