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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

impose and assess the summ the King Demands and afterwards levy it themselves and transmit it to the Treasure Royal. The seventeen Generalities of the Provinces of Election with their several Elections are as follows 1. The Generality of Paris contains 20 Elections and 1904 Parishes 2. That of Orleans 12 Elections and 1148 Parishes 3. Of Noulins 9 Elections and 1170 Parishes 4. Of AlenÇon 9 Elections and 1276 Parishes 5. Of Chaalons 11 Elections and 2294 Parishes 6. Of Soissons 7 Elections and 1088 Parishes 7. Of Roüen 12 Elections and 1623 Parishes 8. Of Caen 9 Elections and 1008 Parishes 9. Of Limoges 7 Elections and 1268 Parishes 10. Of Poitiers 9 Elections and 1164 Parishes 11. Of Bourges 4 Elections and 566 Parishes 12. Of Riom in Auvergne 8 Elections and 827 Parishes 13. Of Bourdeaux 9 Elections and 2995 Parishes 14. Of Montauban 11 Elections and 951 Parishes 15. Of Amiens 6 Elections and 1260 Parishes 16. Of Tours 16 Elections and 1539 Parishes 17. Of Lyons 5 Elections and 865 Parishes The Generalities of the Countries governed by Estates are 1. The Generality of Nantes for Brittany in which no number of Parishes is specified 2. Of Nontpelier which is divided into 11 Diocesses instead of Elections and contains 1466 Parishes in it are three particular Receivers 3. Of Toulouze which besides the Town in which there is a particular Receiver is divided into 11 Diocesses which have each of them three particular Receivers and contain 1013 Parishes 4. Of Dijon in which are 1761 Parishes 5. Of Grenoble which has six Elections and one particular receiving Office at Briancon and contains 604 Parishes 6. Of Aix in which are 17 little Governments called Vigueries and 644 Parishes and three particular Receivers of the Rents of the Crown-Lands reckoning in that of Cisteron and the particular Receiver of the Rents of the Crown-Lands at Aix CHAP. XLV Of the Order observed in Levying Taxes AS soon as the summ his Majesty is pleased to impose on his people is resolved on in his Royal-Council Commissions are sent to the Treasurers-General of France establisht in the Offices of the several Generalities Which Commissions enjoin the said Treasurers General to divide the summ which they are Commanded to levy upon the Elections within the extent of their respective Generalities into as just and equal proportions as they possibly can which done they send them to the Elects who are the Judges of the Elections which we have already described in speaking of the Election of Paris with an Order annexed thereunto by which they are Commanded to levy just such a summ neither more nor less within the extent of their Elections The Elects thereupon assemble and draw up Tax-Rolls by which they assess the Cities Boroughs and Villages within their several Elections and afterwards send those Rolls to every Parish who chuse Collectors of the said Taxes out of the Inhabitants of the same Parishes Which Collectors are obliged again to make particular Rolls for their Parishes and to assess every one of the Inhabitants of the same in such just proportions according to their respective abilities and capacities as will make up the summ charged on their Parishes and then to levy the money so assessed and carry it to the Receivers of the Taxes for every Election and they again are to return it to the General Receivers of their Generality who transmit it to the Treasure Royal. The Taxes are paid only by those of the third Estate of the Kingdom that is to say by the Inhabitants called Roturiers who are no Gentlemen dwelling in Town not Free and in Boroughs and Villages according to the proportion of Goods they have that are Taxable of what nature soever they be and in what place soever scituate except in Languedoc where only Lands and immovable Goods are taxable so that the Roturiers or Peasants pay nothing for the noble Fiefs or Lands they hold there in Knights Fee but on the contrary the Gentlemen pay for the Lands they hold in Villenage there because the Taxes there are real and not personal Churchmen Gentlemen and Persons ennobled by Patent are exempt from Taxes as likewise are the Officers of the Sovereign Courts of Judicature the Kings Secretaries the Officers that are Commoners of the Kings Houshold that serve there actually either by the quarter or the half year and which receive at least 60 Livers yearly Salary and whose names are in the Rolls or Books of Accounts Registred in the Court of Aids and the Veterans or superannuated Persons and Widows of the above-specified Officers during their Widow-hood provided nevertheless they make no Traffick of any thing but what is of the growth of their own Lands which they may sell freely but they are debar'd from Farming any Lands of other Persons without paying The Officers of the presidial Courts Bayliwicks Seneschalsies Provostships Vigueries Waters and Forests Customs of things Exported Elections Salt Granaries and of all other Courts of Judicature and Jurisdictions in the Kingdom are exempt from Taxes and from Watching and Warding as is amply expressed in his present Majesties Declaration of the Month of February 1674. The Citizens of Paris and of other free or priviledged Towns are likewise exempt from Taxes The Imposition called the Taillon or little Tax was establisht by Henry the second in the year 1549. to augment the pay of the Souldiers This Duty is paid by the same persons that pay the Taxes and with the same compulsion and amounts to about a third part of the Income of the Taxes Subsistance Money is another Duty which has been begun to be levied but of late years It is so called because it is raised for the subsistance of the Souldiers in their Winter-Quarters upon payment of which people were for a while exempted from lodging Souldiers in Winter time This Duty is paid too in the same manner as the two former These Duties are called Real in respect of Patrimonial Goods personal in respect of ones place of Habitation and mixt in respect of the proportion of peoples ability or sufficiency to distinguish them from the Aids which are only Impositions real as we shall afterward further explain The five Farms called the Great or Gross Farms of France consist in several Duties and Customs exacted for Importation and Exportation of several Merchandises These Farms concern most the Provinces of Normandy Picardy Champagne and Burgundy Of the Aids By the name of Aids are understood the Duties the King takes upon all sorts of Merchandises except Salt Under this name formerly were comprehended all manner of Impositions levied on the people for extraordinary expences which the Revenue arising out of the Kings Domain or Crowns Lands was not sufficient to defray and in this sence under the name of Aids were understood the Taxes Gabels Tenths and other Impositions CHAP. XLVI Of the Gabels THE Duties the King takes upon Salt are called the Gabels It is hard to find the original of them so ancient are

Simon in 1635. 10. La Rochefoucault in 1637. 11. La Force in 1637. 12. Aiguillon in 1638. 13. Rohan in 1645. 14. Piney de Luxemburg in 1662. 15. Etrées in 1663. 16. Gramont in 1663. 17. Mazarin in 1663. 18. Villeroy in 1663. 19. Mortemar in 1663. 20. Poix Crequy in 1663. 21. St. Aiguan in 1663. 22. Rendan de Foix in 1663. 23. Tremes at present Gêvres in 1663. 24. Noailles in 1663. 25. Coislin in 1663. 26. Plessis Prâlin in 1665. 27. Aumont in 1665. 28. Seneterre in 1665. 29. Montausier in 1665. Names of the present Dukes of the aforesaid Dukedoms 1. Emanuel de Crussol 2. Lewis-Charles de Levis 3. Maximilian Peter Francis de Bethune 4. Lewis Charles d' Albert. 5. John Francis Paul de Bonne de Creqy de Blanchefort c. 6. Henry Albert de Cosse 7. Charles d' Albret alias d' Ailly 8. John Armand de plessis de Vignerod 9. Claudius de St. Simon 10. Francis de la Rochefoucault 11. James Nompar de Caumont 12. Marie-Magdalen Teresa of Vignerod 13. Lewis de Rohan Chabot 14. Francis Henry de Montmorency 15. Francis Hannibal d' Etrées 16. Antony Charles de Gramont 17. Armand Charles de la Porte de Mazarini 18. Francis de Neuville 19. Lewis Victor de Rochechouart 20. Charles de Creqy 21. Francis de Beauvilliers 22. Henry-Charles de Foix. 23. Leon Potier 24. Lewis Anne Julius of Noailles 25. Armand du Cambout 26. Augustus de Choiseul du plessis pralin 27. Lewis-Marie de Aumont de Roche-baron 28. Henry de Senneterre 29. Charles de St. Maure Rouanez en Forets was Erected into a Dutchy and the Letters verified in Parliament in 1567. There are also Patents making the same a Peerage which are not verified This Dukedom is possessed by Francis d' Aubusson de la Fenillade Marshal of France The Dukedom of Chevreuse is confirmed as such by Letters Patents verified the 16th of May 1668. which confirm to the present Duke the Enjoyment of all Honours and Precedences due to it when it was first Created CHAP. V. Of Dutchies or Dutchies and Peerages verified as such in other Parliaments and not at Paris Dukedoms 1. LOngueville and Estouteville verified in the 2. Parliament of Roüen 1505. and Estouteville in 1534. 3. Villars Dutche and Peerage verified in the Parliament of Provence the Dutchy in 1628 and the Peerage in 1657 and presented the same year in that of Paris but not verified 4. Pondevaux verified in the Parliament of Dijon 5. Carignan verified at Mets in 1662. Present Dukes of the aforesaid Dukedoms 1. John Lewis Charles of Orleans called the Abbot of Orleans 2. Lewis de Brancars 3. Philip Eugenius de Gorrevod 4. Lewis Thomas of Savoy Count of Soissons and Duke of Carignan CHAP. VI. Of Dukes and Peers whose Patents are not yet verified THere are several Letters Patents for Dutchies and Peerages which are not yet verified notwithstanding which non verification because the persons possessing them will during their Lives enjoy all Honours belonging to them we shall insert them being 11. in all Dutchies 1. Bournonville Erected in 1600. 2. Cardonne in 1642. 3. Arpajon in 1651. 4. Pavan la Vieville in 1652. 5. Nogent le Rotrou d' Orval in 1652. 6. Duras in 1668. 7. Bethune Charots in 1672. 8. The Archbishoprick of Paris in 1674. 9. De Lude in 1675. 10. La Roche Guyon in 1679. 11. Roquelaure in 1683. The present Dukes 1. Ambrose of Bournonville 2. Lewise de Prie Dutchess Dowager and Heiress 3. Lewis d' Arpajon 4. Charles de la Viéville 5. Francis de Bethun 6. James Henry de Duras-fort 7. Armand de Bethune 8. Francis Harlay de Chanvallon 9. Henry de Daillon dead last year without Issue 10. Francis de la Rochefoucault Great Hunter of France 11. Antony Gaston There is still one Dutchy which is only so by Brief which is that of Clermont Tonnerre now Extinct But all the foregoing ones are so by Patent under the Great Seal CHAP. VII Of all the Dutchies and Peerages more exactly as well of those extinct as not extinct WE have named all those that are present Dukes Dukes and Peers of France but for more ample satisfaction we shall set down all the Dutchies and Peerages as likewise all the Dutchies and Peerages and all the simple Dutchies whether enjoyed at present or reunited to the Crown or Extinct according to the Order of their Erection For there are some Lands as we have already noted that are Erected only into simple Dukedoms or into both Dukedoms and Peerages according to the Tenour of the Patents of their Erection Ordinarily none but Heirs Male succeed to these Honours and if the Lands so Erected fall to Female Heirs they return to the quality they had before so Erected and the Honour reverts to the King and to revive it new Patents must be obtained from the King yet there are some Dutchies that by special Favour of the King expressed in the Patents of their Erection that descend likewise to Females as that of Nevers at its first Erection and those of Beaumont le Vicomte of Mayenne of Mercoeur of Rethelois of Joyeuse of Epernon of Elboeuf of Richelieu of Aiguillon and of Biron which is Extinct A List of the Dutchies and Peerages with the time of their Creation and the persons that possess such of them as are not either extinct or reunited according to the Order of their verification in the Parliament Philip the Fair Erected Britany into a Dukedom and Peerage in 1297. which was united by the Marriage of Anne the last Heiress to the French King Charles the Fourth called the Fair Erected La Marche into a Dutchy in 1327. which was made a County and Peerage by Philip the Long in 1316. It is reunited to the Crown Philip of Valois Erected Bourbon into a simple Dutchy in 1329. It was given to the late Prince of Condé whose Grandchild now bears the Title Orleans into a Dutchy and Peerage in 1344. It was given in Apanage to the Kings only Brother King John Erected Anjou into a Dutchy and Peerage in 1350. It is now the Apanage and Title of the Dauphins second Son Bar le Duc made a simple Dutchy in 1357. and reunited to the Crown by a Donation verified in Parliament in 1662. Berry a simple Dutchy and antient County Erected in 1360. and given to the Dauphins third and last Son Touraine made a simple Dutchy and reunited to the Crown Auvergne made a simple Dutchy in 1360. It was reunited to the Crown but since given to the House of Boüillon under the Title of County in exchange of the Principalities of Sedan c. by a Contract verified in 1652. Charles the Sixth Erected Valois into a Dutchy and Peerage in 1402. and is a part of the Apanage of the Duke of Orleans the Kings Brother Nemours made a Dutchy and Peerage in 1404. It was bought by the Dukes of Nemour of the House of Savoy for 100000 Livers