and their Attendants and First Of the Great Almoner of France THE Present Great Almoner of France is the Cardinal of Boüillon who by his Place is Commander of the Kings Orders He was named to this Office of Great Almoner of France the 10th of December 1671. And after having taken the usual Oath on that occasion to the King accordingly took possession of it the 12th of the same Month. He succeeded therein the late Cardinal Barberin Nephew to Pope Vrban the VIII High Chamberlain of the Holy Church Archbishop and Duke of Reims and first Duke and Peer of France who died the 3d of August 1671. He has of ancient standing Wages fixed in the general Pay-Book of the Houshold 1200 l. a year and 1200 more under the name of a Pension 6000 l. for his Table and Livery 3000 l. paid him by the Treasurer of the Mark of Gold on the 1st of January and 3000 more by the same Treasurer as Commander by his place of the Kings Orders making in all 14400 l. French which is about 1108 l. Sterling The Great Almoner of France is by vertue of his Place Commander of the Kings Orders And He or his Great Vicars are commonly appointed to make the Inquests of the Lives and Manners of the Knights of those Orders and to receive their profession of Faith Roillard and Loiuseau and some other Authors affirm that he is an Officer of the Crown This Office is in France the Solstitium honorum or highest Pinacle of Ecclesiastical Honour and has accordingly been almost always honoured with the Purple and possest by Cardinals Though in all times there always was a Head of the Court-Clergy yet he never bore the Title of Great Almoner of France tell the time of Francis the First who Created Antony Sanguin Gardinal of Meudon Great Almoner of France though even in the time of Charles the VIII Geffrie of Pompadour Bishop of Perigneux began to take that Title as appears in the Chamber of Accounes by the Account he gave of the Kings Alms in the year 1489 but was not followed in it till the said Reign of Francis the First The Great Almoner takes an Oath of Fidelity to the King He gives the usual Certificates of the Oaths of Fidelity taken by all new Archbishops and Bishops in France and in partibus infidelium as likewise by any General of the Order by Grand Priors of the Order of Malta in France who are Grand Priors of France by those of St. Giles or of Provence of Champagne of Aquitain and of Auvergne and by some Abbots for formerly all Abbots and Abbesses did likewise take Oaths of Fidelity to the King He likewise presents to the King the Book of the Holy Gospels when he is to swear solemnly to any Alliance as appeared in the Church of Nostre Dame at Paris at the Renewing of the Aliance with the 13 Swisse-Cantons performed the 18th of November 1663. He marches at the Kings right Hand in all Processions and when the King permits any Officers to sit down in his Presence during Sermon or other Church-Service the Great Almoners Seat is on his Majesties right Hand The Great Almoner has the Charge of Goal Deliveries usually made by Kings at their coming to the Crown at Kings and Queens Coronations at their Marriages at their first Entries into any Cities of the Kingdom at the Birth of any Children of France at the great Annual Festivals at Jubilies upon any signal Victory or Conquest and upon other occasions 'T is he that Disposes of the Revenue appointed for the Kings Alms and that gives Order for the making the necessary Ornaments ordinarily used in the Chappel he goes when he pleases and performs the Service as at the Kings rising and going to Bed to assist at the Kings Prayers at Royal Feasts or at the Kings ordinary Meals to crave a Blessing and give Thanks and at Mass where he takes the Kings Prayer-Book from the Clerks of the Chappel of the Oratory to present it to the King as likewise the springsing Brush when Mass is done to give the King some Holy Water He Accompanies the King when he goes to the Offertory from his praying Desk to the Altar The same Functions are also performed by the Chief Almoner or in his absence by the other Almoners He does likewise other Functions if he please to be present at all the Ceremonies that are done as on the days the King touches for evil He administers the Communion to his Majesty and other Sacraments of which he has need He is the Bishop of the Court as the Abbot of Peyrat one of the Kings Almoners shows in his Antiquities of the Chappel Royal and performs several Episcopal Functions in any Diocess where-ever it be that the Court is without asking leave of the Bishops of the places He Baptizes the Dauphins the Sons and Daughters of France the Princes and all others for whom the Kings and Queens or any Children of France are please to stand Godfathers or Godmothers for whether in person or by Proxy He affiances and marries in the Kings Palace Princes and Princesses You are to observe that on a Communion-day the Great Almoner with his Crosier and Miter gives the Absolution without asking leave of the ordinary or else appoints another Bishop to do it in his stead according to the practise used in Cathedrals 'T is he if he be in the Chappel that gives the King the Gospel and the Pax to kiss on certain Festivals and when his Majestry Communicates He gives the Ashes to their Majesties and the usual Dispensation for eating Eggs and Flesh in Lent The Abbot of Peyrat in his Book of the Antiquities of the Chappel Royal brings Examples to show that the Great Almoner gives permission to the Court Clergy to Contract and Marry and Officers in the Kings Service without any need of their going to a Parish Church He apoints those of the same Clergy to hear the Confessions of the Kings Officers especially on the great Festivals of the year and at Easter and to administer the Sacraments to them when they desire it and when they are sick The power of the great Almoner extends it self yet further out of the Kings Chappel and Household He has the disposing of all places in the Hospitals of France and he has power to appoint Vicars throughout all the Provinces and Diocesses of the Kingdom to take an account of the Revenues of the said Hospitals but he appoints one Vicar General who has power over the rest The Great Almoner has likewise power in the University of Paris over the 17 Lecturers of the Royal Colledge over the Colledge of Mr. Gervase and over that of Navarre He has the gift of the Scholars and Principals Places in those Colledges where he has the right of Visiting He has also the Super-Intendance of the Hospital of the Fifteen-score blind People at Paris of that of the sixscore blind at Chartres and of
Oath to the Great Almoner Besides these there are the Almoners belonging to the great and little Stables and to the other Bodies of the Kings Houshold and the Chaplains belonging to the several Companies of Guards and of the Gentlemen-Musqueteers and others of which we shall speak in their places The New Chappel of the Louvre was Consecrated the 18th of February 1659. by the late Bishop of Rhodes since Archbishop of Paris and that of little Bourbon pull'd down in the Month of August the same year The Kings Ecclesiastical Officers keep always on his Majesties right hand in the Chappel and the Bishops Abbots and Ecclesiastical Officers of the Queen on his left Now on his Majesties right hand the Great Almoners Place is next to the Kings Person then follows that of the first Almoner on the right hand of the Great Almoner As for the Kings Father Confessour he places himself at the Great Almoners left hand more within the Kings Praying-Desk The Master of the Chappel-Musick takes his place on the left hand next adjoining to the Kings Praying-Desk The rest of the Almoners rank themselves to the right-hand-ward from the foot of the Kings Praying-Desk toward the Altar and after them the Chaplains and Clerks of the Chappel and Oratory and the other Clergy of the Kings Houshold every one in their Order CHAP. XIV Of the Great Master of the Kings Houshold and those who depend on him and of the Stewards of the Houshold THE Prince of Conde is at present Grand Master of the Kings Houshold and his Son the Duke of Enguien has it in Reversion The Grand Master has yearly under the name of Wages 3600 l. for Liveries 42000 l. paid quarterly for his Collations 1200 l. and 1800 l. for his Steward Under the first Race of our Kings the Great Master of France was called the Mayor of the Palace who was a Lieutenant-General over the whole Kingdom and according to the ancient Disposition of the State as there was a Duke placed over twelve Earls and sometimes a Duke over whole Provinces so the Mayor of the Palace was the Duke of Dukes and stiled himself Duke or Prince of the French His Authority was not confined only within the Kings Houshold where he disposed of all Offices but he had a great power over all Officers of War and Justice over the Managers of the Revenue and Treasury and indeed over all Affairs of State and grew so great at last that it Eclipsed the Kings and gave Pepin who was but Mayor of the Palace opportunity to assume the Crown which having done and fearing that if he continued any longer any such great Authority as this in an Officer his own practice might be returned on him and his Successors he suppressed this Office of Mayor of the Palace and Erected in its stead that of Seneschal for the Government only of his Household reserving all the other powers of that former Office to himself Yet it has happened since that the Seneschal for all that has taken upon him some Command in the Armies even so far as to have the Guard of the Kings Person Some have called him the Great Gonfanonïer or Standard-Bearer This Office became Hereditary to the Counts of Anjou from the time of Geffry Grisegonelle to whom King Robert gave it about the year 1002. and those that exercised it about the King held it in Fee of those Counts to whom they did Homage for it and paid certain acknowledgments as going to meet the Count of Anjou when he came to the Palace Lodging him letting him serve the King c. and furnishing him in the Armies with a Tent big enough to hold a hundred Knights as Hugh de Cléries reports at large This Officer also retained still a part of the power of the Mayors of the Palace in other things and decided all differences arising among the Attendants of the Court and among the Officers of the Houshold After the Kings Death he throws his Staff upon the Coffin before all the rest of the Officers Assembled together to show that their Offices are expired but the succeeding King ordinarily restores them out of his special Grace and Favour The Great Master Regulates every year the expence of the Mouth of the Kings Houshold He has an entire Jurisdiction over the seven Offices the most part of which places he disposes of and the Officers thereof take the Oath of Allegiance to the King between his hands Nevertheless the Great Masters have voluntarily resign'd the Office of Intendant of the Gobelet and of the Mouth into the Kings hands ever since Monsieur de Soissons Great Master of the Kings Houshold under Henry IV. refused to trouble himself any longer with the care of them He receives the Oath of Allegiance from the first Master of the Houshold from the Master of the Houshold in Ordinary and from twelve Masters of the Houshold that wait Quarterly from the Great and Chief Pantler Cup-Bearer and Carver from the thirty six Gentlemen Servitors from the three Masters of the Chamber of Deniers from the two Controulers-General from the sixteen Controulers Clerks of Offices from the Master of the Kings Chappel-Musick and from the Master of the Kings Oratory from the Almoners of the Kings Houshold from the Great Master the Master and the Aid of the Ceremonies from the Introductor of Ambassadours and from ........ from the Kings Master of the Horse in Ordinary and of the twenty other Masters of the Horse that serve quarterly from the four Lieutenants of the Guards of the Kings Gate from the Keepers of the Tents c. When he serves in Ceremony and that he goes along with the Meat he marches nearer the Kings Meat than all the Stewards of the Houshold carrying his Staff strait and bolt upright like a Scepter and the other Masters of the Houshold hold theirs more downward in his presence It is he likewise that at all Great Ceremonies presents the first wet Napkin to the King The Office called the Kings Office or Counting-House is kept under the Authority of the Great Master CHAP. XV. Of the first Master of the Houshold and of the other Masters under him THE first Master of the Houshold is at present the Marquiss de Livry who has a Jurisdiction over the seven Offices as far as relates to their Service but has not the disposal of their places He may also receive the Oath of Fidelity from the Offieers of the Cup or Goblet and of the Mouth and of the other Officers and in the Great Masters absence of those other Officers which ought to perform that Ceremony to him He has his Lodging in the Louvre and has yearly for Wages 3000 l. for Liveries 7968 l. and for the Counters 60 l. He keeps the Great Chamberlains Table and has the last course of it for his Fee The priviledge of the said Table is an acquisition that has been made to this Office by some preceding First Masters of
there are 49 Convents of Men besides four united and sixteen Nunneries besides one united 3. The Archbishoprick of Rouen contains six Bishopricks viz. Those of Bayeux Auranches Evreux Sais Lisieux and Coutance This Archbishop is Primate of Normandie c. and is at present named Rouxel de Medavy de Grancey and is one of the Councellours of State in Ordinary The Bishop of Bayeux is Francis de Nesmond Dr. of Sorbon c. The Bishop of Auranches is Gabriel Philip of Froulay de Tessé c. The Bishop of Evreux is James Potier de Novion The Bishop of Sais is Maturin Savary c. The Bishop of Lisieux being Bishop and Count is named Leonard Govion de Matignon And lastly the Bishop of Coutance is Charles-Francis de Lomenie de Brienne c. In this Archbishoprick there are 66 Convents of Men besides one united and fourteen Nunneries 4. The Archbishoprick of Tours contains eleven Bishopricks The present Archbishop is Michael Amelot c. The other Bishops are 1. The Bishop of Du Mans Lewis de la Vergne Montenar de Tressan c. 2. The Bishop of Anger 's Henry Arnaud c. 3. The Bishop of Rennes John Baptist de Beaumanoi◠de Lavardin c. 4. The Bishop of Nants Giles de Beauvau du Rivau 5. The Bishop of Cornouaille who is both Bishop and Count and is named Francis de Coetlogon 6. The Bishop of Vannes Peter-Lewis Caset de Vautorte 7. The Bishop of St. Pol de Leon who is both Bishop and Count Peter Neboux de la Brouss 8. The Bishop of Treguier being both Bishop and Count whose name is Francis-Ignatius de Bagliou de Saillant formerly a Priest of the Oratory 9. The Bishop of St. Brieu Lewis-Marcellus of Coetlogon 10. The Bishop of St. Malo Sebastian de Guémaduc 11. The Bishop of Dol who is both Bishop and Count Matthew Moreau This Archbishoprick has within its extent 71 Convents of Men and 13 Nunneries among which is the famous Collegiate Abby of St. Martin of Tours of which the Kings of France are Abbots 5. The Archbishoprick of Sens contains four Bishopricks the present Archbishop who is stiled Primate of the Gauls and of Germany is Hardouin Fortin de la Hoguette c. The other Bishops are 1. The Bishop of Troyes Francis Bouthillier de Chavilly Doctor of Sorbon c. 2. The Bishop of Auxerre Andrew Colbert likewise Doctor of Sorbon c. 3. The Bishop of Nevers Edward Vallot c. 4. The Bishop of Bethleem Francis de Bataillet This Bishop has his Seat of Residence in the Town of Clamecy otherwise called Bethleem situated in Nivernois within the extent of the Diocess of Auxerre In this Archbishoprick there are 44 Convents of Men besides two united and 15 Nunneries besides one united 6. Under the Archbishoprick of Treves in Germany are three Bishopricks belonging to France which are 1. Mets of which George Aubusson de la Feuillade Prince of the Holy Empire is Prince and Bishop 2. Of Toul of which James de Fieux Doctor in Divinity of the Colledge of Navarre is Bishop and Count. 3. The Bishoprick of Verdun of which Hippolyte de Bethune is likewise Bishop and Count and Prince of the Holy Empire In the extent of these three Bishopricks there are 42 Convents of Men and 9 Nunneries 6. In the Archbishoprick of Reims there are eight Bishopricks The Archbishop of Reims is Duke of the same and first of the Peers of France that Consecrates and Anoints the Most Christian Kings and is Legate by his Dignity of the Holy Apostolick See and Primate of Gaul Belgick He that now is is named Charles Maurice le Tellier Son to the late Chancellour and Brother to Mr. Louvois The other Bishops are 1. The Bishop of Soissons Peter Daniel Huet Under-Preceptor or Sub-Tutor to the Dauphin 2. The Bishop of Châlons on the Marne who is also Count and Peer of France and is named Lewis Anthony de Noailles 3. The Bishop of Laon who is Bishop and Duke of the same and Peer of France whose name is John d' Etrées 4. The Bishop of Senlis who is Denis Sanguin 5. The Bishop of Beauvais who is Count and Chatelain too of Beauvais c. and is named Toussainr de Fourbin who has been twice Ambassadour in Poland 6. The Bishop of Amiens who is Francis Faure Preacher formerly to the late Queen 7. The Bishop and Count of Noyon and Peer of France is Francis de Clermont de Tonnerre 8. The Bishop of Boulogne is Claudius le Tonnelier de Breteuil In this Archbishoprick there are 118 Convents of Religious Men and 30 Nunneries besides several ruined by the Wars Note That the Prior of St. Remy of Reims in this Diocess is obliged to carry the Holy Viol to the Ceremony of Consecrating or Anointing the Kings of France 8. The Archbishoprick of Cambray includes four Bishopricks The present Archibishop and Duke of Cambray who is likewise Prince of the Empire and Count of Cambresis or the County of Cambray is James Theodore de Brias The other Bishops are 1. The Bishop of Arras who is President by his Dignity of the States of Artois his name is Guy de Sève de Rochechouart 2. The Bishop of Tournay Gilbert de Choiseul du Plessin Prâlin 3. The Bishop of St. Omer Lewis-Alphonsus de Valbelle 4. The Bishop of Ypres James de Liéres There are in this Archbishoprick 48 Convents of Men and 29 Nunneries The Archbishoprick of Besancon in the Franche County has under it but one Suffragan Bishop The present Archbishop is Antony-Peter de Gramant The Suffragan being called the Bishop of Bellay is Peter de Laurens There are in this Archbishoprick 23 Convents of Men and four Nunneries 9. The Archbishoprick of Vienna contains four Bishopricks The present Archbishop is Henry de Villars Prior and Lord of Aispagnac The other Bishops are 1. The Bishop and Count of Geneva John d' Aranton d' Alaix His Residence at present is at Anecy This Bishoprick is in the Gift of the Duke of Savoy In it is the Abby of Hautecombe which is the place where the Dukes of Savoy are Intombed 2. The Bishop and Count of Grenoble who is President by his Dignity of the States of the Dauphinate is Stephen le Camus 3. The Bishop and Count of Viviers c. is Lewis Francis de la Baume de suze 4. The Bishop and Count of the double Bishoprick of Valence and Die is Daniel de Conac In this Archbishoprick there are 23 Convents of Men and eight Nunneries 10. The Archbishoprick of Arles comprehends four Bishopricks The present Archbishop who is stiled Prince and Primate is Adheimar de Monteil de Grignan The other Bishops are 1. The Bishop of Marseilles Charles-Gaspar-William de Vintimille de St. Luc. 2. The Bishop and Count of St. Paul Trois-Chateaux or St. Paul-Three-Castles Lewis Aube de Roquemartin 3. The Bishop and Lord of Toulon Armand-Lewis Bonnin de Chalucet 4. The Bishop of Orange John-James
Accounts thirty Correctors and seventy four Auditors one Advocate and one Proctor-General for the King one Comptroller-General of the Remains two Chief Recorders who are stiled the Kings Secretaries two Book-Keepers one Chief Usher thirty other Ushers twenty nine Proctors one Commissioner for the Receit of the Duties called the Spices of the Accounts one Receiver of small necessities of the Chamber and three Receivers and Payers of Wages The Presidents Masters Correctors and Auditours are of the Long Robe if they have taken any Degrees in Law and of the short Robe if not but however they have all used the Long Robe since the Late Queens Entry into Paris in 1660. Four of the Masters of the Accounts are Secretaries to the King sharing each a Purse in the Great or High Chancery of France The Chief President and the three eldest Presidents that serve half-yearly keep always in the Grand Office and the two last that serve by the half year keep the second Office The Masters serve alternatively and by turns that is to say the eldest Master of that half year officiates in the Grand Office in January March and May and in the second in February April and June the second Master of the same half year serves in the Grand Office in February April and June and in the second in January March and May and so forward the third and fourth Masters which same order is practised in the other half year Commencing in July The Chief President of this Chamber at present is Nicholas Nicolai Marquiss of Goussainville This Chamber was established at Paris according to the Register of the Sieur de Just under the reign of St. Lewis since which Philip the Fair when he made the Parliament Sedentary at Paris re-establisht that at the same time At its first establishment it consisted but of two Presidents of which the first who was a Clergyman was ordinarily some Archbishop or Bishop and the other a Lay-man or for the most part they were both Clergymen of six Masters of Accounts viz. Three Clergymen and three Laymen Philip the Long added thereto another Master Clergy-man that there night be always two in the Chamber to hear the Accounts and two below to correct them and eight Clerks two of which were to keep the accounts one to keep the Journal for Registring Affairs and the five other to look after the business of the Examination of the Accounts according to the Ordinance of the 6th of January 1319. Since that Charles the Fair added another Lay-Master and another Clergy-man Master Lewis the XI Establisht the second Office Created a third President and augmented the number of Masters so that till the time of Francis the First the Chamber of Accounts was composed but of three Presidents twelve Masters and sixteen Clerks since called Auditors to whom Henry the second gave the Quality or stile of Councellours to the King with priviledge of having a Voice and opinion deliberative under whose reign it was made Semestral or to be distinguished by six Months alternative service In the year 1410. there were Created two Correctors which were chosen out of the number of the Masters who had the same Salaries Priviledges and Honours as the Masters and place in the Office The solemn and Ceremonial Habits of those of this Chamber are as follows The Presidents wear Robes of Black-Velvet the Master of the Accounts of Black-Satin Correctors of Accounts of Black Damask the Auditours of Black Taffaty the Advocates and Proctors-General of Black-Satin the Comptroller-General of the Remains of Black Taffaty the Recorders Black Damask the Chief Usher of Black Taffaty This Chamber has been in so much estimation that the most important affairs of the State of the Finances or Revenues and of Justice were there debated and thither were cited the principal Officers of the Crown and of the Parliament And Patriarchs Archbishops and Bishops Princes Constables and other great Persons used to sit in it And in the year 1497. It had the honour to have for its President James of Bourbon a Prince of the Bloud several Kings have honoured it with their Presence as Philip of Valois who during his absence into Flanders left his Seal in their Keeping and gave them Power and Authority to distribute his Graces and Favours nay and to grant Letters of Pardon or abolition of Crimes as amply as he himself might have done The same hapned under the reigns of Charles the Fifth and Sixth and of Lewis the Twelfth in the years 1330 1359 1381 and 1498. At that time it was not only a supreme Court to judge of all Causes Criminal or Civil relating to the Finances or Revenue but also of those concerning the Policy and Direction or surveying and maintaining of Bridges Causeys and High-ways This Chamber Registers the Oaths of Fidelity or Allegiance taken by Archbishops Bishops and Abbots and others in Royal Abbies and of Heads or Chiefs of Orders that are subject to the rights called the Regalia which cease not till the day they be registred in this Chamber and the Fruits and Profits of these Benefices belong to the King from the day of the Decease of the Archbishop Bishop or Abbot till the day of the Registring of the Oath of a new Successour Which fruits St. Lewis gave towards the maintenance of the Holy Chappel viz. One Moiety to the Canons and the other for the maintenance of the Structure of the said Chappel and of the Houses of its Dependance of which the Gentlemen Officers of the Chamber of Accounts are the Orderers and Directors At present by Letters verified in this Chamber the King returns these Regalia or Regal Rights to the Archbishops and Bishops as soon as they have taken the usual Oaths of Fidelity and as soon as the Counsellours Auditours of this Chamber to whom alone that Priviledge belongs have delivered out their expedition or dispatch of them This Chamber examines closes and casts up and fixes the accounts of the Treasure Royal those of the Kings Houshold of the other Royal Housholds and of all the Officers that are accountable and have the managing of receits and expences The other Chambers of accounts are obliged to send every year to that of Paris duplicates of the accounts of their respective Provinces that so they may there have a general knowledge of the Finances or Revenues and accordingly make the necessary Verifications and Corrections of the Accounts of the Treasure Royal and of the Officers that are accountable and that take there their Assignations This Chamber receives Fealty and Homage of the Vassals of Principalities Dutchies Peerages Marquisates Counties Vicounties Baronies and Chatellanies or Captainships and may receive the like of all that hold moveables Fees or Fiefs depending on the Crown it has the keeping of all the acknowledgments and numbrings of all those under its Jurisdiction and even of the Fealties and Homages of the Fiefs or Fees which the Treasurers of France are to receive It Registers the
2. The Bishop and Duke of Langres who is Louis-Marie-Armand de Simianes de Gordes 4. The Bishop and Count of Beauvais who is named Toussaint de Fourbin de Janson 5. The Bishop and Count of Chaalons in Champain Lewis Antony of Noailles of the Family of the Duke of that Name 6. The Bishop and Count of Noyon named Francis of Clermont-Tonnerre The six secular ones that are now only represented were The Dukes of Burgundy Normandy Guyenne And Counts of Toulouze Flanders and Champain The Quality of the twelve antient Peers of France is at present but a kind of Ceremonial Dignity by vertue of which those that possess it have a certain Rank or Precedence in France at the Consecration and Coronation of Kings have Place in Parliament and in the general Assembly of Estates and enjoy the Honours of the Louvre Their first Institution is so uncertain that it is impossible to gather out of History their true Original some attributing it to Hugh Capet and some to Charlemaine or Charles the Great But the Original of the Name and Functions of the Peers of France can properly be derived from nothing else then from the common use and custom of Fiess and Tenures which is that the Vassals holding moveable Fiefs fully and directly of the same Lord are called Pares Curiae aut Domus which is as much as to say Peers of the Fiefs or of the Court that are to assist when the Lord takes possession of his Land to be present at those days when causes relating to the Fiefs are pleaded and judged and have several other rights which are analogically common to them with our Peers of France who in like manner assist at the Consecration and Coronation of the King who is the supream Lord are Counsellers in his Court of Parliament which for this reason is called the Court of Peers so that in a word the Peers of France are but as Tenants that hold of the Monarchy and depend immediately on the Crown such as were the seven Peers in the time of Lewis the Young in the year 1179 or in the time of Hugh Capet who reunited to the Crown the Dutchy and Peerage of France or of Paris which he possessed before he was King So that there remained after that but six ancient Peers that were Seculars to which at several times by degrees were afterwards added six other Ecclesiastical Peers over whom Lewis the Young gave the Primacy to the Archbishop of Reims with the Prerogative of Consecrating and Crowning the Kings Since the time of the said Lewis the Young the number of twelve Peers at those great Ceremonies has been always continued till the present But the Secular Peers are as we have said only represented on that occasion there being none now that bear any of those Titles but only now lately the Duke of Burgundy Eldest Son to the Dauphin and the Count of Toulouze one of the Kings Natural Legitimated Sons Their several Functions at the Kings Consecration and Coronation are these The Archbishop of Reims Consecrates or anoints the King with the Oil of the Holy Ampull or Viol kept in the Cathedral of that Name from Age to Age only for that purpose The Bishop of Laon carries the said Viol the Bishop of Langres carries the Scepter the Bishop of Beauvais the Mantle Royal the Bishop of Chaalons the Ring the Bishop of Noyons the Belt The Duke of Burgundy carries the Crown Royal and girds on the Kings Sword the Duke of Guyenne carries the first square Banner the Duke of Normandy the Second the Count of Toulouze the Spurs the Count of Champain the Banner Royal or Standard of War the Count of Flanders the Kings Sword On the day of the Consecration and Coronation and during the Ceremony these Peers wear a Circle of gold in form of a Crown Now because of the six Secular Peerages there are now five reunited to the Crown and that of Flanders is likewise in part reunited and in part remains still in foreign hands therefore there are on such occasions six Princes or great Lords chosen to represent them and to perform their Functions The Order observed at the Coronation of the present King Lewis the Fourteenth now happily Reigning which was on the 7th of June 1654. was as follows The Ecclesiastical Peers that officiated on that occasion were 1. Anne-Marie de Levis de Ventadour late Arch-bishop of Bourges instead of the Bishop and Duke of Laon. 2. Francis de Harlay then Archbishop of Rouen and at present of Paris for the Bishop and Duke of Laugres 3. Nicholas Choart de Buzanval late Bishop and Count of Beauvais 4. Henry de Baradat late Bishop and Count of Noyon 5. Felix Vialar de Herse late Bishop and Count of Chaalons 6. The late Bishop of Soissons as first Suffragan of Reims anointed the King being assisted by the Bishop of Amiens as Deacon and by Monsieur de Bourlon now Bishop of Soissons but then but Coadjutour to the said Bishoprick as Sub-Deacon The other Bishops that were likewise assistants there were the Bishops of Rennes Coutances of Rhodes of St. Paul irois Chateaux or three Castles of Agde and of Leon. Cardinal Grimaldi performed the Office of Great Almoner of France because of the absence of Cardinal Barberin The Hostages given for the Holy Ampull or Viol were the Marquesses of Vardes of Richelieu of Biron and of Coislin since Duke and Monsieur de Manciny at present Duke of Nevers held up the Kings Train Those who represented the Secular Peers were 1. The Duke of Anjou now Duke of Orleans represented the Duke of Burgundy 2. The late Duke of Vendome the Duke of Aquitain or Guyenne 3. The late Duke of Elbeuf the Duke of Normandy 4. The late Duke of Epernon the Count of Champagne 5. The Duke of Rouanez Gouffier the Count of Flanders 6. The Duke of Bournorville the Count de Toulouze The late Marshal d' Etrées performed the Office of High Constable the late Marshal d' Hospital carried the Scepter the late Marshal du Plessis-Pralin the Crown the late Marshal d' Aumont the hand of Justice The late Chancelour Seguier officiated his own place the Marshal Duke of Villeroy performed the Office of Great Master or High Steward of France the late Duke of Joyeuse did his Office of High Chamberlain and the Count de Vivonne who had the Reversion of one of the places of chief Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber after the Duke of Mortemar his Father performed the Function of First or Chief Chamberlain He is at present Marshal Duke de Vivonne CHAP. IV. Of the particular Lords that are at present Dukes and Peers according to the Order of their Verification being in all 29. Names of the Dukedoms and the date of their Verification 1. USês in 1572. 2. Ventadour in 1594. 3. Suilly in 1606. 4. Luynes in 1619. 5. Les diguieres in 1620. 6. Brissac in 1620. 7. Chaunes in 1631. 8. Richelieu in 1631. 9. St.
Revenues excepting the Regal Right or Due It also takes Cognisance of the Duties belonging to the King from Cathedral and Collegiate Churches upon the account of his joyful arrival to the Crown and of those due from Archbishops and Bishops when at their Instalments and Consecrations they swear Fidelity to the King of those arising from the Indults or Fees so called of Cardinals and other Prelates of the Kingdom from the Indult of the Officers of the Parliament of Paris From the appellations of the Provostship of the Houshold of the Warren of the Louvre and from those of the Chamber of the General Reformation of the Hospitals and Houses for the sick in France from the Commissions of the Chief Physian for the Reports of dead Bodies drowned and wounded and all Statutes or Orders of the said Chief Physician concerning Pharmacy from the Execution of or offences against the Statutes or Orders of the Kings Chief Barber and from Appeals concerning the Persons Estates or Priviledges of the Great Orders of the Kingdom as are those of Chiny the Cistercians the premonstrated Monks Grandmont the Trinity the Holy Ghost Fontevrault and St. John of Jerusalem From the withdrawing concealing and imbezeling Ecclesiastical Goods or Estates and Immunities and Franchises or Liberties of Ecclesiastick Persons and from several Appeals concerning the ancient Substitutions of the Great Houses of the Kingdom The Solemn and Ceremonial Habits used in the Grand Council are Robes of Black-Velvet for the Presidents and Black-Satin Robes for the Councellours Advocates and Proctor-General and the Recorder or Registrer The Great Council is a Court that Judges without Appeal and that follows the King whenever it pleases his Majesty The place where the Grand Council is held is in the Cloister of the Church of St. Germains l' Auxerrois at Paris near the Louvre And because the Chancellour is not only the Head and Chief of all the Kings Councils but also the Head of the Chancery since he has the Seals in keeping Now we have treated of the several Councils it will be most proper in the next place to speak of the Officers of the Chancery in their order and to explain what their Offices are CHAP. XXV Of the Councellours and Secretaries of the King House and Crown of France and of their Finances or Revenues THE Councellours so stiled as above are in number 240 and have his Majesty for the Chieftain and Soveraign Protector of their Company ever since the first Institution of it and his Majesty has the first Purse of the profits of the Seal The first of them is called their Dean These Secretaries-Councellours were reduced and united into one only Body and Company by an Edict of the Month of April 1672. by which they are maintained in all their ancient Priviledges and Exemptions of this number are the four Principal Secretaries of State the four Secretaries of the Council of the Finances or Revenues the four Registrers of the Council of Parties and the Chief Registrers or Recorders of the superiour Companies of the Kingdom Their principal Function is to be present and assisting at the application of the Seal and to dispatch and sign all Letters that are presented to the Lord Chancellour to be sealed they read to him all Letters of Pardon Remission and other Graces and Favours which he grants or refuses The Chancellour is Judge of all matters that relate to their Places and Functions and the Sentences given by them in Council run in this tenour The King in his Council by the advice of the Lord Chancellour has Order'd and does Order c. All the Offices of the Chanceries throughout the Kingdom excepting only those of the great Audiancers of France the 240 Secretaries of the King and some others are at the disposal and nomination of the Chancellour and of his Parties Casual CHAP. XXVI Of the Great or High Chancery of France FIrst There are in it four Great Audiencers that officiate quarterly each one in their quarter The Great Audiencers of France are the first Officers of the Seal Their principal Function is to view and examine the Letters that are to be sealed which are to be carried or sent to them the day before they are to be sealed by the Kings Secretaries abovesaid that they may present them and report them to the Chancellour and tax them at the Controll The four Great Audiencers of France the four Comptrollers-General the four Keepers of the Rolls of the Offices of France the four Conservatours of the Hypotheques and the Treasurers of the Seal are by their places Secretaries to the King perform the Functions of such and enjoy all their Priviledges and Exemptions There are four Comptrollers-General of the Audience of the Chancery of France that serve likewise quarterly The principal Function of the Comptroller-General of the Chancery of France in the time of his Waiting is to take and lay before the Wax-Chafer the Letters that are ready for the Seal and when they are sealed to receive them again from the hands of the Wax-Chafer and put them into the Chest for that purpose without imbezeling or fliding aside any one of them And he is to put to his Comptroll and Paraphe or Mark all along the sides after the Great Audiencer has taxed them as it was Order'd by the Edict of the Month of April in 1664. There are four Keepers of the Rolls of the Offices of France that officiate likewise quarterly Their Chief Function is to have and keep the Rolls and Registers of all the Offices of France that are sealed of what nature soever they be The Kings Secretaries that dispatch them are to send or carry the said Letters to them before they pass the Seal that they may present them and make their Report of them to the Chancellour It is in their hands that all oppositions to the sealing of them or dispatching them in the Offices whether it be upon the account of a Hypotheque or any other title or pretence are to be made of which they keep a Register and for which they are responsable in Case the Offices be sealed contrary to those oppositions because that if the said Offices that is what passes in them should be sealed without being charged with those oppositions they would be discharged of all Hypotheques There are under these four Deputy-Keepers of the Rolls whose places are united to theirs There are four Conservatours of the Hypotheques or of the Rents upon the Town-House or Guild-hall and on the augmentations of Wages that officiate quarterly Their Duty is to do the same thing in relation to the Rents and augmentations of Wages that the Keepers of the Rolls do in respect of the Offices that is to say to present and report to the Chancellour all Letters of Ratification of the acquisition or purchase of those Rents or augmentations of Wages that the Kings Secretaries have dispatched and signed to receive the oppositions made against the sealing and dispatching the said
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
this Family still maintain a Rank comformable to their Extraction as they formerly did enjoying the same Honours and Prerogatives as the fore-mentioned Families This Family has had several Alliances with our Kings with the Emperours and with the Kings of England Scotland Spain Arragon and Navarre and if Anne the Heiress of Brittany who was afterward Queen of France and Wife both to Charles the VIII and Lewis the XII had died without Children there was no Family nearer to succeed to that Dutchy than this But the better to particularize in Order those which at present remain of this Illustrious Family we shall make this Observation That they descend all from these three following Heads or Chiefs 1. From the late Henry Duke of Rohan 2. From the late Peter Prince of Guémené 3. From his late Brother Hercules of Rohan Duke of Montbazon 1. The late Henry Duke of Rohan Prince of Leon left by Margaret of Leon his Wife Daughter to the late Duke of Suilly Margaret of Rohan his only Heiress who died the 9th of April 1684. In her the Dutchy of Rohan as well as the Vicounty of Leon fell to the Distaffe as they call it in France She Married Henry Chabot Lord of St. Aulaye the last in Rank of the Barons of Jornac and Grand-Child to Admiral Chabot and died the 27th of February 1655. by whom she had a Son and three Daughters viz. 1. Lewis de Rohan-Chabot Peer of France of whom we shall speak among the Dukes and Peers 2. Anne Chabot de Rohan Married the 16th of April 1663. to Francis of Rohan Prince of Soubize 3. Margaret Chabot of Rohan Widow of the Marquiss of Coëtquen Governour of St. Malo who died the 24th of April 1679. 4. Joan-Pelagia Chabot of Rohan called Madamoiselle of Leon She was Married to the Prince d' Epinoy the 11th of April 1668. II. The late Peter of Rohan Prince of Guémené Count of Montauban Elder Brother of the late Duke of Montauban Married Magdalene of Rieux Daughter to the Lord of Chateau-neuf by whom he had Anne of Rohan who was Married to the late Lewis of Rohan her Cousin-German as we shall show further in due place III. The late Hercules of Rohan Duke of Montbazon Count of Rochefort Knight of the Kings Orders Peer and Great Huntsman of France Governour of the City of Paris and Gentleman-Usher to Queen Marie of Medicis who died in the year 1654. Married to his first Wife Magdalene of Lenoncourt Daughter and sole Heir of Henry of Lenoncourt and the Lady Francise Laval and to his second in the year 1628. Marie of Brittany Daughter of the Count of Vertus By both which he had the Children following His Children by the first Wife were 1. Lewis of Rohan the Seventh of that Name Prince of Guémené Duke of Montbazon Peer and Great Huntsman of France Knight of the Kings Orders who died the 19th of February 1667. in the 68th year of his Age He Married Anne de Rohan Princess of Guémené his Cousin-German above-mentioned who died the 14th of March 1685. by whom he had one Son viz. Charles de Rohan Duke of Montbazon Peer of France Count of Rochefort and of Montauban who Married Joan Armanda of Schomberg Daughter and Sister of the two late Counts and Marshals of that Name by whom he has these following Children 1. Charles of Rohan Prince of Guémené Duke of Montbazon who Married to his first Wife Madamoiselle de Luyne Marie-Anne d' Albret who died the 21st of August 1679. and to his second on the 2d of December the same year Charlotte-Elizabeth de Cochefilet called Madamoiselle de Vauvineux 2. John-Baptist-Armandus of Rohan called The Abbot of Rohan 3. John of Rohan called the Prince of Montauban who in 1682. Married N .... de Bautru Nogent Widow of the Marquiss of Ranes Lieutenant General of the Kings Armies 4. Anne of Rohan called Madamoiselle of Guémené 5. Elizabeth of Rohan called Madamoiselle of Montbazon Born the 25th of March 1643. 6. And Madamoiselle of Montauban 2. The late Marie de Rohan Dutchess Dowager of Chevreuse who died the 13th of August 1679. was Daughter to the same late Hercules of Rohan by the same Wife She was first Married to Charles D' Albot Duke of Luyne Peer Constable and Great Falconer of France Knight of the Kings Orders Principal Gentleman of the Kings Bed-Chamber and Governour of Picardie who died in 1621. By whom she had Lewis-Charles d' Albert Duke of Luyne who was first Married to Lewise-Marie Seguier Daughter of the Marquisse d' O by whom he had several Children and since to the abovesaid Madamoiselle of Montbazon The same Marie of Rohan after the Death of the said Constable of Luyne was Married again as we have said to Claudius of Lorain Duke of Chevreuse and had by him three Daughters of whom there remains only Henriette of Lorain Abbess of Joüare The Children of the said late Hercules of Rohan by his second Wife were one Son and two Daughters viz. I. Francis of Rohan Prince of Soubize Count of Rochefort in Iveline Lieutenant-Captain of a Company of the Kings Gens d' armes Governour of Berry and Lieutenant General of the Kings Armies who on the 16th of April 1663. Married his Cousin Madamoiselle de Rohan Lady of Honour to the Queen By whom he has had several Children the Eldest of which is 1. Lewis of Rohan of Soubize who was Baptized at the Royal Chappel at St. Germains en Laye the 16th of February 1675. Their Majesties being pleased to stand for his Godfather and Godmother 2. Hercules-Meriadec of Rohan Abbot of St. Taurin of Evreux called the Abbot of Rohan 3. Anne-Margaret of Rohan of Soubize who is a Nun in the Convent of the Benedictin Nuns of Nostre Dame de Consolation in the Street called the Rue de Chasse-midy in the Suburbs of St. Germain at Paris 4. Madamoiselle de Frontenay N. ◠de Rohan 5 6. Two Boys more II. Constance Emilia of Rohan who was Married by Proxy on the 18th of May 1683. to Don Joseph Rodrigo de Camara Son of Don Miguel de Camara Count de Ribeyra-grande Grandee of Portugal This Don Joseph-Rodrigo de Camara is of the Privy Council to the present King of Portugal Governour and Captain-General and Lord of the Island of St. Michael and of the Town de Poule-Delgade The Ceremony of the Espousals was performed the day before at Versailles in the Kings Great Cabinet in Presence of their Majesties of my Lord the Dauphin and my Lady Dauphiness of Monsieur and Madame and of all the Princes and Princesses and principal Lords of the Court She arrived in Portugal in the Month of October 1683. Of the Family of Tremoille I. The late Prince of Tarente Charle-Henry de la Tremoille Duke of Thoüars Peer of France Knight of the Order of the Garter bore Arms in Holland and was General of the Cavalry of the States of the United Provinces and Governour of Bois le
that of the Haudriettes at Paris which are now the Nuns of the Assumption It will not be amiss to place here the Form of the Oath of Fidelity or Allegiance which the Bishops in France take to the King upon the Holy Gospels The Form of the Oath of Allegiance taken by the Bishops I Swear Sir by the Most Holy and Sacred Name of God and Promise to your Majesty That I will be to you as long as I live a Faithful Subject and Servant That I will procure your Service and the good of your State with all my power That I will never be present in any Counsel Design or Enterprize to the prejudice of either and that if there comes any thing of that kind to my Knowledge that I will make it known to your Majesty So help me God and these Holy Gospels CHAP. XII Of the first Almoner and other Almoners according to their Quarters THE first Almoner when he pleases in the absence of the Great Almoner performs all the same Functions and he Administers the Oath of Fidelity to the other Officers of the Chappel and of the Oratory which the other Almoners do not do In the absence of the Great Almoner he likewise gives to Bishops and other Ecclesiastical Dignitaries a Certificate of their having taken the Oath of Fidelity or Allegiance to the King during Mass He has 1200 l. per annum Wages paid by the Treasurer of the Houshold and 6000 l. more for his Table at Court paid by the Masters of the Chamber of Deniers On Sundays if he be at Chappel he presents Holy Bread to the King to the Queen to the Dauphin and Dauphiness to Monsieur the Kings Brother and to Madame Then the Almoners of that Quarter give it to the other Princes and Princesses of the Blood or to those that are Legitimated which are near the Kings Foot-Cloth The first Almoner and another of that Quarter hold the two Corners of the Communion Napkin on that side next the Altar when the King receives and commonly two Knights of the Orders or two other Lords hold the two other Corners on his Majesties side But if the Dauphin happen to be there then he only is to hold the Communion Napkin on his Majesties side The Master of the Oratory has 1200 l. per annum Wages paid by the Treasurers of the Houshold and 3600 l. more for his Table at Court paid him by the Masters of the Chamber of Deniers The Kings Confessor who is the Reverend Father la Chaise a Jesuit has 1200 l. a year by Name of Wages 2654 l. at the Chamber of Deniers and 3000 l. more to maintain his Coach On the great Festivals of the year and when the King Communicates the reverend Father Confessor is always at Church near his Majesty Clothed with a Surpliss under his Mantle On other days he assists if he pleases at the Kings Mass but without a Surpliss By an Order of Philip the Long made at St. Germain en Laye in the Month of June 1316. The Kings Confessour has power to Order all Letters for Collating of Benefices to be made ready for the Royal Signature and Seal and the Great Almoner those of Royal Gifts and Alms according to Mr. Tillet Tom. 1. f. 434 435. By a Charter of the same Philip the Long made at Bourges the 16th of November 1318. All persons were forbidden to speak to the King while he was hearing Mass except his Confessour who might speak to him only about things concerning his Conscience And after Mass he might speak to him about the business of Collating of Benefices The King has eight other Almoners whereof two wait every Quarter and of those two at least he that is to wait that Day is to be present at the Kings Rising Dinner and Mass during which last the Almoner of the Quarter or some other is to hold his Majesties Hat and Gloves or in their absence the next Chaplain or Clerk of the Chappel to be found in the way is to receive them The Almoners are to be afterward at the Kings Supper and at his going to Bed to perform the following Ceremonies as to open the Nave on the Table if there be one and to take it away when Supper is done to crave a Blessing and to give thanks The Almoners are present on solemn Festivals and when the King Communicates Clothed with Rotchets under their Mantles both at Mass and at Vespers They Preach in Rotchets both before the King and else where They administer the Communion to the King They go and present the Holy Bread they also deliver Prisoners give Dispensation in Lent to eat Eggs and Flesh give Ashes to the King Queen and other Royal Persons they give Holy Water to the King and Queen when Mass is done and in fine in the absence of the Great or the first Almoner perform all Functions which they should do They have each a Salary 300 l. a piece for serving the King and their Diet at the Table called the Almoners Table And for serving at the Dauphins by turns one year in two they have half the Wages they have in the Kings Service and half a Pistol a Day for their diet which one year with another makes 600 l. to each besides their diet at Court I shall not mention those many titular Preachers and Almoners that the King is pleased to admit only ad honores because they have no rank here There is one Chaplain in Ordinary who has 1200 l. a year under the name of Wages and 1098 l. for his diet at the Chamber of Deniers Besides whom there are eight Chaplains that serve quarterly two to each Quarter Who are to say every day excepting the High-Mass dayes a low Mass before the King they serve commonly Weekly and he that is not in Waiting any Week in the Kings Service may if he pleases when he is present at the Kings Mass kneel in Mass-time next behind the Almoners on the Kings right hand They serve also the Dauphin and his Children They have each 240 l. Wages a year for three Months waiting in the Kings Service and their diet at the Almoners Table during their said three Months Service and 120 l. to serve by turns at the Dauphins and their diet at Court at the Deservers or Water-Servers belonging to the Dauphin They have likewise 120 l. Recompense for serving every other Year at the Duke of Burgundies and 270 l. for their diet at the end of their quarter And besides you are to take notice that at the Dauphins they are allowed half a Pistol a day a piece for their diet every day there is no Table kept which one year with another makes 495 l. yearly Revenue to each besides their diet at Court and some other profits The Chaplains besides the ordinary Ceremonies go before they begin Mass and give their Majesties Holy Water and when Mass is done they present the Corporal on which they have Celebrated to their Majesties
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
his Body into the Coffin and when the Body is transported to St. Denis Church which as Westminster-Abbey here is the place of the Sepulchres of the Kings of France they go before and wait for it in the Chappel where it is to be deposited and keep Guard about it till it be put into the Vault down into which they only are to carry it In all the Ceremonies and Solemnities above-mentioned they have always their Partisans in their hands and their Hoquetons or Jackets on their backs on which both before and behind a Hercules's Club was wrought with these words about it Erit haec quoque cognita Monstris And the Monsters shall also know or feel this which was the Motto of Henry the Great But in the year 1671. Lewis the Fourteenth of that Name at present Gloriously Reigning caused his own Devise and Motto to be wrought on the said Jackets which is the Figure of a Sun giving light to the World with this Motto Nec pluribus impar that is Neither is he an unequal Match for many When the King makes his first Entry into any of the Cities in his Dominions there is due to each of the two Guards of the Sleeve then in Waiting from the Magistrates of the City a Silver-Hilted Sword The same Fees are due to them from any Bishops or Prelates when they take the Oath of Fidelity to the King They are allowed the same allowance of Bread and Wine every day as they have that are upon the Watch and have their Diet at the Kings Serdeaus or Water-Servers Table with the Gentlemen-Waiters and a little Chamber to lie in in the Guard-Chamber if there be convenience for it The particular Duties and Prerogatives of the Captains of the Guards The Captains of the Guards are sworn by the King himself and receive the Oath themselves in the Guard-Chamber from the Officers and Souldiers of the Companies of Life-Guards under their Command The Captain of the Guards that is in Waiting never leaves the King from the times he rises or goes forth of his Chamber until his Majesty be in Bed and then he goes out into the Guard-Chamber to see the Watch called where upon his Arrival the Clerk of the Watch with a loud Voice calls over the Names of the Guards that are to lie that Night in the Guard-Chamber and then the said Captain having taken notice who are wanting he goes down to the Gate and sets the Watch and then is Conducted to his own Apartment The same Clerk of the Watch calls over too the twelve Suissers that are to lie at the upper end of the said Guard-Chamber in presence of the Officers of the Company of a hundred Suissers who after that is in like manner Conducted to his Lodging The Captain of the French-Guards marches and keeps always immediately next the King and near his Person where ever he be or goes whether at Table on Horseback and in a Coach and any where else without suffering any to step between the King and him that so nothing may hinder him from having always his Eye upon His Majesties Sacred Person It 's true that in a very narrow passage the Captain of the Guards lets the Querry pass before him and nearer the Kings Person because he may have the conveniency to assist his Majesty upon any accident requiring his service The Lieutenant of the Guards marches almost always before the King because the Captain of the hundred Suissers to whom-that Place is assigned is most commonly not there but when he is there then the Lieutenant of the Guards places himself on the Kings right hand and the Ensign on his left but in the absence of his Captain he takes his place and follows immediately behind his Majesty The King honours the Captain of the Guards with a place in one of the Coaches or Caleches of the Body and sometimes in the same Coach with himself and if his Majesty rides out on Horse-back the Captain of the Guards takes Horse in the very Court of the Louvre and at present both the Officers and Souldiers of the Life-Guards wait for the King ready mounted in the Court of the Louvre for fear whilst they are waiting for him at one Door he should go out at another The Captain of the Guards in the time of his Waiting always Lodges in the Kings Palace as near as may be conveniently to his Majesties Chamber and in any of the Kings Palaces has the very first Apartment next the Kings and before all other Officers At Night he keeps the Keys as we have said under his Bolster When the King gives Audience to an Ambassadour the Captain of the Guards receives him at the Guard-Chamber Door and conducts him to the Audience-Chamber during the Audience he stands near the Rails and when it is done he conducts the Ambassadour back again all along the Guard-Chamber as far as the Door the Guards making a Lane for them all the way The Captain and Lieutenant of the Scotch Company may always take their place near the King though they be not in Waiting When the Guards that remain of the four Companies of Life-Guards that are not in Waiting or upon Duty are drawn up which is commonly called a Cornette of the Guards whether it be to follow the King or for any other Service they are Commanded by the Scotch Lieutenant as was seen when the King was going to Marsal At the first Entries the King makes into any Cities of his Dominions the Scotch Officer in Waiting takes for his Fees the Silver Keys that the Magistrates of the City come to present his Majesty and besides the said Magistrates are to give two pieces of Velvet to the Scotch Captain and one to his Lieutenant or in their absence to such other Scotch Officers as Command in their places The Guards of the Scotch Company only keep the Keys of the Doors of the Quires of the Churches where his Majesty is as also those of the Louvre at Night which when the King is in Bed they carry to their Captain When his Majesty passes the Water in a Ferry or Boat no other Guards but those of the Scotch Company are admitted into the Boat with him The Functions and Duties of the other Life-Guards The Life-Guard men are always to keep Guard immediately before the Kings Anti-Chamber There is always a Sentinel upon Duty at the entring into the Guard-Chamber to take notice of those that go in This Sentinel stands there with his Carbine and sets open both the leaves of the Door when the King Queen any Royal Person or Ambassadours on Audience Days are to pass in or out Note likewise that when any Great Persons as those of the Quality above-named or the Princes of the Bloud the Captains of the Life-Guards or any other Lords of high quality are to pass in or out the Guards that are in the Guard-Chamber as soon as the Sentinel has given them notice of their approach by stamping with his Foot
their Companies and as soon as his Majesty comes the Suisse-Captains put on their Back and Breast-Pieces Note That the Captain either of the French or Suisse Foot-Guards whose turn it is to be upon duty or in his absence one of his Officers it is to take care the Watch-word be received and communicated in convenient time and for that end he is if he be a French Captain to go to the Colonel General of the French Foot-Guards if a Suisser to the Colonel-General of the Suissers to know of him whether he be pleased to go and wait on the King for the Word himself if he Answers Yes he is to wait till he comes back and take it of him if no he is to go and take it of his Majesty Himself and at his return to Communicate it first to the Colonel-General and then to the rest of the Officers concerned to know it When any Souldier of either of these Regiments of Foot-Guards not being upon duty desires to enter into the Kings Palace he is to to leave his Bandiliers or Swivel with the Sentinel at the Gate 4. Of the Musketeers on Horseback of the Kings Guard There are two Companies of Musketeers on Horse-back viz. The first Company called formerly the Great Musketeers which are 250 in number and a second Company formerly belonging to Cardinal Mazarine whose number is not fixed Of the first Company of Musketeers This Company is divided into four Brigades The Officers are a Captain who is the King a Lieutenant-Captain a Deputy-Lieutenant whose pay is 200 l. a Month an Ensign and a Cornet whose Monthly pay is 150 l. to each six Marshals of the Lodgings or chief Quarter-Masters the three first of which have every of them besides the Monthly pay of 75 l. 400 Crowns yearly Pension and the other three only their bare pay One Commissary of the Conduct or Muster-Master four Brigadeers who besides their ordinary pay which to every Man is 20 Crowns a Month or 40 d. a day have every of them a yearly Pension of 500 l. Sixteen Sub-Brigadeers who have the like pay as the former and 300 l. yearly Pension a Major and an Aid-Major two Standard-Bearers who have the same pay and Pension as the Sub-Brigadeers Besides which there are three other Harbingers or Quarter-Masters six Drummers four Hoboys one Almouer or Chaplain one Chyrurgeon one Apothecary one Farrier one Sadler and one Armorer whose pay is but fifteen Crowns a Month or 30 d. a day The pay of the 250 Musketeers is to every Man twenty Crowns a Month or 40 d. a day There are three Treasurers that belong to both the Companies and under them one Pay-Master peculiar to this Company The Musketeers of the first Company have their Hats edged with gold Galoon and those of the second with gold and silver Of the second Company of Musketeers The Officers of this are A Captain who is the King with the like number of other Officers as the first with the like pay bating only the three Fouriers or Under-Quarter-Masters the Sadler and the Armorer which I find not in the List of the Officers of this Company They have likewise a Pay-Master of their own but the Treasurers are the same with those of the former Their present number is above 250. who have the same pay as those of the first Company The Musketeers of the first Company are mounted all on white Horses and those of the second on black ones When the Musketeers do duty or stand Sentinel in any of the passages about the Kings Palace they are allowed their diet in specie that is to say Bread Wine and Portions of Meat Every Night the Lieutenant-Captain the Deputy-Lieutenant or other Commander in chief of the Musketeers for the time being waits on the King to know of his Majesty whether he intends to go abroad the next day that he may give timely notice of it to the other Officers and to the rest of the Company 5. Of the Band of the Hundred Gentlemen Au Bes de Corbin or Gentlemen Pensioners These Gentlemen who are reckoned likewise among the Gentlemen in Ordinary of the Kings Houshold and are commonly called Becs de Corbin or Ravens Beaks from the Falcions so called they carry in their hands were the first of all others instituted and established for the more secure and honourable guard of the Kings Person and because at first and for a long time their number was but 100 though now for several Reigns together they have been augmented to and continued at 200. compleat yet they still return the old name of the hundred Gentlemen Upon days of Ceremony and Solemnity they march two and two before the King with their Swords by their sides and their Falcions called Becs de Corbin or Ravens Beaks in their hands They attended and served in this manner at the Coronation and Wedding of the present King and since at the Ceremony of the Creation and Instalment of Knights in 1661. on which occasion six of them marched two and two before his Majesty and went into the Quire of the Augustins the rest of them marcht on each side of the Knights In any Battel they are always to keep near the Kings Person they are divided into two Companies the old one and the new one who have each of them their Captain Lieutenant and other inferiour Officers CHAP. XXIX Of the other Royal Housholds AFter the Kings Houshold follow the other Royal Housholds which are regulated ad instar or according to the Model of the King 's Both the Queen Mother and the late Queen being dead we shall say nothing of their Housholds save only that their surviving Domesticks and menial Servants as we have already remarked still do and will enjoy their old Priviledges as long as they live Note That the Queen Mother Anne-Marie-Mauritte of Austria of happy Memory died at the Louvre the 20th of January 1666. at the Age of 64 years and the late Queen Marie-Teresa of Austria Daughter to Philip the Fourth of Spain of happy Memory died at Versailles the 30th of July 1683. at the Age of 45 years CHAP. XXX Of the Dauphins Houshold To which belong 1. FIrst or chief Gentleman of his Bed-Chamber and Master of his Wardrobe formerly his Governour who is the Duke of Montausier whose Salary is 4000 l. a Month i. e. 48000 l. per Annum A Sub-Governour sworn by the Governour whose Salary is 7500 l. A Tutour sworn by the King who is the Famous Bishop of Meaux formerly Bishop of Condom his Salary is 12000 l. A Sub-Tutour at 6000 l. Two Gentlemen of the Sleeve who are sworn by the Governour who have each of them a Salary of 6000 l. One Secretary One chief Valet de Chambre or Waiting Man one chief Physician that attends all the year who is Monsieur Petit Doctor Regent of the Faculty of Paris sworn by the Kings Chief Physician In his Patent he is stiled Councellour of State he has for
according to a Declaration and List or Account of them verified in the Court of Aids at Paris Next to the Great or High Chancery of France are those establisht near the Parliaments The Masters of Requests preside in those Chanceries and keep the Seals of them when they are present there The Chancery of Paris is the greatest and antientest of them all It is composed of four Audiencers of four Comptrollers that officiate quarterly and of twelve Referendaries and some other Officers The Function of the Refendaries is to make Report of all Letters to that Master of Requests that keeps the Seal to sign them at the bottom when they find them civil and furnished with all the Clauses required by the Ordinances or to subjoin in the same place the refutata or Confutations of them if they contain any unusual Clauses or be ill digested and drawn up King Francis the First by his Edict of Creation in the Month of February 1522. gave them the Quality or Title of Councellours-Reporters and Referendaries and Henry the Second in the Month of July 1556. granted them Place and Voice in the Presidials in consideration that they were Learned and had been admitted to the practice of the Laws before the Masters of Requests Note That the four Wax-Chafers of the Great Chancery are the same that perform the like Function in the Chancery of Paris The Letters Sealed in the Chancery of Paris are ordinarily executable only within the Limits of the Jurisdiction of the Parliament But yet it has sometimes hapned that when the Chancellour was obliged to follow the King in a long Journey and carry the Great Seal with him that then by vertue of a Declaration from the King to that end the Letters which should have passed the Great Seal were only Sealed in the Chancery of Paris and thence transmitted to and Executed in the other Parliaments of the Kingdom CHAP. XXVII Of the Ecclesiastical Division of France into Archbishopricks and Bishopricks and of its Clergy THE Kings Collates or Presents within his Dominions to 18 Archbishopricks 107 Bishopricks to about 750 Abbies of Men besides those that have been united to other Communities or Benefices and to above 200 Abbies of Nuns and as the Conquests of Majesty increase so the number of Benefices in his nomination must needs proportionably increase too The Archbishopricks and Bishopricks according to their Alphabetical Order are these The 18 Archbishopricks are 1. AIx 2. Alby 3. Ambrun 4. Arles 5. Auch 6. Besançon 7. Bourdeaux 8. Bourges 9. Cambray 10. Lyons 11. Narbon 12. Paris 13. Reims 14. Rouen 15. Sens. 16. Toulouze 17. Tours 18. Vienna The 107 Bishopricks are 1. AGde 2. Agen. 3. Aire 4. Alet 5. Amiens 6. Angiers 7. Angoulême 8. Apt. 9. Arras 10. Auranche 11. Autun 12. Auxerre 13. Bayeux 14. Bayonne 15. Bazas 16. Beauvais 17. Bellay 18. Bethlehem 19. Beziers 20. Boulogne 21. St. Brien 22. Cahors 23. Carcassone 24. Castres 25. Cisteron 26. Chaalons 27. Chartres 28. Clermont 29. Cominges 30. Condom 31. Cornoüaille 32. Conserans 33. Coutance 34. De Dax 35. Digne 36. Dol. 37. Evreux 38. De Helne or Perpignan 39. St. Flour 40. Frejus 41. Gap 42. Geneva 43. Glandeve 44. Grace 45. Grenoble 46. Laitoure 47. Langres 48. Laon. 49. Lavaur 50. Leon. 51. Lescar 52. Limoges 53. Lizieux 54. Lodeve 55. Lombez 56. Luçon 57. Maçon 58. St. Malo 59. Mande 60. Du Mans. 61. Marseilles 62. Meaux 63. Mets. 64. Mire-Poix 65. Montauban 66. Montpellier 67. Nantes 68. Nevers 69. Nice 70. Nimes 71. Noyon 72. Oleron 73. St. Omer 74. Orange 75. Orleans 76. Pamiers 77. St. Papoul 78. St. Paul trois Chateaux or St. Paul 3 Castles 79. Perigueux Perpignan vide Elne 80. Poitiers 81. St. Pol de Lion 82. St. Pons de Tomiers 83. Le Puy 84. Rennes 85. Rieux 86. Riez 87. La Rochelle 88. Rodez 89. Saintes or Yaintes 90. Sars 91. Sarlat 92. Senez 93. Senlis 94. Soissons 95. Strasburg 96. Tarbas 97. Toul 98. Toulon 99. Tournay 100. Treguier 101. Troyes 102. Vabres 103. Valenco Die 104. Vannes 105. Vence 106. Verdun 107. Viviers 108. Vzais 109. Ypres Where Note That Valence and Die is a double Title and the Bishopricks of Geneva and Nice belong to the Duke of Savoy and are only named because part of them lie in the Territories of the King of France Now they follow according to the Order they are commonly placed in 1. And first because Paris is the Capital City of the Kingdom the ordinary Residence of our Kings and of the whole Court the Seat of the first and most August Parliament of the first University of Europe and of so many Famous and Illustrious Men I have thought fit to so many other Prerogatives and Primacies which it has above all other Cities of France to add that of naming it first among the Archbishopricks though it be but of late Creation with its three Suffragans which could not well be separated from it In placing the rest we shall follow the Ancient Division Secundum Notitiam Imperii and the Order of that considerable Book called Gallia Christiana or Description of France since made Christian 1. The Archbishoprick of Paris has three Bishopricks within its Jurisdiction viz. Chartres Meaux and Orleans The present Archbishop is Francis de Harlay Duke and Peer of France Provisour of the Sorbonne c. A Person of noble Extraction Learned Eloquent and very Courteous The Bishop of Chartres is Ferdinand de Neufville Councellour of State in Ordinary c. The present Bishop of Meaux is James Benigne Bossuet late Preceptor or Tutor to the Dauphin Famous for Controversy The Bishop of Orleans is Peter de Cambout de Coislin first Almoner to the King c. There are in this Archbishoprick 39 Abbies of Men besides five united to others and 32 Nunneries 2. The Archbishoprick of Lyons comprehends four Bishopricks viz. Autun Langres Chaalon and Macon The Archbishop is Archbishop and Count and Primate of the Gauls and is at present Camillus de Neufville de Ville-roy Lieutenant Governour for the King in the Country of Lyons c. The Cathedral of that City is very considerable the Canons of it being stiled Counts of Lyons and being obliged for their admission to make proof that they are noble by five Generations both on their Fathers and Mothers side The Bishop of Autun who is by his Dignity perpetual President of he States of Burgundy and Administrator of both the Spiritualties and Temporalties of the Archishoprick of Lyons when the See is vacant c. is Gabriel de Roquette c. The Bishop of Langres who is Bishop and Duke of Langres and one of the ancient Peers of France is at present Lewis Armand de Simianes de Gordes c. The Bishop of Châlons on Saone being both Bishop and Count is Henry Felix de Tassy c. The Bishop of Mâcon is named Michael Cassagnet de Tilladet c. In this Archbishoprick
d' Obeillo In this Archbishoprick there are three Convents of Men and four Nunneries 11. The Archbishoprick of Bourges has under it five Bishopricks The present Archbishop who is stiled Patriarch and Primate of the Aquitains is Michael Phelippeaux de la Vrilliere the other Bishops are 1. The Bishop of Clermont who is N ...... 2. The Bishop of Limoges Lewis d' Vrfé 3. The Bishop of Puy and Count of Velay who is an immediate Suffragan to the See of Rome Armand de Bethune 4. The Bishop and Count of Tulles Humbert Ancelin 5. The Bishop of St. Flour Jerome de la Mothe Houdancourt There are in this Archbishoprick 66 Convents of Men comprehending some united and 17 Nunneries 12. The Archbishoprick of Alby contains five Bishopricks The Archbishop is lately dead This Archbishoprick was Erected in 1678. The other Bishops are 1. The Bishop and Count of Rodes Paul-Philip de Lezay de Lusignan 2. The Bishop of Castres Augustin de Maupeou 3. The Bishop of Cahors who is likewise Count and Baron of the same Henry-William de Jay 4. The Bishop and Count of Vabres Lewis de Baradat 5. The Bishop of Mande and Count of Givaudan Francis-Placidus de Baudry de Piencourt In this Archbishoprick there are sixteen Convents of Men and eight Nunneries 13. The Archbishoprick of Bourdeaux has under it nine Bishopricks The present Archbishop who is likewise Primate of Aquitain is Lewis de Bourlemont d' Anglures The other Bishops are 1. The Bishop and Count of Agen Julius Mascaron Preacher in Ordinary to the King 2. The Bishop of Angoulême Francis de Perigard 3. The Bishop of Saintes William de Plessis de Geté de la Brunetiere 4. The Bishop of Poitiers Armand de Quinçay 5. The Bishop of Perigueux William le Boux Preacher in Ordinary to the King 6. The Bishop of Condom James de Matignon 7. The Bishop of Rochelle Henry de Laval Bois-Dauphin de Sablé 8. The Bishop and Baron of Luçon Henry de Barillon 9. The Bishop of Sarlat Francis de Salagnac de la Mothe-Fenelon In this Archbishoprick there are 95 Convents of Men and eight Nunneries 14. The Archbishoprick of Auch comprehends ten Bishopricks The present Archbishop is Anne-Tristan de la Baume du Suze The other Bishops are 1. The Bishop of Dax Leon de la Lâne 2. The Bishop of Laitoure Hugh de Bar. 3. The Bishop of Cominges Lewis de Rechignevoisin de Guron 4. The Bishop of Couserans Gabriel de St. Estêve 5. The Bishop and Lord of Aire Armand Bazon de Bezons 6. The Bishop of Bazas James Joseph de Gourgues 7. The Bishop of Tarbes Francis de Poudeux 8. The Bishop and Lord of Oleron Charles de Sallettes 9. The Bishop of Lescar Dominick Desclaux de Mesplées this Prelate is President of the States of Bearn first Councellour in the Parliament of Navarre and first Baron of Bearn 10. The Bishop of Bayonne Gaspar de la Roque Priellé In this Archbishoprick there are 32 Convents of Religious Men and four Nunneries 16. The Archbishoprick of Narbon has under it nine Bishopricks The present Archbishop is Peter de Bonzi Cardinal of that Name The Archbishops of this Sec. are Primates and Presidents by their Dignity of the States of Languedoc The other Bishops are 1. The Bishop of Bezieres John-Armand Rotondi de Biscaras 2. The Bishop and Count of Agde Lewis Foucquet 3. The Bishop of Carcassone Lewis-Joseph Adhémar de Monteil de Grignan 4. The Bishop of Nîmes John Seguier la Verriere 5. The Bishop of Montpelier and Count de Melguel and Mont-serrant Charles de Pradel 6. The Bishop of Lodeve and Count of Mont-brun Charles Antony de la Garde de Chambona 7. The Bishop of Vsais Michael Poneet de la Riviere 8. The Bishop of St. Pons de Tomitrs Peter-John-Francis de Persin de Mont-Gaillard 9. The Bishop and Count of Alet Victor Meliand In this Archbishoprick there are 24 Convents of Men and seven Nunneries 17. The Archbishoprick of Toulouze contains seven Bishopricks The present Archbishop is Joseph de Montpezat de Carbon The other Bishops are 1. The Bishop of Pamiers Francis de Camps 2. The Bishop of Montauban John Baptist Michael Colbert de Villacerf 3. The Bishop of Mire-Poix Peter de la Broüe The Bishop of Lavaur whose name is Esprit or Spirit Flechier Almoner in Ordinary to the Dauphiness 5. The Bishop of Rieux Antony-Francis de Berrier Provost of St. Stevens of Toulouze 6. The Bishop of Lombes named Don Côme Roger formerly General of the Feuillantines 7. The Bishop of Papoul Francis de Barthelmy de Gramont In this Archbishoprick there are fourteen Convents of Men and but one Nunnery which was ruined by the Civil Wars 18. The Archbishoprick of Aix comprehends five Bishopricks The present Archbishop is Charles le Goulx de la Berchere The other Bishops are 1. The Bishop and Prince of Apt John de Gaillard 2. The Bishop of Riés N ...... de Marais 3. The Bishop of Frejus Luke D' aquin 4. The Bishop and Count of Gap Charles Benigne Hervé 5. The Bishop of Cisteron Lewis de Thomassin In this Archibishoprick there are five Convents of Men and three Nunneries There was another Nunnery but it is now demolished 19. The Archbishoprick of Ambrun contains six Bishopricks The present Archbishop who is stiled Prince of the same is Charles Brulart de Genlis The other Bishops are 1. The Bishop of Digne Francis le Tellier 2. The Bishop of Grace John Baltasar de Cabanus de Viens 3. The Bishop of Vence ...... 4. The Bishop of Glandéve Francis Verjus 5. The Bishop of Senés Lewis-Anne Aubert de Villeserin Commander of the Order of St. Michael 6. The Bishop of Nice under the Duke of Savoy N ..... Moret who is also stiled Count de Drap Besides these There are in Spain Germany and America 1. The Bishoprick of Helne in Rousillon within the Archbishoprick of Terragona in Spain now transferred to Perpignan The present Bishop is Lewis Habert de Montmort Grand Inquisitour for the King in those parts In this Bishoprick there are six Convents and Abbies 2. The Bishoprick of Strasburg whose present Bishop and Prince is William Egon of Furstemberg The Abby of Munster in the Gregorian-Vally in the Diocese of Basil is likewise in the French Territories 3. Kebec being the Capital Town of New France in the West-Indies was Erected into a Bishoprick in 1674. by Pope Clement the Tenth and the Abbies of Maubec and of l' Etreé in France were united to it for its better support The Bishop of it is the Abbot of Chevrieres of St. Valier Other French Bishops in partibus Infidelium are 1. The Bishop of Heliopolis Francis Pallu Vicar and Missionary Apostolick and Administrator-General of China who with the Abbot de Lyonne the younger and eight other Ecclesiastical Persons Embarked at Brest the 25th of March 1681. for Surat intending thence to go to the Kingdoms of China Tunquin Siam
there are 1. A Governour in Chief The Count de Pas de Feuquieres 2. A Lieutenant M. de Pimodan 4. In the Country of Verdun are 1. The Governour in Chief The Count de Vaubecourt Town and Cittadel of Verdun The Marquiss de Feuquieres Governour in Chief 2. In the Town M. des Crochets Lieutenant In the Cittadel M. de la Pornerie Lieutenant 16. In the Government of Lorrain and the Country of Bar there are 1. A Governour in Chief ............ 2. Nancy The Marquiss de Joyeuse Governour 3. Longvy M. de Matthieu de Castelas Governour 4. Saar-Loüis M. de Choisy Governour The Chevalier Perrin Lieutenant 5. Castle of Traerback near Saar-Louis M. de Bar Commander In Luxemburg and its Dependances which are placed under this Government are 1. Luxemburg taken in 1684. The Marquiss de Lambert Governour 2. Castle of Rodenac near Thionville M. de la Brugêre Commander 3. Thionville M. d' Espagne Governour M. d' Argelé Lieutenant 4. Montmidy The Marquiss de Vandy Governour M. de Haulles Lieutenant 17. In the Government of the County of Rousillon and other Acquisitions towards Spain are 1. A Governour in Chief The Duke de Noailles 2. A Lieutenant-General The Count de Chazeron The Governours of the Frontier Places are 1. Of the Town and Cittadel of Perpignan The Duke de Noailles Governour In the Town M. de la Robertiere Lieutenant In the Cittadel M. de la Caussade Lieutenant 2. Colioure The Chevalier d' Aubeterre Governour M. de Marsolier Lieutenant 3. Salces M. de St. Abre Governour M. de Manse Lieutenant 4. Bellegarde M. du Breuil Commander M. Pitoux Lieutenant 5. Mont-Louis or Mount Lewis Vrban de Fortia Governour M. de Long-Pré Lieutenant Ville-Franche M. Fisicat Governour M. Perlan de Sagne Lieutenant 6. Of the Fort and Village of the Baths or Les Bains and the Town of Arles M. de Boirre-Cloux Commander 7. Pratz de Moliou M. de la Caze Commander There is besides in Piedmont the Province Town and Cittadel of Pignerol and Forts of St. Brigitte and of Perouse with the Vallies Countries and Dependances of it of which 1. The Governour General is The Marquiss de Herleville The Lieutenant M. de Vercantiere In the Cittadel M. de la Mothe de la Myre-Rissan 2. Cazal the Capital of which is Montferrat Under the Duke of Mantua Don Pedro de Gonzaga The Governour is The Dukes Natural Uncle The Governour of the Cittadel and French Troops is M. de Catinat The Lieutenant M. de L' Isle The Commissary of War Policy c. M. de Chassenay 3. Of Morgues or Monaco Under the Prince who is Governour and Captain of it the Kings Lieutenant is M. de la Ronsiere The Ordinary General and Provincial-Commissary for the War and for the Conduct and Mustering of the Troops in Garrison at Pignerol and in all the aforesaid Places and Dependances is the aforesaid M. de Chassenay de Luynes In America 1. The Governour or Commander of New France is The Marquiss of Nonville 2. Of the Islands The Count de Blênac Towns that remain to the King by the Pyrenean Treaty made in 1659. Arras Hesdin Bapaume Bethune Lilers Lens St. Paul Terouane Pas Graveline Fort of St. Philip Sluys and Hannuin Bourburg St. Venant Landrecy Le Quesnoy and all their Bayliwicks Marienburg and Philip-ville in Exchange of La Bassée and St. Vinox which latter is since too in the French Possession Avenne Thionville Montmidy and Damvilliers The Provostships of Ivy of Chavancy of Marville Rocroy le Câtelet and Limchamp The County of Rousillon and that of Conflans and that part of the County of Cerdana on this side the Pyreneans Upper and Lower Alsatia Suntgau the County of Ferrette Brisac and its Dependencies The King after he had caused the Fortifications of Nancy to be demolished had by a Treaty of Peace restored the late Duke of Lorrain to the Possession of the Dutchy of Lorrain and to those Towns Places and Countries that he formerly possest depending of the three Bishopricks of Mets Toul and Verdun excepting Moienvie the whole Dutchy of Bar the County of Clermont the Places of Stenay Dun and Jamets and of the three Bishopricks And since that the said late Duke last Deceased Resigned to the King of France his Propriety and Soveraignty of the Dutchies of Lorrain and Bar which Donation was verified in the Parliament in the Month of February 1662. By the Treaty of Peace at Aix la Chapelle the 2d of May 1668. It is stipulated That the M. C. King shall retain remain seised of and injoy effectively all the Places Forts Parts Towns and Posts that his Arms have occupied or Fortified during the Campaign of the preceding year viz. The Fortress of Charleroy the Towns of Binch and Aethe the Places of Doway including the Fort of Scarp Tournay Oudenarde L'Isle Armentiêres Courtray Bergues and Furnes and of the whole extent of their Bayliwicks Chatellanies or Castellanies Territories Governments Provostships Appurtenances Dependencies and Annexions by what name soever they be called with the same rights of Soveraignty Propriety Rights of Regality Patronage Guardianship Jurisdiction Nomination Prerogatives and Preeminences over the Bishopricks Cathedral Churches and other Abbies Priories Dignities Cures and other Benefices within the Extent of those Countries The Fortifications of several places in which there is now no Governour have been demolished as those of Chateau-Renaut and Linchamp Donchery Damvilliers Jamets Râ—â— Corbie Furnes Armentieres Binch Sirk Moienvie Mouzon Grey Huy St. Venant c. By the Treaty of Peace concluded between France and Spain at Nimmeguen the 17th of September 1678. The Most Christian King is to injoy effectively the whole County of Burgundy commonly called the Franche Comté and the Towns Places and Countries thereon depending including therein the Town of Besancon and its District or Precinct as also the Towns of Valenciennes and its Dependances Bouchain and its Dependances Cambray and Cambresis or the Country of Cambray Aire St. Omer and their Dependances Ypres and its Castellany Warwick and Warneton on the Lys Poperinghen Bailleul and Cassel with their Dependancies Bavay and Maubenge with their Dependancies besides the Town of Dinant and in case the King of Spain be not able to obtain of the Bishop and Chapter of Liege the Cession of Dinant with the consent of the Emperour and Empire with a year to be reckoned from the day of the date of the Ratification of the Treaty of Peace between the Emperour and the Most Christian King the King of Spain obliges himself and promises to yield the Town of Charlemont to the King of France And some Villages there were to be Exchanged By the Treaty of Peace concluded at Nimmeguen the 5th of February 1679. the Town and Cittadel of Friburg in Brisgaw with the three Villages Lehn Metthausen and Kirchzart and their Banlieus or Liberties is to remain to the King of France And the passage from Brisac to Friburg is to
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-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