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A27526	The present state of France containing a general description of that kingdom corrected and purged from the many gross mistakes in the French copy, enriched with additional observations and remarks of the new compiler, and digested into a method conformable to that of the state of England / by R.W. ...	Wolley, Richard, fl. 1667-1694.; Besongne, Nicolas, d. 1697.	1687 (1687)	Wing B2052A; ESTC R1280	281,972	540

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

worn by the people extending from the Loyre to the British Ocean and containing the Provinces of Brittany Normandy Anjou Tourain Main le Beausse the Isle of France part of Champain the Dukedom of Burgundy and the County of Lyonnois 4. Belgica from the Belgae a potent Nation of that Tract taking up all the East parts viz. Picardy the rest of Champain the County of Burgundy with so much of Germany and the Netherlands as lieth on this side of the Rhine part whereof hath been reconquered lately by the Present King and the rest remaining to the Spaniard the States of the Vnited Provinces and to the Empire In the new Modelling of the Empire by Constantine the Great Gaul was divided into 17 Provinces as 1. Lugdunensis prima 2. Secunda 3. Tertia 4. Quarta 5. Belgica prima 6. Secunda 7. Germania Prima 8. Secunda 9. Narbonensis Prima 10. Secunda 11. Aquitania Prima 12. Secunda 13. Novempopulonia 14. Viennensis 15. Maxima Sequanorum 16. Alpes Graiae Poeninae 17. Alpes Maritimae Of these 17 Germania Prima and Secunda all Belgica Prima and part of Secunda saving only what has been lately Reconquered and all that of the Alpes Graiae and Poeninae and so much of the Maxima Sequanorum as is in Switzerland are now dismembred from the name and account of France The modern Division of France is threefold First According to its Ecclesiastical Government Secondly According to its Civil Government or Administration of Justice And thirdly According to its military Government 1. According to its Ecclesiastical Government it is divided into 17 Archbishopricks containing 106 Bishopricks and Diocesses besides the Archbishopricks of Cambray Besançon and the Bishopricks of Arras St. Omers Ypres and Perpignan in the Conquests which are subdivided into Parishes 2. According to the Civil Government and Administration of Justice it is divided into 10 Parliaments besides several other Sovereign Courts and into many Bayliwicks and Seneschalchies 3. According to the Military Government it is divided into twelve Governments within France and four in the Conquered Countries being sixteen in all Of these sixteen Four lie Northward viz. 1. Picardy 2. Normandy 3. The Isle of France 4. Champaign Four in the middle of France and on each side the Loire viz. 5. Britany 6. Orleanois 7. The Dutchy of Burgundy 8. Lyounois Four are Southern and beyond that River viz. 9. Guienne 10. Languedoc 11. Dauphiny 12. Provence The four last lie Eastwards towards Germany and are 13. The French Low Countries or Netherlands 14. Lorrain 15 Alsatia 16. Franche Comte or the County of Burgundy There are reckoned in the Kingdom of France besides the Conquests 32 Cities above 4000 Towns 27400 Parishes 1450 Abbies 540 Arch-Priories 12320 Priories 567 Nunneries 700 Convents of Fryers 259 Commanderies of Malta several Colledges of Jesuits and other Religious Houses of later Foundations not reckoned and 10 Universities Of all which we shall speak more particularly elsewhere The Air is every where generally temperate and pure and so healthful that it is observed to be less subject to Plagues and Sickness than any other Country in Europe and the Air particularly about Montpelier is held Medicinal for Consumptions The North Wind reigns much there a great part of the Year which is thought to contribute much to the salubrity of the Air the Winter in the Northern parts of it is rather fiercer and sharper than in England though not altogether so long but the Summer much hotter and at Marseilles and some parts that way observed to be hotter than in several parts of Italy It is of an extraordinary fruitful Soil as well in the Mountains as the Vales every where watered with wholesom Springs and Streams and with several great Navigable Rivers and to say the truth there are not many Countries of Europe to which Nature has imparted so rich a Portion of her choicest Blessings the Woods there afford great plenty of Timber and Fuel-Wood and abound with Chesnuts and Walnuts the former producing excellent Pork and Bacon the latter great Quantities of Oyl which in some parts of France they use instead of Butter The Fields are large and open intermingled with Vines and Corn and bordered and interlined with choice of Fruits and the steep sides of Hills and most sandy stony grounds there produce often the strongest and richest Wines In fine it is every where so cultivated that it seems like the Garden of Eden it self Its Commodities Merchandises and Manufactures are many and so necessary to other Countries that of late they hardly barter them but for Money For from this Kingdom are Exported vast quantities of Salt Wine Brandy Corn dried Fruits Silks Stuffs Canvas Linnen Scissars Nuts Nut-Oyl Box-Wood Paper Skins Hats perfumed Gloves and all manner of Toys and trifles and besides they have within themselves and from their own Conquests and Plantations such quantities of Oranges Lemmons Oils Sugars Wooll Stuffs Cloths Sea-fish Stone for Building and all other things for necessity or pleasure that they will hardly barter of late years but Trade only for Money for the most part The Country is every where well stocked with fresh Fish store of Venison though little eaten by them Wildbores there much prised with Rabbits Hares and all sorts of Wild-Fowl and some unknown to us They want not good Beef which is very sweet nor Mutton which is generally sweeter than in England nor excellent Pork and as for tame Fowl they have it in much more abundance than in England and the Provinces of Normandy and Brittany furnish great store of good Butter salt and fresh but for Cheese they buy considerable quantities from the Hollanders and Suitzers By what has been said their Riches cannot but be very great and inexhaustible consisting in so many rich and inland Commodities that like so many Loadstones attract the greatest part of the riches both of Europe and of the whole World into France For their Wines Brandy Salt Canvas Silks Stuffs and Toys are Commodities which constantly bring them vast profits from England Holland and all the Northern Regions and then in the Spanish Dominions they vend so much Corn Linnen Flax Canvas Cordage Stuffs and all sorts of Manufactures that they fill their Country with the Coin of that Nation in return they likewise disperse great quantities of the said Commodities in Italy and Barbary and of late they drive a considerable Trade in the West-Indies and have made some progress in the East Their usual accounts are kept by Deniers Sols and Livers a Liver is twenty of their Sols or Pence which is a little more than eighteen pence of our Money and their Denier is the twelfth part of a Penny and very convenient for buying small quantities of things and reckoning Fractions but these Deniers in Specie or Coyn are used but in the parts of France remote from Paris Next are their Doubles which are worth two Deniers and are the sixth part of a