The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet Volume 11; containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy of the ... thence and of other memorable events that

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 Excerpt: ...temporal property seized on by the king, should they fail of obeying this edict as to their residence, within six months after the proclamation of the said edict. Another proclamation followed the above, stating, that whereas the king, to answer some urgent demands respecting the public welfare, had ordered a crown to be paid for every pipe of wine that was exported and that all other provision, Was to pay in proportion, which taxes had for some time been neglected to be raised: he therefore ordered the tax of a crown to be paid from one extremity of the kingdom to the other, on every pipe of wine exported, but that the taxes on other provision were to cease and be, annulled. Master Laurence Herbelot, king's counsellor, and Denis Chevalier, formerly notary to the Chatelet, were appointed to collect this tax,--although the king had, a little before, nominated master Pierre Jouvelin inspector of accounts, who was now displaced by this new appointment.,....,.. In the month of February, the king left Tours 'and Amboise for the Bourbonnois and Auvergne. He there performed a nine-days devotion at the church of our Lady at Puy, and afterwards went into the Lyonnois and Dauphiny. During his stay at Puy, he received intelligence that the Swiss had met the duke of Burgundy and his army as they were on their march to enter Swisserland, and had defeated him with the loss of sixteen or eighteen thousand men, and taken all his artillery. It was thus told:--When the duke of Burgundy had won the town of Granson, he marched his army along the lake of Neufchatel, toward Fribourg, and found means to gain two castles at the entrance of Swisserland. The Swiss though informed of this as well as of the capture of Granson, kept advancing to meet him, and, on the Friday preceding t...