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• First Fragment of the Collection of Unpublished Memorials of the History of the Tiers État. (a Description of Ancient Municipal France.) *
• Second Fragment. Monography of the Communal Constitution of Amiens.
• Section I.: Introduction; Times Prior to the Twelfth Century. *
• Section II.: The Twelfth Century: Establishment of the Commune of Amiens. *
• Section III.: Original Articles and Principal Provisions of the Communal Charter of Amiens. *
• Section IV.: Grant Made By Philip of Alsace, Count of Amiens—cession of the County of Amiens to Philippe-auguste, King of France—confirmation of the Commune—additional Articles of the Communal Charter of Amiens; Its Definitive Text. *
• Appendix I.: Plan of a General Collection of Unpublished Memorials of the History of the Tiers État. *
• Appendix II.: Lists of the Deputies of the Tiers État to the States-general of 1484, 1560, 1576, 1588, 1593, and 1614.
• First List.: States-general Held At Tours In 1484. *
• Second List.: States-general Held At Orleans In 1560. *
• Third List: States-general Held At Blois In 1576. *
• Fourth List: States-general Held At Blois In 1588. *
• Fifth List.: States-general Convoked By the League, and Held At Paris In 1593. *
• Sixth List.: States-general Held At Paris In 1614. *
• Appendix III.: Cahier of the Village of Blaigny Drawn Up For the States-general of 1576. *

FOURTH LIST

STATES-GENERAL HELD AT BLOIS IN 1588.*

City, Prévôté and Vicomté of Paris.—Michel Marteau, prévôt des marchands; Etienne de Neuilly, president of the Exchequer Court; Jean de Compans, échevin;

BURGUNDY.

Bailliage of Dijon.—Bernard Coussin, échevin; Etienne Bernard, advocate.

Bailliage of Autun.—Audet de Montagu, lieutenant-general; Philbert Venot, échevin.

Bailliage of Chalons-sur-Saone.—François de Thesen, councillor; Salomon Clerguet.

Bailliage of Auxois.—Claude de Bretaigne, Jehan Guillaume.

Bailliage of La Montagne.—Edme Remond, Jean Guennebault.

Bailliage of Charollois.—Girard Saulnier, Claude Maletes.

Bailliage of Macon.—Philibert Barriot.

Bailliage of Auxerre.—Jehan Naudet, avocat du roi; Joseph le Muet, bourgeois.

Bailliage of Bar-sur-Seine.—Jehan de Laussurois.

DUCHY OF NORMANDY.

The City and Bailliage of Rouen.—Robert de Hannivel, Guillaume Colombel, Guillaume de Parde.

The Bailliage of Caen.—Jehan Vanquelin, Nicolas le Pelletier, échevin of the said city, Lambert Bunel de la Fosse.

Bailliage of Caulx.—Gessin Vasse.

Bailliage of Coustantin.—Jean Pierres.

Bailliage of Evreux.—Christophe Despaigne.

Bailliage of Gisors.—Robert le Page, Jean Dehors.

Bailliage of Alençon.—Nicolas le Barbier, Jean James, Antoine le Mollinet.

THE DUCHY OF GUIENNE.

Sénéchaussée of Bordeaux.—Thomas de Pontac, Fronton Duverger, Pierre Metyvier.

Sénéchaussée of Bazas.—Jean de Lauvergne, Jacques Janvier.

Sénéchaussée of Périgord.—Helie de Jehan, Remond de la Brosse.

Sénéchaussée of Rouergue.—Pierre de Gorravy, Hugues Caulet, Joseph de la Roche, Guillaume de Marsitan.

Sénéchaussée of Saintonge.—Etienne Soulet.

Sénéchaussée of Agénois.—Jehan de Brauchut.

Country and County of Comminges.—Sébastien de Lazalas, Philippe d’Audnac.

Country and Jugerie of Revières-Verdun, Gaure, Barony of Lernac, Marestans, of Ax, Sénéchaussée of the Lannes.— . . . . . .

Saint-Severt, Albret.— . . . . . .

Sénéchaussée of Armagnac.—Dommique Virres.

Sénéchaussée of Condomois.—Jean Dufranc, lieutenant-general of Condom; Arnault Danglade.

Haut-Limosin and City of Limoges.—Michel Martin, Emergy Guibert.

The Bas-Limosin, comprising Tulles, Brives, and Userches.—Antoine de Lestang, Pierre de Chenailles, Jean de Maruc, Martial Chassain, Ramond Bonnet.

Sénéchaussée of Quercy.—Pierre de Regaignac, advocate; Paul de la Croix, syndic of the states; Pierre Arnauldy, advocate.

Sénéchaussée of Poitou, Fontenay, and Niort.—Louis de la Ruelle, Pierre Gasteau, Adam Firagneau, Guillaume Giraudeau. Entered twice: Pierre Gasteau, Guillaume Girandeau.

Sénéchaussée of Chatellerault.—Jean Raffetau.

Britanny.—Robert Poullin, sieur de Genres, Pierre Martin, king’s advocate in the presidial court of Rennes; Antoine de Prenezay, king’s advocate in the principal court of Nantes; Guillaume Godet, advocate in the court of Parliament of Britanny; Bonvalet Bis, advocate in the said court, and procureur syndic of the bourgeois of Rennes; Guillaume Chedanne, bourgeois of Vannes; Jean Picot, procureur syndic of Saint-Malo; Gabriel Hus, sieur de la Bouchetière, Robert Audouyn, procureur syndic of Quimpercorantin; Jehan Cousin, Maurice Berlavance, Michel Pommeret, sieur de la Porte.

THE COUNTY OF CHAMPAGNE AND BRIE.

Bailliage of Troyes.—Philippe Dever, advocate in the said bailliage of Troyes; Jacques Angenoust, royal treasurer of the revenues from saltpetre.

Bailliage of Chaumont-en-Bassigny.—Etienne Porret, lieutenant-general of the said bailliage; Jean Rozé, bailli of Joinville.

Bailliage of Vitry.—Jacques Linage, president in the said bailliage and presidial court; Jean de Saint-Remy, prévót and juge ordinaire of the royal prévôté of Sainte-Menehould.

Bailliage of Meaux.—Philippe du Valengelier, king’s councillor in the presidial court of Meaux; Antoine Michelet, échevin of the said city.

Bailliage of Provins.—Guillaume le Court, receiver of the common funds of the city of Provins.

Bailliage of Sézanne.—Nicolas Boullée, bourgeois of Sézanne.

Bailliage of Sens.—Nicolas Goujet, advocate in the said bailliage.

Bailliage of Chateau-Thierry.—Jean Marteau, president in the presidial court of the said place.

LANGUEDOC.

Sénéchaussée of Toulouse.—Pierre de Rahou, capitoul of Toulouse; Etienne Tourinierre, advocate; Pierre de Vignans, bourgeois.

Sénéchaussée of Beaucaire.—M. Charles Dessores, king’s councillor, judge of the said bailliage; Antoine Broche, doctor-in-law for the diocese of Uzès; Jacques de Cazal-Martin, advocate for the bailliage of Gévaudan.

Sénéchaussée of Puy and Bailliage of Vellay.—Mathieu Triousève, king’s councillor in the sénéchaussée of Puy; Claude Morgue, consul.

Montpellier.— . . . . . .

Sénéchaussée of Carcassonne and Béziers.—Pierre d’Assaly, judge of the criminal court in the sénéchaussée of Carcassonne.

Sénéchaussée of Lauraguais.—Pierre de Villaroux, consul of Castelnaudary.

PICARDY.

Bailliage of Amiens.—Vincent le Roy, Antoine Scarion.

Sénéchaussée of Ponthieu.—Jean de Maupin.

Sénéchaussée of Boulonnais.—Thomas Duwiquet, Robert de Moictier.

Péronne, Montdidier, and Roye.—Robert Choquet, Louis Fouchet, François Gonnet, Antoine Humique.

Bailliage of Clermont-en-Beauvoisis.— . . . . . .

Bailliage of Beauvais.—Claude de Cauonne, Charles le Bègue, Eustache Choffart.

Bailliage of Senlis.—Paul de Cornouailles.

Bailliage of Valois.—François Rangueil.

Chaumont-en-Vexin.— . . . . . .

Bailliage of Melun.—Christophe Barbin.

Bailliage of Nemours.—Simon Godet.

Bailliage of Montfort.—Gilles Guillard and Philippe Bary.

Bailliage of Dourdan.—Claude le Camus.

Bailliage of Dreux.—Bernard Couppé.

The Bailliages of Mantes and Meulan.—Antoine Bonnineau, Jean Leau, and Gui Lecomte.

Bailliage of Vermandois.—Adrien de Fer, lieutenant-general in the said bailliage; Claude le Gras, councillor in the said court; Nicolas Fouyn, lieutenant of the inhabitants of Reims.

Dauphiné.—Hugues Desalles and Emard Moissonier.

Provence.—Honoré Ouyrand, Gaspard Richard, Pierre Matty, Alexis Matenis, Pierre-Jean Bernard, Pierre Pugnaire, and Jean Carbonel.

The City of Marseilles.—Jacques Vias.

Bailliage of Saint-Pierre-le-Moustier.—Etienne Tenon, Pierre de Berne.

Sénéchaussée of Bourbonnois.—Guillaume Duret, Louis de Basmaison, Hugues de Cussy.

Bailliage of Beaujolois.—Christophe Fiet.

Bailliage of Forez.—Benoít Blanchet, Jean Retournel, Philippe de Romier.

Sénéchaussée of the Low Countries of Auvergne.—Jean de Basmaison, Pierre Dufretal, Pougnet, Pierre Vryon de Livredoit, Guillaume Costel.

Haut Pays D’Auvergne.—Jean Chabot, Gui de Causel, Jacques Duplois, Jourdain Hérault, Guillaume de Vines.

Sénéchaussée of Lyon.—Pierre Viaron, Nicolas Chaponnay, Pierre Dugas, Claude Berteval.

Haute and Basse Marche.—Antoine du Plantadis, Antoine Barret, Antoine Vacherie.

Orléans.— . . . . . . .

Sénéchaussée of Anjou.—Philippe Guesdon, town-councillor and mayor of Angers; Martin Liberge, doctor in the University of Angers.

Maine.—M. Martin Ourleau, bailli of Mans; Mathurin Lessochet, advocate; Jacques Labis, judge-general of the duchy of Mayenne.

Bailliage of Touraine and Amboise.—M. Gilles Duverger, lieutenant-general of Touraine; Guillaume Bessiau; sieur Deshayes, councillor in the parliament of Britanny, bourgeois of Tours; François Lefranc, mayor of Amboise, Antoine Decours, king’s advocate.

Lodunois.—Jacque Bonneau.

Bailliage of Berry.—Henri Maréchal, Claude Lebègue, Claude Tabonnet.

The Bailliage of Chartres.—Claude Sureau.

The Bailliage of Orléans.—Joachim Gervaise, Agnan Cinadat.

Bailliage of Blois.—Simon Niolle.

Bailliage of Gien.—Pierre d’Anjou.

Bailliage of Montargis.—Catherine Petit.

Bailliage of Perche.—Denis Hubert.

Bailliage of Nivernois and Donziois.—Gui Coquille and Martin Roy.

City and Government of La Rochelle.— . . . . . .

Bailliage of Angoumois.—Geoffroy Nogeret.

Bailliage of Estampes.—Jean Hony, Claude Hamonges, Jacques Putan and Jean Godet.

Bailliage of Vendomois.—Réné Dupont, Pierre Viau.

Total, 181 deputies, without those who attended after the first session.

[* ]Recueil de Pièces Originales et Authentiques, concernant la Tenue des Etats Généraux. Paris, 1789, t. iv., p. 24.