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
the Kings Order and a fourth holds up the other end of the Coat of Arms And the chief Querry or in his absence the eldest Querry carries the Helmet or Head-piece adorned with a Crest-Royal The five Querries in Waiting that Quarter march a breast all in Mourning next after the Herse or Waggon of Arms which is drawn with Horses covered with Black-Velvet set with Crosses of White-Satin having about them several Pages in Mourning There are in the little Stable almost the same kind and the same number of Officers as in the great one viz. Three Querries in Ordinary where the Court is and a fourth at Paris The Pages there at present are twenty five besides two Hunting Pages All the Pages the King has in his Chamber Stables or elsewhere serve in the Armies as Aides de Camp under His Majesties own Aides de Camp The Pages of the little Stable when it is dark always carry before the King a white Wax-Flambo and when he goes a Hunting they help the Arquebuse or Arms-Carrier to carry his Majesties Fowling-pieces or Fusils One Governour of the Pages One Tutor of the Pages who has a Salary of 225 l. and an annual gratuity of 200 l. and his Lodging and Diet at the little Stable a Horse at command and a Servant in a Livery to wait on him One Almoner or Chaplain of the little Stable who has a Salary of 400 l. and his Lodging and Diet with a Horse and a Servant at the little Stable Four chief Valets or Waiting-men of the Pages waiting Quarterly who have every one 75 l. Wages and 50 l. gratuity One Cash-Keeper or Pay-Master who has a Salary of 300 l. and an annual gratuity of 1200 l. besides his Diet Lodging and Horse in the said little Stable One Physician four Chyrurgions one Apothecary one Vaulting-Master two Dancing-Masters two Fencing-Masters One Ambling-Master one Porte-Gaban or Felt-Cloke Carrier They have also other Masters to teach them all other necessary Exercises as for the Mathematicks Designing Blazoning and Writing and handling the Pike and Musket c. Four Harbingers Quarterly Waiters who have every one of them a Salary of 165 l. and a gratuity of 100 l. with their Diet Lodging and each of them a Horse One Usher in Ordinary of the Kitchin Two Servants or Grooms of the Pages in Ordinary Seventeen Footmen in Ordinary of the little Stable which are only so by Commission and not as standing Officers Four working Farriers quarterly Waiters twelve Masters or Head-Grooms Quarterly Waiters by six every other Quarter and 50 Aids or Helpers Several Chair-men or Sedan-men The King has at present twenty five gallant Sets of Horses consisting of ten Horses apiece and as many Master-Coachmen or Drivers of Coaches and Calcehes with their Postillions and Servants To know what Livery Officers belong to the Great and what to the little Stable as well Pages as Foot-men and others you must take notice which way their Coat-Pockets are made for the Officers of the Great-Stables Pockets are slit Cross-ways their Liveries and the others long-ways downward CHAP. XVIII Of the Chief-Surveyor or Super-Intendant of the Royal Buildings and of the Architects and other Officers under him and of the Keepers of the Kings Houses Parks and Forests THE Super-Intendant is stiled Super-Intendent and General Orderer of the Buildings of the Royal Houses and of his Majesties Gardens and Tapstries and of the Arts and Manufactures of France of which last he is the Great Monopolizer under the King and is at present Monsieur Louvois Secretary of State He is sworn at the Chamber of Accounts in which he has both Voice and Place Monsieur Louvois when he was sworn took his place there above the Dean of the Masters of the Accounts There are three other Intendents or Surveyors of the Building that serve yearly every one his year at 6000 l. Salary Three Comptrollers of the Buildings who have each of them a Salary of 5500 l. One Chief Architect who has a Salary of 6000 l. and a gratuity of 4000 l. Two Treasurers Of the Royal Houses and first of the Louvre This Palace was called the Louvre that is to say as some will have it L'oeeuvre that is The Work by way of Excellence as if it were a Master-piece of Architecture and from that the French call all their Kings Palaces and those of other Kings in other Countries Louvres in ordinary Speech The old Palace of the Louvre at Paris was begun by the Predecessors of Philip Augustus and was finished in his Reign in the year 1214. of which Building there still remained in the time of Francis the First a Tower called the Iron Tower which was in the middle of the Court which the said King caused to be demolished because it darkened the Palace In the year 1364. Charles the Fifth rebuilt and enlarged that Palace of which the Porches are still remaining About the year 1545 Francis the First begun to build the Great Hall of the Louvre which was finished by Henry the Second in 1548 Charles the Ninth and Henry the Third continued this Building but Henry the Great built those Magnificent and long Galleries that go from the Louvre to the Tuilleries by the Water-side and the Gallery of the Painters which was burnt down by a Fire that hapned on the 6th of February 1661. which likewise did some dammage to the other Galleries but all has been since repaired Queen Catharine of Medicis built the Apartment that Fronts the Tuilleries in 1564. Lewis the Thirteenth built the other side of the old Court of the Louvre and the Continuation of it from the Great Dome in the middle under which the Councel of Finances and of the Farms is held Lewis the Great at present happily reigning has built on both sides of the old Louvre what remained unfinished He likewise has built a Dome at the Corner of his Chamber and of the Gallery of the Painters which is as we have said at present rebuilt and larger than it was before Besides he has rebuilt the whole Palace of the Tuilleries and the Hall of the Machines or Engines And he has likewise caused much to be done in the inclosure of the first Court of the Louvre at the Portal and in several other places There are at the Palace of the Louvre as at all other Royal Houses A Captain of the Palace who has a Salary of 1200 l. upon the Revenues of Paris A Lieutenant at 400 l. Salary out of the same Revenues A Keeper of the Palace of the Louvre who is Porter of the first and second Gates who has a Salary of 120 l. paid out of the Crown-Revenues of Paris A Keeper of the Tennis-Court One Gardiner Four Morte-Paies or Standing Guards that wear the Kings Livery who have every one a Salary of 90 l. upon the general Revenue of Paris several Porters and a Clock-Keeper that have Wages and Diet and enjoy the usual Priviledges of the Kings menial Servants A
Spain Marie-Lewise of Orleans the Present Queen Consort of Spain 2. Marie-Angelique-Henriette of Lorain who was Married the 7th of February 1671. to the Duke of Cadaval of the House of Braganza in Portugal where she died the 7th of June 1674. 3. N .... Lorain Born in 1657. Abbess of Montmartre 4. N .... Lorain Abbot of Harcourt Born in 1661. III. Francis-Marie of Lorain Prince of l' Isle-bone c. called by some Julius-Augustus-Lewis was Born in 1624. and Married to his first Wife on the 8th of September 1658. Christine d' Etrées and to his second on the 7th of October 1660. Anne of Lorain Legitimated Daughter of the aforesaid late Charles Duke of Lorain and Beatrix of Cusance Princess of Sante-Croix who in the year 1684. had the honour to Conduct into Savoy her Royal Highness Anne of Orleans Dutchess of Savoy Their Children are 1. Charles of Lorain Prince of Comercy Born the 11th of July 1661. 2. Madamoiselle de l' Isle-bone Beatrix de Lorain Born in June 1662. 3. The Princess of Commercy Teresa of Lorain Born in May 1663. 4. N .... Lorain she was Born the 4th of April 1664. 5. N .... Lorain Born in 1672. Of the fifth Branch which is of Armagnac The late Henry of Lorain Brother to the late Duke of Elbeuf Count of Harcourt who died the 25th of July 1666. Married the Daughter of the Baron of Pont-Chateau named Margaret-Philippa de Cambout Kinswoman to the late Cardinal of Richelieu who was Widow of the late Lord Antony de Lage Duke of Puylorent and died in 1675. by whom he had five Children viz. I. Lewis of Lorain Count of Armagnac of Charny and Brione Vicount of Marsan c. Great Seneschal of Burgundy in the Bailywick of Dijon c. Grand Master of the Horse of France was Born in 1641. and on the 7th of October 1660. Married Catherine of Neuville Youngest Daughter of the late Marshal Duke of Villeroy by whom he has 1. Henry of Lorain Count of Brione who was Born on the 15th of November 1661. who has the reversion of his Fathers Place of Great Master of the Horse which was confirmed to him the 25th of November 1677. 2. Margaret of Lorain called Madamoiselle d' Armagnac who was Born the 17th of November 1662. and Maried on the 25th of July to Don Nunno Alvarez Peyrera de Mello Duke of Cadaval Grandee of Portugal Grand Master of the Houshold to the Queen of Portugal who had buried his first Wife the Princess of Harcourt 3. Francis-Armand Born the 17 of February 1665. called the Chevalier D' Armagnac Abbot of Chateliers 4. Camillus of Lorain Born the 26th of October 1666. called Prince Camillus He gain'd the Prize the first day of the Carousel held at Versailles at running at Heads with the Lance Dart and Sword the 4th of June 1685. II. Philip of Lorain called the Chevalier de Lorain Marshal of the Kings Camps and Armies was Born in 1643. He is Abbot of St. John of the Vines of Soissons III. Alphonso-Lewis of Lorain called the Chevalier de Harcourt was Born in 1644. He is General of the Gallies of the Knights of Malta and Abbot of Royaument Primate of Lorain and Commander of Noisy-le-sec IV. Raymond Beranger of Lorain called the Abbot of Harcourt is a Licenciate in Divinity of the Colledge of Navarre and was Born the 4th of January 1647. He has several Abbeys V. Charles of Lorain called the Count of Marsan was Born in 1648. He won the Prize at the running at the Ring at St. Germains in the Month of February 1680. In 1682. he Maried Madamoiselle d'Albret Of the House of Savoy setled in France The late Count of Soissons Eugenius-Maurice of Savoy was Cousin-German to Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy His Elder Brother that is in Savoy is named Prince Emanuel-Philibert-Amedeus of Savoy Prince of Carignan who was Born the 22d of August 1631. His Sister the Princess Lewise-Christine of Savoy on the 15th of May 1653. was Maried to Ferdinand-Maximilian Marquess of Baden-Hochberg Prince of the Empire he was Born the 23d of September 1625. and died in 1669. By whom she had Lewis-William Prince of Baden who was Born at Paris the 8th of April 1655. They were Children of the late Prince of Carignan who was called Prince Thomas Son of Charles-Emanuel Duke of Savoy and of the Daughter of Philip the Second King of Spain he was Grand Master of the Kings Houshold when he died at Turin the 22th of January 1656. of a Feaver he got at the Siege of Paris where he Commanded the French Army He Maried in the year 1624. Marie of Bourbon-Soissons called the Princess of Carignan who was Born the 3d of May 1606. The late Count of Soissons Colonel General of the Suissers and Grisons and Governour of Champagne and Brie was Born the 3d of May 1633. and on the 21th of February 1657. Married a Niece of the late Cardinal Mazarine named Olimpia Mancini who was formerly Chief of the Queens Council and Super-Intendant of her Houshold He died the 7th of June 1671. and left these Children following viz. 1. Lewis-Thomas of Savoy Count of Soissons Duke of Carignan Colonel of the Regiment of Soissons who was Born the 16th of December 1658. He has Married Madamoiselle de Beauvais 2. Philip of Savoy Knight of St. John of Jerusalem Abbot of St. Peter of Corbie c. 3. Francis-Eugenius of Savoy Chevalier de Carignan called the Abbot of Savoy 4. Madamoiselle de Soissons named Marie-Joan-Baptiste Born the first of January 1665. 5. Madamoiselle de Carignan Born the 22d of November 1667. named Lewise-Philibert There were still besides of the House of Savoy the two late Dukes of Nemours descended from Philip of Savoy Count of Geneva to whom King Francis the first gave the Dutchy of Nemours he was Uncle to the Grandfather of the present Duke of Savoy and Brother to Emanuel-Philibert and Charles-Emanuel Dukes of Savoy The first of these two Dukes of Nemours last deceased was named Charles-Amedeus of Savoy Duke of Nemours and of Aumale Peer of France Count of Geneva and of Gisors c. He was a very Comely Prince and bred up to all the Exercises becoming his Birth He was in many Military Expeditions and principally at the taking of Mardike and Dunkirk where he gave signal proofs of his Valour and received a dangerous Wound He died at Paris behind the Hôtel of Vendome the 30th of July 1652. at the Age of 27 years and a half leaving behind him two Daughters by Isabelle of Vendome whom he Married at the Louvre the 3d of July 1643. She died the 19th of May 1664. These Daughters were 1. Marie-Joan-Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours Born the 12th of April 1644. She was Married on the 11th of May 1665. to Charles-Emanuel Duke of Savoy She is at present Dutchess Dowager of Savoy after having for many years been Regent of those Territories with much applause 2. Marie-Francis-Elizabeth of
Serdeau or Water-Server who is allowed for Salt Knives Cups Glasses and other things for the last Course together with his Wages 600 l. And his Servant under him is allowed 50 l. more for a Suit of Cloaths One Chief or Head of the Wood-Yard or Fuel-Office and one Aid or Helper The Officers of the Fuel-Office or Wood-Yard are allowed for Straw every Month 6 l. each which is 144 l. a year and for Salt Pepper Herbs and other things necessary for dressing their Diet because his Highness has no common Kitchin 45 l. a quarter And the Aid of the Fueller or chief of the Wood-Yard having no standing Wages assigned him in the Establishment is allowed in lieu thereof 50 l. a quarter and the Groom of the Wood-Yard has 50 l. yearly for a Suit of Cloaths One Linnen-Draper and Landrer for Table-Linnen and other Linnen belonging to the said Offices that waits all the year and a Servant under him who is allowed 50 l. a year for Cloaths Officers that come out of the Kings Chamber and Wardrobe Two Ushers of the Chamber four Valets de Chambre or Waiting-men of the Chamber one Cloak Carrier one Barber in Ordinary and one other every four Months from among the Kings They have every one 466 l. 13 d. 4 Deniers standing Wages and 200 l. gratuity but their Board-Wages are different he that waits the four first Months which are reckoned from October has 369 l. the second 360 l. and the third and last 366 l. Board-Wages One Upholster one Chief Valet or Yeoman of the Wardrobe and two other Valets or Yeomen of the Wardrobe Officers of Health One Chyrurgeon who has 600 l. Wages or gratuity and 5 l. a day for his Diet which is in all 455 l. a quarter One Apothecary who has likewise 5 l. a day and an Aid or Helper whom he is to Diet. Officers under the Kings Great Master of the Horse One of the Kings Chief Querries and two of his Querries in Ordinary of the Great Stable and some time ago the four Eldest Pages of the Kings Great Stables used to attend at the Dauphins Stable and Exercise the Horses Officers of the Kings Guards attending the Dauphin are Either a Lieutenant or an Ensign of the Life-Guards by turns who are allowed half a Pistol a day or 450 l. a quarter for their Diet. One Exempt one Brigadeer one Sub-Brigadeer Fifty French Life-Guard-Men and six Suissers The Clerks of the Watch too both of the French Life-Guards and of the hundred Suissers are allowed for furnishing Straw and Straw-Beds and for Carriage of things and persons for the Dauphins Service 50 l. a quarter i. e. 200 l. a year Four Guards of the Gate one Exempt and four or six Guards of the Provostship when his Highness is not with the King Besides these Guards drawn out of the Kings the Dauphin has One Company of Gensdarmes or Men at Arms and one Company of Light-Horse of whom he is Captain who have their Lieutenant-Captains their Deputy-Lieutenants and other inferiour respective Officers Both these Companies are called Dauphins the Company of Men at Arms being called the Dauphin-Men at Arms and that of the Light-Horse the Dauphin Light-Horse He has likewise a Regiment of Horse a Regiment of Foot and a Regiment of Dragoons CHAP. XXXI Of the Dauphinesses Houshold Her Ecclesiastical Officers are A Chief Almoner who is the Bishop of Meaux Wages 200 l. An Almoner in Ordinary 180 l. Four other Almoners 150 l. each A Confessour in Ordinary 180 l. His Brother or Companion 90 l. One Chaplain in Ordinary 120 l. Four other Chaplains at 120 l. each Four Clerks of the Chappel 100 l each A Confessour for the Houshold 120 l. Four Grooms of the Chappel 100 l. each The Ladies and other Female Officers of her Bed-Chamber are A Lady of Honour who is the Dutchess of Arpajon of the Family of Harcourt whose Salary is 1200 l. Two Tiring Ladies who are the Marshal of Rocheforts Lady and the Famous Marchioness of Maintenon who have 600 l each The Mother or Governess of the Maids 600 l. who is the Marchioness of Montchevreuil Two Under Governesses who have each of them 400 l. standing Wages and a gratuity or Pension of 1000 l. The Lady of Honour of the Dauphiness has the priviledge to put in one of her Daughters as Chief Maid of Honour to her Highnesses who is not subject to the Governess or Sub-Governess of the other Maids of Honour and takes Place above the rest in the Coach and at all Ceremonies and Solemnities Her Highnesses Chevaliers or Knight of Honours Daughter may likewise place her self among her Maids of Honour especially at Great Ceremonies And accordingly we find that the Princess of Harcourt Daughter to the Count de Brancas Knight of Honour to the Queen-Mother often assisted with her said Majesties other Maids of Honour at the Ceremony performed by her Majesty of washing the poor Peoples Feet and serving them on Maundy Thursdays Six Maids of Honour One Chief Waiting Gentle-Woman at 300 l. Salary eleven other Waiting Gentlewomen at 120 l. each and one Landress of the Body Other Officers of her Chamber of the Male Sex are A Knight of Honour or Chief Gentleman Usher whose Salary is 1200 l. of whom we shall speak further under the Article of her Highnesses Stables He that at present enjoys this place is the Marquiss d'Angeau one of the Gentlemen of Honour to the Dauphin One Usher in Ordinary of the Chamber whose Salary is 300 l. Four Ushers quarterly Waiters at 180 l. each Two Ushers of the Cabinet or Closet half yearly Waiters 150 l. each Two Ushers of the Anti-Chamber who have the same Salary One Chief Valet de Chambre at 300 l. One Valet or Yeoman of the Chamber in Ordinary 200 l. Sixteen other Valets or Yeomen of the Chamber quarterly Waiters at 180 l. each One Porte-Manteau or Glove-Carrier in Ordinary 180 l. Three Grooms in Ordinary of the Chamber and of the Closet at 100 l. each The Officers of the Wardrobe are A Master of the Wardrobe at 300 l. Salary A Yeoman of the Wardrobe in Ordinary and three other Yeomen of the Wardrobe who have each 150 l. Salary one Womans Taylor four Upholsters one Keeper of the Moveables or Furniture 180 l. one Player on the Virginals 400 l. one Singing Master one dancing-Dancing-Master at 400 l. Salary each One Clock-Maker and Clock-Keeper in Ordinary 300 l one Shoomaker 110 l two Joyners at 60 l. each one Chair-man for business 300 l. two Porters or Burden-Carriers of the Chamber at 60 l. each one Groom or Servant in Ordinary to rub the Floors within the Rails in her Highnesses Apartments Her Officers of Health are One Chief Physician who has 600 l. standing Wages and 6000 l. Pension His name is Monsieur Moreau Doctor of Physick of the faculty of Paris and one other Physician for the Houshold at 300 l. One Chief Chyrurgeon or Chyrurgeon of the Body
which are allowed 365 l. apiece Wages and their Diet and 120 l. towards Cloaths and other little things under the Chief Querry or Master of the Horse there are One Querry in Ordinary at 600 l. and four Querries quarterly Waiters at 400 l. yearly Salary one Querry Cavalcadour or Rider who Commands in the Stable in the absence of the Chief Master of the Horse and that tenders his hand to the Dauphiness in the absence of the Querry in Ordinary and of the other Querries quarterly Waiters He has 400 l. standing Wages 800 l. Board-Wages 200 l. for a Servant and 600 l. in lieu of Fees at the admission of Pages and is allowed a Horse out of her Highnesses Stables every time he has a mind to ride out One Cash-Keeper or Pay-Master of the Stable who has 90 l. standing Wages and 800 l. Board-Wages Four Manteau-Carriers waiting quarterly who have each 150 l. yearly Wages 91 l. 5 d. for their Diet during their Quarters waiting and 60 l. gratuity and while they are in waiting they have Horses allowed them out of the Stable Four Harbingers quarterly Waiters who have 150 l. standing Wages and 20 d. a day or 91 l. 5 d. during their quarters waiting for their Diet and 60 l. gratuity and in their Waiting time they are allowed Horses out of the Stable when her Highness goes abroad into the Country One Head Groom in Ordinary who has 600 l. for his Wages and Diet and 84 l. more in lesser Fees Four other Head-Grooms who have each 365 l. for Wages and Diet a Livery-Coat once in two years and 86 l. more in other little Fees and Allowances Under them there are several other helping Grooms Four Farriers at 90 l. each they serve quarterly and during their quarters service are allowed besides 450 l. for Shoing and Physicking the Horses and 16 d. a day for a Journey-Man or Servant and both they and their Servants wear her Highnesses Livery and are allowed Horses out of her Stable when her Highness Travels One Keeper of the Moveables and of the Keys of the Wardrobe of the Stables who has 240 l. standing Wages and 365 l. Board-Wages and is lodged at the Stables and is allowed a Horse when her Highness Travels Other Officers belonging to the Stables are Two Chyrurgeons serving by the half year at 200 l. One Upholster who is to furnish 71 Beds at 3 d. a Bed who holds his place only as long as no Body shall offer to do it cheaper Four Taylors by Commission who are paid at a certain rate for all the Cloaths they make for the menial Servants of the Stable and six other Tradesmen who are allowed only 110 l. apiece bare Wages without any further allowance for their work Of her Highnesses Coaches Chairs or Sedans and Litters and the necessary Servants belonging to them The Dauphiness had from the beginning two Coaches called the Coaches of the Body and since the Queens Death the King has added a third To the first belong two Coachmen and one Postilion and to the two others one Coachman and one Postilion to each The two Coachmen belonging to the first serve quarterly every other quarterly Both the Coachmen and Postilions of her Highnesses Body and those of her other Coaches have all the same standing Wages Profits and Appointments that is to say the Coachmen have 365 l. each standing Wages a Suit of Cloaths every year and a great Coat or Cloak every two years and 125 l. in other little Fees and Profits and the Postilions the same standing Wages the same allowance of Cloaths and 82 l. besides in other little Fees and Appointments Her Highness has one Chair or Sedan to which belong four Chair or Sedan-Men who have every of them 365 l. standing Wages a Suit of Cloaths every year and a Coat or Cloak every two years 50 l. in other little Fees and 60 l. gratuity by an Order for that purpose Two Litters of the Body and another to each of which belong two Muleteers who have the same Wages and Appointments the one as the other viz. 365 l. standing Wages a Suit of Cloaths every year and a great Coat or Cloak every two years and 66 l. in other small Fees and Appointments Her Highness has besides one Coach called the Querries Coach one called the waiting Gentle womens Coach one called the Maids of Honours Coach one called the Maids of Honours Womens Coach and three other Coaches who have each of them a Coachman and Postilion with the same Wages and Appointments as abovesaid To the Waiting Gentle-Women belong four Foot-men who have every of them 72 l. standing Wages a Doublet and Trunk-Breeches every year and a Coat or Cloak every two years and 50 l. in other little Fees and Allowances To the Maids of Honour belong likewise two Footmen who have the same Wages and other profits as her Highnesses own Footmen Of her Highnesses Pages and Footmen There is one Governour of the Pages who has 200 l. standing Wages 200 l. Gratuity and 600 l. in lieu of the ancient Fees allowed at the admission of new Pages now taken away besides which he has a Table all the year long a Servant and a Horse maintain'd and his Firing and Candle The Pages are twelve in number who have all their Diet Firing Washing Lodging and Horses at the Stable where they are also waited on and instructed in all gentile and noble accomplishments and have every of them besides 260 l. standing Wages besides their Livery-Suits every year and Cloaks every two years Note That the Queens and Dauphinesses Pages have hanging Sleeves behind their Doublets as have the Pages of the Kings Bed-Chamber There is one Tutour of the Pages who has 320 l. standing Wages and his Lodging Diet and washing with them he is allowed two Billets or Logs and two Fagots during the six Winter-Months and two Faggots only during the six other Months and every day a quarter of a pound of Candles He has for his Fees what the Pages leave off and 20 l. out of what is allowed for every of their Shoes and Stockings One Almoner or Chaplain of the Pages who has his Diet there and his Fire and Candle all the year and a Servant and a Horse maintain'd for his Service One Professour of the Mathematicks 300 l. One fencing-Fencing-Master 180 l. One vaulting-Vaulting-Master one writing-Writing-Master and one dancing-Dancing-Master at 180 l. each There are two Servants of the Pages they have a Suit and Cloak out of those the Pages leave off and what the Pages please to give them at their Admission and the profit of the Flambeaux One Landrer of the Pages who holds his place by Commission One Master of the Houshold or Marshal of the Table of the Pages Sixteen Footmen serving quarterly eight every other quarter who have every of them 365 l. standing Wages one Doublet and one pair of Trunk-Breeches every year in Summer one Cloak every two years and 130 l. in other
150 l. Four Carriers of the Beds and Coffers of the Chamber serving two each half year 75 l. Two Landrers 100 l. each Two Semstresses serving by the half year 60 l. each Four Arquebuse or Arms-Bearers 400 l. One Keeper of the Closet of Arms 200 l. and one Captain of the Mules 450 l. In the Musick of the Chamber there are One Master and Intendant of the Musick 1000 l and twelve Musicians in Ordinary 600 l. viz. Two Counter-Tenours two Low-Tenours two High-Tenours two Base two Treble-Viols one Base-Viol and one for the Harpsichals In the Wardrobe Two Masters of the Wardrobe who have each a Salary of 4500 l. and a third under them Four Chief Valets or Yeomen of the Wardrobe who keep the Keys of the Coffers 600 l. Twelve other Valets or Yeomen 300 l. One Starcher Four Servants or Grooms of the Wardrobe 200 l. each Two Taylors of the Body 120 l. and two other Taylors One Mall-Carrier in Ordinary 600 l. One Keeper of the Closet of Rarities 1200 l. One Sweeper 500 l. Of the Masters of the Houshold Gentlemen-Waiters and of the Officers of the Chamber of Deniers seven Offices c. There is one Chief Master or Steward of the Houshold 2000 l. One Master in Ordinary 1200 l. Four Masters quarterly Waiters 800 l. Two General Comptrollers 700 l. One Gentleman-Waiter in Ordinary 800 l. Twelve other Gentlemen Waiters serving quarterly 600 l. each One Comptroller in Ordinary 1000 l. Four Comptrollers Clerks of Offices 300 l. Four Ushers of the Hall waiting quarterly 200 l. each In the seven Offices and 1. In the Pantry of the Mouth and of the Houshold Are eight Chiefs or Head Pantlers at 200 l. Salary a piece and as many Aids or Helpers at 150 l. each Two Grooms or Yeomen of the Pantry 600 l. One Yeoman of the Vessels in Ordinary 600 l. Note That the Heads and their Aids or Helpers both of the Pantry and Buttry of the Mouth and the Ushers or their Aids of the Kitchin of the Mouth when Monsieur eats in his Chamber or in his Bed have the honour to serve him in his Chamber or Bed in case neither his Highnesses Chief Gentleman of his Highnesses Chamber nor the Master of his Wardrobe chance to be there and would not yield the performance of that Function to the Chief Valet or Yeoman of the Chamber and besides even in those very places they wait with their Swords by their sides at least the Chiefs and their Helpers of the Pantry and Buttry of the Mouth In the Kitchin of the Mouth there are One Usher in Ordinary and four other Ushers at 170 l. each Four Aids 160 l. Two Children of the Kitchin of the Mouth 100 l. One Keeper in Ordinary of the Vessels both of the Kitchin of the Mouth and the common Kitchin 600 l. Four Porters in the Kitchin of the Mouth 100 l. Four Ushers of the Kitchin of the Mouth 100 l. One Yeoman-Keeper of the Cupboard 600 l. One Yeoman or Groom of the Spits in Ordinary 600 l. Two Pastry-Cooks of the Mouth 60 l. and some other Servants In the Kitchin of the Houshold or Common Kitchin are Four Ushers at 340 l. each and four Aids at 170 l. Two Children of the Kitchin 100 l. Four Porters 100 l. Four other Ushers 100 l. A Yeoman of the Spits in Ordinary 600 l. Four Serdeau's or Water-Servers 120 l. Four Verduriers or Herb-men 600 l. and two Falotiers or Carriers of great Fagots so called 75 l. In the Fruitery are Four Chiefs 260 l. Four Aids 150 l. and four Yeomen or Grooms 600 l. In the Fuel-Office or Wood-yard are Four Heads 260 l. Four Aids 160 l. Four Ushers of the Offices to serve the Tables 200 l. Four Carriers of Tables and Chairs 100 l. Four other Table-Carriers for the Houshold 100 l. Two Bakers 60 l. and two Purveyours 60 l. Officers belonging to his Highnesses Stables are One Chief Master of the Horse or Qeurry who is the Marquiss of Effiat whose Salary is 2400 l. Two Querries in Ordinary that Command in the Stable in the absence of the Master of the Horse or Chief Querry at 2000 l. each and four Querries waiting Quarterly at 700 l. each One Almoner 200 l. Twelve Pages One Governour and Tutour of the Pages who has 450 l. standing Wages and 600 l. gratuity One dancing-Dancing-Master One fencing-Fencing-Master One lute-Lute-Master and one mathematick-Mathematick-Master at 200 l. each Two Servants of the Pages 75 l. Seventeen Footmen who are allowed 22 d. a day or 401 l. 10 d. a year for their Diet Linnen Shoes and Stockings and all other things but their Livery-Cloaths which are given them by his Royal Highness when any of them shall die their number is to be reduced to sixteen Besides which there are two other Foot-men that are allowed but 16 d. a day and their Livery-Cloaths as above Four Master or Head-Grooms serving two each half year 100 l. Four Farriers 60 l. One Captain or Serjeant of the Carriage 200 l. Four Captains or Serjeants of the Guides 300 l. His Highness has two Coaches a first Coach called the Coach of the Body or Monsieurs own Coach and a second to each of which belong two Coachmen and one Postilion the Coachmens Salary is 200 l. and the Postilions 150 l. There is likewise a Coachman of the Isabella Horses who has 100 l. and a Postilion who has 75 l. Salary One Conductor and one Postilion of the Waggon who have each of them 100 l. Three Taylors 60 l. One Pay-Master or Cash-Keeper 400 l. One Physician 600 l. Two Apothecaries serving by the half year 60 l. One Chyrurgeon in Ordinary 200 l. Four other Barber-Chyrurgeons serving Quarterly 60 l. Two Ushers Cavalcadours or Riders 400 l. One Cuirasse or Armour-Bearer 200 l. One Keeper of the Stables and of the Moveables thereunto belonging 300 l. Two Sadlers and Mail Carriers 100 l. Four Harbingers of the Stable 200 l. Two Chair-men who are allowed 20 d. a day or 370 l. yearly besides their Liveries Two Sho-Makers 60 l. One Wheel-wright and one Spurrier at 60 l. each Of other Tradesmen and Artificers furnishing necessaries to his Highness and his Houshold There are twelve viz. One Embroiderer one Joyner of the Chamber one other Joyner one Silk-man one Clock or Watch-Maker one Lace-Merchant one Hatter one Sword-Cutler and Enricher of Arms one Feather-man one Draper one Grocer one Sho-maker in Ordinary and one Printer in Ordinary to the King and his Royal Highness at Orleans The Marshals and Harbingers of the Lodgings for his Highness and his Houshold are One Chief Marshal of the Lodgings who has 2000 l. Salary One Marshal of the Lodgings in Ordinary 800 l. Eight other Marshals of the Lodgings Quarterly Waiters 500 l. Four Harbingers of the Body 250 l. Eight other Harbingers for the Houshold 200 l. Officers belonging to his Highnesses Councel are One Chancellour and Keeper of the Seal whose Salary is 8000 l. One
who have 60 l. Salary apiece viz. One Shomaker in Ordinary one Shomaker of the Wardrobe one Jeweller one Shomaker of the Stable one Joyner one Linnen-Draper one Needle-Maker one Herb-man and Orange-Merchant one Grocer one Pin-Maker and one Baker There are four Marshals of the Lodgings or Chief Harbingers at 150 l. each In the Stable are One Chief Querry or Master of the Horse who has in all for his Appointments and Board-Wages 5445 l. Two Querries in Ordinary 2000 l. each Four Querries quarterly Waiters 500 l. each Six Pages Two Querries Cavalcadours or Riders 546 l. each One Comptroller-General of the Stable 1200 l. One Secretary of her R. Highnesses Commandments 4200 l. One Intendant or Surveyour of the House and Revenues Six other Secretaries 300 l. each Two Sollicitours of Affairs 500 l. One Treasurer of the Houshold whose Salary is 3000 l. Other Officers of the Stable Ten Great Footmen who have every of them 20 d. a day that is 366 l. a year besides their Summer and Winter Cloaths One Footman belonging to the Maids of Honour who is allowed 20 d. a day or 366 l. a year Two Manto-Carriers at 292 l. each Two Coaches the first called the Coach of the Body and a second Coach who have each of them one Coachman and one Postilion the Coachman of the first Coach has 200 l. Salary and he of the second 150 l. and the Postilions have each of them 100 l. Besides which there is a Coach for the Maids of Honour and another for the Waiting-Gentlewomen to each of which belong one Coachman and one Postilion who have every of them 100 l. Salary One Head-Groom in Ordinary 100 l. Two Chair-men 365 l. each Two Farriers 100 l. each One Keeper of the Moveables of the Stable 100 l. Two Taylors one Flock-Bed-Maker one Wheel-wright at 60 l. each One Chirurgeon 220 l. One Barber to trim the Pages 100 l. One dancing-Dancing-Master and one fencing-Fencing-Master at 200 l. each One Governour of the Pages 300 l. One Almoner in Ordinary and Tutor of the Pages 200 l. One Servant of the Pages 100 l. And lastly One Pay-Master or Cash-Keeper of the Stable whose Salary is 100 l. We have already spoken of the Duke of Chartres THE Present State OF FRANCE PART II. Of the Nobility of France CHAP. I. Of the Nobility in General IN France as in most other Countries not only those which are Princes Peers and Great Lords but all Gentlemen of ancient Descent and that are enobled by the King are reckoned into the Body of the Nobility and there the King often gives Letters of Nobility as they are called whereby he constitutes the person receiving them Noble or makes him a Gentleman without Conferring upon him any particular Title of Honour contrary to the practice used in England It is to be noted too that there neither Arts nor Sciences ennoble neither Lawyers nor Physicians nor Divines being accounted noble or Gentlemen unless they be otherwise so or enjoy some Place or Dignity that gives them the Title of Lord which is only temporary and personal The Chief Priviledges of Nobles or Gentlemen are to be Exempt from Taxes and to enjoy some other immunities and be capable of enjoying Dignities and rising to Honour If they take Church Dignities or addict themselves to the Law they derogate not from their Nobility though they increase it not but if they follow any Trade or Commerce or marry with any Family not Noble they derogate and lose their quality and till of late those that medled with Sea-Affairs were reckoned to derogate likewise but that being found prejudicial to the Improvement of the Power of France by Sea It was Order'd by the present King having concerns in publick Companies such as the East-India Company that studying or practising Sea-Experience should not only not derogate but be encouraged with Priviledges and accordingly appointed publick Schools and Nurseries in several Marine Places with good Endowments wherein a considerable number of the younger Sons of the meaner Nobility might be instructed in Navigation and Maritime Affairs and trained up to make useful Sea-Officers So that now the younger Sons or Cadets of the Gentry are either provided for in the Church with Ecclesiastical Dignities or raise themselves by Military employs by Sea or Land not so many as formerly affecting the civil ones because they are such as are often enjoyed by the Sons of rich Citizens or Farmers of Taxes whom they a little disdain for Companions The Nobility or Gentry in France is the most numerous of any Kingdom of the World they being reckoned above ten thousand able Bodies and generally well educated in all accomplishments that may make them serviceable to their Country and in them consists the Kings chief Force and he is in some respects as absolute over them as over the Peasants for though they pay no Taxes and cannot be legally compelled to take Arms unless upon an Invasion or imminent danger yet it is by Custom thought so disgraceful for any Principals or Heads of greater Families not to attend the King and spend what they have in his Court or Service or for Cadets or younger Brothers not provided for in the Church to follow any thing but the Wars by which only in a manner all Nobility was ever acquired there that the King can never want Souldiers among them It being almost impracticable for a Gentleman any thing considerable to live privately or retired there unless he thrust himself into a Convent CHAP. II. Of Dukes and Peers OF Dukes and of Peers severally and of such as are both Dukes and Peers there are six or seven sorts 1. The Antient Dukes and Peers 2. The Dukes and Peers verified in the Parliament of Paris as both Dukes and Peers 3. Such as are verified in the said Parliament only as Dukes 4. The Dukes or the Dukes and Peers that are verified as such in other Parliaments than that of Paris which is the only true Court of Peers 5. Those who are Dukes and Peers only by Patent under the Great Seal not verified or past yet in any Parliament 6. The Dukes and Peers by Brief as the House of Clermont-Tonnerre Besides which there are some Dukes of Foreign Creations as in the County of Avignon under the Pope and several other Persons who though they be no Princes nor Princesses yet are suffred by his Majesty to enjoy the Honours of the Louvre as to enter into the Louvre in their Coaches and their Ladies have the priviledge of the Low-stool or Tabouret before the Queen without having any Dutchy or Patent for any CHAP. III. Of the antient Peers of France THE Antient Peers were formerly twelve viz. Six Ecclesiastical Peers and six Secular ones The six Ecclesiastical ones are still in being and are these viz. 1. The Archbishop and Duke of Reims and first Peer of France who is at present Charles-Maurice le Teliier Brother to the Marquess of Louvois first Minister of State
more than was the Constable The Provosts of the Marshals or Provost Marshals are Royal Judges established in every Province under the Authority and dependance of the Marshals of France They have Jurisdiction over all Vagabonds and people that are no House-Keepers and in many Cases over them that are House-Keepers too if they commit any Robberies on the High-way if they be Incendiaries Coiners of false money or be guilty of wilful Murther and other Crimes The Marshals of France were at first but two in number but since that the necessity of Affairs has given occasion sometimes to the doubling of that number There were four under Charles the Seventh who were afterward reduced to the old number Francis the First finding himself obliged to maintain three or four Armies to oppose the great Enemies which he had always to deal with revived again the number of four and soon after added a fifth who was Francis of Montmorency Son of the Constable of that Name by way of recompence to his Father for the Office of Great Master of France which he had resigned by his Orders to the Duke of Guise but with this condition that this fifth place should be supprest upon the Death of the First of the five that should die The Duke of Mayenne made three during the time he was head of the League and Henry the Great when by the acknowledgment of his Subjects he came to be peaceable Possessour of the Kingdom Created two of those three Marshals of France viz. Vrban de Laval Sieur de Bois Dauphin and Claudius de la Chartre Lewis the Thirteenth never limited the number of them and the Present has augmented it with several new ones Those of them that are still alive and that keep the Court of the Constablery at the Marble Table are these that follow according to the years of their Promotion Being The Marshals De Crequi in 1668. De Bellefonds in 1668. D' Humieres in 1668. De Schonberg in gone now to Portugal 1675. De Duras in 1675. De Vivonne in 1675. De la Feuillade in 1675. De Luxembourg in 1675. De Lorge in 1676. D' Etrées in 1681. Every of these Marshals is stiled Monseigneur-Messire or My Lord Messire in the List of them in the Court of the Constablerie and Marshals of France in the Palace at Paris which Title of Messire implies antient Nobility personal and eminent worth and something of a Soveraign Command The Marshals of France deceased whose Memory is still fresh were The Marshals De Guebriant deceased in 1643. De Bassompiere in 1646. Two Marshals de Chatillon whereof one died in 1646 the other in 1649. De Gassion in 1647. De Chaune in 1649. De Brezé in 1650. De Rantzau in 1650. De la Force in 1652. De Schonberg in 1656. De la Mothe Houdancourt in 1657. De Hocquincourt in 1658. De Castelnau in 1658. De Foucault in 1659. De l' Hopital in 1660. De Fabert in 1662. De la Meillerage in 1664. De Clerambaut in 1665. D' Estampes in 1668. D' Aumont in 1669. D' Etrées in 1670. De Schulembergz in 1671. The Famous de Turenne in 1675. De Plessis Prâlin in 1675. De Rochefort in 1676. D' Albret in 1676. De la Force the Son in 1678. De Grammont in 1678. De Grancy in 1680. De la Ferté Senneterre in 1681. De Navailles in 1684. De Estrades in February in 1686. There are several Widows of Marshals of France which still enjoy the Honours of the Louvre and other Priviledges we have mentioned to belong to them CHAP. XVI Of the Colonels-General Camp-Masters c. AFter the Death of the Duke d' Epernon which hapned on the 23d of July 1661. the Office of Colonel-General of the Infantry was supprest The Colonel-General used to bear behind his Coat of Arms as a mark of his Office four or six Standards of the Kings Colours which are White Carnation and Blue The Colonel-General of the light Horse is the Count of Auvergne Marquiss of Bergopzoom Lieutenant-General of the Kings Armies And the Camp-Master General is at present the Baron de Monctar the Lieutenant-Colonel is M. John d' Estampes Baron of Bellebrune The Colonel-General of the Suissers and Grisons is the Prince de Maine Monsieur de Mazarques was Colonel-General of the Corsicans but at present there are no Corsicans in the service And the Baron D' Eguenfeld was Colonel-General of the Foreign Troops but since his departure there has been no other substituted CHAP. XVII Of the Troops of the Kings Houshold of the Gensdarmes of the Light-Horse and of the other Regiments of Cavalry and Infantry THE first Troops of Cavalry are those of the Kings-Houshold of the Life-Guards Gensdarmes the Light-Horse of the Kings Guard and the Musketeers on Horseback which is called the Kings Houshold to which there is lately joined a Company of Granadeers on Horseback Commanded by Mr. Riotort We have set down before the four Companies of the Life-Guards the Company of Gensd'armes or Men at Arms that are of the Kings Guard of which the King is Captain and the Prince de Soubize Lieutenant-Captain as likewise the Company of Light-Horse of the Kings-Guard and another Company of Gensd'armes Commanded by the Duke de Chevreuse as Captain-Lieutenant and the two Companies of Musketeers on Horseback We come now to the other Forces First there is the little Gend'armerie or that which is simply called the Gend'armerie without other addition which comprehends 1. The Scotch Gensd'armes 2. The English Gend'armes 3. The Burgundian Gend'armes 4. The Flemish Gend'armes 5. The Queens Gend'armes 6. The Queens Light-Horse 7. The Dauphins Gend'armes 8. The Dauphins Light-Horse 9. The Gend'arms of Anjou 10. The Gend'arms of Orleans 11. The Light-Horse of Orleans Monsieur de St. Germain is Provost of the little Gend'armerie The Princes or eldest Sons of the Kings of Great Brittain having as Princes of Scotland a right to the Command of a Cavalry in France there was a Company of the Kings Scotch Gensd'armes Commanded by the Duke of York as Duke of Albany and in his absence by the Marquiss of Livourne as Captain-Lieutenant The Baron of Thauriac was Sub-Lieutenant the Ensign the Count d'Onseigne and the Guidon Monsieur Champrond 2. The English Gensd'armes which are now most Irish whose Captain-Lieutenant the Count de la Guette the Sub-Lieutenant the Chevalier de Crollis the Ensign Mr. O Brian and the Guidon the Marquiss of Beavau 3. The Burgundian Gend'arms whose Captain Lieutenant is the Marquiss of Flamanville 4. The Company of Flemmish Gensd'arms Created the 22d of November 1673. the Count de Masin is Captain-Lieutenant M. Gouffier de Rosamelle Sub-Lieutenant The King is Captain of all the abovesaid Companies whose Captain-Lieutenants Command over all the Camp-Masters The Queens have also their Companies of Gensd'arms and Light-Horse and so has the Dauphin besides which there are the Gensd'arms of Anjou and the Gensd'arms and Light-Horse of
France are the Presidents of this Chamber of the Treasury or when they think good they go and preside at the Audiences and Processes or Suits managed in Writing And those of Paris give Law to the Councellers of the Treasury when they present themselves for Admission and some among them on set days for that purpose go and examine them and afterwards admit them Their Days of Audience are Wednesdays and Saturdays at which times the Advocates and Proctors of the Parliament go thither to plead The Officers of the Chamber of the Treasury are one Lieutenant-General who is both for Civil and Criminal matters and a particular Lieutenant six Councellers one Advocate and Proctor for the King one Recorder or Registrer in Chief one Recorder of the Presentations and Comptrol one Chief Usher or House-Keeper and three other Ushers Next to the Treasurers of France it will be most proper next to speak of those Jurisdictions which used to sit at the Marble-Table of the Palace as those of the Waters and Forests the Constablery and Marshals of France of the Admiralty c. CHAP. XXXVI Of the Waters and Forests THE Jurisdiction of the Waters and Forests is very ancient and of a very great extent It was establisht to hinder the Abuses Delinquencies and Misdemeanours which might be committed in the Kings Woods which are the goodliest part of his Crown-Lands it likewise takes cognisance of the same abuses committed in the Woods belonging to the Princes of the Blood and other Noblemen and to Prelats Gentlemen and other private Persons as also to Communities or Corporations It also takes cognisance both primarily and by way of Appeal of all Enterprises or attempts made in Woods Warrens Rivers Isles Islets Mills Fishings Chaces and of all Processes or Suits both Civil and Criminal arising upon those Accounts between any Persons of what Quality soever nay and of those too that concern the very Fund or propriety it self in any of them and all Regulations of Customs thirds and tenths of Forests and Woods c. This Chamber is held in the Great Hall of the Palace near the Parquet or Bar of the Kings Advocates and Proctor-General in the Parliament It s Jurisdiction extends farther than that of the Parliament of Paris for besides the Appeals of Masterships of the Game and of the particular Courts of Justice of private Lords in relation to the Waters and Forests that are within the limits of the Jurisdiction of the Parliament of Paris It receives likewise those of the other Parliaments where there is not as yet any Marble Table as of those of Grenoble Bourdeaux Dijon Aix Pau and Mets. And it has likewise an over-ruling Jurisdiction over the Waters and Forests of other Parliaments The principal Officers of the Masterships and Captainships of the Game and of the Louvetry or Wolf-Hunting are admitted in this Chamber or Court Dukes and Peers proceed in all Cases of this nature in this Court rather than in any other Chamber for the Waters and Forests under other Parliaments although the things contested about be scituate within the extent of the Jurisdiction of those other Parliaments They have there too the like priviledge as in the Grand Chamber in which they can have no remedy for these kinds of affairs as they may have in all other Cases because the Ordinances made for this purpose attribute to this Court the full and plenary cognisance of all Causes belonging to it privatively and exclusively to all other Judges notwithstanding any Committimus or any other priviledge whatsoever It is divided into two sorts of Jurisdiction viz. Ordinary and Extraordinary From the Ordinary Jurisdiction Appeals may be made to the Parliament but in the Extraordinary Jurisdiction all Processes or Suits concerning Reformations Misdemeanours Delinquencies and Degradations relating to Woods c. are Judged without Appeal by the Chief President with seven Councellers of the Grand Chamber and four of the Chief Officers of this Marble Table upon the Conclusions of the Kings Advocates and Proctor-General of this Chamber When the Grand Masters of the Waters and Forests are pleased to come to this Court they commonly preside there and the Judgments passed there are intitled by their names in this manner The Grand Masters Chief Inquisitours and Reformers of the Waters and Forests of France at their General Seat at the Marble Table of the Palace at Paris And in the Extraordinary Jurisdiction they are stiled The Judges appointed by the King to judge finally and without Appeal of all Processes or Suits concerning the Reformations of the Waters and Forests of France at the Judgment Seat of the Marble-Table of the Palace at Paris By a Declaration from the King Issued in the Month of December 1675. and Registred in Parliament the 15th of June 1676. The Great Masterships of the Waters and Forests of France are divided into eight Departments of which seven are officiated by Commission and that of the Country of Orleans by Patent These Departments are 1. That of the Isle of France Brie Perche the Country of Blois Picardie and of the Conquer'd and Reconquer'd Countries Of which M. James Francis de Joanne is Grand Master He is likewise Governour of Chambor and Bayliff of Blois 2. The Department of Normandy and Jurisdiction of the Parliament of Roüen the Grand Master by Commission is M. Feron the Father Master of the Waters and Forests at Compiegne 3. In Tourain Anjou Maine Poitou Berry the Country of Bourbon Nivernois Aunix Angouleme Saintonge la Marche and Limosin The Grand Master is M. Florimond Huraut 4. In the Country of Orleans Mr. Peter L' Allemant Lord of L' Estrée c. Lieutenant of the Town of Chaalons is Grand Master by Patent 5. In Champain and within the Jurisdiction of the Parliament of Mets the Grand Master is Charles Renart of Buchsamberg 6. In Burgundy and Bresse and Countries of Lyons Beaujoly Forëts and Auvergne M. de Mauroy 7. In the Government and within the Jurisdiction of the Parliament of Brittany M. Savary 8. In Guienne the Lower Navarre Soule the Country of Labour Languedoc Provence and the Dauphinate M. Froidour is Grand Master In Flanders the Grand Master is M. le Feron du Plessis the Son The Office of Master of the Waters and Forests of Hainaut which was Created in 1661 is possest by M. Talon first Yeoman of the Kings Wardrobe The Office of Grand Master of the Waters and Forests of France was of very ancient Institution and possessed by two persons of Quality Afterwards there was but one till the year 1575. when Henry the third Created six which have since been augmented The present Officers of the Waters and Forests at the Marble-Table at Paris are A Lientenant-General and another particular Lieutenant six Councellers one Proctor and one Advocate-General two Recorders or Registers two Ushers Audiencers The ordinary days of Audience at this Chamber or Court are Wednesdays and Saturdays in the Morning There is likewise a particular Mastership