the Month of December, and in the Sixth Year of our Pontificate_. These Letters being read, and the Deputies of the States having severally deliver'd their Opinions about them, after the Affair was maturely deliberated, it was ordain'd; first, that the Pope's Letters should be burnt in the Presence of his Ambassador, in the great Yard of the Palace: Then, that these Ambassadors with Mitres upon their Heads, and their Faces bedaub'd with Dirt, should be drawn in a Tumbrel by the common Hangman into the said Yard, and there be exposed to the Mockery and Maledictions of the People: finally, that Letters in the King's Name should be dispatched to the Pope, according to the Tenor following. Philip _by the Grace of God, King of_ France, _to_ Boniface, _who stiles himself universal Bishop, little or no greeting. Be it known to thy great Folly and extravagant Temerity, that in things temporal we have no Superior but God; and that the Disposal of the Vacancies of certain Churches and Prebends belong to us of Regal Right; that it is our due to receive the profits of them, and our Intention to defend our selves by the Edge of the Sword, against all such, as would any way go about to disturb us in the Possession of the same; esteeming those to be Fools and Brainless, who think otherwise_. For Witnesses of this History, we have the Author of the _Chronicle of Bretayne_, lib. 4. chap. 14. and _Nicholas Gilles_ in the _Annals of France_, to whom ought to be join'd _Papon._ in the first Book of his Arrests tit. 5. art. 27. * * * * * CHAP. XX. _Whether_ Women _are not as much debarr'd_ (_by the_ Francogallican Law) _from the_ Administration, _as from the_ Inheritance _of the Kingdom_.