History of the Rise of the Huguenots, Vol. 1Baird, Henry Martyn
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History of the Rise of the Huguenots, Vol. 1
Baird, Henry Martyn
Huguenots
[Footnote 51: Preuves des Libertez de l'Eglise Gallicane, pt. ii.;
Isambert, _ubi supra_; Ordonnances des Roys de France de la troisième
race, i. 97-98. Section 5 sufficiently expresses the feelings of the
king in reference to the insatiable covetousness of the Roman court:
"Item, exactiones et onera gravissima pecuniarum, per curiam Romanam
ecclesiæ regni nostri impositas vel imposita, quibus regnum nostrum
miserabiliter depauperatum extitit, sive etiam imponendas, aut imponenda
levari, aut colligi nullatenus volumus, nisi duntaxat pro rationabili,
pia et urgentissima causa, inevitabili necessitate, et de spontaneo et
expresso consensu nostro et ipsius ecclesiæ regni nostri." See also
Sismondi, Histoire des Français, vii. 104.]
[Footnote 52: Sismondi, Hist. des Français, xiii. 317, etc.]
[Footnote 53: The Pragmatic Sanction is long and intricate, consisting
in great part of references to those portions of the canons of the
Council of Basle which it confirms. The entire document may be seen in
the Ordonnances des Roys de Fr. de la troisième race, xiii. 267-291, and
in the Recueil gén. des anc. lois franç., ix. 3-47. Isambert thus
defines the term _pragmatic_: "On appelle _pragmatique_ toute
constitution donnée en connaissance de cause du consentiment unanime de
tous les grands, et consacrée par la volonté du prince. Le mot _pragma_
signifie prononcée, sentence, édit; il était en usage avant Saint
Louis."]
[Footnote 54: Abbé Claude Fleury, Libertés de l'Église Gallicane, in
Leber, iii. 321.]
[Footnote 55: "Commemoravit (_i. e._, the papal legate) ea quæ per ipsum
tibi nostro nomine pollicenda, vovenda et promittenda, nos, antequam
regnum suscepisemus, religionis instinctus quidam deduxerat." Letter of
Louis XI. to the Pope, Tours, Nov. 27, 1461.]
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