them should take the upper hand by turnes, and should cast Lots with
three Dices, who should take it the first time, which being executed the
Duke of Vendosme got it, then the Duke of Elbeuf, and the Duke of Mercoeur
sate the third, for that time. There were but three heads debated in
the said Assembly, the affaires of Bourdeaux, the Informations against
la Boulate, and others, and the Imprisoning of a private man, who complaines
to have been arrested, without making first the Informations,
and formalities required by the Declaration of the 22th of October,
1648, In the debate of the first head, the Duke of Orleans Said it
was need effe to meddle with the businesse of Bourdeaux, since the same,
was composed.
Mr. Colomb Counsellour, one of the chiefest Frondeurs arising, intreated
his highnesse Royall to prodon him, if he should say, he was very
ill informed: that he was assured the said businesse was not composed,
neither in Paris nor in Bourdeaux, since Mr. Guyonnet, and other Deputies
of Bourdeaux had but just then complained unto their Company of the
contrary. The Prince of Conde tooke exception at that Confounding
answer; whereupon the said colomb having represented that the said Deputies
were still at the Doore, and that it would be well to let them in
to heare the truth by their owne mouth; the first president to shun a
greater affront, replyed, that the Affaires of Paris were of nearer, and
more pressing consequence, then those of Bourdeaux, and so falling on the
head of the Informations, all that morning was spent to consult whither
President Cbarton, and Mc. Joly (so slightly wounded that he was present
at the said Assembly) should fit as Judges or no in this occasion.
At last it was concluded that the said President Cbarton having appeared
as Plaintiff before the said Parliament, on the said 11 1 Instant, and the
said Joly comming then in the same quality, and having there his Brother
a Counsellour, they should not be admitted there but as Plaintiffs,
and Ordered that the debating of that head, and of that of Bourdeaux
should be put off till this morning in the said Parliament, where at this
present the same Company of Princes in yet assembled.
The here annexed extraordinary relation, our Gazettier hath putforth,
touching the fights happened hard by Bourdeaux (mentioned in
his last Gazrtte) is contradicted by a generall Report, that the Count
d'Oignon hath beene worsted by Sea and by land; some saying further,
that in a third fight, himselfe, and above 2000 of his Men have beene
slaine outright, the certainty whereof is unknowne unto us, because this
Court hath stopped the last Expresse comming from Bourdeaux, and the
last going form hence thither. It will be henceforth a very hard matter