Office There are likewise twelve of the Kings Life-guard Men Commanded by an Exemt in Ordinary and a Sub-Brigadier that keep Guard every day at the outward Door and lie in the Hall Two of the Kings Footmen wait always in the Anti-Chamber to be in readiness to go where-ever there shall be occasion to send them for the service of the Children of France and they have besides ten other little Footmen If any of the Children of France be carried or Conducted to the Audiences given by the King to Ambassadours they are placed on the Kings right hand The Governess and Under-Governess too enter within the Rails upon the Cloth of State as likewise the Chamber-Maid that holds them in her Arms and the Gentleman-Usher that leads and supports them for fear they should fall Of Monsieur the Kings only Brother and his Family Philip Son of France only Brother to the King Duke of Orleans c. was Born the 22d of September 1640. His first Wife was the Lady Henriette-Anne of England Daughter to the late Charles the First King of Great-Brittain and Sister to the Present King of England to whom he was Married the last day of March 1661. She died the 29th of June 1670. leaving him two daughters Marie-Lewise of Orleans Queen of Spain Born the 27th of March 1662. Married at Fountain-bleau the 31st of August 1679. and Anne of Orleans Dutchess of Savoy Born the 27th of August 1669. and Married at Versailles the 10th of April 1684. His second Wife is Madam Charlotte-Elizabeth of Bavaria Daughter to the late Elector Palatine who was Born the 27th of May or the 17th old Stile 1651. and was Married to him the 21st of December 1671. By whom he has Issue the Duke of Chartres named Philip Born the second of August 1675 and Madamoiselle of Chartres Born the 13th of September 1676. named Elizabeth Charlotte The Duke of Chartres is Colonel of the Regiment of Guienne His Governour is the Marshal d' Estrades who has the same allowance as the Governours of the Sons of France His Tutor is Monsieur de St. Laurent formerly Introductor of Ambassadours to their Royal Highnesses The Governess of their Royal Highnesses Children is the Marshal of Grancy's Lady Monsieur the Duke of Orleans is a Prince of a very lively spirit that delights in great things and that has signaliz'd his Courage in several Rencounters as at the taking of St. Omers at the Battel of Mount-Cassel c. CHAP. VI. Of the Princes of the Blood MOnsieur the late Duke of Orleans who was named Gaston-John-Baptiste Son of France Duke of Orleans c. Died at Blois at the Age of 52 Years the second of February 1660. His first Wife was Marie of Bourbon Daughter and Sole Heiress to Henry of Bourbon Duke of Montpensier and Sovereign Prince of Dombes and to Henriette-Catharine Dutchess of Joyeuse She was Married to him in the Year 1626. and died the 4th of June the next Year being 1627. leaving him a Daughter Born the 29th of May in the said year 1627. Stiled Madamoiselle of Orleans who Signs Anne-Marie-Lewise of Orleans The Countess of Fiesque was her Governess She is likewise Dutchess of Chatelleraud which formerly belonged to the Dukes of Hamilton in Scotland and is still Claimed by them and of Montpensier c. Princess de la Roche-sur-Yon c. and Sovereign Princess of Dombes c. But she hath given the Principality de la Roche-sur-Yon to Francis Lewis of Bourbon at present Prince of Conti and the Soveraignty of Dombes which gives power to Coin Money to my Lord the Duke of Maine reserving only the profits of it during her Life In the year 1632. the said late Monsieur Married for his second Wife Margaret of Loraine second Daughter of Francis Count de Vaudemont and of Christine de Salme and Sister of Charles Duke of Lorrain who was Born in the year 1615. and died at Paris in her Palace of Luxemburgh the 3d of April 1672. By whom he left three Daughters 1. Madamoiselle of Orleans named Margaret-Lewise Born the 28th of July 1645. and Married the 19th of April 1661. to the Prince of Tuscany at Present Great Duke of Florence by whom he has Ferdinand of Medicis Prince of Tuscany Born the 9th of August 1663. and Marie Magdalene of Medicis Born in the year 1665. 2. Madamoiselle d' Alençon Isabel of Orleans Born the 26th of Decem. 1646. She is Dutchess Dowager of the late Duke of Guise by whom she had a Son 3. And Madamoiselle de Valois Francise of Orleans Born the 13th of October 1648. and Married to the Duke of Savoy 1663. She died in 1664. He had likewise a Son by her named John-Gaston Duke of Valois Before we come to the Princes of Condé and Conti we must take notice That Lewis of Bourbon the first of that Name Prince of Condé Brother of Antony of Bourbon King of Navarre who was Father to King Henry the Great Had by Eleonor de Roye Countess of Roucy Marchioness of Conti and Lady of Muret his first Wife Henry Prince of Condé the first of that Name This Henry the first had by Charlotte-Catherine de la Tremoüille Henry the Second who by Charlotte Margaret of Montmorency Daughter to the last Constable of Montmorency and Lewise de Budos his second Wife who died the 2d of December 1650. left three Children and died the 28th of December 1646. 1. Lewis of Bourbon the second of that Name Prince of Condé first Prince of the Blood Duke of the Territory of Bourbon c. and General of the Kings Armies who was one of the most Valiant Princes of Europe or to speak better the Alexander of his Age He was Born the 8th of September 1621 and on the 11th of February 1641. being as then but Duke of Enguyen in his Fathers Life-time Married Clare-Clemence de Maillé Brezé Daughter of the late Marshal de Brezé and of the late Cardinal Duke of Richelieu's Sister By whom he had at Paris the 29th of July 1643. Henry-Julius of Bourbon now Prince of Condé Knight of the Orders of his Majesty Governour of Burgundy c. Grand Master of France or of the Kings Houshold under which Head we shall speak further of him The Late Prince of Condé died at Fountain-bleau the 11th of December 1686. in the 65 Year of his Age. On the 11th of December 1663. The present Prince Married Anne Countess Palatine Dutchess of Bavaria who was Born the 11th of December 1647. Daughter of the late Edward of Bavaria Prince Palatine of the Rhine and of Anne of Gorzague and was adopted only Daughter of Poland By whom he had 1. Marie-Terese called Madamoiselle de Bourbon who was Born at Paris the first of February 1666. and Baptized at the Convent of the Carmelites in the Street called La rue de Bouloy the 22th of January 1670. 2. Lewis of Bourbon Duke of Enguien and Governour of Burgundy Born at Paris the 11th of October
succeeded the King his Father the 14th of May 1643. He was declared Major or at Age the 7th of September 1651. Consecrated at Reims 1654 and Married at St. John de Luz's the 9th of the same Month 1660. As to his Consecration or Anointing for so the French call the Coronation of their Kings though the Medals made on that occasion bear date the 31th of May you are to remark that it was not performed till the 7th of June of the said Year 1654. I thought I could not give you a more faithful Draught of the Person of our Invincible Monarch than that which I have borrowed from the words of the late Archbishop of Paris in the History that Illustrious and Learned Prelate composed of Henry the Great Yes Sir saith he to him Heaven has given you a generous good and bounteous Soul a Wit sublime and capable of the greatest things an happy and easy Memory an Heroick and Martial Courage a clear and solid Judgment a strong and vigorous Body and over and above all this another very particular advantage and that is That Majestic Presence that Air and Gate almost Divine that shape and that beauty worthy of the Empire of the Vniverse that attracts the Eyes and Respect of the whole World and which without the Force of Arms and without the Authority of Commands wins you all those to whom your Majesty is pleased to shew your Self The King of France is called Most Christian for the great and Signal Services received by the Church and the Holy See from this Crown He is also for the same reason stiled the Eldest Son of the Church and by several Bulls of Popes a priviledge has been granted to the Kings of France that they should not be liable to Excommunication nor their Subjects absolved of the Oath of Allegiance due to them This Monarch is in point of precedence the first King of Christendom notwithstanding the opposition of the Kings of Spain who never disputed or did so much as take place next after our Kings before the time of the Emperour Charles the Fifth and then other Kings preceded them It is true indeed that that Emperour being likewise King of Spain because his Ministers and Ambassadours preceded those of France as representing the Emperour the Spaniards under his Successour Philip the Second who was only King of Spain endeavoured under that pretence in the Year 1558. at Venice to gain the Precedence of France but that Republick regulated that dispute and ordered the Precedence to be continued to the Ambassadours of France as Pope Paul the Fourth had done before And Philip the Fourth the King of Spain last deceased agreed to it by the satisfaction he caused to be made to the King of France by the Marquess de la Fuente his Ambassadour Extraordinary in the presence of eight Ambassadours and twenty two Residents or Agents the 24th of March 1662. for the Assault made by his Ambassadour on ours in England in October 1661. The Title of the King of France is so Excellent and so much exalted above that of other Kings that Suidas an ancient Greek Author writes that in the World when it is said only the King without naming who it was meant of the King of France Matthew Paris calls him Terrestrium Rex Regum the King of Earthly Kings And Bodin says that that King is Emperour in France and many assert it to be a common notion of all the Nations of the World that the Quality of King is much more sublime than that of Emperour Pope Gregory the first lib. 9. Ep. 6. Writing to Childebert King of France says that the Kings of France as much surpass all other Kings of the Earth as the Royal Dignity is exalted above the rest of men CHAP. IV. The Genealogy of the Royal Branch of Bourbon SAint Lewis the Ninth of that Name had four Sons of which there was none but Philip the Bold and Robert his Fourth Son that left Issue Of this Robert Count of Clermont who was afterward Lord or Sire of Bourbon are descended our Kings in manner as follows Robert Count of Clermont in the Country of Beauvais Married Beatrix Sole Heiress of John of Burgundy Count of Charolois and of Agnes Daughter of Archimbald the Younger Sire of Bourbon and by her he had Lewis Sire of Bourbon in favour of whom the said Land Sirerie Lordship or Barony of Bourbon was erected into a Dutchy or Peerage by Philip de Valois in the Year 1329. which Lordship belonged to him in right of his Mother whose Name he bore according to the Articles of the Contract of Marriage between his Father and Mother Lewis had Issue Peter Duke of Bourbon and James Earl of Ponthieu and de la Marche Constable of France But because the Masculine Line of the said Peter is extinct we shall leave it to speak of that of James of Bourbon Earl of Ponthieu James of Bourbon Earl of Ponthieu had John of Bourbon by Jean de Chatillon Daughter of the Earl of St. Paul John of Bourbon had by Catharine of Vendome Sister and Sole Heiress of Bouchard last Count of Vendome James King of Naples who leaving no Children transferred the Birth-right to his Brother Lewis Lewis of Bourbon Count of Vendome Grand Master of France had by Jean Daughter of Guy Count de Laval Lord of Gaure John the Second of that Name Earl of Vendome John the second of Bourbon had by Isabelle of Beauvais Daughter of the Lord of Pressigny Francis his Successour and Earl of Vendome and Lewis Prince de la Roche Sur-Yon Francis of Bourbon had five Children by Marie of Luxemburg Countess of St. Paul the Eldest was Charles Count and made Duke of Vendome by King Francis the First Charles the First of Bourbon Duke of Vendome had seven Male Children by Francise Daughter of Renie Duke of Alencon of which there were but two that left Issue viz. Antony of Bourbon who succeeded him as first Heir and was afterward King of Navarre and Lewis of Bourbon Prince of Condé Duke of Anguien Marquess of Conti Count of Soissons which latter had among other Children Henry the First of that Name Prince of Condé whose Son Henry the Second Prince of Condé was Father of Lewis of Bourbon Prince of Condé of Armand of Bourbon late Prince of Conti and of Anne-Geneveve of Bourbon Dutchess of Longueville who had Children as we shall say afterward Antony of Bourbon Duke of Vendome had by Joan d' Albret Queen of Navarre Daughter of Henry the Second of that Name King only of Navarre and of Margaret d' Angouleme-Valois Daughter of Francis the First King of France Henry the third of that Name of Navarre who reuniting together the two Crowns of France and Navarre was named Henry the Great the Fourth of that Name King of France and Navarre Father of Lewis the Just and Grandfather of Lewis our glorious Monarch who by his great Actions as well as his Grandfather has
last Bill of every quarter because of his extraordinary care and pains One Maker and Distiller of Waters for the Great Masters new Table he has at the Chamber of Deniers for the Waters he ordinarily furnishes in the quarter beginning in January 150 l. and as much for the quarter ending in December But for each of the other Summer Quarters he has 300 l. which makes in all 900 l. yearly One Groom of the same new Table who has for furnishing Glasses Caraffs and other things 200 l. One Keeper of the Vessels for the Great Masters Table at 150 l. One Butler belonging to the Great Chamberlain at 600 l. One Maker and Distiller of Waters belonging to the same at 900 l. as has he that serves the Great Master One Groom of the Great Chamberlains Table who has 200 l. for Glasses Caraffs c. One Keeper of the Vessels at 150 l. CHAP. XVI Of the Great Chamberlain and all Officers under his dependance IF the honour of Officer may be rated from the frequency and nearness of their approaches to the Kings Person then certainly the Great Chamberlain must needs have the greatest share therein of any since it is at all times in his power to be near his Majesty and that he has a very considerable Rank in all the most Magnificent Solemnities This Office is almost as ancient as the beginning of this Monarchy and one may judge of its greatness by the Nobility of the Persons that always have enjoyed it He had formerly a great Jurisdiction over the Mercers and other Trades that deal in Clothing and for that purpose he substituted under him a Surveyor of those Merchandizes who was commonly called the King of the Mercers that is to say their Syndic or Comptroller who also Examin'd the Weights and Measures of the said Merchants His Court of Justice was held at the Marble Table in the Palais or Palace at Paris by a Mayor-Judge Commissionated by the Great Chamberlain and some other Officers The Great Chamberlain was formerly of the Great Officers that Signed all Charters and Letters of Consequence and has still a Right to sit in Judgment with the King at the Tryal of any Peers He had formerly the Keeping of the Kings Coffers and Treasury in his Chamber and had the management of the Exchequer as he has to this day in several places where the Camerlingue or Chamberlain for in different places he is differently stiled is likewise Treasurer and receives all the Revenues and it belonged to him or his Under-Treasurers to carry Money about them for the Kings Liberalities and other necessary Expences He used to have for his Fee the tenth part of what came into the Kings Coffers and was wont to deal out the Annual Gratuities to the Souldiers and provide Presents for all Ambassadours He has been indifferently stiled Cubicularius Camerarius or Cambellanus that is Bedchamber Man Chamber-man or Chamberlain But the Office of Chamberlain and Chamber-man were afterward made distinct Offices as among other proofs will appear by an ancient duty upon Merchants who paid 16 pence whereof ten pence went to the Chamberlain and the other six to the Chamber-Man But the Office of Chamber-Man was supprest in the Person of Charles Duke of Orleans Anno 1544. or to speak more properly we may say that it assumed under Francis the First the present Title it is now known under of Chief Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber The present Great Chamberlain is the Duke of Boüillon who has yearly 3600 l. under the name of Wages and a Pension of 20000 l. When the King sits on his Bed of Justice or in a general Assembly of the Estates the Great Chamberlain sits at his Feet upon a Violet-Coloured Velvet Cushion Embroidered with Flower deluces of Gold He is present at all Audiences of Ambassadours where takes his Place behind his Majesties Chair of State between the Chief Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber who is on his right and the Great Master of the Wardrobe whose Place is on his left Antiently in the Queens absence he was wont to lie in the Kings Bed-Chamber Upon the Coronation-Day he takes the Royal Buskins from the Abbot of St. Denis and puts them on the Kings Legs and then invests him with the Dalmatick Robe of Azure Blue and with the Mantle Royal. As the Great Chamberlains have the honour to be nearest the sacred Persons of their Kings while they are alive so when nature has exacted from them her Tribute and they come to die they with the Chief Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber interre their Bodies The homage done to the King by any Dukes or other Persons of higher Rank holding their Lands or Seignieuries of his Majesty was antiently performed in the Bed-Chamber whither being Conducted by the Great Chamberlain Bare-headed and without Sword Belt or Spurs and kneeling down and putting their hands between the Kings Hands they promised him Fealty and Homage Of which Ceremony we have a fair Example in Froissard in the 25th Chapter of the First Volume of his History namely in the Homage done by Edward the Third King of England to Philip de Valois to whom being brought in and in the posture as aforesaid the Great Chamberlain-tendered these words You become the Liege-Man of the King my Lord that here is as Duke of Guienne and Peer of France and you promise Fealty and Loyalty to him to bear Say Yes And the King of England as Duke of Guienne answered Yes and the King received him for his Liege-Man Thus Froissard who likewise tells us that this Homage had better have been let alone it being so Stomached by that Couragious King that it caused those long and bloody Wars between the two Nations of which all Histories resound and which are hardly yet well extinct but lie couched under Embers till opportunity shall raise them into new Flames At present when any Marshal of France Governour of a Town Place or Province or any other is to take the Oath of Fidelity to the King the Marshal or such other Person gives his Hat Gloves and Sword to the Usher of the Bed-Chamber and then advancing towards the King who expects him in his Chair of State he kneels down upon a Cushion presented him by one of the Chief Valets de Chambre and putting his Hands between his Majesties when the said Oath being read to him by the Secretary under whose Division his Place is he gives his assent in the manner aforesaid and then rising up and making Obeisance to his Majesty goes back and takes again of the Usher of the Bed-Chamber the things he left with him to whom as well as to some other Officers of the Bed-Chamber he makes an honourable Present The Great Chamberlains had formerly a Table furnished out of the Kings own Kitchin but the late Duke of Chevreuse Great Chamberlain agreed with the Masters of the Houshold to have instead of it that which is still kept by them under the Name of the
the second Baron of Montmorency The Constable had right to take a days pay as his Fee of all Military Persons entred into the Kings pay at the first payment they received and of the Horse and Foot that were under the Command of the Master or Clerk of the Cross-Bow-men and in general of all those that were paid by the Treasurers of the Wars except only the Princes of the Blood and their Domesticks that served in the War at their own Expences and the Officers and Souldiers at Sea It was Treason to offend the Constable as it was Judged in the Case of Peter de Craôn who had attempted upon the Life of Oliver de Clisson High Constable The Jurisdiction or Court held at the Marble Table is called the Constablerie and Marshalsey and though the Office of Constable was supprest by a Declaration of the last King in 1627. after the Death of the then Duke de Lesdiguieres the last Constable yet so much of his Jurisdiction and Power as was exercised at the Marble Table remains still in the hands of the Marshals of France that were formerly but his Lieutenants The number of Constables is differently related by the Annalists who as little agree in the Order of their Succession There is still always in the Armies a Provost of the Constablery that gives out Passports and has jurisdiction and power to take cognisance of all Disorders of Men of War and to decide all differences arising among them as likewise over all Traytors and Deserters of the Army He also sets the price of Victuals and enjoys many other Priviledges By an Order of the 13th of March 1627. and another of the 23d of April in 1643. The late King supprest the Offices of High Constable and Colonel-General of the Infantry of France with a Provision for the future that they should never be renewed again upon what pretence soever and the suppression of that of Colonel-General of the Infantry was again confirmed the 23d of July 1661. The first or eldest Marshal of France Officiates the duty of Constable and may as such bear on one side of his Coat of Arms a naked Sword and the Commanders Staff on the other as Marshal The other Prerogatives belonging to this Office may be seen in the relation of M. du Tillet Before we conclude this Chapter it will not be impertinent the following Article of the Priviledges of this High Office found in the Registers of the Chamber of Accounts in a Bag called Spalia and exprest in old French Item The Constable is to have his Chamber at Court near the King where-ever his Majesty be and in his Chamber is to have twelve Stools and twelve Cushions and Billets for his fire and he is to have a certain allowance of Wine and two pound of small Candles and a Torch by Night to conduct him to his House or into the Town which are to be redelivered next Morning to the Fruiterer And he is to have thirty six Loaves and one Pot of Wine for himself placed near the Stand and two Barrels for his Chamber one towards the Door and the other towards the ends and of every Mess cookt or raw as much as is necessary and a Stable for four-Horses Item If a Castle or Forteress be taken or do yield the Horses Harness Provisions and all other things found therein belong to the Constable except the Gold and the persons that belong to the King and the Artillery that belongs to the Master of the Cross-Bow-Men There has been sometimes made a Lieutenant-General representing the Kings Person throughout the Kingdom which is an Authority almost equal to the Constables though held only by Commission There was one of these made in 1560. under Charles the Ninth and the late Duke of Orleans enjoyed the same Dignity in the Minority of the present King Lemis the Great CHAP. XV. Of the Marshals of France IT will be no easy matter to tell you precisely at what time the Office of Marshal of France was first Instituted because the Historians that have made mention of it are not agreed about that point John le Feron that writes their History makes them to have begun under Clovis the second Son of Dagobert in the person of one Girard Count of Dammartin some others attribute their first Creation to Hugh Capet But I can subscribe to neither of these opinions my first reason is because John de Feron has not the approbation of all those well skill'd in History my second that after having perused over the most part of the French Annalists I can find no mention made of any Marshals of France till the time of Philip the First neither was it by History that I found out the name in that Reign but by reading the Records of the Foundation of the Church of St. Martin des Champs or of St. Martins in the Fields in Paris dated in the year 1067. Signed by his Majesty and other Lords and afterwards by Guy and Anselm Marshals of France without the addition of any other Sur-names This Charter which cannot be charged with Forgery induces me to believe that there were always some of that name and Dignity ever since their first Creation which agrees with the opinion of M. Du Tillet but because it is more commonly believed that they were always the Lieutenants of the Constables I shall not absolutely contradict it and because the Office of Constable was then but the fourth Dignity in the Kingdom and that their Command extended but over a part of the Kings Cavalry I cannot be persuaded that the Marshals of France have always been Generals of Armies The Office of Constable became the first Dignity of France by the Valour of Matthew of Montmorency who in the time of Philip Augustus gained the Battle of Bovines against the joint Forces of the Emperour Otho and the King of England who were then Armed and Leagued together against that Great Prince And then it was that the Dignity of Marshal of France raised it self to that Lustre which it keeps to this day for whereas they were before but Lieutenants of the Constable in the Kings Stables only they from that time his Lieutenants also in the Command of the Armies and since the suppression of that Dignity exercise the whole remainder of the Authority annexed to it which is conferred upon them by putting a Staff of Command into their hands The Marshals of France bear as a mark of their Dignity two Azure Staves set with Flower-deluces of gold passed Salteir-wise behind their Coats of Arms. Their Offices depend wholly of the Crown and they are Sworn for them by the King himself They are commonly given as recompences to Eminent Commanders for some great Military Exploits and are not Hereditary They cannot be deprived of the Title of their Dignities but with the loss of their Lives only they may be suspended from the Exercise of their Office They are not obliged to take any Oath in Parliament no
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
acquired to himself the Surname of Great You are to remark that as soon as any Branch of the Blood Royal comes to the Crown that they quit their former Surnames and take up that of France So the King stiles himself Lewis of France and not of Bourbon in which several people have been mistaken and Monsieur Philip of France c. though they Sign only with their Christian-Name without adding of France CHAP. V. Of the Children of France THE Children of France are only the Kings Children the Children of the Dauphin or the Kings Eldest Son and the Kings Brothers or Sisters and the Brothers Children the Sisters being always either Married abroad or made Religious all others of the Royal Family are called Princes of the Blood The first Son of the Kings of France is called the Dauphin and the second Son of France is called Monsieur without addition of any other Title But after the Dolphin his younger Brethren are Dukes of Orleans of Anjou of Alencon of Valois of Touraine of Berry of Ponthieu and other Apanages these younger bear the Surname of France and Sign only with their proper Names as the King does so likewise do the Daughters of France who are stiled Ladies The Dauphin was Born at Fountain-Bleau the first of November 1661. about Noon and Baptized at St Germains en Laye in the Court of the Old Castle the 24th of March 1668. by Cardinal Antony Barberin Great Almoner of France His Godfather was our Holy Father Pope Clement the Ninth Represented by the Cardinal Duke of Vendome Legate à Latere and his Godmother the Queen Mother of England Represented by the Princess of Conty who named him Lewis The Dauphin is Heir Apparent of the Crown of France and bears the Title of Dauphin by vertue of a Donation of the Province of the Dauphinate made by Humbert last Prince Dauphin of Viennois to Philip de Valois in the Year of our Lord 1349. upon condition the Eldest Sons of the Kings of France should thenceforward be stiled Dauphins For that reason he bears the Arms of France Quarter'd with those of the Dauphinate environed with the two Orders of the King because the Sons of France wear the blue Ribband from their Cradles His Coronet is raised with Flower-deluces as is that of all the Sons of France Some Authors had formerly without any ground affirmed the Dauphins used to wear their Coronets closed by way of Excellence but the Abbot of Brianville who had likewise upon their credit averred the same thing in his Game of the Coats of Arms of Europe hath since found the contrary upon all the Seals Coins and other Monuments and afterwards presented to the King such a Coronet of his own Invention closed by four Dolphins whose Tails meet all in a Button or knob with four Angels supporting a Flower-deluce which his Majesty liked so well that he order'd the Dolphin should wear no other The Princess that Heaven has replenisht with all sorts of Vertues to be the worthy Spouse of my Lord the Dauphin is named Marie-Ann-Christine-Francise-Josephe-Terese-Antoinette-C ajetane-Hyacinthe Felicia-Victoria of Bavaria Born in 1660. the 28th of November or the 18th old Stile She is only Sister to the present Elector of Bavaria Daughter of Ferdinand-Marie late Elector of Bavaria and of Henriette-Adelaide of Savoy Her Marriage with the Dauphin was Celebrated at Municke in Bavaria the 28th of January 1680. and the Ceremonies or the Benediction of the said Marriage was renewed in France at Chaalons in the Chappel of that Bishoprick between the hours of 7 and 8 at Night the 7th of March the same Year by the Cardinal of Bouillon Great Almoner of France who next Morning said the solemn Mass on that occasion By her he has three Sons the Duke of Burgundy the Duke of Anjou and the Duke of Berry Monsieur the Duke of Burgundy was Born at Versailles the 6th of August 1682. about a quarter and five or six minutes of an hour after ten at Night Some call him Monseigneur or My Lord Duke of Burgundy He is a very handsome Prince and seems to be very healthy He was sprinkled that is he received the essential part of Baptism without the Ceremonies which in the Children of France are commonly deferred some Years by the Cardinal of Bouillon Great Almoner of France presently after his Birth The King sent him the Cross of the Order of the Holy Ghost by the Marquess of Signelay Minister and Secretary of State and Treasurer of the Orders of his Majesty The Duke of Anjou was Born at Versailles at half an hour after four in the Morning on Sunday the 19th of December 1683. The Duke of Berry was Born on Saturday the 21st of August Old Stile and the last of August New Stile 1686. The Children of France that are deceased were 1. The most High and Mighty Princess the Lady Anne-Elizabeth of France was Born the 28th of November 1663. and died in the Castle of the Louvre the 10th of January 1664. 2. The most High and Mighty Princess the Lady Marie-Anne of France was Born the 17th of November 1664. and died in the Castle of the Louvre the 26th of December the same year 3. The most High and Mighty Princess the Lady Marie-Terese of France was Born half an hour past ten at Night the second of January 1667. and died the 1st of March 1672. at the Age of five Years and two Months She was Baptized in the Chappel of the Tuilleries in January 1668. and had for Godfather Monsieur the Present Duke of Orleans and for Godmother Madame the late Dutchess Dowager of that Name 4. The most High and Mighty Prince the Lord Philip Son of France Duke of Anjou was Born the 5th of August 1668. at St. Germains en Laye where he died the 7th of July 1671. at the Age of three years wanting 25 days He was Baptized in the Chappel of the Tuilleries by Cardinal Antony Barberin Great Almoner of France the 24th of March 1669. his Godfather was the Emperour represented by the Duke of Orleans and his Godmother the then Queen of Spain Represented by his Sister the Lady Marie-Terese of France 5. The most High and Mighty Prince the Lord Lewis-Francis Son of France also Duke of Anjou was Born the 14th of June 1672. and died the 4th of November the same year These two Dukes of Anjou are here placed according to the order of their Birth after the Ladies their Sisters though 't is well known they being of the nobler Sex took place before them though they were elder which Order is observed by the Officers of both Sexes that served them When there are any Children of France They are served by several of the Kings Officers As for Example The Kings Chaplains say Mass every day in their Chamber The Chief Physician or one of the Physicians of the quarter is present when they are shifted the Valets de Chambre come thither and serve them too The Door-Keepers do their
of Paris as very frequently they are not yet when they go to the Physick School at Paris in their White-Sattin Robes are received at the Door by the Dean of that Body accompanied with some Batchellors of Physick with the Beadles before them There is one Physician in Ordinary who is to attend on the Kings Person in the absence of the Chief Physician who has 1800 l. Salary upon the Establishment paid at the Treasure Royal and 1500 l. Board-Wages paid at the Chamber of Deniers And eight other Physicians serving two every Quarter who have each of them a Salary of 1200 l. paid at the Treasury Royal and 1098 l. Bord-Wages at the Chamber of Deniers at the rate of a Crown a Day These in their several turns of Waiting are always to be present at the Kings rising and going to Bed and at his Meals though he be never so well And when the King touches for the Evil and washes the poor peoples Feet on Maundy-Thursday they or their Superiours are first to visit the Persons that present themselves for Cure And every time the King Touches these Physicians have at the Chamber of Deniers each of them an allowance of 17 l. 9 d. and 4 Deniers in lieu of a former allowance of a dozen of Bread two Quarts of Table-Wine and six Larded Fowls There are besides four Spagyrical or Chymical Physicians who have each a Salary of 1200 l. and several Honorary or Titular Physicians 2. The Chyrurgions are 1. The Chief Chyrurgion who is like wise Guardian of the Charters and Priviledges of the Chyrurgions and Barbers of the whole Kingdom and has a very great Power He has a Salary of a 1000 l. paid by the Treasurers of the Houshold and 1277 l. Board-Wages paid at the Chamber of Deniers besides large and frequent Gratuities and License-Money and Presents from all the Chyrurgions of the Kingdom He has an Apartment in the Kings own Lodgings One Chyrurgion in Ordinary who has a Salary of 1000 l. paid by the Treasurers of the Houshold and 500 l. Board-Wages at the Chamber of Deniers Eight Chyrurgions waiting quarterly two every quarter who have every of them 600 l. Salary 300 l. gratuity at the Treasure Royal and 200 l. Board-Wages at the Chamber of Deniers Besides what is paid them by those that rent the Shops of them they have Priviledge to keep in Paris or in any other Town they shall chuse their dwelling House in And every time the King Touches they have the same allowance that the Physicians have as we have said on the same occasions The Chyrurgions are likewise to be present at the Kings Meals and at his rising and going to Bed as are the Physicians and besides are obliged to follow his Majesty on Hunting for fear of any accident and when he is upon the march into the Country or the Field they are always to keepnigh the Kings Coach There is one Chyrurgion-Major of the Kings Armies and Camps and many others that are only Titular and never wait as such The Kings Chyrugions and Apothecaries have the Priviledge to keep open Shop in Paris or elsewhere which they commonly let out as we have said to others 3. The Apothecaries Are four Chiefs who have a Salary of 1000 l. and 600 l. more allowed them for their Groom They serve quarterly every one their quarter and have every one his Aid or Helper These Aids or Helpers being likewise four have every one of them a Salary of 200 l. paid by the Treasurers of the Houshold and 266 l. 13 d. four Deniers Board-Wages at the Chamber of Deniers Note That a Denier is the twelfth part of a penny or the third of a farthing Besides which both the Chiefs and they have other allowances as followeth 1. The Head or Chief Apothecary that waits the first quarter of the year beginning at Newyears Tide is allowed instead of his Diet and some other things he used to have 1070 l. in Money and 42 l. more for furnishing Sugar to the Kings Kitchin on the 42 Fish-Days that happen in his quarter at 20 d. a day and his Aid 180 l. Augmentation Money at the Chamber of Deniers 2. He that waits the second quarter is allowed for the same Considerations 940 l. and 43 l. for furnishing Sugar to the Kings Kitchin on the 43 Meager or Fish-Days that happen in his quarter at the rate of 20 d. a day and his Aid is paid 182 l. at the Chamber of Deniers 3. He that waits the third quarter has upon the account aforesaid 940 l. and 29 l. for Sugar on the 29 Fish-Days in his quarter His Aid has 184 l. at the Chamber of Deniers 4. He that waits the last quarter has for Board-Wages and other things as abovesaid 1000 l. and 29 l. for Sugar for so many Fish-Days happening in his quarter And his Aid has an augmentation of 184 l. at the Chamber of Deniers It is only since 1682. that the Ordinary formerly allowed the Apothecaries in specie was turned into Money The Apothecary that attends on the Duke of Burgundy or any other of the Dauphins Children is allowed during the time of his Waiting 100 d. a day for his own and his Mans Diet. Note That in the Books of the Establishments the Physicians Chyrurgions and Apothecaries are stiled only Maitres or Masters which is a Title beneath that of a Gentleman so much less esteem do they put upon the Science of Physick in France than they do in England The Apothecaries furnish not only Medicines but also some kind of Comfits into the Coffers of the Chamber and other Compositions of Aniseed of Fennel and of Citron-Peel and Spirit of Wine and some other necessary Liquors without being obliged to the Formality of tasting any of them They make Sweet-Bags for the Kings Cloths Linnen and Perriwigs There is always a Carriage of Apothecaries Ware that follows the King There are besides these several Apothecaries Distillers and other Supernumeraries who have no certain times allowed them for waiting but only serve occasionally And many Operators Herbalists and others Of the Barber-Chyrurgions c. that serve the Houshold and the Chamber we have already spoken CHAP. XVII Of the Great Master of the Horse and of the Kings Stables THE Present Great Master of the Horse is Louis de Lorrain Count of Armagnac his Standing Salary is 3600 l. besides which he has 2400 l. Board-Wages upon the Establishment of the Great Stables and 6000 l. Board-Wages more upon the Establishment of the Chamber of Deniers and many other Fees and Perquisites It was formerly the Great or High Constable of France that had the Super-intendance over the Kings Stables who therefore was called Comes Stabuli that is Count of the Stable but when that Great Officer came to be entrusted with the general Command of the Armies the Care of the Kings Horses was wholly left to him who then was called Escuier that is Usher or Squire who was an Officer
and the Dukes and Peers of France At the Funeral Obsequies of Kings he marches side by side in an equal Rank with the Archbishop of Paris Whilst he injoys this Dignity he wears a Violet-Coloured Girdle the trimming of his Gloves is also of Violet-Colour His solemn Habit is a Violet-Coloured Gown with a silk Girdle of the same Colour with golden Tassels at the end of which hangs a Purse of Violet-Coloured Velvet called an Escarcelle trimmed with gold Buttons and Galoon He wears over his Gown a little Mantle of white Ermine which reaches down round about half way his Arms. This Dignity is Elective and lasts but three Months unless it be thought convenient as sometimes it happens to continue it to one Person two or three times together The Faculty of Arts is divided into four Nations which are 1. The Nation of France 2. The Nation of Picardie 3. The Nation of Normandy And 4. The Nation of Germany The Titles or Epithetes assumed by these several Nations when their Proctor speaks for them in publick Assemblies are 1. Honoranda Gallorum Natio the Honourable Nation of the French 2. Fidelissima Picardorum Natio the most Loyal or Faithful Nation of the Picards 3. Veneranda Normannorum Natio the Venerable Nation of the Normans And 4. Constantissima Germanorum Natio the most constant Nation of the Germans The three superiour Faculties likewise when they speak have their peculiar Titles for the Faculty of Divinity stiles it self Sacra Theologiae Facultas the Sacred Faculty of Divinity the Faculty of Law Consultissima Decretorum Facultas the most wise Faculty of the Decrees and the Faculty of Physick Saluberrima Medicorum Facultas the most wholsome Faculty of the Physicians There are in this University many Colledges in which are maintain'd several Regents and Lecturers and Professours that teach the Humanities or Learning of the lesser Schools which they do by Classes and the Sciences Tongues and Philosophy So that in this University is taught all in one House whatever is taught both in the inferiour Schools and Universities of England So that there is no need of fitting youth before-hand in inferiour Schools for Universities in France as in England they running through the whole Circle of Learning in one Colledge where for better help to youth there is a different Regent in every Classis which are all in distinct Rooms and they have Preceptors or Tutors besides to help them in their Exercises There are maintain'd in these Colledges too some few Foundation Scholars called Boursiers or Bursers but the Colledges subsist most by Pensioners or Borders and it is free for any of what Nation soever to lie any where in the Town and yet go and learn in the Classes and hear Lectures upon doing which they have as much priviledge to take their Degrees as those that reside in Colledges so that the number of Students lying in the Town dost vastly exceed that of those that reside in Colledges And the number of them is indeed prodigiously great the Youth not only of all Provinces of France but of all other Europaean Nations flocking hither to study Besides what is performed in the Colledges that depend of the University There are likewise Lecturers and Professors of Royal Foundation for teaching of the Oriental Tongues viz. The Greek Hebrew Arabian Syriack Caldean Samaritan and other Tongues as also the Mathematicks and Physick as also Philosophy Rhetorick and the Latin Tongue all which are performed in the Royal Colledge by Professors paid by the King Philosophy is also taught there in French by some Persons as of late by the deceased M. de L' Eclache with success enough There are also Academies for Natural Philosophy Some parts of the Mathematicks are also taught there by private Men as Geography by Mr. Sanson and others c. There are also many Masters of the Modern and living Tongues It is also worth our remark that at certain times in the year there are several particular and extraordinary Exercises performed in Paris As in the Nave of the Church of St. Germains Abby there is every Sunday a Flemish Sermon Preached at half an hour past two in the Afternoon a Latin Sermon at the Great Cordeliers Church on St. Bonaventures Day as likewise at the Augustins Bernardins and Jacobins on the Days of St. Austin St. Bernard and St. Dominick and on the Day of Quasimodo there is a High Mass sung in Greek in the Cordeliers Church for the Confraternity of the Pilgrims of Jerusalem and of the Holy Sepulcher in the middle of which there is a Greek Sermon Likewise Note that in the Colledge of Beauvais and in that only there are every Year publick Acts and Disputations in Greek CHAP. LIV. Of the Historiographers of France THE Office of Historiographer of France is possest or pretended to by three sorts of persons viz. 1. Those that actually write as such and are Entred upon the Kings Books for such 2. Such as though they be enterd as such upon the Kings Books have as yet written nothing and thirdly Such as have only taken out Patents but are not enterd in the Book or such as only assume the title I shall mention only those of the first sort which are 1. The two Brothers de St. Marthe who have given to the publick a general History of the Prelates of France in four Volumns under the Title of Gallia Christiana and continue the Genealogicat History of the House or Royal Family of France containing and including all the Sovereign Families of Europe as likewise the Genealogical History of the House of Tremoille and several other Works 2. M. de Chêne Son of the Famous Andrew du Chêne who has published the Continuation of the Historians of France begun by his Father and the History of the Cardinals and Chancellours of France Other Writers that though they have not the Title of Historiographers yet write Histories and other commendable Curiosities are M. Blenchard M. Justel the two Valois M. de la Roque M. Doujat M. de Varillas and several others The Journal des Sçavans or Philosophical Transactions is done by the Abbot de la Roque The Journal of the Palace by M. Blondeau and M Gueret The Mercury Gallant by M. Vizè CHAP. LV. Of the Academy of France or Society of the Virtuosi THis Famous Company or Society of Learned Men which is in France what the Royal Society is in England and is called the French Academy was Instituted by Letters Patents granted by the late King Lewis the Thirteenth Verified in Parliament in the Month of July 1637. The King has been pleased in the said Patents to grant them the same Priviledges as his own Domestick Officers enjoy Their Causes are committed to the Masters of Requests of the Houshold or else of the Palace at Paris by vertue of a Committimus under the Great Seal they are exempt from being Administratours or Guardians and from doing service at the Guards of the Gates of the Towns
where they reside The first Function or Duty enjoined by their Patent is to promote the Embellishment and Purity of the French Tongue which was the chief design of the late Cardinal Richlieu the first Protector of their Society and because in the time of his Ministry by reason of the great Sway and Authority he bore every Body strove to please him many persons of great Quality would needs be admitted of this his new Erected Society The late Chancellour M. Seguier was placed over them as their Director who after the Cardinals Death became their Protector Since whose Decease his present Majesty has been pleased to do them the Honour to be their Protector himself and has given them leave to Assemble in one of the Halls of the Louvre or of his Palace in Paris The number of the Members of this Society is limited to forty The Names of the present Members that are most to be remarked are those M. John Douiat Dean of the Doctors Regenes of Law who is Dean of the Academy Francis Tallement Chief Almoner to the Dutchess of Orleans Fraâ—â—is Charpentier Advocate in Parliament Armand de Gambout Duke de Coislin Peer of France These four as eldest of the Society have the priviledge of Committimus under the Great Seal The others to be noted are Paul Pellisson Fontanier Master of Requests c. Philip de Chaumont formerly Bishop of Dax c. The Cardinal d' Etrées Roger de Rabutia Count de Bussy Jaints Têtu Abbot of Bellival Paul Tallement Prior of St. Albin Francis Seraphim Reguier des Marais Secretary to the Academy Peter Cureau de la Chambre Curate of St. Bartholomews in Paris The Archbishop of Paris The Bishop of Meaux Esprit Flechier Bishop of Lavaur John Racine Treasurer of France in the Generality of Moulins John Galois Abbot of St. Martin des Cores Lewis de Courcillon de Dangtau Abbot of Fountain-Daniel c. and Chamberlain to the Pope Nichelas Boileau Author of the Satyrs Thomas Corneille Son of the famous Peter Corneille The most remarkable persons of this Academy that have signalized themselves by their works and are deceased since the Institution of this Society were M. Maynard M. Malleville M. Voiture M. Boissat M. Scudery Boilean M. des Marêts The Famous Peter Corneille M. Vaugelas M. Balzac M. Serizay M. St. Amand. M. d' Ablancourt Hardouin de Perefixe late Archbishop of Paris M. de Gomberville M. de Mezeray We expect daily from this Illustrious Society a French Grammar and Dictionary by which people may be directed how to speak and write French correctly Queen Christine of Suedeland honoured this Society with a visit to which she was Conducted by the late Chancellour Seguier on Monday the 11th of March 1658. They performed before her Majesty in their ordinary places their usual Exercises and Conferences with which her Majesty signified her self highly satisfied On the 8th of June 1669. there was a Royal Academy establisht at Arles composed of twenty Gentlemen Natives and Inhabitants of the same City with the like Priviledges as have those of Paris of which the Duke of St. Aignan is Protector The Patents for that purpose were verified the same day in the Parliament of Provence since which in the year 1677. their number was augmented to twenty One of these named M. de Guion is writing the History of the present King in Latin There is also an Academy Royal at Soissons established there in the Month of June 1675. of which the Cardinal d' Etrées is Protector Another at Ville-Franche in Beaujolois of which the Archbishop of Lyons is Protector And another at Nîmes which was opened the 8th of September 1682. CHAP. LVI Of Dignities without the Kingdom The Ambassadors of France in Foreign Countries are 1. AT Rome the Marquiss de Lavardin 2. In Spain the Marquiss de Feuquieres Counsellour of State in Ordinary Ambassador Extraordinary 3. In England M. Barillon 4. In Portugal M. Amelot de Gournay Ambassador Extraordinary 5. In Denmark the Count de Chiverny 6. In Holland the Count d' Avaux 7. In Savoy the Marquiss d' Arcy Ambassador 8. At Venice M. de la Haye Ventelet formerly Ambassador in Turky 9. In Suisserland M. Tambonneau 10. At Constantinople M. Girardin Note That the Ambassadors sent to Rome the Empire Spain and England are usually chosen out of the Great Lords of the Court and those sent to Venice Holland and Suisserland are generally Gown-men or Lawyers the Ambassador of Savoy is sometimes of one sort and sometimes of the other and so is he of Constantinople but if he be a Gown-man he must on that occasion wear a Sword The Residents Envoys or Agents which are sent to the Princes and Republicks of Germany and Italy are likewise sometimes of one sort and sometimes of the other according to occasion 11. The Marquiss of Bethune is now Ambassador Extraordinary to the King of Poland The Envoys Residents and other Ministers of lesser Character abroad are 1. At Rome the Abbot d' Hervault Auditor of the Rota for France 2. At the Emperours Court M. de la Vauguyon Envoy Extraordinary 3. At the Diet of Ratisbonne and other Assemblies of the Empire the Count de Crecy is Plenipotentiary 4. At the Elector of Mayence or Ments's Court M. Fourcher Envoy Extraordinary 5. With the Elector of Cologne M. de Gravel is Envoy Extraordinary 6. In Bavaria the Envoy Extraordinary is M ....... 7. To the Elector Palatin the Envoy Extraordinary is the Abbot Morell Counsellour in the Parliament 8. To the Elector of Saxony the Envoy Extraordinary or Resident is M ...... 9. To the Elector of Brandenburg the Envoy Extraordinary is the Count de Rebenac-Feuquieres 10. To the Duke of Zell and Princes of the House of Brunswick and Lunenburg the Marquiss de Bourgeauville is Envoy Extraordinary 11. To the Duke of Wirtemberg and other German Princes within the Circles of Suabia and Franconia M. de Juvigny is Envoy Extraordinary 12. To the Landgravesse of Hesse and Chapter of Munster M ....... 13. At Siege the Resident is M. de la Renaudiere 14. At Hamborough the Abbot Bidal 15. At Geneva M. du Pré 16. The Envoy Extraordinary to the Duke of Mantua is the Sieur de la Guilletrie 17. At Genoa the Envoy Extraordinary is M. de Sève 18. At Florence the Abbot de Strozzi The Agents and Consuls At Rome the French Agent is the Abbot Beneditti There are several other Agents and Consuls abroad in places of Traffick as in Aleppo Smirna Grand Cairo c. Having spoken of the French Ambassadors abroad it will not be amiss to add the Ambassadors of other Princes and States in that Court The Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers then at present in the Court of France are 1. From Rome M. Ranucci Nuntio Extraordinary from the Pope 2. From Venice M. Girolamo Venier Ambassador 3. From Savoy the Marquiss de Ferrero c. Ambassador 4. From the States General of Holland M.
de Starembourg Vassenar Ambassador Extraordinary 5. From Malta the Bayliff de Hauteville c. Ambassador from the Grand Master of Malta Envoys according to the Order of their arrival in France 1. From Portugal Dom Salvador Taborda Envoy Extraordinary 2. From Sweden M. Liliencroot 3. From Denmark M. Meyercroon 4. From Spain M. Delval 5. From the Emperour Count Cobkowitz Envoy Extraordinary 6. From England Mr. Skelton Envoy Extraordinary Other Envoys and Residents are 1. The Resident of the Elector of Cologne and States of Liége M. Waldorf 2. An Envoy Extraordinary from the Elector of Brandenburg M. Spanheim 3. From the Duke of Mantua the Count Balliani 4. The Envoy of Modena is the Abbot Rizini 5. The Envoy Extraordinary of Genoa is the Marquiss Girardo Spinola The Agents are 1. An Auditor of the Nunciature the Abbot Laury 2. The Agent for the Elector Palatine and other Princes of the Empire is M. John le Breton 3. And for the Elector of Brandenburg the Hans Towns and Landgraviate of Hessen M. Bek And for the Dukes of Weymar M ..... When one Ambassador is relieved or succeeded by another at the arrival of the new they both go together to Court whereas they are going to their Audience he that is relieved still takes the upper hand of the new one but when they come back from their Audience the new Comer or Successour takes place of the other But if an Ambassador only in Ordinary be sent to relieve one that is Ambassador Extraordinary the Extraordinary Ambassador takes the upper hand both in going to and coming from Audience FINIS THE TABLE A. ACademy of France Page 510 Admiral of France 371 Admiralty of France 482 Administration of Justice 451 Aids 496 Air of France 5 Almoner of France Great 61 Almoner of France First c. 66 Ambassadors of France 513 in France 515 Antichamber 134 Apothecaries Kings 141 Arch-Bishopricks 404 Arch-Bishops 406 Arquebuse or Fire-Arms Carrier 120 Attire 17 B. BAilywick of the Palace 483 Bastile 170 Birds of the Chamber 132 Bishopricks 404 Bishops 406 Buildings 10 C. CAmp-Master 356 Captains of the Guards 234 of the Guides 184 Carver 80 Castle of Blois 172 of Chambor ibid. of Compiegne 169 of Monceaux 171 of Plessis le Tours 173 of Vincennes 170 Cavalry of France 357 Ceremonies c. 151 Chamber of Accounts 461 of the Treasury 473 Chamberlain of France 107 Chancery of France 397 Chatelet or Castle of Paris 484 Children of France 24 Chyrurgions Kings 140 Clergy of Kings Houshold 73 Climate of France 2 Cloak-Carriers 118 Closet of Antiquities 131 of Arms ibid. of Books 130 of Dispatches ibid. Commodities of France 5 Common Buttry 99 Fruitery 101 Kitchin 100 Pantry 99 Complexion of the French 15 Comptrollers of the Counting-House 90 of the Privy-Purse 129 Computation 18 Constable of France 348 Constablry 478 Councils of the King 379 of Dispatches 380 of Finances or Revenues 383 call'd the Grand-Council 393 of State 388 of War 379 Counsellors and Secretaries of the Finances or Revenues of France 396 Counties and Baronies c. reunited to the Crown 331 Counting-House 89 Court of Aids 466 of Bazoche 484 of Monies or Coynage 468 of Masonry 483 Cupbearer 80 D. DAuphin of France 24 his Houshold 272 his Childrens Servants 292 Dauphiness 25 her Houshold 280 Diet of the French 16 Dimensions of France 2 Division of France ibid. Dogs of the Kings Chamber 133 Dukes and Peers 315 Dukes and Peers with the Names of their Dukedoms and the date of their Verification 320 Dukes and Peers whose Patents are not yet verified 323 Dutchies or Dutchies and Peerages not verified at Paris 322 Dutchies and Peerages Extinct and not Extinct 324 E. ELection of Paris 487 F. FAculty of Arts 505 of Divinity 502 of Law 504 of Physick ibid. Family of de la Tour d' Auvergne of which was the Famous Godfrey of Bouillon 49 Family of Grimaldi de Mourgues or of the Prince of Monaco in Italy 51 Family of Rohan 52 Family of Tremoille 56 Fewel or Wood-Office 101 Flight of the Magpie 133 Foot-Guards 265 Fountainbleau 164 G. GAbels 496 Genealogy of the Royal Branch of Bourbon 21 General of the Gallies 375 Generalities of France 491 Gens d' Armes or Men at Arms of the Kings-Guard 261 357 Gentlemen-Waiters 81 Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber 111 Gentlemen of the Kings-Houshold 137 Gentlemen Pensioners 271 Goblet or Kings own Buttry 93 Governments in France 417 Granary of Salt at Paris 488 Greyhounds of the Chamber 132 Guards de la Manche or of the Sleeve 230 of the Gate 252 of the great Provost of the Houshold 259 without the Gate 261 Guildhall or Townhouse of Paris 489 H. HArbingers or Fouriers 58 Hawking 203 Heralds at Arms 152 Historiographers of France 508 House of Longueville 38 of Lorrain 39 of Savoy setled in France 46 Hunting 198 I. INfantry 357 Inhabitants 11 Introductor of Ambassadors 194 Institution of Parliaments in France 451 452 Judges Consuls 490 K. KIng now Reigning 9 Kings Houshold 61 Kings Pleasures 197 Kitchin of the Mouth 96 Knights of the Holy Ghost 337 Knights of the Order of St. Michael of Mont Carmel and of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem 343 L. LAnguage of France 14 Laws 11 Legitimated Children of Henry the Great and their Descendants 35 Legitimated Children of the present King 33 Life-Guard-Men 237 Light Horse of the Kings Guard 264 Light Horse 357 Lords in France that bear the stile of Princes 59 Louvre 159 M. MAdame and her Family 28 her Houshold 307 Madrid Palace 161 Manners of the French 11 Maritime Forces 371 Marshals of France 351 Marshals of the Lodgings c. 175 Marshalsy of France 478 Master of the Kings Houshold Great 74 Master of the Kings Houshold First 77 Master of the Artillery 368 Master of the Ceremonies 193 Master of the Horse 143 Masters of Requests 388 Measures of the French 8 Military Officers of the Kings Housholds 223 Money 7 Monsieur and his Family 28 his Houshold 294 his Guards 305 Musick of the Kings Chappel 72 of the Chamber 135 Musqueteers on Horseback of the Kings Guards 269 N. NAmes and Surnames 17 Name of France 1 Name of the King 19 Nobility of France 313 Number of the Inhabitants 14 Numbring the French Manner 18 Nursery of Horses or the Haras 151 O. OAth of Allegiance taken by the Bishops 65 Officers under the title of Valet de Chambres 121 124 Officers for Journeys 185 Officers of the Kings Orders 341 Officers whose Incomes are yearly returned into the Exchequer or Treasure Royal 498 Order observ'd when the King dines in publick 83 Order of the Kings March 239 Orders of Knighthood in France 333 Orders of Knighthood call'd the Kings Orders 334 Order of Quartering an Army 182 P. PAntler 80 483 Park 167 Parliament of Paris 455 Peers of France 315 316 Physicians Kings 139 Porters of the Bedchamber 124 Precedence in the Kings Court 256 Prerogative of the King 19 Princes of the Blood 29 Priviledges of the Commoners Tabled in the Kings Houshold 216 of Chyrurgions 221 of the Court Clergy 220 of Lifeguard-Men 222 of all the Kings Officers ibid. Provost of France 186 Punishments in France 14 Q. QUerries 154 R. REcreations 17 Religion 11 Riches of France 6 Royal Houses 159 Royal Housholds 272 S. SEcretary of State 380 of the Housholds 195 Seven Offices 93 Soil of France 5 St. Germains en Laye 162 Stables Kings 148 Stature of the French 15 Stranger-Princes in France 39 Style of the King 20 Suisse Guards 241 Regiment 266 Surveyor of Royal Buildings 158 T. TAxes 493 Taylors Kings 128 Title of the King 21 Trade of France 6 Tradesmen following the Court 213 Treasurers of France 470 Treasury-Royal 499 Troops of the Kings Houshold and Officers 223 357 V. VAlets de Chambre 113 Versailles 171 Virtuosi of France 510 Universities of France 501 Ushers of the Chamber 114 W. WAterservers or Serdeau's 82 Waters and Forests 474 Woolf-Hunting 211 Y. YEomen of the Chamber 123 Climate Bounds Dimensions and Figure Division Air. Soil Commodities Riches and Trade Money and Coins Weights and Measures Buildings Inhabitants Laws Religion Manners Punishments Number Language Stature and Complexion Diet. Attire Recreations Names Computation and Numbring * Sire a Title anciently given to most great Lords who were petty Soveraigns though now only to Kings Wages Prerogative Oath Office * A Box containing the Kings Plates Napkins Knives c. Functions and Prerogatives * The Nave is the Box containing the Kings Plates Napkins Knives c. * Caraffes are large Glasses in form of those used for Vinegar at our Tables Function and Priviledges Their Functions and Priviledges A Stick used in the Pallmall Antiquity of this Office Present Functions and Priviledges Oath 1 * A Security given to save harmless or for the true Title of Lands c. * A sort of Cistercian Monks * A certain Jurisdiction so called * Both Sword-men and Gown-men * The sixth part of a Penny †A Measure being something above half a Bushel * A Denier is the twelfth part of a Penny