1668 who Married Madamoiselle of Nantes Lewise Francise of Bourbon legitimated of France the 24th of July 1685. 3. Anne-Lewise of Bourbon called Madamoiselle of Enguien Born at Paris the 11th of August 1675. 4. Lewise-Benedicte of Bourbon called Madamoiselle de Condé Born the 8th of November 1676. and 5. Marie-Anne of Bourbon called Madamoiselle de Montmorency Born the 24th of February 1678. The King Restored to the Prince at the time of the Pyrenean Treaty the County of Clermont Steney and Dun and that of Jamets and since he has given him the Domain of the Country of Bourbon being the ancient Patrimony of this Royal Branch before it came to the Crown This Princes only Brother was the late Armand of Bourbon Prince of Conti Governour of Languedoc Knight of the Kings Orders he was Born at Paris the 8th of October 1629. and died at Pezenas the 21st of February 1666. He Married Anne-Marie Martinozzi Niece to the late Cardinal Mazarine who died the 3d of February 1672. by whom he left two Princes who were brought up with the Dauphin which were 1. The late Prince of Conti Lewise-Armand of Bourbon Born the 4th of March 1661. and Baptized the last of February 1662. The King and the late Queen Mother being his Godfather and Godmother who named him Lewis he died at Fountain-bleau the 9th of November 1685. on the 16th of January 1680. he Married Madamoiselle de Blois Marie-Anne legitimated of France The King gave then to this Prince 50000 Crowns ready money and a yearly Pension of 25000 Crowns and to the Princess a Million of Livers ready money with a yearly Pension of 100000 Livers and many Jewels besides the Dutchy of Vaujours she had besides as Heiress all that was left by her Brother the late Count of Vermandois High Admiral of France 2. The Prince de la Roche-sur-Yon Francis Lewis of Bourbon at present Prince of Conti Born the 30th of April 1664. The King has given him a Pension of 20000 Crowns a year 3. Anne-Genevieve of Bourbon only Sister to the present Prince of Condé was Born the 27th of August 1639. and died the 15th of April 1679. She Married Henry the second of that Name Duke of Longueville There still-remains of the Family of Bourbon the Princess of Carignan named Marie de Bourbon-Soissons Born in 1606. Wife of the Deceased Prince Thomas and Mother of Prince Emanuel Philbert Prince of Carignan in Savoy of the late Count of Soissons Eugenius-Maurice of Savoy and of the Princess of Baden And Lewis Son of Lewis of Bourbon Count of Soissons Cousin German of the late Henry the Second of that Name Prince of Condé who died in 1641. He is called Knight of Soissons being Knight of Malta and Abbot de la Couture in Manse We have hitherto named only those Princes in France which are such without being obliged for that honour to any thing else but their Birth but the Princes of Courtnay pretend they ought likewise to be comprised having made great instances to that purpose under the reign of Henry the Great Representing that they were descended in a direct Male Line from Peter of France Seventh Son of King Lewis the Sixth Sirnamed the Grosse which because they have not as yet been acknowledged such we shall pass by and speak of some other Princes and Princesses descended from the House of France who because they are natural Children or their Descendants of the Royal Family Born out of Legal Matrimony have need of Letters of Legitimation or of a publick act by which they may be acknowledged of Royal Issue and enjoy the Rank of Princes which the Kings Natural Children so Legitimated and their Descendants have always had in France CHAP. VII Of the Legitimated Children of the Present King 1. THE first Legitimated Child of the Present King is Marie-Anne of Bourbon Legitimated of France Natural Daughter of the present King and of Lewise-Francise de la Baume le blanc de la Valiere Dutchess of Vaujour c. formerly one of the Maids of Honour to the late Dutchess of Orleans Henriette-Anne of Great-Brittain who is at present a professed Nun in the Great Convent of the Carmelitesses into which Order she entred the 4th of June 1675. under the Name of Sister Lewise of Mercy This young Princess was Born in October 1666. and as we have already remarked is now the Widow of the late Prince of Conti to whom she was Married the 16th of January 1680. having had no Children by him Her Letters of Legitimation were verified in Parliament the 14th of May 1667. 2. Her Brother by the same Mother was the late Lewis Legitimated of France Count of Vermandois and High-Admiral or Grand-Master of the Seas Head and Super-Intendant General of the Commerce and Navigation of France who was Born the 2d of October 1667. and died at Courtray the 18th of November 1681. at five a Clock in the Morning and was Interred in the Cathedral Church of Arras leaving all he had to the said Lady his Sister His Letters of Legitimation bear date the 20th of February 1669. in which he is stiled Duke of Vermandois Other Legitimated Children of France by Madam de Montespan 1. Lewis-Augustus of Bourbon Legitimated of France Duke of Maine Soveraign Prince of Dombes and Colonel General of the Suisses and Grisons c. Born the last of March 1670. and Legitimated the 19th of December 1673. The Soveraignty of Dombes was given him by Madamoiselle Anne-Marie of Orieans in the Month of March 1682. reserving only the profits to her self during her Life 2. Lewis Caesar of Bourbon Legitimated of France Count de Vexin Born in 1672. Legitimated the 19th of December 1673. 3. Madamoiselle of Nantes named Lewise-Francise of Bourbon Legitimated of France the 19th of December 1673. who was Married to the Duke of Bourbon the 24th of July 1685. 4. Madamoiselle de Tours named Lewise-Marie-Anne of Bourbon who was Legitimated of France in January 1676. and died in September 1681. 5. Lewis-Alexander of Bourbon Earl of Toulouse and at present Great Admiral of France and Colonel of the Regiment of Toulouse Bornthe 6th of June 1678. and Legitimated of France in Novem. 1681. 6. Madamoiselle of Blois Francise-Marie of Bourbon who was also Legitimated of France in November 1681. CHAP. VIII Of the Legitimated Children of Henry the Great and their Descendants 1. BY the Lady Gabriele d' Etrées Dutchess of Beaufort one of Henry the Great 's Mistresses during his first Marriage he had First Caesar Duke of Vendome Born in the Month of June 1594. The second Alexander of Vendome Grand Prior of France who died in the Wood of Vincennes and the Third Catharine-Henriette who Married the Duke of Elbeuf last deceased The deceased Caesar of Vendome Duke of Vendome c. was Born in the Month and Year abovesaid at Coucy-le Chateau His Majesty Legitimated him in 1595. and gave him the Dukedom and Peerage of Vendome in 1598. and caused
him to take both that Name and the Arms belonging to it The same Year a Marriage was treated off between him and Françise of Lorrain of Mercoeur only Daughter and Heiress Apparent of Philip-Emanuel of Lorrain Duke of Mercoeur and of Marie of Luxemburg Princess of Martigues who died the 8th of September 1669. which Marriage was Consummated in 1609. He took the Oath of Duke and Peer in Parliament in 1606. He was Governour and Lieutenant-General for the King in Brittany which Place he Resigned in favour of the Queen Regent in the Month of May 1650. for that of High Admiral of France The Crosses and disgraces this Prince had met withal having nothing abated his Zeal for the service of the King and State He died in his Palace at Paris the 22d of October 1665. leaving three Children behind him 1. Lewis Duke of Vendome and Mercoeur Governour of Provence c. and afterward Cardinal who before he was Cardinal Married in the year 1651. Victoria-Mancini Niece to the Late Cardinal Mazarine who died the 8th of January 1657. And died himself at Aix the 6th of August 1669. leaving two Sons by this Marriage of whom we shall speak below 2. His Brother Francis of Vendome Duke of Beaufort Peer of France Knight of the Kings Orders High Admiral or Grand Master of the Seas Head and Super-intendant General of the Commerce and Navigation of France was Born at Paris in the Month of January 1616. and was in April 1669. declared by his Holiness General of all the Forces of Christendom sent to the Relief of Candia and never could be found or heard of since that unhappy attack given by the French to the Turks the 25th of June 1669. He was never Married 3. Their Sister was named Isabel of Vendome and died in May 1664. being the Widow of the late Duke of Nemours Charles-Amedeus of Savoy by whom she left two Daughters as we shall remark afterward The two Sons of the abovesaid Cardinal Duke of Vendome during his said Marriage are yet living and are 1. Lewis-Joseph of Vendome Duke of Vendome c. Great Senechal and Governour of the Country and County of Provence c. was Born the first of July 1654. He won the prize at running at Heads performed at St. Germains in February 1680. and that at running at the Ring the 2d of May the same year 2. Philip of Vendome Grand Prior of France Knight of St. John of Jerusalem c. was Born the 22d of August 1656. The same Henry the Great had during his second Marriage by the Lady Henriette of Balsac D' Antragues Marchioness of Vernueil a Son and a Daughter being 1. The late Henry of Bourbon Duke of Vernueil c. who on the 29th of October 1668. Married Charlote Seguier Dutchess Dowager of Sully who died without Children the 28th of May 1682. 2. The late Gabriele of Bourbon first Wife to the Deceased Duke of Epernon by whom she had the Duke of Candale who died at Lyons and a Daughter who is a Carmelite Nun. By the Lady Jaqueline de Bueil Countess of Moret he had Antony of Bourbon Count of Moret who was killed at the Battel of Castelnau d' Ary in 1632. Lastly By the Lady Charlotte of Essars Countess of Remorantin his fourth Mistress the said King had two Daughters viz. The Lady Joan-Baptist of Bourbon Abbess and Chief of the Order of Fontevrault who was Born in 1608. and died the 16th of January 1669. and the Lady Marie-Henriette of Bourbon Abbess of Chelles who is likewise dead CHAP. IX Of the House of Longueville THE late Henry of that Name Duke of Longueville c. Died at Roan the 11th of May 1663. at the Age of 69 years He Married as we have said the present Prince of Conde's Sister by whom he had two Sons viz. 1. John-Lewis-Charles of Orleans of Longueville called The Abbot of Orleans Duke of Longueville and d' Estouteville Count de Dunois or the Country of Dun c. was Born the 12th of January 1646. and took the Order of Priesthood in 1669. 2. Charles of Orleans Duke of Longueville Count of St. Pauls his Brother was killed at the memorable passage of the Rhine near Tolbuys in Holland the 12th of June 1672. leaving only a natural Son called the Chevalier Longueville who was Legitimated the same year Their Sister by the Fathers side by a former Wise was Anne-Marie of Orleans who was Born the 5th of March 1625. being Widow of Henry of Savoy last Duke of Nemours This Family descended in a direct Male Line from John Natural Son to Lewis of France Duke of Orleans Brother to Charles the Sixth This Count de Dunois did such brave Exploits in the reign of Charles the Seventh against the English under the Names of the Bastard of Orleans and of Count de Dunois That he obtained for his Posterity very singular Priviledges and such as never before or since him were ever granted to any Natural Children but those of the Kings themselves After the Princes of the Blood and those which are Legitimated I thought good to subjoin those Families that the King suffers to enjoy some particular honours which other Dukes and Peers are not allowed which are called stranger-Stranger-Princes CHAP. X. Of stranger-Stranger-Princes THese Princes though born in France and truly French by Nation yet are called Strangers because they are originally descended from a Foreign House and Principality and bear its Name As those of the House of Lorain Savoy and others of which we shall here speak It is almost impossible to regulate the point of Precedence among the Soveraign Families setled in France and therefore not to meddle with those disputes I shall follow the Order of the time of their respective setling here And since the Branches of the House of Lorain that for these many Ages have been setled in this Kingdom have longer enjoyed the Bank of Princes in France than those of the House of Savoy I hope none will take it ill that I give them the first place for as for the Precedence of some other Houses there being as yet almost nothing determined in France on that subject I shall leave it wholly to the Reader to think of that point what he pleases Of the House of Lorain The better and more distinctly to describe to you all the Princes and Princesses of the House of Lorain that are at present living I shall divide the Family into five Branches and accordingly shall speak first Of the first Branch of Lorain The late Charles the Third of that Name Duke of Lorain who died of a Feaver at Cologne the 17th of September 1675. at the Age of 75 Years Married on the 22d of May 1621. his Cousin-German Nicole of Lorain eldest Daughter of the deceased Henry Duke of Lorain This Charles Duke of Lorain was detained a long time Prisoner in Spain which was the cause that the Princess Nicole Dutchess of Lorain not being willing to fall into the same Misfortune
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
Savoy-Nemours was Born the 21st of June 1646. and was Married in 1665. to Alphonso the Sixth King of Portugal But afterwards that Marriage being declared void because of the Impotence of that King She was Re-Married to his Brother the Prince Don Pedro then declared Regent of Portugal the 28th of March 1680. and who is now King She died the 27th of December 1683. leaving behind her only one Daughter who was Born the 6th of January 1669. and Baptized the 2d of March following and named Elizabeth-Marie-Lewise-Josephe She is called the Princess or otherwise the Infanta of Portugal The Brother of the said Precedent Duke of Nemours was Born in 1625. and was named Henry of Savoy Duke of Aumale who after he had been brought up to the Exercises worthy of a Prince was promoted to the Archbishoprick of Reims and other Benefices But upon the Death of his said Brother he quitted his Benefices to take up the Sword to endeavour to keep up and make to flourish in his person the Illustrious House of Savoy And so taking the Title of Duke of Nemours he Married on the 22d of May 1657. Madamoiselle Anne-Marie of Orleans Daughter to the Duke of Longueville who is now Dutchess Dowager of Orleans but died without Heirs the 14th of January 1659. In whom the Branch of Nemours after it had subsisted in France about the space of 150 years was extinguished Of the Family de la Tour d' Auvergne of which the famous Godfrey of Boüillon All the Princes of this House have remained in France ever since the late Frederick Maurice de la Tour d' Auvergne made an exchange with the King of his Soveraignty of Sedan in the year 1651. who by Contract gave him in lieu thereof the Dutchies of Albret and of Chateau-Thierry and the Counties of Auvergne and Evreux without pretending any thing to the right of Soveraignty this Family has over Boüillon which then had been long usurped from him The said Prince Frederick-Maurice who died at Pontoise the 19th of August 1652. was the Son of Henry de la Tour-d ' Auvergne Duke of Boüillon Soveraign Prince of Sedan and of Raucourt Vicount of Turenne Count of Monfort and of Negrepelice◠and of Elizabeth of Nassau Daughter of William Prince of Orange He Married Eleonor-Fébronie de Bergh who died the 14th of July 1657. by whom he had Issue as follows 1. Emilia-Eleonor de la Tour-d ' Auvergne who is a Nun at the great Convent of the Carmelitesses at Paris 2. Godfrey-Maurice de la Tour-d ' Auvergne Soveraign Duke of Boüillon c. High Chamberlain of France and Governour of the upper and lower Auvergne The Principality of Boüillon upon the Kings Interposition was restored to him and put into his Possession the 15th of June 1678. On the 19th of April 1662. in Presence of their Majesties in the Chappel of the Louvre he Married the Lady Marie-Anne de Mancini Niece to the late Cardinal Mazarine by whom he has 1. Lewis de la Tour Prince of Turenne Born the 14th of January and Baptized the 18th of April 1665. upon whom the Reversion of his Fathers Office of High Chamberlain was Confirmed the 24th of January 1682. 2. A Daughter stiled Madamoiselle of Boüillon 3. Emanuel-Theodosius Abbot of St. Saviours of Redon now Duke of Albret 4. Madamoiselle d'Albret 5. The Duke of Chateau-Thierry 6. Lewis de la Tour d'Auvergne Count of Evreux 7. A Daughter Born the 26th of November 1679. 3. Frederick-Maurice de la Tour d'Auvergne Count of Auvergne Marquiss of Bergopzoom in the Low-Countries Colonel-General of the light-Horse of France Governour and Seneschal of the upper and lower Limosin and Lieutenant-General of the Kings Armies who in the year 1662. Married Henriette-Francise of Zollern only Daughter of the late Iter-Frederick Prince of Zollern of the Electoral House of Brandenburg and of Elizabeth de Berg Princess of Zollern by whom he has 1. Emanuel-Maurice de la Tour d'Auvergne Marquiss of Bergh 2. Henry de la Tour called the Abbot of Auvergne 3. Lewis called le Chevalier d' Auvergne 4. Francis Prince of Limeil 5. Elizabeth Eleonor de la Tour. 6. Lewise de la Tour. 7. Marie-Anne de la Tour. 4. Emanuel Theodosius de la Tour d'Auvergne Cardinal of Boüillon Great Almoner of France c. Great Provost of Liege and Doctor of Sorbon 5. Hippolyte de la Tour d'Auvergne who is a Carmelite Nun with her above-named eldest Sister 6. Mauricia-Phobronia de la Tour d'Auvergne called the Princess of Evreux who on the 25th of April 1678. was Married at Chateau-Thierry to Duke Maximilian-Philip of Bavaria Son of Maximilian Elector of Bavaria and of Marie-Anne Arch-Dutchess of Austria Henry de la Tour d'Auvergne Vicount of Turenne and of Castillon Count of Nêgrepêlice their Uncle was Governour and Seneschal of the upper and lower Limosin Colonel-General of the light Horse and Mareschal de Camp General to the Kings Army and was the Most Renowned Captain of this Age But alas on the fatal 27th of July 1675. New stile a Canon shot put an end to the Illustrious Life of that Great Man and to all the vast Projects he was about for the glory of his Majesties Arms. He Commanded then the French Army on the other side the Rhine against the Imperialists under the Command of Count Montecuculi The King in Honour of his Memory caused a solemn service to be said for him in the Church of Nostre Dame at Paris on the 9th of September 1675 at which the Parliament and all the Superiour Companies were present and ordered him a Stately Tomb in the Church of St. Denis in France among the Mausolaeums of his own Royal Predecessors Of the Family of Grimaldi de Mourgues or of the Prince of Monaco in Italy Lewis the first of that Name Soveraign Prince of Monaco c. Duke of Valentinois Peer of France c. and Lord of the Town of St. Remy was Born the 25th of July 1642. on the 30th of March 1660. He Married Catherine Charlotte of Gramont who died the 4th of June 1678. leaving him two Sons and two Daughters 1. Antony de Grimaldi called the Duke of Valentinois who is Colonel of the Regiment of Soissons and was Born the 27th of January 1661. 2. The Chevalier de Monaco Born in 1669. 3. Marie-Charlotte Grimaldi called Madamoiselle of Monaco Born the 14th of January 1662. And 4. N ..... de Monaco who is a Nun. The Prince of Monaco's Sisters are Marie-Hippolyte de Grimaldi Born in 1644. and Married in 1659. to Charles-Emanuel-Philibert de Simiane Marquiss of Pianezz lately first Minister of Savoy 2. Joan-Marie de Grimaldi who was Born in 1645. Widow of N .... Imperiale 3. Devote-Marie-Renée Grimaldi Born in 1646. who is a Nun. And 4. N .... de Grimaldi Born in 1648. Of the Family of Rohan The Family of Rohan being descended from the first Soveraigns of Brittany is one of the most illustrious ones of the Kingdom The Princes of
Montausier we have already spoken La Valiere otherwise called Vaujours is a Dutchy and Peerage Erected in 1667. in favour of Madamoiselle de la Valiere and verified in Parliament the same It now belongs to her Daughter the Princess of Conti. Of Rouanez and Chevreuse we have likewise spoken apart CHAP. VIII Of the Ancient Counties and Baronies Erected formerly into Peerages most of which since reunited to the Crown POitou a County and Peerage Erected by Lewis Hutin in 1315. The County of Beaumont le Roger made a Peerage by Philip de Valois in 1338. Given to the House of Boüillon The County of Mortaigne made a Peerage in 1331. by Philip de Valois The County and Peerage of Clermont by the same in the same year The County and Peerage of Macon in 1359. by Charles Dolphin and Regen while his Father was absent in England The County and Peerage of Maine in 1360. by King John The County and Peerage of Soissons by Charles the Sixth in 1404. enjoyed by a Prince of the House of Savoy The County and Peerage of Saintonge or Xaintonge in 1428. by Charles the Seventh The County and Peerage of Auxerre by Charles the Seventh in 1435 and verified in 1436. The County and Peerage of Foix by Charles the Seventh in 1458. The County and Peerage of Eu by the same in 1458. It belongs to Madamoiselle of Orleans of Monpensier The County and Peerage De Foret held by the Dukes of Bourbonnois The County of Perche Erected into a Peerage by Charles the Ninth in 1566. The County and Peerage of Dreux Erected by the same in 1569. The County and Peerage of Evreux given to the House of Boüillon in 1652. Baronies and Peerages reunited to the Crown Chateauneuf in Timerais held so by Charles of Valois and Charles his Son in 1314. Mante and Meulan Erected by Philip de Valois Coucy Perone Montdidier Roye and Ham by Charles the Sixth in 1404. Mortaigne near Tournay by Charles the Sixth in 1407. Beaujolois held in Peerage by Peter Duke of Bourbonois La Fêre in Tartenois Erected by Lewis the Twelfth in 1507. Colomiers is an ancient Peerage and a principal Member of the Dutchy of Nemours It was lately revived again in favour of the late Duke of Longueville but now Extinct CHAP. IX Of the Orders of Knighthood in France THE Orders of Knighthood were always used as honourable recompenses and marks of the Kings favour to such as had signalized their service to their Prince and the State Kings likewise have been used to confer them on such as have the honour to be of Kin or allied to them or considerable persons in the State It being needless to speak here of all the Orders of Knighthood that have been instituted in France it will be sufficient to tell you that there was formerly the Order of the Star Instituted in memory of the Star that Conducted the three Kings or wise Men of the East to Bethlehem by Robert the Devout King of France in the year 1022. which is attributed to by some to Hugh Capet but more commonly to King John because after a long disuse he reestablished it in the year 1351. The Knights of this Order were the Figure of a Star wrought in gold with five rays upon their left Breasts The Great Collar of the Order was made like a Chain of gold wreathed with three Links fastned or knotted together with Roses of the same Enamel'd with white and red and in the time of King John the Knights wore at the end of the said Collar or upon their Cloaks a golden Star with this Inscription or Motto Monstrant Regibus stra viam This Order growing common as some say even in the time of King John the Restorer of it and others in the time of Charles the Seventh and thereupon observed by Lewis the XI to be grown into contempt with the people the said King tototally supprest it by taking the Collar of the Order in presence of several of the Knights of it and putting it with a Black Ribband about the Neck of his Captain of the Watch which is even to this day a badge of that Office from whence he is stiled le Chevalier du Guet or Knight of the Watch upon which nobler persons disdaining to own it any longer the Order ceased CHAP. X. Of the Orders of Knighthood at present subsisting called the Kings Orders AT present there are only two Orders of Knighthood subsisting viz. of St. Michael and of the Holy Ghost which are usually called the Kings Orders The Order of St. Michael was Instituted the first day of August in the year 1469. by King Lewis the XI in honour of St. Michael the Archangel He Ordained that this Order should consist of thirty six Knights which should be obliged in accepting it to quit all other Orders they might have received from Foreign Princes unless they were Emperours Kings or other Sovereign Princes who only were priviledged to wear it together with the other Orders of which themselves were Chiefs or Soveraigns with a Proviso nevertheless that the Brotherhood by common consent might modifie this regulation according to their pleasure And in like manner he provided that the Kings of France should be free to wear the Orders of other Princes with this Order The Knights of this Order wear a golden Collar wrought all in the form of double Sea-Shells interlaced one with another in true Lovers Knots composed of double points of silk tag'd with gold at the end of which hangs a Medal on which is Engraven a Rock upon which is figured St. Michael Fighting with the Dragon But Francis the First changed these Laces called true Lovers Knots into Cords of gold of the fashion of those worn by the Cordelier Fryers because he bore the name of the Founder of that Order All the Knights of the Holy Ghost are obliged by way of preparation to take this Order the Eve before they are to take that of the Holy Ghost for which reason their Arms are Encompassed with the Collars of both the Orders and they are called Knights of the Kings Orders in the plural number Of the whole number of those that had formerly received the Order of St. Michael the King selected and retained a hundred on the 12th of January 1665. of which a List was Printed since which his Majesty has reformed several of them as you may see in the following List The Order of the Holy Ghost was Instituted at Paris on New-Years Day in the year 1579. by Henry the Third King of France and Poland as an Eternal-Mark of his Piety and thankful acknowledgment he desired to render to Almighty God for the repeated and signal Favours he had received from him on the day of Pentecost or of his sending the Holy Ghost for that on that day he was Born was Elected King of Poland and succeeded to the Crown of France by the Death of Charles the Ninth He likewise stinted the number of these
succeeded the King his Father the 14th of May 1643. He was declared Major or at Age the 7th of September 1651. Consecrated at Reims 1654 and Married at St. John de Luz's the 9th of the same Month 1660. As to his Consecration or Anointing for so the French call the Coronation of their Kings though the Medals made on that occasion bear date the 31th of May you are to remark that it was not performed till the 7th of June of the said Year 1654. I thought I could not give you a more faithful Draught of the Person of our Invincible Monarch than that which I have borrowed from the words of the late Archbishop of Paris in the History that Illustrious and Learned Prelate composed of Henry the Great Yes Sir saith he to him Heaven has given you a generous good and bounteous Soul a Wit sublime and capable of the greatest things an happy and easy Memory an Heroick and Martial Courage a clear and solid Judgment a strong and vigorous Body and over and above all this another very particular advantage and that is That Majestic Presence that Air and Gate almost Divine that shape and that beauty worthy of the Empire of the Vniverse that attracts the Eyes and Respect of the whole World and which without the Force of Arms and without the Authority of Commands wins you all those to whom your Majesty is pleased to shew your Self The King of France is called Most Christian for the great and Signal Services received by the Church and the Holy See from this Crown He is also for the same reason stiled the Eldest Son of the Church and by several Bulls of Popes a priviledge has been granted to the Kings of France that they should not be liable to Excommunication nor their Subjects absolved of the Oath of Allegiance due to them This Monarch is in point of precedence the first King of Christendom notwithstanding the opposition of the Kings of Spain who never disputed or did so much as take place next after our Kings before the time of the Emperour Charles the Fifth and then other Kings preceded them It is true indeed that that Emperour being likewise King of Spain because his Ministers and Ambassadours preceded those of France as representing the Emperour the Spaniards under his Successour Philip the Second who was only King of Spain endeavoured under that pretence in the Year 1558. at Venice to gain the Precedence of France but that Republick regulated that dispute and ordered the Precedence to be continued to the Ambassadours of France as Pope Paul the Fourth had done before And Philip the Fourth the King of Spain last deceased agreed to it by the satisfaction he caused to be made to the King of France by the Marquess de la Fuente his Ambassadour Extraordinary in the presence of eight Ambassadours and twenty two Residents or Agents the 24th of March 1662. for the Assault made by his Ambassadour on ours in England in October 1661. The Title of the King of France is so Excellent and so much exalted above that of other Kings that Suidas an ancient Greek Author writes that in the World when it is said only the King without naming who it was meant of the King of France Matthew Paris calls him Terrestrium Rex Regum the King of Earthly Kings And Bodin says that that King is Emperour in France and many assert it to be a common notion of all the Nations of the World that the Quality of King is much more sublime than that of Emperour Pope Gregory the first lib. 9. Ep. 6. Writing to Childebert King of France says that the Kings of France as much surpass all other Kings of the Earth as the Royal Dignity is exalted above the rest of men CHAP. IV. The Genealogy of the Royal Branch of Bourbon SAint Lewis the Ninth of that Name had four Sons of which there was none but Philip the Bold and Robert his Fourth Son that left Issue Of this Robert Count of Clermont who was afterward Lord or Sire of Bourbon are descended our Kings in manner as follows Robert Count of Clermont in the Country of Beauvais Married Beatrix Sole Heiress of John of Burgundy Count of Charolois and of Agnes Daughter of Archimbald the Younger Sire of Bourbon and by her he had Lewis Sire of Bourbon in favour of whom the said Land Sirerie Lordship or Barony of Bourbon was erected into a Dutchy or Peerage by Philip de Valois in the Year 1329. which Lordship belonged to him in right of his Mother whose Name he bore according to the Articles of the Contract of Marriage between his Father and Mother Lewis had Issue Peter Duke of Bourbon and James Earl of Ponthieu and de la Marche Constable of France But because the Masculine Line of the said Peter is extinct we shall leave it to speak of that of James of Bourbon Earl of Ponthieu James of Bourbon Earl of Ponthieu had John of Bourbon by Jean de Chatillon Daughter of the Earl of St. Paul John of Bourbon had by Catharine of Vendome Sister and Sole Heiress of Bouchard last Count of Vendome James King of Naples who leaving no Children transferred the Birth-right to his Brother Lewis Lewis of Bourbon Count of Vendome Grand Master of France had by Jean Daughter of Guy Count de Laval Lord of Gaure John the Second of that Name Earl of Vendome John the second of Bourbon had by Isabelle of Beauvais Daughter of the Lord of Pressigny Francis his Successour and Earl of Vendome and Lewis Prince de la Roche Sur-Yon Francis of Bourbon had five Children by Marie of Luxemburg Countess of St. Paul the Eldest was Charles Count and made Duke of Vendome by King Francis the First Charles the First of Bourbon Duke of Vendome had seven Male Children by Francise Daughter of Renie Duke of Alencon of which there were but two that left Issue viz. Antony of Bourbon who succeeded him as first Heir and was afterward King of Navarre and Lewis of Bourbon Prince of Condé Duke of Anguien Marquess of Conti Count of Soissons which latter had among other Children Henry the First of that Name Prince of Condé whose Son Henry the Second Prince of Condé was Father of Lewis of Bourbon Prince of Condé of Armand of Bourbon late Prince of Conti and of Anne-Geneveve of Bourbon Dutchess of Longueville who had Children as we shall say afterward Antony of Bourbon Duke of Vendome had by Joan d' Albret Queen of Navarre Daughter of Henry the Second of that Name King only of Navarre and of Margaret d' Angouleme-Valois Daughter of Francis the First King of France Henry the third of that Name of Navarre who reuniting together the two Crowns of France and Navarre was named Henry the Great the Fourth of that Name King of France and Navarre Father of Lewis the Just and Grandfather of Lewis our glorious Monarch who by his great Actions as well as his Grandfather has
Office There are likewise twelve of the Kings Life-guard Men Commanded by an Exemt in Ordinary and a Sub-Brigadier that keep Guard every day at the outward Door and lie in the Hall Two of the Kings Footmen wait always in the Anti-Chamber to be in readiness to go where-ever there shall be occasion to send them for the service of the Children of France and they have besides ten other little Footmen If any of the Children of France be carried or Conducted to the Audiences given by the King to Ambassadours they are placed on the Kings right hand The Governess and Under-Governess too enter within the Rails upon the Cloth of State as likewise the Chamber-Maid that holds them in her Arms and the Gentleman-Usher that leads and supports them for fear they should fall Of Monsieur the Kings only Brother and his Family Philip Son of France only Brother to the King Duke of Orleans c. was Born the 22d of September 1640. His first Wife was the Lady Henriette-Anne of England Daughter to the late Charles the First King of Great-Brittain and Sister to the Present King of England to whom he was Married the last day of March 1661. She died the 29th of June 1670. leaving him two daughters Marie-Lewise of Orleans Queen of Spain Born the 27th of March 1662. Married at Fountain-bleau the 31st of August 1679. and Anne of Orleans Dutchess of Savoy Born the 27th of August 1669. and Married at Versailles the 10th of April 1684. His second Wife is Madam Charlotte-Elizabeth of Bavaria Daughter to the late Elector Palatine who was Born the 27th of May or the 17th old Stile 1651. and was Married to him the 21st of December 1671. By whom he has Issue the Duke of Chartres named Philip Born the second of August 1675 and Madamoiselle of Chartres Born the 13th of September 1676. named Elizabeth Charlotte The Duke of Chartres is Colonel of the Regiment of Guienne His Governour is the Marshal d' Estrades who has the same allowance as the Governours of the Sons of France His Tutor is Monsieur de St. Laurent formerly Introductor of Ambassadours to their Royal Highnesses The Governess of their Royal Highnesses Children is the Marshal of Grancy's Lady Monsieur the Duke of Orleans is a Prince of a very lively spirit that delights in great things and that has signaliz'd his Courage in several Rencounters as at the taking of St. Omers at the Battel of Mount-Cassel c. CHAP. VI. Of the Princes of the Blood MOnsieur the late Duke of Orleans who was named Gaston-John-Baptiste Son of France Duke of Orleans c. Died at Blois at the Age of 52 Years the second of February 1660. His first Wife was Marie of Bourbon Daughter and Sole Heiress to Henry of Bourbon Duke of Montpensier and Sovereign Prince of Dombes and to Henriette-Catharine Dutchess of Joyeuse She was Married to him in the Year 1626. and died the 4th of June the next Year being 1627. leaving him a Daughter Born the 29th of May in the said year 1627. Stiled Madamoiselle of Orleans who Signs Anne-Marie-Lewise of Orleans The Countess of Fiesque was her Governess She is likewise Dutchess of Chatelleraud which formerly belonged to the Dukes of Hamilton in Scotland and is still Claimed by them and of Montpensier c. Princess de la Roche-sur-Yon c. and Sovereign Princess of Dombes c. But she hath given the Principality de la Roche-sur-Yon to Francis Lewis of Bourbon at present Prince of Conti and the Soveraignty of Dombes which gives power to Coin Money to my Lord the Duke of Maine reserving only the profits of it during her Life In the year 1632. the said late Monsieur Married for his second Wife Margaret of Loraine second Daughter of Francis Count de Vaudemont and of Christine de Salme and Sister of Charles Duke of Lorrain who was Born in the year 1615. and died at Paris in her Palace of Luxemburgh the 3d of April 1672. By whom he left three Daughters 1. Madamoiselle of Orleans named Margaret-Lewise Born the 28th of July 1645. and Married the 19th of April 1661. to the Prince of Tuscany at Present Great Duke of Florence by whom he has Ferdinand of Medicis Prince of Tuscany Born the 9th of August 1663. and Marie Magdalene of Medicis Born in the year 1665. 2. Madamoiselle d' Alençon Isabel of Orleans Born the 26th of Decem. 1646. She is Dutchess Dowager of the late Duke of Guise by whom she had a Son 3. And Madamoiselle de Valois Francise of Orleans Born the 13th of October 1648. and Married to the Duke of Savoy 1663. She died in 1664. He had likewise a Son by her named John-Gaston Duke of Valois Before we come to the Princes of Condé and Conti we must take notice That Lewis of Bourbon the first of that Name Prince of Condé Brother of Antony of Bourbon King of Navarre who was Father to King Henry the Great Had by Eleonor de Roye Countess of Roucy Marchioness of Conti and Lady of Muret his first Wife Henry Prince of Condé the first of that Name This Henry the first had by Charlotte-Catherine de la Tremoüille Henry the Second who by Charlotte Margaret of Montmorency Daughter to the last Constable of Montmorency and Lewise de Budos his second Wife who died the 2d of December 1650. left three Children and died the 28th of December 1646. 1. Lewis of Bourbon the second of that Name Prince of Condé first Prince of the Blood Duke of the Territory of Bourbon c. and General of the Kings Armies who was one of the most Valiant Princes of Europe or to speak better the Alexander of his Age He was Born the 8th of September 1621 and on the 11th of February 1641. being as then but Duke of Enguyen in his Fathers Life-time Married Clare-Clemence de Maillé Brezé Daughter of the late Marshal de Brezé and of the late Cardinal Duke of Richelieu's Sister By whom he had at Paris the 29th of July 1643. Henry-Julius of Bourbon now Prince of Condé Knight of the Orders of his Majesty Governour of Burgundy c. Grand Master of France or of the Kings Houshold under which Head we shall speak further of him The Late Prince of Condé died at Fountain-bleau the 11th of December 1686. in the 65 Year of his Age. On the 11th of December 1663. The present Prince Married Anne Countess Palatine Dutchess of Bavaria who was Born the 11th of December 1647. Daughter of the late Edward of Bavaria Prince Palatine of the Rhine and of Anne of Gorzague and was adopted only Daughter of Poland By whom he had 1. Marie-Terese called Madamoiselle de Bourbon who was Born at Paris the first of February 1666. and Baptized at the Convent of the Carmelites in the Street called La rue de Bouloy the 22th of January 1670. 2. Lewis of Bourbon Duke of Enguien and Governour of Burgundy Born at Paris the 11th of October
with her Husband retired into France where in consideration of an honourable Pension for the support of the dignity of so great a Princess she yielded up all her rights to the Dutchy of Lorain and died without Children at Paris the 21th of February 1657. After which the said late Duke Charles Married for his second Wife at Nancy the 5th of November 1665. the Lady Mary of Apremont of Nantenil by whom he had likewise no Children He in like manner yielded up to the King of France the Property and Soveraignty of his Dutchies of Lorain and of Bar which Donation was verified in Parliament in presence of the King himself who sat there in person on his Bed of Justice in the Month of February 1662. Yet there remain two Natural Children of the said late Duke Charles the Third which he had by the Lady Beatrix of Cusance Princess of Cantecroix viz. a Son and a Daughter 1. The Son is Charles-Henry Legitimated of Lorain Prince of Vaudemont Born the 25th of April 1649. and on the 27th of April 1669. at Bar le Duc Married Anne-Elizabeth of Lorain of Elbeuf Daughter of Charles of Lorain Duke of Elbeuf and Anne-Elizabeth of Lannoy de la Boissiere Widow of Henry of Plessis of Liancourt Count de la Recheguyon his first Wife 2. The Daughter is Anne-Elizabeth Legitimated of Lorain Wife to Francis-Marie of Lorain Count of l' Isle-bone who was Born the 6th of August 1649. The late Prince named Francis-Nicholas of Lorain who died at Nancy the 26th of January 1670. was Brother to the said Duke Charles and likewise Married his Cousin-German Claudia of Lorain younger Sister of the abovesaid Dutchess Nicole by whom he left an only Son who is Charles-Leopold-Nicolas-Sixtus of Lorain the present Duke of Lorain in Title though as yet he has no possession of it as having refused to be included in the late Treaty of Nimguen His Titles are Duke of Lorain Marchis Calabria Bar and Gueldres Marquess of Pont-a-Mousson and of Nomeny Count of Provence and of Vaudemont Blamont Zutphen Sarwerden and Salm He was Born at Vienna the 3d of April 1643. On the 15th of February 1678. He Married the Princess Eleonor-Marie of Austria Sister to the Emperour and Queen Dowager of Poland He has for several Years been Generalissimo of the Imerial Forces He took Philipsburg from the French and has done very noble things against the Turks in Hungary at the relief of Vienna the Battel of Gran and the two Sieges of Buda c. The late Duke Charles had likewise two Sisters 1. Margaret of Lorain called Madame Dowager as being Widow of the late Monsieur Gaston Duke of Orleans Brother to the last and Uncle to the present King of whose Children we have spoken she died the 3d of April 1672. 2. Henriette of Lorain the younger Sister Married to her first Husband Lewis of Lorain Prince of Phalzburg Of the second Branch which is of Guise The late Duke of Joyeuse Lewis of Lorain left a Son and two Daughters by his Wife Margaret of Valois only Daughter and Heir of the Duke of Angouleme and of Henriette de la Guiâ—he Lady de la Palisse 1. The Son was named Lewis-Joseph of Lorain Duke of Guise he died the 30th of July 1671. on the 15th of May 1667. he Married Madamoiselle d' Alençon Isabelle of Orleans to whom he left a Son called Francis-Joseph of Lorain Duke of Alençon of Guise c. who died the 16th of March 1675. 2. Madamoiselle of Guise named Marie of Lorain Dutchess of Guise and Joyeuse c. Born in 1615. and 3. Francise-Renée of Lorain of Guise Abbess of Montmarire Born in 1621. and died the 5th of December 1682. Of the third Branch which is of Chevreuse The late Duke of Chevreuse was named Claudius of Lorain Son of Henry of Lorain Duke of Guise he died in his Palace at Paris the 24th of January 1657. and of three Daughters he had by the Lady Marie of Rohan who was Widow of the Constable of Luyne there is none left but Henriette of Lorain of Chevreuse Abbess of Joüare who was Born in 1631. Of the fourth Branch which is of Elbeuf The late Duke of Elbeuf who died the 8th of December 1657. left four lawful Children by Catherine-Henriette Legitimated of France Sister to the late Caesar Duke of Vendome and Daughter of King Henry the Great and of Gabriele d' Etrées Dutchess of Beaufort I. The Eldest who is at present the head of the House of Lorain in France is Charles Duke of Elbeuf c. and Governour for his Majesty in Picardy of the Country and County of Artois of Hainaut and the particular Governour of the Town and Cittadel of Montreuil on the Sea in the said Province of Picardy He was Born 1620. and Married to his first Wife on the 7th of March 1648. Anne-Elizabeth de Lannoy Daughter of the Count of Lazzon and Widow of Henry du Plessis Count de la Rocheguyon and to his second Wife in the Month of May 1656. Elizabeth de la Tour d' Auvergne Sister to the Duke of Boüillon who died the 23d of October 1680. And to his third Wife on the 25th of August 1684. Francise de Montaut de Navailles Daughter of the Marshal Duke of that Name By his first Wife he has two Children Charles of Lorain Prince of Elbeuf Knight of Malta who was Born the 2d of November 1650. and Anne-Elizabeth of Lorain who was Born the 6th of August 1649. and Married to Charles-Henry Legitimated of Lorain Prince of Vaudemont at Bar-le-Duc the 27th of April 1669. By his second Wife he has four Children 1. Marie-Eleanor of Lorain who was Born the 24th of February 1658. 2. Francise-Marie of Lorain who was Born the 5th of May 1659. She is a Nun at the Nunnery of St. Marie in the Fauxbourg St. Jaqu's 3. Henry of Lorain Prince of Elbeuf who has the Reversion of the Government of Picardie he was Born the 7th of August 1661. and Married to Madamoiselle de Vivonne Named Charlotte de Rochechoüart de Mortemart the 30th of January 1677. by whom he has one Son called the Abbot of Lorain whose name is Lewis of Lorain he was Born the 8th of September 1662. and is Abbot of Orcamp 4. Prince Emanuel of Lorain II. Charles of Lorain Count of Harcourt c. was Born in 1623. He Married in the year 1645. Anne of Ornano Niece to the Marshal of that Name by whom he had three Sons and three Daughters viz. 1. Alphonso-Henry-Charles of Lorain Prince of Harcourt Count of Montlaur c. who about the end of February 1667. Married Marie Francise de Brancas Daughter of the Count de Brancas Lady of Honour or of the Palace to the Queen Their Children are 1. Anne-Marie-Joseph of Lorain-Harcourt Count of Montlaur Born the last of April 1679. 2. Suson of Lorain-Harcourt 3. Francis of Lorain-Harcourt The Prince and Princess of Harcourt had the honourable Office of Conducting into
as soon as the King has changed his Shirt he lets in the Nobility and the Officers in order as he sees them more or less qualified If any speak too loud in the Chamber the Usher Commands Silence They carry Flambo's overlaid with Vermilion gilt before his Majesty when he goes out or in any where or from Chamber to Chamber or when he goes up or down Stairs in any of the Apartments of the Louvre but when he goes any further into the Courts they quit him at the Door and leave only the Pages to light him to whom it only belongs The Ushers have the Priviledge to wait with their Swords by their sides and their Cloaks on their Shoulders Upon the Annual Festivals and on all Dayes of Solemnity as at Te Deums on the Dayes of the Kings Majority Coronation or Marriage when he touches for the Evil when he follows the Processions when he fits on his Bed of Justice in Parliament or at the Creation of the Knights of his Orders and at all the Kings first Entries into any Towns two of these Ushers carry before his Majesty two silver guilt Maces letting the tops of the said Maces lean gently on their Shoulders and every time they carry these Maces there is due to them a Fee of 150 l. which is punctually paid them by express Order at the Treasure-Royal But when the King goes to Parliament besides the 150 l. they have out of the Treasure Royal the Chief President Orders a like summe to be paid them out of the Fines In like manner at the Kings first Entry into any Cities there is due to them from the Officers of the said Town a Mark of Gold being the value of 400 l. besides their said constant Fee of 150 l. out of the Treasure Royal. These two Maces are carried every where after the King in the Chests of the Wardrobe At Coronations and Creations of Knights the two Ushers that bear the Maces are habited in white Sattin Doublets with Sleeves slashed in several rows and their Shifts swelling out of the said slashes with Trunk-Breeches and Cloaks of the same with silk Pearl-Colour'd Stockings Shoes covered with white Sattin and white Velvet or Sattin Caps or Bonnets They have their share in the Fees and Presents given by Governours and Lieutenants of Towns or Provinces Great Officers of the Crown and those of the Kings Houshold the Chief Presidents of Parliaments the Eschevins or Sheriffs of Paris or others when at their several admissions they take the Oath of Fidelity to his Majesty 'T is the Ushers Duty to make them that are in the Chamber get out of the way whether it be to keep them from standing in his Majesties light when he is Dressing or Undressing him or to clear his passage when he goes from his Chair to his Praying-Desk from that to his Closet or when he goes from one side of his Chamber to the other No Body ought to have his Hat on in the Kings Bed-Chamber though it be at certain hours when there is but two or three Officers there And the Ushers are to see too that no Body Combs themselves there or sit down upon the Seats the Table or the Rails of the Alcove They have their Ordinary at the old Table of the Great Master which is now that of the Masters of the Houshold and those four that are in Waiting have every day to their Breakfast a Bottle of Wine and a Loaf They are allowed every day out of the Eruitry a Flambo of white Wax of half a pound weight On Council-Days if the Council be held in the Bed-Chamber they go from his Majesty to give notice to the Secretaries of State and in the absence of the chief Valets de Chambres they keep the Doors of the Council-Chamber They have the Honour to carry in their Arms the Children of France during their Infancy The two Ushers of the Chamber that wait at the Dauphins have each of them a Crown a day for their Diet one of the four Ushers that are in Waiting at the Kings goes every day and waits on the Duke of Burgundy and he that stays with that Prince in the Kings absence has a Crown a Day for his Diet and the Officers of the Kings Counting-House or Green-Cloth diminish so much as his Ordinary comes to at the Table he should otherwise eat it and discount it to his Majesties profit Another Usher likewise appointed to wait on the Duke of Anjou has the like allowance which will be the rule for all the Children the Dauphin shall have When the Usher asks any one that would come in his Name whoever he be he ought not to take it ill because he is obliged by his Office to know who he lets in It is to be observed that any person that would enter into the Bed-Chamber the Anti-Chamber and the Closets when the Doors are shut must scratch gently at the Door and not knock hard and when he would go out he is not to open the Door himself but to call to the Usher to open it for him When the King any Queens Children of France and their Wives or any Ambassadors that go to or come from Audience come in or go out of the Chamber the Usher presently opens to them both the Leaves of the Door the same is done by the Usher of the Anti-Chamber and by the Sentinel at the Door of the Guard-Chamber There are besides two Ushers of the Closet that wait six Months each who have 660 l. Salary and a gratuity of 600 l. at the Treasure Royal. They eat at the Masters of the Housholds Table If on a Council-Day the Council be held in any of the Closets then 't is the Usher of the Closets Duty to give notice of it from the King to the Secretaries of State There two Ushers of the Anti-Chamber who have a yearly Salary of 500 l. each They eat at the Valets de Chambrés Table and are allowed Bread and Wine too for their Breakfast At New-years-tide the Queen when there is one gives for a New-Years Gift 4 l to the Ushers a 100 l. at each Station that is to say 100 l. among the Ushers of the Anti-Chamber as much to him that keeps the Closet and as much among those of the Bed-Chamber By which means he that keeps the Cabinet that day and that is in waiting the first half year beginning in January has as much alone as the two Ushers of the Anti-Chamber and the four Ushers of the Bed-Chamber And formerly when the two Ushers of the Anti-Chamber waited by turns each their half year he whose turn it was to wait at New-years-tide had the whole 100 l. to himself but since they have been both made ordinary and serve all the year round the said summ is usually parted among them which Order was made about twenty years ago The Porte-Manteau ' s or Cloak-Carriers Are twelve in number and serve quarterly three each quarter and have yearly 660 l.
allowance of 131 l. 12 d. a Month for their Diet. The Super-Intendant of the Musicks Office is to examine the Voices and Instruments that compose it that so his Majesty may have good Musick All that is to be sung by this Musick is first to be concerted in his presence and he may if he please keep a Page with him There are two Masters of the Children of the Musick who have the charge of keeping and instructing the three Pages of the Musick of the Chamber and have a Salary of 720 l. These Masters in the absence of the Super-intendant officiate for him There is one Composer of the Musick who may if he please be always doing and beating the Measures of his Works before they come to be examined by the Super-Intendant He that now enjoys this place is the Famous Baptist Lully an Italian by Nation whose Salary is 600 l. There are besides several Singers and Players on Instruments belonging to this Musick who have each a Salary of 600 l. and an allowance of 800 l. for their Diet and 80 Crowns for their Horses to follow the Court. There is likewise a Band of Violins called still the great Band of 24 though they be at present 25 who have each a Salary of 365 l. and play at the Kings Dinner and at Balls and Comedies And another lesser Band called the little Violins in number 21 who have each 600 l. Salary They follow the King along the Country and commonly play at his Supper and at Balls and other his Majesties Recreations with whom at certain Ceremonies as at Coronations Entries into Towns Marriages and other great Solemnities and Rejoicings the other Band of the Violins of the great Stables together with the Hoboys and other Musick of which we shall speak in their place are made to play There is likewise one Usher in Ordinary and Advertiser of the Balets and one Keeper of the Musick-Instruments instead of the two Dwarfs which were used to be specified in the Book of Establishment who have each a Salary of 300 l. Note that whether it be to insinuate the Grandeur of the Kings and Sons of France above all other Soveraign Princes or for some other reason is uncertain it is the Custom in the Court of France that when the Musick of the Kings Chamber by his Majesties Order goes to play before any of the Princes of the Blood except the Sons of France or before any other Princes though they be Soveraign if those Princes put on their Hats the Musick of the Kings Chamber put on their Hats too Thus they did before the Duke of Lorrain at Nantes in the year 1626. but at Perpignan in the year 1642. the Prince of Morgues being told of this Priviledge choser rather to hear the Musick Bare-headed The same thing was observed at the Palace of Mazarin before the Princes of Modena and Mantua in presence of the late Cardinal Mazarin Of the Gentlemen in Ordinary of the Kings Houshold They were Created by Henry the Third to the number of 48 but Henry the Great reduced them to 24. They are entred upon the Book of Establishment and divided into two Bodies as serving each their half year although they observe not so exactly that Order in Waiting The last King Lewis the XIII having exiled one of these Gentlemen and given his place to another the Queen Anne of Austria being Regent re-establisht him that was Exiled without Discarding the other that held his place so that and since that another place was added by way of recompense to a Gentleman for Voyages he had made to Constantinople both which places are still continued so that there are at present 26 but the number to which Henry the IV. reduced them was but 24. They ought to keep near the Kings Person to receive his Commands and when the King has any business to negotiate in Foreign Countries any Troops to be conducted to the Army or to be disposed of into Winter-Quarters when he has occasion to have his pleasure Communicated in the Provinces of his Kingdom and in the Parliaments and Soveraign Courts he commonly makes use of these Gentlemen in Ordinary He likewise makes use of them in all Complements of Congratulation or Condoleance he has a mind to send to other Kings and Sovereign Princes upon any subject of Joy or Affliction befallen them or when he would sound their intentions in any actions that seem to have been done by their Ministers and owned by them as also when he is pleased so far to honour any of the Princes and great Lords of his Kingdom so far as to send to visit them or to present them any Dignities Offices or Marks of Honour from him When the King goes to the Army they have the honour to be his Aids de Camp and if any Prisoners of note be taken his Majesty charges them with the Conduct of them so far as to the Fortresses where his pleasure is to have them kept They are also appointed by the King to attend on Princes and Princesses Exiled that come into France At the Funeral Solemnities of any Children of France they have the Honour to hold up the Corners of the Pall. The King usually commits to them the Government of some young Prince or other They have every of them a Salary of 2000 l. a year which is paid them at the Treasure-Royal upon an establishment apart They had formerly too a Table to themselves but at present they eat at the old Table of the Great Master otherwise called the Table of the Masters of the Houshold They had once a Chief over them who was the Constable of Luynes who had been one of them but they desired his Majesty they might have no more Nor has this Order of Gentlemen onely produced one Constable but several Marshals of France and Knights of the King Orders as the Marshal de Toiras the Marshal de Marillac and several others And because in all Books of Establishments made for the Kings Houshold the Physicians and other Officers relating to the preservation or recovery of health are always placed next after those of the Chamber we shall therefore observe the same Order and speak now Of the Kings Physicians and other Officers of Health Under these two Titles are comprehended First The Physicians 2. The Chyrurgions 3. The Apothecaries 1. The Physicians are The Chief Physician has a Salary of 3000 l 2000 l. Board-Wages at the Chamber of Deniers 16000 l. for his Maintenance 3000 l. for his Coach and abundance of other Gratuities and Perquisites He has a very great Power and can License any to practice Physick though they never passed the formalities of taking Degrees in that Science Note That the Chief Physician sometimes gives Orders in the Kitchin what Diet shall be provided for his Majesty and how when he is under a Course of Physick The first Physicians of the King the Queen the Dauphin and Dauphiness though they be not Doctors of the Faculty
Audiences and two other Deputies to take informations under the Lieutenants of the Short-Robe in the Field and out of the Kings Quarter and then they are obliged within twenty four hours to put up their informations into the Registry or Recorders Office and to cause their Prisoners to be brought up to be Examined by the Lieutenants of the Long-Robe and in their absence by the Lieutenants and Exempts of the short one who only have power to take cognisance of and judge criminal Causes among the Kings Retainers and in his Quarter All the Officers above-mentioned are Commoners or Tablers in the Kings Houshold and on the four chief Festivals of the year are allowed Bread Wine and Meat Candles on Candlemas and Corpus Christi days and Prayer-Books and Cloth in the Holy Week There are also twelve Proctors called Postulants One Chief Usher and twelve other Ushers that wear the Kings Livery and carry in their hands a blue Wand with Flower-deluces at the end They are Exempt from Taxes Subsidies and Loans and enjoy all the other Priviledges of the Commoners of the Kings Houshold There are likewise two Notaries and Keepers of the Royal Notes that follow the Court And One Usher Trumpeter at 272 l. 10 d. Salary And One Executioner of Criminal Sentences Besides these there are other Officers as they call them of the Short-Robe that are a kind of Medium between Civil and Military Officers which we shall add here viz. One Lieutenant-General Four Lieutenants officiating each two quarters in a year who have a Salary of 400 l. and a gratuity of 600 l. Four other Lieutenants quarterly Waiters The Lieutenant of the quarter beginning in January has the liberty if he will to serve and bear the Staff in the quarter beginning in July he of July quarter in January he of April in October and he of October in April In the absence of the Great Provost they receive Orders immediately from the King When the Lieutenant of the Sword or of the Short-Robe of the Provosts Court has a mind to go up to the Seat of the Audiences at Paris he sits on the right hand of the Lieutenant-General that is of the Long-Robe and that presides there and the Kings Proctor as a Counsellour by his place sits on his left This has been practised several times and lately on Saturday the 30th of August 1681. When the Sieur Barbier Lieutenant-General of the Long-Robe had at his right hand the Sieur Tournier Lieutenant of the Short-Robe and the Sieur Le Roy de Gomberville Proctor for the King on his left and in the absence of the Lieutenant-General of the Long-Robe the Lieutenant of the Sword presides and has the Kings Proctor on his left hand There is likewise another Lieutenant of the Provostship that ordinarily waits on the Chancellour where he has his Diet and 5500 l. Salary and gratuity They are likewise Commoners of the Houshold and enjoy the same Priviledges with other Officers of the same As for the Exempts and Guards belonging to the Provostship we shall speak of them among the Military Officers of the Kings Houshold There are belonging to the Provostship besides these one Chaplain called the Chaplain of St. Barbara One Marshal or Harbinger of the Lodgings Three Treasurers of the Provost-ship that pay all the Officers of it both Civil and Military they serve by turns each one his year CHAP. XXI Of the Great Master the Master and Aid or Assistant of the Ceremonies THE Great Master of the Ceremonies of France is Jule Armand Colbert Marquiss of Blainville he was sworn the 30th of January 1685. His Salary is 3000 l. He is sworn by the Great Master of the Houshold under him there is One Master of the Ceremonies who has 2000 l. Salary and is likewise sworn by the Great Master of the Houshold and One Aid or Assistant of the Ceremonies at 600 l. Salary The Great Master Master and Assistant or Aid of the Ceremonies exercise their Offices jointly at Royal Solemnities bearing in their hands a Staff of Ceremony covered with black Velvet with the handle and top tipt with Ivory The Assistant of Ceremonies is also sworn by the Great Master of the Houshold They are to be present at Coronations of Kings and at the opening of Assemblies of the Estates at Christnings and Marriages of Kings and Princes at the first and last Audiences of Ambassadours both Ordinary and Extraordinary at the conducting of Queens or Princesses and at their Obsequies and Funeral Pomps where they order all and take care to give every one their Rank and Precedence due to their quality They are clad in different habits almost at every one of those different Ceremonies When the Great Master the Master or the Aid of the Ceremonies go to carry any Order or Message to any of the Soveraign Courts after they have saluted them they take their place among the Counsellours but with this difference that if it be the Great Master of the Ceremonies himself he takes place above the last Counsellour but if it be the Master in Ordinary or his Aid he takes his Seat after them all and then upon a sign made to him by the chief President he speaks to them from his Seat with his Head covered his Sword by his side and his Staff of Ceremonies in his hand At the first and last Audiences of Ambassadours the Great Master the Master or Aid of the Ceremonies marches on the right hand of the Ambassadour a little before him from the bottom of the Stairs to the Guard-Chamber where being come he advances before him to give notice to his Majesty There is likewise an Exempt of the Kings Guards appointed to wait at Ceremonies who in the Book of the Establishment is called Major of the first Company of the Guards Commanded at present by the Duke of Noailles CHAP. XXII Of the Introductour of Ambassadours THere were formerly two of these Introductours or Conductours but by the present King they were reduced to one who is stiled the sole Introductour of Foreign Princes and Ambassadours to his Majesty who at present is Monsieur Michael de Chabenat Knight and Count de Bonneville c. His Salary is 1200 l. But he has another under him at a like Salary The Introductour of Ambassadours both for Audiences and all other things relating to his Office receives Orders only from the King He conducts receives and introduces into the Chamber of their Majesties or of the Children of France and Princes and Princesses of the Blood any other Kings Soveraign Princes and Princesses or Cardinals Ambassadours Ordinary and Extraordinary Gentlemen Envoys Residents Agents Heads of the Orders Foreign Deputies bearing any Character or making any publick Figure and generally all Foreign Persons of Quality when they come to the Kings Palace for Audience He likewise Conducts the Wives of any such persons abovesaid to the like Audience of the Queen CHAP. XXIII Of the Secretary of the Houshold and the Treasurers
little Fees and Perquisites besides their Fees for Vmbrellas their New-Years Gifts c. And lastly There is one Porter of the Stable Of the Marshals of the Lodgings and Harbingers There are four Marshals of the Lodgings or Chief Harbingers at 400 l. each Four Harbingers of the Body at 200 l. and eight Harbingers in Ordinary at 150 l. each four Porters 120 l. Of the Officers of the House Treasure Lands and Business There is one Intendant-General of all these whose Salary is 6000 l. One Intendant of the House who has in Wages and other Appointments 8000 l. One Secretary of the Commandments House and Finances or Treasures at 3000 l. Pension The Secretary of the Commandments is stiled in the Brief or Grant of his Place Councellour of State And lastly One General-Treasurer of the Houshold whose Salary is 4000 l. Of her Highnesses Guards The King allows the Dauphiness for her Guard one Exempt and eight of his Life-guards and two of his hundred Suissers CHAP. XXXII Of the Servants and Domesticks belonging to the Dauphins Children Though there remain commonly above six or seven of the hundred Suissers with these Princes yet there are but four of them allowed every one their Loaf and Quart of Wine out of the Common Pantry and Buttry or Cellar But the Courts of Guards whether of French or Suissers are always allowed Wood according to their number if they be a whole Company or half a one or but the third part of one they are allowed Wood proportionably The Duke of Anjou has an Under-Governess one Chief Waiting-Gentlewoman and four Waiting-Gentlewomen that till his Birth belonged to the Duke of Burgundy and four others who have all the same Salary as the Duke of Burgundy's two Nurses one Porter of the Moveables of the Chamber one Kitchin-Woman one Valet de Chambre and one other Servant of the Chamber who have all the same pay as the like Officers at the Duke of Burgundies Besides these Domesticks there are divers other Officers belonging to the King that in their turns wait on the Dauphins Children viz. One Chaplain and Clerk of the Chappel and Oratory of his Majesty who assist at the Mass that is said every day in the Chamber of the said Princes The Chief Physician or some other in his place visits them every day the Ushers of the Kings Chamber keep the Doors of their Chamber too the Exempt in Ordinary remaining with his Highness of Burgundy is Monsieur de Coeurlis Exempt of the Kings Life-Guards besides whom there are some Life-guard Men and several Footmen When the Dauphins Children stay at Versailles or at any other Royal Palace when the King removes from thence to any other of his Houses his Majesty leaves with them a Brigadeer in Ordinary a Brigadeer in Waiting a Sub-Brigadeer and six Life-guard Men. What the Functions and Duties of these several Officers and Servants are we have in other places of the Book already described Though there remain commonly above six or seven of the hundred Suissers with these Princes yet there are but four of them allowed every one their Loaf and Quart of Wine out of the Common Pantry and Buttry or Cellar But the Courts of Guards whether of French or Suissers are always allowed Wood according to their number if they be a whole Company or half a one or but the third part of one they are allowed Wood proportionably The Duke of Berry has Domesticks and Servants of the same nature and their pay is the same with those belonging to his Elder Brethren after whose Models all the Housholds of the Dauphins Children how many soever he may have will be framed CHAP. XXXIII Of Monsieurs or his Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans his Houshold and First Of his Ecclesiastical Officers who are A Chief Almoner who is the Bishop of Manse whose Salary is 2000 l. One Confessour 2000 l. One Master of the Oratory 1200 l. One Master of the Chappel and Musick 900 l. standing Wages and 600 l. Board-Wages One Almoner in Ordinary 700 l. standing Wages and 500 l. Gratulty Four Almoners quarterly Waiters at 240 l. each and four other Honorary or Titular Almoners at the same allowance One Preacher in Ordinary 600 l. One Chaplain in Ordinary 400 l. Four other Chaplains quarterly Waiters at 200 l. each One Clerk of the Chappel in Ordinary 240 l. Four Clerks of the Chappel quarterly Waiters at 100 l. each Two Grooms of the Chappel serving by the half year at 300 l. each and one Almoner and one Confessour for the Houshold 60 l. each Of the Officers of the Bed-Chamber and above Stairs There are two Chief Gentlemen of the Chamber that wait by turns every other year whose Salary is 3000 l. each They are at present the Count of Tonerre for this year and the Marquiss of Châtillon for the next One Chief Chamberlain in Ordinary at 2400 l. who is the Chevalier de Liscouet Four other Chief Chamberlains Quarterly Waiters 2000 l. each Nine Chief Chamberlains for Business at 2000 l. each Nine Gentlemen of the Chamber 1000 l. each One Introductour or Conductour of Ambassadours 2000 l. One Chief Gentleman in Ordinary 1800 l. Thirty six other Gentlemen in Ordinary quarterly Waiters at nine a quarter 500 l. each One Governour of the Pages of the Chamber 400 l. Four Servants of the Pages 200 l. each and one Dancing-Master for the Pages The Officers of Health are One Chief Physician whose Salary is 2000 l. Four Physicians waiting quarterly 500 l. each Three other consulting Physicians 400 l. each One Apothecary both of the Body and of the Houshold 1800 l. and his Aid 600 l. One Chief Chyrurgeon 1800 l. One Chyrurgeon in Ordinary 800 l. Eight other Chyrurgeons waiting quarterly 300 l. each One Chyrurgeon for the Houshold 300 l. One Operatour for the Teeth 600 l. One Barber in Ordinary of the Chamber 500 l. Four other Barbers of the Chamber quarterly Waiters at 300 l. Wages and 100 l. for what they furnish as Rasors Washballs and one Barber for Bathes and Stoves 150 l. Other Officers of the Chamber Two General Comptrollers of the smaller Expences of the Chamber private Coffer and Stable 1200 l. Four Chief Valets de Chambre or Waiting men in Ordinary serving quarterly and lying in the Chamber and keeping the Keys of it 600 l. each Eight Ushers of the Chamber 400 l. One Usher of the Closet in Ordinary 500 l. One Usher of the Chamber in Ordinary and four Ushers of the Closet at 500 l. each Four Ushers of the Anti-Chamber 300 l. Valet de Chambre or Waiting-man in Ordinary of the Chamber 500 l. Sixteen other Valets de Chambre waiting quarterly 400 l. One Painter in Ordinary 600 l. One Cloak-Carrier in Ordinary 600 l. Four other Cloak-Carriers waiting quarterly 400 l. Four Servants of the Chamber 200 l. Two other Servants of the Chamber 200 l. paid out of the Privy-Purse Four Upholsters 150 l. Four Chairmen for business
Knights to thirty six but their number has now been a long time unlimited the late King Lewis the Thirteenth in the year 1633. at Fountainbleau gave the Order to fifty of his Lords and at the last Promotion that was made in 1662. there were Installed threescore and ten The Knights of this Order wear at present a silver Cross set on Orange-Coloured Velvet upon the left side of their Cloaks and Suits in the midst of which is a Dove Embroidered in silver with rays of Silver and at the Corners Flowerdeluces also of Silver with another Cross all of gold hung about their Necks with a Sky-Coloured Ribband which Cross is Enameld with white on the sides having at the Corners Flowerdeluces and in the middle the Figure of a Dove on both sides The Great Collar of this Order is composed of Flowerdeluces of gold Crowned with golden Flames Enameld with red enterlaced with three Cyphers likewise of gold Enamel'd with white The first Cypher is an H and a double A all double which may be read upward or downward the H standing for Henry the Third the Letter L for Lewise of Lorrain his Wife and another for something which is as yet a mystery The Cross of the Order is of Gold in the midst of which there is a Dove Enameld with white on one side and on the other side the Image of St. Michael On the last of June in the year 1594. Henry the Great took out of the Collar of the Order the Cyphers of Henry the Third his Predecessour and caused to be put in their place Trophies of Arms interlaced together and intermingled with Crowned H's Some assert that this Order was first Instituted by King Lewis of Scicily and that Henry the Third did but renew it The Knights upon the day of their reception or Instalment are clad in Cloth of Silver with Breeches tuckt up white Silk Stockings and Pumps of white Velvet their Bonnets of Black-Velvet and their Cloaks made with a Cape after the ancient Fashion of Black-Velvet uncut and their Ruffs stiff-starched When they are received their Capes are taken off and a long Green-Velvet Cloak is put on their Shoulders trailing on the ground wrought all over with Trophies of gold for the Knights and Flames for the Officers and lined with Orange-Coloured Satin They kneel down before the King who taking their joined hands between his own strikes them gently over the Shoulders with his Sword and Kisses them on the Cheek When the King Confers this Order in any Church he goes and sits down near the Altar in the middle of the Officers of the Order then the Great Master of the Ceremonies of the Order Accompanied with the Usher and the Herald goes and gives notice to the Lords which are to receive the Order who presently advance towards his Majesty one after the other or else by two and two and kneeling down take the usual Oath holding their two hands between his Majesties in the manner aforesaid and touching the Book of the Holy Gospels which is held by the Chancellour After which the Provost and Great Master of the Ceremonies present the King with Cloaks and Mantles to Invest the Knights and then his Majesty taking the Collars of the Order from the hands of the High Treasurer puts them about the Knights Necks saying to them these words Take from our hand the Collar of our Order of the blessed Holy Ghost c. In the Name of the Father of the Son and of the Holy Ghost CHAP. XI Of the Knights of the Order and Militia of the Holy Ghost 1. THE King Soveraign of the Order 2. The Dauphin to whom the Officers of the Order carried the Blue-Ribband presently after his Birth on the first of November 1661. Since which the King made him Knight on New-Years Day in 1682. 3. The Duke of Burgundy to whom the Great Treasurer of the Order being the Marquiss of Seignelay carried the Cross and Blue-Ribband presently after his Birth on the 6th of August 1682. 4. The Duke of Anjou had it likewise presently after his Birth on the 19th of December 1683. And 5. The Duke of Berry soon after he was Born on the last of August 1686. 6. The Duke of Orleans who had likewise the Blue-Ribband soon after his Birth and was afterward made Knight Where note that the Kings Sons Grand-Children or Brothers are Born Knights and wear the Blue-Ribband presently after their Birth though they be not fully and actually received as such till the King thinks fit The last King made a Promotion of Knights of this Order in the year 1633. of which remain only two Knights viz. the Duke of St. Simon and the Marquiss of St. Simon Of the Knights promoted in 1662. The Present King with the greatest Ceremony that perhaps was ever practised on the like occasion made a Promotion of several Knights of this Order in the year 1662. in which number were two Princes of the Blood nine Prelates and fifty nine other great Persons and Commanders Besides the King sent the Collar of his Orders of his Ambassadours at Rome and in Spain to Julius Cesarini Duke of Castel-Nove a Roman Baron and to the Prince of Conty Father of the present Prince of that Name and to the seven other Lords absent in the Southern Parts of France who repairing immediately to the then Prince of Conty who was Governour of Languedoc and kept his Residence at Pezenas were Installed the same year in Nôtre-Dame Church at Pezenas with the same Ceremonies that had been used in the Great Augustines Church at Paris the Order being Confer'd on them by the Duke d' Arpajon who was sent thither on purpose by the King where Monsieur Martineau and des Prés as Herald and Usher of the Orders officiated their Places Some dayes before the Ceremony of Installing the said Knights at Paris the King gave the Cross of the Order of the Holy Ghost to the late Duke of Beaufort in the Month of December 1661. who was then going out upon an Expedition to Sea who upon his return in 1663. received the Collar of the Order from his Majesty upon the Feast of the Assumption in the Chappel of Germains en Laye Those of them that are still alive are 1. Prince of the Blood 1. The Prince of Condé Prelates 1. The Archbishop of Arles 2. The Bishop of Mets. 3. The Archbishop of Paris 4. The Archbishop of Lyons Other Commanders are 1. The Duke de Chaunes 2. The Duke de Luynes 3. The Duke de Crequy 4. The Duke of Nevers 5. The Duke of St. Aignan 6. The Marquiss de Vardes 7. The Count de Beringhen 8. The Duke de Montausier 9. The Marquiss de Polignac 10. The Marquiss de Pompadour 11. The Marquiss de Gamaches 12. The Marshal Count d' Estrades 13. The Count de Guitault The rest are dead Since that his Maiesty was pleased to Confer the said Order on the Duke of Mecklenburg on the first of November 1664.
in the Chappel of the Louvre The Great Almoner of France who is a Commander of the Kings Orders by his Place and who is at present the Cardinal of Bouillon took the Oath in that quality the 12th of December 1671. On the 29th of September being St. Michaels Day in the year 1675. the Duke of Nevers by Commission from the King gave the Order of the Holy Ghost to the Duke of Bracciano of the House of the Vrsini to the Duke of Sforza and to the Prince de Sonnino Brother to the Constable of Colonna at Rome On the 17th of December 1675. the King and the Knights of his Orders begun to wear the Blue Ribband over their Coats whereas before they always wore it underneath and the next day the King held a Chapter of the Order wherein the Present King of Poland and the Marquiss of Bethune who has the Honour to be his Brother-in-Law were proposed and admitted into the Order and the latter of the two received the Order from the Kings hand on Sunday the 22th of December in the Chappel at the Palace of St. Germains en Laye You may please to observe that formerly those two Lords that held up the two ends of the Communion-Cloth on his Majesties side whilst his Majesty was kneeling before the Altar to receive the Sacrament were ordinarily two Knights of the Orders but now it is not so much regarded whether they be Knights or no And if the Dauphin happen to be in presence then he alone holds up both the ends of the said Cloth on the Kings side and did so several times before he was made Knight and when he was but a Blue-Ribband Man and but a Candidate of the Order All Knights of these Orders Assistant at the Kings Consecration and Coronation especially the next day after when his Majesty receives the Habit and the Collars of the Orders from the hands of the Archbishop of Reims or such other Prelate that Consecrated him The Knights of the Kings Orders upon the Festival Days of the Order go in the Morning to the Kings Chamber and march two and two before him from his Chamber to the Chappel And if upon such days his Majesty chances to go to some Church that is any thing distant then the Knights go beforehand to the said Church where they receive the King at the Door on the inside and then all the Knights march by two and two before his Majesty with their Officers at the head of them accompanying him to his praying Desk and the King commonly giving them leave to sit down they go and seat themselves in the places prepared for them CHAP. XII Of the Officers of the Kings Orders 1. THere is the Chancellour of the Order who is M. de Louvois 2. The Provost and Master of the Ceremonies M. the President Meme Brother to the Count d' Avaux 3. The Great Treasurer the Marquiss of Seignelay 4. The Secretary M. Chateau-neuf These four Great Officers wear the Cross of the Order fastned to a Blue-Ribband and put about their Necks and Embroidered on their Cloaths as do the Knights 5. The Herald King at Arms of the Order is Bernard Martineau called M. du Pont. 6. The Usher of the Order is M. des Prés 7. The Under-Treasurer of the Order is M. Damond Besides which there are two General Comptrollers Their Office is to receive the Deniers of the mark of gold of the Offices of France of which the Under-Treasurer gives up an account every year before the Great Treasurer of the Order They are also Officers of the Order and may wear the Cross of the Holy Ghost though with some distinction and enjoy the same Priviledges as do the other Officers that were Created at the first Institution of the Order There is likewise a Genealogist of the Kings Orders who is M. Cotignon de Chauvry Chief President of the Court of Monies CHAP. XIII Of the number of the Knights of the Kings Order under the Title of the Order and Militia of St. Michael in the Year 1678. with other things concerning both this Order and the Additional Orders of Nôtre Dame de Mont-Carmel and of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem THE Knights of the Order of St. Michael in the year 1678. were seventy four in number The two eldest of these enjoy the Priviledge of Committimus under the Great Seal The King has named since other Knights in the room of those Deceased and to compleat the number of a hundred to which his Majesty reduced it by the reformation he made in the year 1665. who will be received in the first general Chapter which shall be held by the Kings Order when they have made proof of their Nobility and good Services His Majesty has been pleased to honour some Strangers with the Collar of this Order and among others the Count of Padua M. Vbaldo Cima d' Ozimo at Rome and the late Dutch Admiral Ruyter But Strangers are not comprehended in the said number of a hundred In the year 1666. The King Commissionated the late Duke of Noailles Peer of France and Captain of his Life-guards M. de Beringhen Chief Querry and Commander of his Orders and the late Mr. Colbert Secretary of State Comptroller-General of thē Finances and then Commander and great Treasurer of his Orders to survey and examine the Proofs and Evidences of the Nobility of the Knights of the Order of St. Michael which were put into the hands of Mr. Cotignon de Chauvry Genealogist of the Kings Orders The King commonly Commissionates one of the Knights of his Orders to assist at the general Chapters of his Order of St. Michael and to receive those which are to be received with the usual Ceremonies according to the intention of his Majesty after they have made due proof of their noble Extraction and of their Services And at the holding of every General Chapter the King sends a new Commission to one of the Knights of the Holy Ghost and though his Majesty be pleased to continue sometimes the same Person yet he may change if he please at every new Chapter for he of the said Knights of the Holy Ghost that is named for that purpose can plead no prescription from thence for his being continued perpetual Commissioner of this Order of St. Michael In the year 1608. King Henry the Great Instituted an Order which he named the Order of Nôtre Dame de Mont-Carmel i. e. of our Lady of Mount-Carmel in memory of the ancient Order of the Dukes of Bourbon dedicated to the B. Virgin and in the Month of October the same year he joined thereto the ancient Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem It is composed all of French Gentlemen They wear a Golden-Cross Cantoned or quarter'd with four Flower-deluces edged with a white Hem in the midst of which on one side upon a white Enamel is represented the Virgin and on the other a St. Lazarus upon an Enamel of Green This Cross is tyed to a
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
where they reside The first Function or Duty enjoined by their Patent is to promote the Embellishment and Purity of the French Tongue which was the chief design of the late Cardinal Richlieu the first Protector of their Society and because in the time of his Ministry by reason of the great Sway and Authority he bore every Body strove to please him many persons of great Quality would needs be admitted of this his new Erected Society The late Chancellour M. Seguier was placed over them as their Director who after the Cardinals Death became their Protector Since whose Decease his present Majesty has been pleased to do them the Honour to be their Protector himself and has given them leave to Assemble in one of the Halls of the Louvre or of his Palace in Paris The number of the Members of this Society is limited to forty The Names of the present Members that are most to be remarked are those M. John Douiat Dean of the Doctors Regenes of Law who is Dean of the Academy Francis Tallement Chief Almoner to the Dutchess of Orleans Fraâ—â—is Charpentier Advocate in Parliament Armand de Gambout Duke de Coislin Peer of France These four as eldest of the Society have the priviledge of Committimus under the Great Seal The others to be noted are Paul Pellisson Fontanier Master of Requests c. Philip de Chaumont formerly Bishop of Dax c. The Cardinal d' Etrées Roger de Rabutia Count de Bussy Jaints Têtu Abbot of Bellival Paul Tallement Prior of St. Albin Francis Seraphim Reguier des Marais Secretary to the Academy Peter Cureau de la Chambre Curate of St. Bartholomews in Paris The Archbishop of Paris The Bishop of Meaux Esprit Flechier Bishop of Lavaur John Racine Treasurer of France in the Generality of Moulins John Galois Abbot of St. Martin des Cores Lewis de Courcillon de Dangtau Abbot of Fountain-Daniel c. and Chamberlain to the Pope Nichelas Boileau Author of the Satyrs Thomas Corneille Son of the famous Peter Corneille The most remarkable persons of this Academy that have signalized themselves by their works and are deceased since the Institution of this Society were M. Maynard M. Malleville M. Voiture M. Boissat M. Scudery Boilean M. des Marêts The Famous Peter Corneille M. Vaugelas M. Balzac M. Serizay M. St. Amand. M. d' Ablancourt Hardouin de Perefixe late Archbishop of Paris M. de Gomberville M. de Mezeray We expect daily from this Illustrious Society a French Grammar and Dictionary by which people may be directed how to speak and write French correctly Queen Christine of Suedeland honoured this Society with a visit to which she was Conducted by the late Chancellour Seguier on Monday the 11th of March 1658. They performed before her Majesty in their ordinary places their usual Exercises and Conferences with which her Majesty signified her self highly satisfied On the 8th of June 1669. there was a Royal Academy establisht at Arles composed of twenty Gentlemen Natives and Inhabitants of the same City with the like Priviledges as have those of Paris of which the Duke of St. Aignan is Protector The Patents for that purpose were verified the same day in the Parliament of Provence since which in the year 1677. their number was augmented to twenty One of these named M. de Guion is writing the History of the present King in Latin There is also an Academy Royal at Soissons established there in the Month of June 1675. of which the Cardinal d' Etrées is Protector Another at Ville-Franche in Beaujolois of which the Archbishop of Lyons is Protector And another at Nîmes which was opened the 8th of September 1682. CHAP. LVI Of Dignities without the Kingdom The Ambassadors of France in Foreign Countries are 1. AT Rome the Marquiss de Lavardin 2. In Spain the Marquiss de Feuquieres Counsellour of State in Ordinary Ambassador Extraordinary 3. In England M. Barillon 4. In Portugal M. Amelot de Gournay Ambassador Extraordinary 5. In Denmark the Count de Chiverny 6. In Holland the Count d' Avaux 7. In Savoy the Marquiss d' Arcy Ambassador 8. At Venice M. de la Haye Ventelet formerly Ambassador in Turky 9. In Suisserland M. Tambonneau 10. At Constantinople M. Girardin Note That the Ambassadors sent to Rome the Empire Spain and England are usually chosen out of the Great Lords of the Court and those sent to Venice Holland and Suisserland are generally Gown-men or Lawyers the Ambassador of Savoy is sometimes of one sort and sometimes of the other and so is he of Constantinople but if he be a Gown-man he must on that occasion wear a Sword The Residents Envoys or Agents which are sent to the Princes and Republicks of Germany and Italy are likewise sometimes of one sort and sometimes of the other according to occasion 11. The Marquiss of Bethune is now Ambassador Extraordinary to the King of Poland The Envoys Residents and other Ministers of lesser Character abroad are 1. At Rome the Abbot d' Hervault Auditor of the Rota for France 2. At the Emperours Court M. de la Vauguyon Envoy Extraordinary 3. At the Diet of Ratisbonne and other Assemblies of the Empire the Count de Crecy is Plenipotentiary 4. At the Elector of Mayence or Ments's Court M. Fourcher Envoy Extraordinary 5. With the Elector of Cologne M. de Gravel is Envoy Extraordinary 6. In Bavaria the Envoy Extraordinary is M ....... 7. To the Elector Palatin the Envoy Extraordinary is the Abbot Morell Counsellour in the Parliament 8. To the Elector of Saxony the Envoy Extraordinary or Resident is M ...... 9. To the Elector of Brandenburg the Envoy Extraordinary is the Count de Rebenac-Feuquieres 10. To the Duke of Zell and Princes of the House of Brunswick and Lunenburg the Marquiss de Bourgeauville is Envoy Extraordinary 11. To the Duke of Wirtemberg and other German Princes within the Circles of Suabia and Franconia M. de Juvigny is Envoy Extraordinary 12. To the Landgravesse of Hesse and Chapter of Munster M ....... 13. At Siege the Resident is M. de la Renaudiere 14. At Hamborough the Abbot Bidal 15. At Geneva M. du Pré 16. The Envoy Extraordinary to the Duke of Mantua is the Sieur de la Guilletrie 17. At Genoa the Envoy Extraordinary is M. de Sève 18. At Florence the Abbot de Strozzi The Agents and Consuls At Rome the French Agent is the Abbot Beneditti There are several other Agents and Consuls abroad in places of Traffick as in Aleppo Smirna Grand Cairo c. Having spoken of the French Ambassadors abroad it will not be amiss to add the Ambassadors of other Princes and States in that Court The Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers then at present in the Court of France are 1. From Rome M. Ranucci Nuntio Extraordinary from the Pope 2. From Venice M. Girolamo Venier Ambassador 3. From Savoy the Marquiss de Ferrero c. Ambassador 4. From the States General of Holland M.
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
Duc for the said Lords States He made Abjuration of the reformed Religion before the Bishop of Anger 's the 3d of September 1670. and died the 14th of September 1672. He Married on the 1st of May 1648. the Princess Emilia of Hessen Sister to William Landgrave of Hessen-Cassel who was Born in 1626. by whom he left divers Children viz. 1. Charles-Belgick-Holland de la Tremoille Duke of Thoüars Peer of France Prince of Tarente c. who has the Reversion of the Place of one of the Principal Gentlemen of the Kings Bed-chamber after his Father-in-Law the Duke of Crequi He Married on the 3d of April 1675. Madamoiselle of Crequi named Magdalene of Crequi onely Daughter to the Duke of Crequi by whom he has Issue a Daughter N ..... of Tremoille Born in 1677. and a Son N .... of Tremoille Born in 1683. 2. William Frederick of Tremoille Prince of Talmont Abbot of Charroux c. and Canon of Strasburg 3. Charlotte-Emilia of Tremoille who having been Married in Denmark the 29th of May 1680. to Antony of Altemburg Count of Oldenburg became a Widow four Months after 4. N ..... of Tremoille 5. N ..... of Tremoille II. Marie of Tremoille their Aunt called heretofore Madamoiselle of Tremoille who was Married on the 18th of July 1662. to Prince Bernard of Saxe-weimar Son of Duke William Of the Brothers and Sisters of the deceased Henry Duke of Tremoille Grandfather to the present Duke who died the 21st of January 1674. There remains the Issue that follows 1. Of the late Frederick of Tremoille Count of Laval c. who died at Venice in February 1642. of a Wound he received in a Duel against the Sieur du Coudray-Montpensier there remain some natural Children by Mrs. Anne Orpe an English Gentlewoman and one Daughter by N .... de Moussi a Venetian Lady 2. Henry-Steven of Tremoille whose Birth was Controverted in the Court of Parliament of Paris and declared Illegitimate by a Sentence of the 23d of March 1647. 3. Charlotte of Tremoille Married to the Lord James Stanly Earl of Darby King in Man c. Eldest Son to the late Earl William and the Lady Elizabeth Vere He did great Services to the late King Charles the First in the Civil Wars against the Rebellious Parliamenteers Of this Marriage are come several Children Those which remain at present of the two Branches of Tremoille-Royan and Tremoille-Noirmoutier are second Cousins to the Prince of Tarente last deceased who was Charles-Henry of Tremoille The House of Tremoille at the late Treaties of Munster and Nimguen Represented the pretensions it has to succeed Frederick of Arragon last King of Naples in that Kingdom I have not mentioned the Family of Epernon because there remains none of it but one Daughter who is a Carmelite Nun and Marie of Cambout Dutchess Dowager of that Name Before I put an end to this Chapter it will not be amiss to tell you what it is to have The Pour or The for as they term it which is a Priviledge at Court allowed only to Princes of the Blood or to Legitimated Princes or to such Lords who as those of this last sort have the Priviledge and Rank of Princes To explain then what is the meaning of having the Pour or the for at Court You must know That in France 't is a thing immemorially practised by the Kings Harbengers called Fouriers to mark out before-hand Lodgings in private Houses in all places whither the Court is to remove for all the great Persons Officers and Attendants belonging to it without consulting the leave or liking of the Owners who are bound to furnish the Rooms and supply necessaries according to the respective Quality as well of the Owner as of the Person or Persons he is to lodge at a certain stinted inconsiderable rate Now these Harbingers or Fouriers mark the Doors of the Houses or Chambers they single out for these purposes with Chalk and if it be only for an ordinary or mean Officer or any Person beneath the Quality above-specified then they mark out in Chalk only the Name of the Person without further addition but when they mark out any House or Rooms for Persons of this high Quality They then prefix this word Pour i. e. for and write Pour i. e. for Monsteur or Monseignour tel i. e. Mr. or My Lord such a one And this is called Having The Pour It is to be observed That there are some particular Lords in France that bear the stile of Princes as a thing annexed to the Lands they possess which have the Title of Principalities such as are The Principalities of Dombes and of La Roche-sur-Yon lately belonging to Madamoiselle of Orleans Montpensier of Martigues and Anet to the Duke of Vendome of Neuf-Chatel and Wallenghin in Suisserland to the House of Longueville and of Chatel-aillon in the Country of Rochel to the Barony of Joinville belonging to the House of Guise Erected into a Principality the 9th of May 1552. Of Guémené belonging to the Prince of that Name Erected in 1570. and verified in Parliament the same year Of Soubize Erected into a Principality by Letters Patents of the Month of March 1667. and verified in Parliament the first of July the same year That of Talmont belonging to the House of Tremoille That of Tarente in Italy which though it be in the possession of the King of Spain yet the right thereof is pretended to by the said House of Tremoille and accordingly the Eldest Son of that House takes thence his Title That of Soyon in Vivarais belonging to the Duke d' Vses Of Enrichemont de Boisbelle to the Duke of Suilly Of Mortaigne sur Gironde to the Duke of Richelieu Of Marsillac to the Duke of La Rochefoucault Of Leon an ancient Principality in Brittany to the Duke of Rohan Of Tingrie in the Country of Bologne and of Lusse to the Duke of Piney-Luxemburg Of Bidache to the Duke of Gramont Of Chateau-Portien to the Duke of Mazarine Erected into a Principality by Charles the Ninth the 4th of June 1561. Of Poix to the Duke of Crequi Of Buch to the Duke of Foix-Rendan Of Bedeilles to the Countess of Marsan Of Carency to the House of Escars La Vauguyon Of Chalais to the House of that Name Of Yvetot to the House of Crevan-cing◠Of Amblise to the House of Anglure Of Delain in the Franche-County to the Marquiss of Montglat Of Chabanois in the Country of Angoumois built on the Bank of the River of Vienna to the Marquiss of Sourdis Although those that are possest of these Principalities have not the Rank of Princess unless they be otherwise so in one of those four Mannors last above described but only enjoy that place which is due to them among the other Dukes and Peers of France if they be such Of whom we shall treat further under that Title CHAP. XI Of the Royal Housholds Of the Kings Houshold and of the Ecclesiastical Officers of the Kings Houshold
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
Great Chamberlains Table He has a Super-intendence over all the Officers of the Kings Bed-Chamber of his Wardrobe of his Closets and Anti-Chamber when the King Dresses himself he gives him his Shirt which honour he parts not with to any but to the Sons of France the Princes of the Blood or Sons Legitimate of France When the King eats in his Bed-Chamber 't is his Duty to wait on him and give him his Napkin and in short he performs all the Honours and Chief Ceremonies of the Bed-Chamber At all Solemnities Balls and other Assemblies as likewise at Chappel when the King goes to hear a Sermon one of the Yeomen of the Bed-Chamber brings always a Chair out of the Kings Chamber for the Great Chamber placing it behind the Kings and another for the Chief Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber Of the four Chief-Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber The Chief Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber which now are four exercise as I have said by turns under that new Title the Office that was formerly performed by the Camerier or Chamber-Man There was at first but two of them but the late King Lewis the XIII made them up four They serve By turns each one their Year The present Chief Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber are 1. The Duke of Aumont 2. The Duke of Gevres 3. The Duke of Crequi 4. The Duke of St. Aignan They take the Oath of Fidelity to the King in Person and he of them that is in Waiting Sweats all the other Officers of the Bed-Chamber that are admitted into his years Waiting In the absence of the Great Chamberlain they supply his Place in all things They give Order to the Usher what Persons he is to let in and deliver Certificates of their Service to all the Officers of the Bed-Chamber They perform likewise many other Duties at the Kings rising going to Bed and Dressing He that is in Waiting lodges in the Louvre The King does them the Honour to give them a Place in his own Coach They used formerly to lie in the Kings Bed-Chamber as appears by the 9th and 82d Articles of the Ordinance of Charles the Seventh that are addressed thus To the Chamberlains lying in our Bed-Chamber c. They bespeak all the first Mourning at Court and all Cloths and Habits used in Masques Balls and Playes and other Divertisements for his Majesty They have the sole ordering of all the Expences allotted in the Establishments or Account-Books of the Argenterie or Privy-Purse for the Kings Person or otherwise as likewise of those allowed in the Establishments for the Kings Pocket Expences and affairs of his Bed-Chamber Under them are the Intendants Comptrollers and the Treasurers General of the Kings Privy-Purse and of the Pocket Expences and the rest of the Officers of the Bed-Chamber It is to be noted That there are many that out of courtesy are stiled Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber that have neither Place nor Salary as such and many Gentlemen in Ordinary of the Kings Houshold of which we shall speak in their proper place Next these are the Pages of the Bed-Chamber who are in number twenty four and serve constantly all the year long each Chief Gentleman being allowed six of them though they may if they please take a greater number over whom the King for better regulation maintains Governours and Under-Governours and Masters of all sorts to teach them all Exercises requisite for Persons of Quality These Pages go every Morning and Evening with the other Officers of the Bed-Chamber into the Kings said Chamber to give his Majesty his Slippers and on Evenings and Mornings too when 't is dark they carry white Wax-Flambo's before his Majesty when he walks on Foot out of his Anti-Chamber or when he crosses either on Foot or in a Sedan the Courts of any of his Palaces and in Summer they carry over him an Vmbrello In the Armies where the King is present they serve as Aids de Camp under the Kings own Aids de Camp as likewise do the Pages of the Kings Great and Lesser Stables Of other Inferiour Officers of the Bed-Chamber There are four Officers that are called the Ordinary or Chief Valets de Chambre which last Title though omitted in their Patents was since confirmed to them by a Brief from his Majesty Their places are worth counting all things about 2000. Crowns a Year They serve indifferently as they can agree one in the place of another and have all things common among them though the Eldest usually chuses his Quarter They perform several honourable Duties in the Chamber as keeping the Door of the Council and giving the accustomed Orders to the Ushers in the absence of the Chief Gentlemen c. They lie at the Kings Beds Feet and keep the Keys of his Trunks They are allowed at present in Money for their Table 1750 l. each Under these there are thirty two other Valets de Chambre that serve quarterly eight each Quarter their Salary is 660 l. yearly they diet at the Table called the Valets de Chambrés Table The quality of Esquires has been confirmed to them by several Orders and particularly by an Order of the Council of State of the 25th of April 1669. By which the Sieur de la Faye one of the Kings Valets de Chamber was maintained in the said Quality of Esquire They perform several Functions about the King when he is Dressing or Undressing as giving him his Chair holding his Morning-Gown and putting it on his Shoulders presenting the Looking-Glass c. They make the Kings Bed the Upholsters standing at the Beds-Feet to help them The Valet de Chambre that is in Waiting is to keep all day within the Rails of the Alcove to watch the Kings Bed They are to see the Officer of the Goblet tast the Wine and Bread that he brings up to the Kings Chamber before it is presented to his Majesty When the Court is on the march in the Country one of the Valets de Chambre goes before to conduct the Kings Bed and is then allowed a Crown a Day Extraordinary When the King quits only for a few days any of his Royal Palaces the Valet de Chambre that stays there to keep the Kings Bed is allowed a Crown a Day for his Diet. The three Valets de Chambre that wait on the Dauphin have each of them likewise a Crown a Day for their Diet. The last year the King supprest all the Supernumerary Valets de Chambre that waited but every other year The Vshers There are sixteen Ushers of the Chamber that serve Quaterly four each quarter They have 660 l. Salary and 300 l. gratuity In their Patents they are written Esquires As soon as the King is out of his Bed and has got on his Morning-Gown and is set down in his Chair the Ushers in Waiting come into his Chamber and one of them taking immediately possession of the Door takes notice what persons of Quality present themselves to come in which having observed
be more than two together without having any Command there then they chuse their Quarters according to their standing And next to the Marshals of France the Dukes and Peers take place for in Armies Dukes and Peers are Lodged always after Marshals of France But in following the Court out of an Army this Order is observed First their Majesties are Lodged then other Royal Persons then the Princes and Princesses then the Great Officers of the Crown after them the Dukes and Peers and lastly the Marshals of France The Chancellour is Lodged next after the Princes and in marking his Lodging the word Pour or for is used the meaning of which we have already explained Besides all which which are called the Ranks there are the Preferred of which we have spoken The Marshals and Harbingers of the Kings Lodgings are also employed by his Majesties special Command to provide Lodgings for the Assemblies of the States General of the Kingdom when any are called or for the States of any particular Province when the King is to be present at them as likewise for the Assemblies of the Clergy which is to be understood when they assemble in any other place but Paris for there no Lodgings are marked for them Likewise when the persons composing any Soveraign Courts or other publick Bodies are to meet at St. Denis in France by the Kings Order and according to Custom to assist at the Funeral Pomps or Solemnities made at the Burials or Anniversary Services for Kings Queens and Princes or Princesses of the Blood or others the Marshals and Harbingers of the Kings Lodgings go thither some dayes before to provide them Lodgings The King too usually sends the said Marshals and Harbingers of his Lodgings to meet Foreign Princes and Princesses that come into or pass through his Kingdom to order and prepare Lodgings for them every where as they pass The Title and Quality of Squires has been conferred and confirmed upon the Marshals and Harbingers in Ordinary of the Kings Lodgings by several Orders of the Council of State Next the Marshals and Harbingers of the Lodgings is the Captain of the Guides with his Company who is a necessary Officer in Journies Of the Captain of the Guides The Office of Captain of the Guides for the Conducting of his Majesty formerly enjoyed by one is now exercised by two Brothers who part between them the following Salary and Profits viz. 2000 l. Salary paid quarterly by the Treasurers of the Houshold 600 l. a Month extraordinary during any Voyage or Journey and 300 l. when the Court is at any of the Royal Houses they eat at the Kings Serdeau's or Water-Servers Table with the Gentlemen Waiters The Captain of the Guides when the King is on his march along the Country is always to keep by one of the Boots or Portals of the Kings Coach to be ready to tell his Majesty the names of the places Cities Castles Towns and Villages upon the Road if he ask them or resolve any other Question concerning them There are commonly at least two Guides on Horseback that wear the Kings Livery that ride a little before his Majesty to Conduct him and place themselves ordinarily at the head of the Light-Horse If there be any need of repairing the High-ways for the Kings Passage the Captain of the Guides usually lays out what is needful for that purpose and is repaid again at the Treasure-Royal For fear the Officers of the Goblet or of the Mouth should fail to come up to the place where the King is to eat when he is travelling along the Country the Captain of the Guides sometimes gives them notice in what part of the Way his Majesty has a mind to Dine He has power to settle Guides to Conduct his Majesty in every Town of the Kingdom and after he has given his Grants to the said Guides they are admitted as such before the Marshals of France These Guides wear the Kings Livery and are exempted from Billeting of Souldiers The Captain of the Guides is sworn by the High Constable of France when there is one or otherwise by the Eldest Marshal of France Of some other Officers necessary in Journies which depend on the Great Master of the Houshold viz. One Waggon-Master of the Kings Equipage that Conducts all the Equipage and commands all the Captains and takes his Orders from the Office of the Houshold This Office was Created in 1668. He has an allowance of 100 l. a Month out of the Chamber of Deniers when the Court is on its march along the Country and 50 l. a Month when it is at Paris and 400 l. besides extraordinary Wages for the extraordinary pains he takes for the Kings Service in doing what is order'd him by the Office allowed him upon the last Bill of every Quarter One Aid or Helping Waggon-Master whose Office was also Created the same year 1668. who has when the Court is at Paris 25 l. a Month and when it is on the march 50 l. a Month allowed him at the Chamber of Deniers We have already spoken of the Captain of the Mules of the Chamber in speaking of the said Chamber of which he depends Two Captains of the Carriages of the Kings Houshold who have a Salary of 300 l. a piece paid by the Treasurers of the Houshold and besides at the Chamber of Deniers an allowance to them for the maintenance of fifty ordinary Horses at the rate of 23 d. a day for each Horse 57 l. 10 d. a day or 21045 l. a year They Conduct all the Carriages of the seven Offices when the Court marches either in Person or by their Servants One Captain-Keeper and Guardian-General of the Tents and Pavilions of the Court and of his Majesties Pavilions of War who has a Salary of 800 l. and 50 l. a Month extraordinary in time of Service and One Keeper of the Tents of the Courts of the Kitchins and of his Majesties Stables who is allowed 50 l. a Month at Paris and 100 l. a Month in the Country at the Chamber of Deniers CHAP. XX. Of the Judge of the Kings Court and Retinue who is the Provost of the Houshold or Great Provost of France THE Provost of the Kings Houshold or Great Provost of France is the ordinary Judge of the Kings Houshold The Title of Great Provost implies two things For first He is Judge of the Kings Houshold and Secondly He is Captain of a Company of a hundred Guards called the Guards of the Provostship which is another part of his Office in the Kings House We shall speak of him here only as in the first quality reserving the latter till we come to the Military Officers of the Houshold His Office is one of the ancientest of the Kings Houshold and one may say that in the Jurisdiction which he retains of administring Justice to all the Kings Officers and other Persons that follow the Court he has succeeded the antient Count or Mayor of the Palace which
thereunto belonging and deprive them of that mark of honour to the tenderness of their affection and the fidelity of their services for these causes notwithstanding the Edict of November 1640. We Declare that all our Domestick Servants and Commoners the four Companies of our Life-Guards the Archers or Guards of the Provostship of our Houshold the hundred Suissers of our Guard the Officers of our Stables Hunting Falconry and Wolf-Hunting those of the Queen Regent our most honoured Lady and Mother of the late Queen Mary our most honoured Lady and Grandmother of our Dearest Brother the Duke of Anjou of our Dearest Vncle the Duke of Orleans and of our Dearest Aunt the Dutchess of Orleans his Wife at present living and of his former Wife deceased of our Dearest Cousin her Daughter and of our Dearest Cousin the Prince of Condé of our Companies of Gensdarmes or Men at Arms and light Horsemen consisting of two hundred Men apiece the Company of our Guard of Musketeers on Horseback and that of the Guards of our said Lady and Mother named and comprised in the Establishments to be by us Signed and agreed to and Counter-signed by our Secretary of State and of our Commandments who has the department of our Houshold shall enjoy the Priviledges and Exemptions granted and given to them in all times and from all Antiquity because of their Services and the same we grant to their Widows as long as they shall continue so Provided nevertheless that if any of the aforesaid Officers shall make any Traffick with Merchandises and keep Inns or manure any more than one Farm of their own and that with their own hands or hold any Farms of others whether in their own Names or in those of their Domesticks or Servants they shall be liable to be taxed towards our Taxes in every of the Parishes where the Lands or Heritages by them so manured shall lie In another Declaration given at Poitiers in the Month of January 1652. His Majesty says We confirm by these Presents all the Priviledges Franchises Liberties Immunities Exemptions and Affranchisements granted to the Officers of the Royal Housholds entred upon the Establishments of the Court of Aids and to their Widows during their Widow-hood Willing that they be henceforward held quit and exempt from all manner of contributions whether it be Loans general or particular made or to be made as well by us as by any of the Cities of our Kingdom likewise for furnishing Provisions or Ammunition for the War for Fortifications Reparations Charges and Conducts Taxes Aids and Impositions c. and of all other Subsidies Dues charges and subventions in general whatever they be made or to be made in any sort and on any occasion whatsoever though it be not here particularly specified and declared They are exempt from the Duty called the Duty of Aids for the Wines of the product of their own grounds by a Decree of the Council of State of the 16th of December 1654. By a Decree of the Council of State of the 20th of January 1644. The King declares his intentions to be that no Officers shall enjoy Priviledges and Exemptions from Taxes but those that actually serve and that receive at least 60 l. for their Wages and Appointments and not a great number of honorary and titular Officers that have obtained Briefs of some Offices but serve not and have no Wages nor the Keepers of the Plains and of the Game which his Majesty pretends shall be taxed with the common Taxes excepting the Keepers of the Game of St. Germains Fountainbleau Blois Limours Montâ—â—â—hery and Boisgency There are a great many other Decrees and Orders that say almost the same thing the Decree of the Counsel of State of the 14th of March 1654. maintaining the Kings Officers those of the Queen Mother the Duke of Anjou and of the Duke and Dutchess of Orleans exempt from the greater and lesser Taxes Subsistance money c. and other publick charges There are other Decrees of the Great Council in Conformity to the Edicts and Declarations of the King of the 22th of February 1673. and the first of March 1675. importing an Exemption from Lodging or Billeting of Souldiers for the Officers of the Royal Housholds their Persons their Houses Farms Tenements Farmers Domesticks and Servants There are likewise several Decrees and Declarations in favour of the Queens Houshold in particular and of that of Monsieur and of some of their Officers as also for those of the late Duke of Orleans The Kings Declaration of the last of January 1647. which was Registred in the Court of Aids the 19th of March the same year imports a re-establishment of the Priviledges and Exemptions of the Widows and Veterans of the Officers of the Royal Housholds in the same manner as the Commoners of his Majesties own Houshold enjoy the same In a Declaration set forth by the King in the Month of July 1653. It is said that the said Officers possess fully and entirely their Officers so as that the Coheirs with them in other things cannot pretend any share therein either upon their Salaries or upon the value of their Offices if sold which being in the Kings sole Disposition cannot be reputed of the nature of those goods that are liable to be divided among the Heirs and Successours of Families As for what concerns the point of Precedence of the Kings Officers and of the rank they ought to have in publick Assemblies whether general or particular several Kings by their Declarations and Decrees have Order'd that they shall march and place themselves immediately after the Counsellers of the Bailiwicks Seneschals and presidial Courts before the Officers of the Elections of the Salt-Granaries Judges not Royal and all others that are inferiour in degree to the said Counsellers as it was Ordained by Henry the Fourth by a Declaration of the 22th of March 1605. in favour of the Valets or Yeomen of the Bed-Chamber and other Officers of the Chamber Cabinet and Anti-Chamber and by Lewis XIII First By a Declaration of the 27th of July 1613. in favour of the Marshals of the Lodgings the Harbingers of the Body and the Harbingers in Ordinary to his Majesty Secondly By another of the 20th of December verified in the Great Council in favour of the Life-Guards And thirdly By his Letters Patents of the 12th of February 1618. and by a Decree of the Great Council dated the 27th of May 1630. and by the present King by another Decree of the said Council of the 29th of May 1653. The Priviledges of the Court-Clergy The Clergy of the Kings Houshold and other Royal Housholds have the Priviledge to be always reputed resident at their Benefices during the time of their Service and are allowed two Months to go to and come from their Benefices and that by several Bulls of Popes Declarations of Kings Decrees of Parliament of the Great and Privy-Council c. And they are paid the full Revenues of their Canonries
though they have not the Stage that is the usual time of Residence and Officiating there from which they are exempt The Priviledges of the Chyrurgions By a Declaration of Lewis the Thirteenth in favour of his Chyrurgions viz. to his Chief Chyrurgion in Ordinary and to eight other Chyrurgions in Ordinary quarterly Waiters they are priviledged to keep or cause to be kept open Shop and set out a Chyrurgeons Sign with the Kings Arms Exclusive to all Chyrurgeons who are forbid to molest them under pain of being fined 3000 l. and paying all Costs Dammages and Interest in Case of Contravention which concludes thus Given at Paris the 26th of August in the year of our Lord 1636. and of our Reign the Twenty Seventh Signed Lewis and Lower De Lomenie And on the side is written the Registring of it in the Parliament of Paris the 28th of March 1637. Collationed or Compared and Signed Farcette Which is confirmed by a Decree of Verification in Parliament the 18th of July 1637. There is a Declaration of the late Queen Mother for her four Chyrurgions of the 20th of October 1637. Verified by a Decree of the 20th of April 1638. Another Declaration of the late Duke of Orleans for five of his Chyrurgeons of the 26th of February 1638. Verified by a Decree of the 7th of September 1638. And lastly Another Declaration of the late Prince of Condé for four of his Chyrurgeons of the 29th of January 1639. Verified by a Decree of the 23d of March following Besides which there is an Order of the Court for the Master-Chyrurgeons at Paris Importing a Confirmation of the Declarations made in their favour in 1642. The Priviledges of the Life-guard Men. By a Decree or Order of the Privy-Council bearing date the 27th of June 1651. given against the Court of Aids of Rouen after several Suits of Law the Kings Life-guards are maintain'd in their Quality of Squires and in their exemption from Taxes and all other Impositions A like Sentence was given by the Council of State the 4th of June 1653. in favour of the Guards of the Gate Other Priviledges belonging to all the Officers of the Kings and other Royal Houses All the Officers and menial Servants of the Kings and of other Royal Housholds excepting a few whose Offices are too mean are noble that is are Gentlemen by their Places if they be not so otherwise as long as they are in Place and may bear a Crest above their Coats of Arms. All the Officers of the seven Offices of the Chamber and others wait always with their Swords by their sides unless it be when they are troublesome to them and may wear them always both in the Louvre and elsewhere Most of the Officers have the Quality of Squires if they be Sword-men or of Counseller if Gown-Men and are called Officers in Ordinary though they are but Quarterly or Half-yearly Waiters They enjoy all the Priviledges of Gentility Safeguards exemption from Taxes and other Duties Committimus c. as we have shewn above CHAP. XXVII Of the Military Officers and Troops of the Kings Houshold THE Kings of France have always kept several Guards for their Security and to preserve a Life that is the Lives of their Subjects We read in Gregory of Tours in the eighth Chapter of his seventh Book that Gontran King of Orleans or of the Burgundian part of France seeing his two Brothers Sigebert King of Mets or Austrasia being that part of France towards Germany including Lorrain and the Neighbouring Provinces and Chilperic King of Paris and of Soissons had been assassinated placed a great Guard about his Person about the year 587. without which he never went to Church or to his Recreations So upon different occasions the Guards have been reinforced and augmented Philip Augustus being in the Holy Land in the year 1192. established Serjeants at Arms or Mace-Bearers as may be seen in the Great Chronicles where the Old Historian La Montagne speaking of the Assasines or rather Arsacides a Desperate sort of people of Syria whom their Princes used to send to assasinate the most couragious and active Princes among the Christians uses these words When the King says he heard this news be began to be fearful of himself and by advice of his Council resolved to have his Person well guarded and chose Serjeants with Macis well armed and accoutred who were night and day to attend him to guard his Person The said King made use of the said Serjeants at the Battel of Bouvines who behaved themselves that day so valiantly that St. Lewis in the year 1229. founded for them in memory of that action the Church of St. Catharine du Val of the Scholars of Paris according to an Inscription to be seen upon two Stones at the entring into the said Church which contains these words At the intreaty of the Serjeants at Arms Monsieur St. Lewis founded this Church and laid the first stone of it for Joy of the Victory obtained at the Bridge of Bouvines in the year 1214. The Serjeants at Arms then in being had the keeping of the said Bridge and vowed to God that if he would give them the Victory they would found a Church and dedicate it to St. Catharine which was performed accordingly Where it is remarkable that there are four Serjeants at Arms represented upon those two Stones but in a different manner There are two upon one of them holding in their hands their Maces at Arms and armed Cap-a-pee to represent the Serjeants at Arms as they were in the Army and upon the other stone there are two more whereof one is Clothed with a Coat with great Sleeves cut in Labels wearing a Collar hanging down upon his Breast and I suppose that signifies the Usher at Arms Waiting at the Door of the Chamber for still to this day the Ushers of the Chamber bear Maces on Festival days to guard the Kings Person in the Day-time The other is wrapped up in a long Cloak well furred with shaggy furr with a Bonnet on his Head and his Mace in his hand which represents the Serjeants at Arms that watched by night And Du Tillet in his Chapter of the Marshals pag. 282. writes that some of them were appointed to carry Maces before the King in the day time and were called Vshers at Arms whose place is now supplyed by the Ushers of the Kings Chamber and others to guard his Chamber in the night time These Guards then took their name from the Arms they used and so when they quitted the Mace to take the Bow they were called Archers Charles the Seventh entertained a Guard of Scotch selected out of the Auxiliary Forces brought over to him by the Earls of Bucan Douglas and other Scotch Lords to drive the English out of France Philip de Comines calls them the Silver Guards because their Coats or Jackets called Hoquetons were set with spangles of Silver and Goldsmiths Work Lewis the Eleventh being at Puiseaux on the 4th
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-Master and one 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
of Francis the First in 1528. It now belongs to the Duke of Orleans Alençon of an antient County made a Dutchy and Peerage in 1413. It belongs at present to the Dutchess Dowager of Guise Lewis the Twelfth Erected Longueville into a simple Dutchy of which we have spoke already Francis the first Erected Vendome into a Dutchy and Peerage in 1514. It is at present possessed by the Duke of that Name of whom we have spoken among the Princes Chatelleraud of an ancient County made a Dukedom and Peerage in 1514. which was given to and sometime possest by the Hamiltons of Scotland but is now enjoyed by Madamoiselle of Montpensier the Kings Aunt Angoulême made a Dutchy and Peerage in 1515. Extinct Dunois Erected into a Dutchy and Peerage in 1525. by the Queen Regent Mother to Francis the First but not verified in Parliament Guise made a Dutchy and Peerage in 1527. and verified in 1528. It belongs to Madamoiselle de Guise of whom among the Princes Chartres Erected into a simple Dutchy by Francis the First in 1528. together with Montargis and Gisors It belongs to the Duke of Orleans Estouteville a simple Dutchy Erected in 1534. of which already Etampes a simple Dutchy made a County and Peerage in 1326. and afterwards a Dutchy in 1536. It belongs now to the Duke of Vendome given to that House first by Queen Margarite Montpensier made a Dutchy and Peerage in 538. confirmed as to the Peerage in 1608. It belongs to Madamoiselle Anne-Marie Lewise of Orleans the Kings Aunt Beaumont le Sonnois or Beaumont le Vicomte made a simple Dutchy in 1543. It is now reunited to the Crown Henry the Second Erected Aumale into a Dutchy and Peerage in 1547. and verified the next year and confirmed in 1631. Albret Erected in 1556. which was reunited to the Crown but since given to the House of Boüillon by a Contract verified in 1652. Beaupreau a simple Dutchy Erected in 1562. it belongs to the Duke of Brissac Chateau Thierry together with Chatillon sur Marne and that of Epernay Erected in 1566. given likewise to the House of Boüillon without reverting to the Crown for want of Heirs Male Penthiêvre in Britany made a Dutchy and Peerage in 1569. It belongs to the House of Vendome Evreux first a County and Peerage in 1316. and since made a simple Dutchy in 1569. reunited since that to the Crown and lastly given to the House of Boüillon in 1652. Vses of which we have spoken Mayenne formerly a Dutchy and Peerage in 1573. It now belongs to the Duke Mazarin Mercoeur Erected first into a Principality in 1563. and after into a Dutchy and Peerage in 1569. but not verified in the Parliament of Paris in 1676. It belongs now to the Duke of Vendome St. Fargeau made a Dutchy and Peerage in 1569. and Registred in Parliament the same year It belongs now to Madamoiselle of Orleans of Montpensier Henry the Third Erected Loudun into a simple Dutchy in 1589. It belongs to the House of Tremouille Joyeuse made a Dutchy and Peerage in 1581. It belongs to the Dutchess Dowager of Guise Epernon made a Dutchy and Peerage in 1581. and verified in Parliament the same year This Honour is now extinct but the Lands belong to M. John B. de Goth de Rouillac Elbeuf made a Dutchy and Peerage in 1581. and verified in 1582. the present Duke of Elbeuf is mentioned among the Princes Brienne is a simple Dutchy Erected in 1587. but the Patents are not yet verified Montbazon made a Dutchy and Peerage in 1588. and verified the next year It was an ancient Barony It belongs to M. de Montbazon Prince of Guimené at present head of the Eldest Branch of the House of Rohan Ventadour of this we have spoken Henry the Fourth Erected Beaufort into a Dutchy and Peerage in 1578. and after into a Dutchy and Peerage in 1597. It belongs now to the Duke of Vendome Croüy Erected into a Dutchy in 1598. now extinct But the Lands belong to the Descendants of Charles de Croüy Duke of Arscot Thoüars an ancient Vicounty made a Dutchy by Charles the Ninth and a Peerage by Henry the Great in 1595. and verified as such in 1599. It belongs to the House of Tremouille Suilly sur Loire of which we have spoken Lewis the Thirteenth Erected Damville into a Dutchy and Peerage in 1610. the Honour is now extinct but the Lands belong to the Duke of Ventadour Chateau-roux made a Dutchy and Peerage in 1616. It belongs to the Prince of Condé Maillé Luynes of which we have spoken Les diguieres already mentioned Brissac spoken of before Magnelers was made a Dutchy and Peerage in 1587 and 1588. under the name of Halwin and revived in 1611. under the name of Candale It is now Extinct Chaunes of this we have spoken As likewise of Villars Richelieu and Pondevaux La Valette made a Dutchy and Peerage in 1622. and verified as such in 1631. Montmorency made a Dutchy and Peerage in 1551. by Henry the Second together with Ecoüan Chantilly c. and verified in Parliament the same year It belongs to the Prince of Condé Rais a Dutchy and Peerage revived in 1634. by Lewis the Thirteenth verified the same year in favour of Peter de Gondy General of the Gallies upon his Marrying his Cousin Frances de Gondy Heiress of the Dutchy Fronsac a Dutchy and Peerage Erected or rather revived in 1634. and Registred the same year It belongs to the Duke of Richelieu Of the Dutchies of St. Simon La Rochefoucault La Force and Aiguillon we have already spoken Valentinois was a Dutchy and Peerage united to the Crown but given by Lewis the Thirteenth to the Prince of Monaco by Letters Patents verified in Parliament in the year 1642. Rohan is a Dutchy and Peerage Erected first by Henry the Great in 1603. and revived again in 1645. It belongs to Madam de Rohan Widow of Henry de Chabot Nevers is a Dutchy and Peerage revived in 1660. in favour of Cardinal Mazarin and belongs now to M. de Mancini Of Piney Luxemburg we have spoken as likewise of the Dutchy of Carignan Verneuil a Dutchy and Peerage Erected in 1652 and verified in 1663. Extinct Of Etrées and Gramont we have treated already La Meilleraye verified in 1663. It belongs to Duke Mazarin Rethelois Mazarini revived again in favour of Armand de Mazarini and verified in Parliament in 1663. Of Villeroy Mortemar Creqy St. Aignan and Foix-Rendan we have spoken above Liancourt was verified as a Dutchy and Peerage in 1663. but Erected in 1643. It belongs to the Prince of Marsillac Of Tremes or Gevres and of Noailles and Coislin we have treated elsewhere These fourteen last Dukes have all place in the Order abovesaid as if their Patents had all been verified on the 15th of December in 1663. though there be some days difference in the date Of Polizy called otherwise Choiseul and Plessis Prâlin and of the Dutchies of Aumont Senneterre and
Orleans The Marquiss of Lanion Governour of Vannes in Brittany is Captain-Lieutenant of the Queens Gensd'arms Next are the Light Horse of Burgundy and Flanders Note That the Light-Horse Men are so called because they formerly wore only Back and Breast-Pieces to distinguish them from the Gensd'arms or Men at Arms that were compleatly Armed with Back Breast Arms and Thigh Pieces The other Regiments of Light-Horse are likewise Armed in the same manner as the aforesaid Light-Horse When they march in Battle Array five or six Regiments of Cavalry are formed into a Brigade under the Command of an old Camp-Master who is then called a Brigadeer There is a Brigadeer General of the Cavalry Every Regiment of Cavalry contains nine Companies more or less and in every Company there is a Captain a Lieutenant and a Cornet The Regiments of Light-Horse are called by the Names of their Camp-Masters There is a Commissary-General of the Cavalry who is the Count of Montrevel There are thirteen Regiments of Dragoons the Marquiss of Boufflers Lieutenant-General of the Kings Armies is Colonel-General of the Dragoons the Count de Tesse is Camp-Master General the other Colonels of the Dragoons are Monsieur de Tilladet M. de Roncherolles M. de Longueval M. de Barbezieres the Marquiss de la Breteche Governour of Hombourg the Chevalier de Tesse M. de Chevilly M. N. And the Major-General is M. Bruyset As for the Infantry or Foot after the two Regiments of Guards the French and Suissers the other Regiments are divided first into old Bodies that bear the Names of the principal Provinces of France as the Regiments of Picardie Champagne Piemont Navarre Normandy the Sea Regiment Where Note that the Regiment of Picardie has always the Precedence and those of Piémont Champagne and Navarre have each their year one after another and after them is the Norman or Sea Regiments Next are the little old Bodies viz. The Regiments of Auvergne Bourbonnois Sault Le Roy Feuquieres and Vaube-Cour and after them the New Regiments The old Regiments are kept always standing in time of Peace only the number of Men is reformed and reduced to thirty or forty in a Company but the Officers are retained that they may be always in readiness to compleat their Companies again to their full number whenever occasion shall be The new Regiments which almost always bear the names of their several Camp-Masters consist commonly of fewer Men then the old ones and are often-times reformed or disbanded in time of Peace Besides these the King has several Regiments of Foreign Foot which are composed of Germans Scotch Irish Italians Liegeois and others and particularly of Suissers of which there are six or seven thousand in France And lastly There is the Company of Fuzileers of Flanders consisting of sixty Men Commanded by the Chevalier de Montelet The Kings Field Regiment consists of sixty seven Companies We have already spoken both of the French and Suisse Regiments of Guards and of their Officers We shall now speak of the others Colonels of the Infantry Of the Regiments of Picardie the Marquiss d' Harcourt-Beuvron Champagne M. le Bailly Colbert Navarre the Duke de Rocheguion Piémont the Marquiss de Rebé Normandie the Count de Guiscard Feuquieres the Marquiss of Feuquieres The Sea Regiment the Marquiss of Liancourt Bourbonois the Marquiss de Refuge Auvergne the Marquiss de Prêle Nicolaii Sault the Duke de Lediguieres Vaube-Court the Count of that Name The Kings the Chevalier de Montchevreüil Royal the Marquiss de Crequi Poitou M. de Guenegaud the Marquiss of Biville Lyonnois the Marquiss d' Alincourt Dauphin the Marquiss d' Vxelles Crussol the Duke d' Vzais Touraine the Marquiss d' Vsson Anjou the Marquiss d' Hautefort Le Maine the Duke or Prince of that Name Dampierre the Marquiss of that Name Louvigni the Duke of Grammont Grancey the Marquiss of that Name The Queens the Marquiss de Crenan Brigadeer and Surveyor-General of the Infantry Bouligneux M. de Bouligneux Royal of the Fleet or Vessels the Marquiss de Gandelu Orleans M. de Bailleul Crown the Chevalier de Genlis Brittany the Marquiss de Novion Soissons the Count of that Name and under him M. Salieres Artois the Marquiss d' Escots La Châtre the Marquiss of that Name Vendôme the Duke of Vendôme La Saâre M. de Braque La Fêre the Marquiss de la Fayette Alsace the Prince Palatin of Birkenfeld Roussillon M. de Chimene Condé the Marquiss de Nêêle Anguyen M. de Vilandry Vieubourg M. de Vieubourg Rouergue the Marquiss of Malauze Burgundy the Count de Chamilly Royal of the Sea the Marquiss de Nangis Brichanteau Vermandois the Marquiss de Soyecourt Kings Fusileers the Marshal d' Humieres Great Master of the Artillery and under him M. de Barville with a Colonels Commission Languedoc the Marquiss de Puzingnan Plessis-Belliere the Chevalier or Knight of that Name Jarzé the Marquiss de Jarzé Clerambaut the Marquiss of that Name Castres the Marquiss de Castres Governour of Montpelier Le Royal-Comtois the Marquiss de Bellefonds Son to the Marshal Larré the Marquiss de Larré Provence M. de Magny de l' Anglée Vivonne the Marshal Duke of that Name Faméchon a Walloon Regiment M. de Faméchon Royal Italian M. de Magalotti Lieutenant-General of the Kings Armies and under him his Nephew M. de Albergoti Furstembourg Count Ferdinand of Furstemburg St. Laurence M. St. Laurence L' Allemand M. l' Allemand The Colonels of the six following Regiments being all Suissers give names to their several Regiments as follows Herlac Salis. Phipfer Stoupp Greder Stoupp the Younger Coningsmark a German Regiment Count Charles John of Coningsmark Guien M. de Blanzac Son to the Count de Roye Lorrain the Marquiss d' Hoquincourt In February in the year 1684. the King raised three Regiments of Infantry more being those of Toulouze under the Count de Toulouze Great or High Admiral of France There were seven Regiments more Created the 30th of August 1684. Flanders the Marquiss of Folleville Berry the Marquiss de Goezbriant Bearn M. de Monchevrueil Count of Mornay Hainaut M. de Pompone Boulonois the Marquiss de Vibrage Angoumois M de Proüy Perigord the Count de Chamarande The Regiment of Bombardeers Created the 31th of August 1684. Whose Colonel is the Great Master of the Artillery and the Lieutenant-Colonel M. de Vigny with a Colonels Commission The six following Regiments were Created the 4th of September 1684. viz. those of Saintonge the Marquiss de Bligny Bigore the Chevalier Pelot Forêts the Count de Chemerault de Barbezieres Cambresis the Marquiss de Chateaurenaud in Tourain Tournesis the Marquiss de Broüilly de Pienne Foix the Marquiss de Blainville Great Master of the Ceremonies The fourteen following Regiments were Created the 5th of September 1684. viz. those of Bresse the Count de Kercado La Marche the Marquiss of Bi on Quercy the Count d' Amanzé Brie the Marquiss de Charrôts Nivernois the Count
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-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
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