A 7th Example happned in the Year 1484, when _Lewis the Eleventh_ dying, and leaving his Son _Charles_, a Boy of 13 Years old; a _Council_ was held at _Tours_, wherein it was decreed, "The Education of the Boy shou'd be committed to _Anne_ the King's Sister;" but the Administration of the Kingdom shou'd be intrusted to certain Persons _Elected and approved by that Council_; notwithstanding _Lewis_, Duke of _Orleans_, the next Kinsman by the Father's Side, demanded it as his Right. A Testimony of which Transaction is extant in the Acts of that _Council_, printed at _Paris_; and in _Joannes Buchettus_ 4th Book, folio 167. * * * * * CHAP. XVIII. _Of the Remarkable Authority of the_ Council _against_ Lewis _the_ Eleventh. The _Power_ and _Authority_ of the _Council_ and the _Estates_ assembled, appears by the foregoing Testimonies to have been very great, and indeed (as it were) _Sacred_. But because we are now giving Examples of this Power, we will not omit a signal Instance of the _Authority_ of this _Council_, which interposed it self in the Memory of our Fathers against _Lewis the Eleventh_, who was reputed more crafty and cunning than any of the Kings that had ever been before him. In the Year 1460, when this _Lewis_ governed the Kingdom in such a Manner, that in many Cases the Duty of a good Prince, and a Lover of his Country, was wanting; the People began to desire the Assistance and _Authority_ of the Great _Council_, that some Care might therein be taken of the Publick Welfare; and because it was suspected the King wou'd not submit himself to it, the _Great Men_ of the Kingdom (stirred up by the daily Complaints and Solicitations of the _Commons_,) "resolv'd to gather Forces, and raise an _Army_; that (as _Philip de Comines_ expresses it) they might provide for the _Publick Good_, and expose the King's wicked Administration of the Commonwealth." They therefore agreed to be ready prepared with a good Army, that in Case the King should prove refractory, and refuse to follow good Advice, they might _compel him by Force_: For which Reason that War was said to have been undertaken for the Publick Good, and was commonly called the War _du bien public_. "_Comines_, _Gillius_, and _Lamarc_, have recorded the Names of those Great Men who were the principal Leaders, the _Duke of Bourbon_, the _Duke of Berry_, the King's Brother; the _Counts of Dunois_, _Nevers_, _Armagnac_, and _Albret_, and the _Duke_ of _Charalois_, who was the Person most concern'd in what related to the Government. Whereever they marched, they caused it to be proclaimed, that their Undertakings were only design'd for the _Publick_ Good; they published Freedom from Taxes and Tributes, and sent Ambassadors with Letters to the _Parliament_ at _Paris_, to the Ecclesiasticks, and to the Rector of the University, desiring them not to suspect or imagine these Forces were rais'd for the King's Destruction, but only to reclaim