of that was reported of him, and putting off the Assembly,
he complained as he went out, that they had caused him to rise at
six a clock in the morning, to make him heare nothing but trifles,
which would not make a Page or a Foot-boy to deserve to be whipt.
A Counsellor sayd aloud, that the sayd Informations were the first
Presidents style.
The day following being Thursday the 23 13 the Duke of Beaufort,
the Coadjutor, and other Frondeurs, having repaired about seven
a clock in the morning to the sayd Parliament, all the Chambers
being assembled, the sayd Duke reproached unto the first President,
that he was a Traytor, an infamous, wicked, and ungratefull man,
having offered to deprive him of his Reputation, whereas last Winter
he had saved his life three severall times: That he well knew that
neither he nor his Complices were worth any thing, and that God
would carry on the Cause of the honest men, and of the Kings good
and faithfull Subjects.
The Coadjutor told him, that the 150000. Livers he and his
cheating Sons had yearely in Church Livings, and otherwise, were
onely given them, on condition that he should fell and betray his
King, the Justice, and the poore people, and that all the World
knowes well enough, that he and all his kindred were never but
Knaves.
The sayd Mr, de Broussell told him, that indeed he was not so rich
as he, but that every quarter of the yeare he payeth his Land-lord,
that neither he nor his Children have ever affronted the Merchants,
as he and his have done: That he cannot deny, but that he did what
he could to corrupt him, and what offer he hath done him for that
end, and that he thought to make him be turned out of the Barreau,
but that himselfe would be outed first.
Mr. Quareson, Counsellor, reproached unto him, that he was a
Scelerate, a Cheater, and unworthy to exercise his Charge: And
that all the Witnesses he had exhibited were but Crablice, such as
those in his great Beard; that he was but an Hypocrite, and that
the Church-Livings he doth posseffe, and which he hath procured unto
his Children, were onely given him, that he should sell his fellow
officers, and his Countrey, and that he might be assured that
he would be deposed of his place, and very shamefully too. The
sayd first President swallowed up such Injuries and Reproaches,
with so much the more patience, that neither the Duke of Orleans,
nor the Prince of Conde, nor the great powers of his faction were
there.