The memoirs of Philip de Commines, Lord of Argenton, Volume 1 (of 2) : $b Containing the histories of Louis XI. and Charles VIII., Kings of France, and of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. To which is added the Scandalous chronicle, or, secret history of Louis XI., by Jean de Troyes.Commynes, Philippe de
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The memoirs of Philip de Commines, Lord of Argenton, Volume 1 (of 2) : $b Containing the histories of Louis XI. and Charles VIII., Kings of France, and of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. To which is added the Scandalous chronicle, or, secret history of Louis XI., by Jean de Troyes.
Commynes, Philippe de
France -- History -- House of Valois, 1328-1589
8. The places, taken during the troubles on either side, shall
be restored.
9. The king shall not oblige the said lords to come to him in
person, but yet they are not exempted from the services they
owe him, when there is occasion for the defence and manifest
good of the kingdom.
10. And when the king shall please to go to the houses and
habitations of the said lords, where they shall be in person,
he is to give them three days’ notice; neither shall the said
lords wait on the king before they first send to know his
pleasure.
11. If any crime shall be laid to the charge of the said lords
or their adherents, the king shall not proceed against them, or
detain their persons, without the utmost deliberation, and very
sufficient cause shown; neither shall the said lords proceed
against the king’s servants or adherents for any crime alleged,
without the maturest deliberation.
12. In order to redress all grievances and disorders on the
part of the said lords, and divers of the king’s subjects of
all conditions, in reference to church and state, and for the
public good, the king shall give a commission to thirty-six
eminent men of his kingdom, to meet at a place appointed, to
inquire into all such grievances and disorders, to hear and
determine all remonstrances, and apply suitable remedies for
the preservation of justice, the rights and franchises both of
the church and all the people.
13. And whatever edicts, ordinances, declarations, and the
like, shall be made by the thirty-six persons, or the major
part of them, they shall within fifteen days after they are
brought before the king, be verified in form in the courts
of parliament and chambers of accounts, and all the officers
sworn to observe them; and no instruments of the king from the
chancery or elsewhere shall disannul or make them void.
14. The commission of the said thirty-six persons shall last
two months, and they shall have power to adjourn once for
forty-two days: and if any of their number shall be sick, or
incapacitated any way to act, the rest shall substitute others
in their room.
15. The king and the said lords shall entirely maintain all the
pacts and agreements made between them, as well in relation to
the appanage of the Duke of Normandy, as other things granted
to the said lords and their adherents, as fully as if expressly
set down in this treaty.
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