Again, Some Years after this, _Isabella_, Widow of _Charles_ the 6th, (Sirnamed the _Simple_) got Possession of the Government: For before the Administration of the Publick Affairs cou'd be taken care of by the _Great Council_, or committed by them to the Management of chosen and approved Men, many ambitious Courtiers had stirr'd up Contentions: Six Times these Controversies were renewed, and as often composed by Agreement. At last _Isabella_ being driven out of _Paris_ betook her self to _Chartres_: There, having taken into her Service a subtle Knave, one _Philip de Morvilliers_, She made up a Council of her own, with a President, and appointed this _Morvilliers_ her Chancellor; by whose Advice She order'd a Broad-Seal, commonly called, a Chancery-Seal, to be engraven: On which her own Image was cut, holding her Arms down by her Sides: and in her Patents She made use of this Preamble. "Isabella, _by the Grace of God, Queen of_ France: _who, by Reason of the King's Infirmity, has the Administration of the Government in her Hands, &c._"--But when the Affairs of the Commonwealth were reduced to that desperate Future, that all Things went to Rack and Ruin, She was by the _Publick Council_ banished to _Tours_, and committed to the Charge of Four Tutors, who had Orders to keep her lock'd up at Home, and to watch her so narrowly, that She shou'd be able to do nothing; not so much as to write a Letter without their Knowledge. A large Account of all this Transaction we have in _Monstrellet's_; History. [_cap._ 161 & _cap._ 168.] * * * * * CHAP. XXI. _Of the_ Juridical Parliaments _in_ France.