galium or Regaliarum), or the right of enjoying the revenues of the temporalities of the church during the vacancies of sees, or of other ecclesiastical offices. This right was now disputed by the Pope, though it had formerly been enjoyed even by all the great feudatories of the French Crown, with the exception of the Duke of Burgundy and Count of Champagne. This MS. is from the Colonna library at Rome. 131 Memoria de quello che è passato a Roma, ed a Pamiers su l'affare della Regalia, MANUSCRIPT, neatly written, folio, 7s. 6d. This relates to the same long agitated question of the Regalia, but more particularly as it regarded the Diocese of Pamiers about 1680. The Cardinal D'Estrées seems to have interfered in this, as in most of the cases, and it was through his energy that the liberties of the Gallican Church remained untouched by Innocent XI. after the celebrated declaration of the French Clergy in 1682. This MS. is also from the library of the Colonna family at Rome. 132 Lettere di Enrico Carlo de Beaumanoir, Marchese de Lavardin, Ambasciadore straordinario del Rè Christianissimo al Papa Innocenzo XI. MANUSCRIPT, folio, 4s. 6d. Innocent XI. always inimical to Louis XIV. had laid an interdict on his Ambassador's Chapel at Rome, in December 1687, which caused this protest to be made by the Marquis de Lavardin. The dispute arose from the right of franchises of quarters claimed by the French Ambassadors at Rome, which had been ceded by all the other Ambassadors, and even by the ex-Queen of Sweden, the famous Christina. 133 LETTERS TO P. F. LE COURAYER, after his escape to England in 1728, by one of his friends in the abbey of S. Genevieve, with copies by the same writer of twenty-nine letters, written by Courayer during his forced residence at Hennemonte up to the eve of his flight, addressed to the Duke de Nivernois, the Cardinal de Noailles, (Abp. of Paris,) M. de Mirepois, &c. THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, UNPUBLISHED, 4to. 4l. 14s. 6d. Le Courayer's work on the validity of the English Ordinations is well known. He was assisted in its composition by the correspondence of Archbishop Wake, and on its publication the University of Oxford rewarded him, though a Roman Catholic, with a diploma of D.D. In France the work was very severely censured, and Le Courayer himself was much persecuted, to escape which he fled to England, where he arrived Jan. 22, 1728, and his subsequent history is common. It does not appear who wrote these letters, but that he was Courayer's most confidential friend is certain, perhaps Montenoi, Prevôt, or Thiriot, probably the latter, from his evident intimacy with Bp. Atterbuty, then in exile. The letters are addressed to the fictitious name of "Mr. Langley," and they are not signed, the writer telling Courayer to observe the same precaution in his answers, nous connoissons notre ecriture l'un et l'autre, ainsi il n'est plus necessaire de signer au bas de la lettre." The letters are of considerable length, five of them are between Jan. 27, and Feb. 22, and give the fullest detail of all that took place when Courayer's flight was known, "l'on est outré icy de votre evasion, et vos superieurs pr se disculper aux yeux de la Cour se portent à des extremités bien etonnantes, qu'une miserable politique The letters are very interesting, and enter as well upon the subject of the work; the writer, though he agreed with Courayer in his ideas, was in great fear of his becoming a Frotestant. Courayer had written to him, inter alia "nons laissons les disputes aux ecoles, et contents de connoitre J. C. et son Evangile, nous dininuons icy les articles de foy avec autant de zele qu'on les augmente en France." There are some anecdotes of Bp. Atterbury, who seems not to have lost all hope of pardon, "cet ami m'a prié de vous mander de m'ecrire ingenuëment de se quid sentiant partes adversæ, vous lui ferez plaisir, j'imagine qu'il a des vues de retour." The copies of Courayer's own letters are closely written upon two sheets: they throw much light on his conduct, and are not published in his "Relation Historique et Apologetique." 134 Etat et Menu general de la maison du Roy, année 1732,— Depence de Monseigneur le Dauphin, de Monseigneur le Duc d'Anjou, et des Dames de France, année 1732, MANUSCRIPT, 4to. in old French calf, The household Book of the French King. 12s. 135 Copie des Lettres de la Cour écrites par Messieurs les Ministres et Secretaires d'Etat et Intendants des Finances, &c. à M. Boutin Intendant en la generalité de Bordeaux, avec ses Responses, depuis le 1 Octobre, 1760, jusqu'au derr. Decembre, 1762, MANUSCRIPT, very neatly written, folio, in vellum, 18s. Containing several hundred state papers relating to Bourdeaux : among them are some of the Maréchal Duc de Belleile and the Duc de Choiseul. 136 JESUITS.-Rapport fait au Roy, 31 Novembre, 1761, touchant l'utilité, la doctrine, la conduite et le regime des Jesuites, MANUSCRIPT, neatly written, folio, 5s. This report is signed by forty-three Prelates, and accompanied by the separate attestation of the then Archbishop of Paris, in whom it would have been infra dig. it seems, to sign with the others. 137 THE PROTESTANT QUESTION IN FRANCE. "Discours à lire au Conseil, en presence du Roi, par un Ministre patriote In this work the author insists strongly against the claims of the French Protestants to an equality of civil rights, and it is curious to find him advancing the very same arguments from history, and drawing the same conclusion against their emancipation which in this country have in vain been applied to Catholic emancipation, and have been held up to ridicule as "quotations from an old Almanac." It would seem, however, that the Catholics consider the line of argument as valid-on their side of the question. The following is the author's address to Louis xvj.-"Une grande question est agitée dans le conseil de votre Majesté: Peut-elle accorder, sans danger pour la tranquillité publique, l'Etat Civil aux Protestants? Matière importante et délicate! elle exige tout le sang-froid de la plus mûre délibération. J'ose le dire, le salut de votre Royaume tient à celle que nous allons fixer sous vos yeux, et d'apres laquelle votre Majesté va prononcer; une erreur, une meprise en ce genre, occasionée par les vues d'une fausse politique, entrâineroient les suites les plus deplorables, LA SUBVERSION TOTALE DE TOUTE LA CONSTITUTION CIVILE ET RELIGIEUSE DE CETTE MONARCHIE. Loin donc dans ce moment des Membres de votre Conseil tout esprit de système et de partie. Sire! les Empires doivent se gouverner non par des opinions, mais par la droite raison. Dans les grandes discussions politiques les faits seuls doivent la diriger. Ouvrons l'histoire: c'est la leçon des Rois et des Ministres qu'ont fait les Protestants avant la Revocation de l'Edit de Nantes? que font-ils depuis cet epoque? que feroient-ils dans les circonstances actuelles, si le gouvernement sanctionnoit leur Etat? Trois questions qu'il s'agit de resoudre, et dont la solution motivera mon avis." This is not addressed to Geo. IV. of England in 1829, but to Louis xvj. of France in 1782,-and not against the Catholics but against the Protestants! and against them it was successful. The work, though violent in its tone, is well written, and displays great research; it is of considerable length, and at the end is a collection of Pieces Justificatives. The title of Minister of State is most probably fictitious. 138 THE RENTAL BOOK OF THE ABBEY OF ST. PETER OF AULNAY, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, of the thirteenth century, (dated 1285) 4to. in fine preservation, 31. 13s. 6d. Containing the Rents of Aulnay, Harnes and Loisons, payable not only in money, but in kind; a manuscript highly illustrative of the customs of the time. THE LOW COUNTRIES AND GERMANY. 139 Theatre Belgique, ou Descriptions Historiques, Chronologiques, et Geographiques des sept Provinces Unies, traduit de l'Italien de Gregorio Leti. MANUSCRIPT, very neatly written, 1690, 2 vols. 4to. calf, gilt leaves, 17. 4s. 140 Les Coutumes de Namur, reparties en douze titres ou chapitres qui sont compris en ces quatre vers suivans: avec une interpretation. MANUSCRIPT neatly written, 2 vols. folio, (each containing nearly 600 pages) in neat calf binding, 61. 6s. The customs or municipal laws of Namur, with a copious and very valuable Commentary, brought down to 1752. The Commentary is written partly in Latin, partly in French. A manuscript of this sort is of considerable importance, as the Coutumiers embody much of the old Gothic law, which in the Low Countries obtained over the Roman Jurisprudence, and also in the northern part of France; that kingdom being formerly divided into pays coutumiers and pays du droit ecrit; the former regulated by a vast variety of ancient usages, the latter by the civil law. 141 DOCUMENTS relative to the Government and Discipline of the Church in the Low Countries, between 1660 and 1707. MANUSCRIPT and printed, a very thick folio volume, 31. 13s. 6d. A large collection, 82 in number, in Latin and French, with a few in Flemish. Some are the official documents, with autograph signatures of many eminent men. 142 Papel que diò Dan Manuel de Lira à los Estados Generales de las Provincias Unidas del Pais-baso, al tiempo de salir del Haya para voluere a España el año de 1679, sobre la entrega de Mastrique, (in Spanish and French)-Poesias de Don Manuel de Lira. MANUSCRIPT, of the seventeenth century, 4to. in vellum, 17. 1s. Manuel de Lira was Envoy Extraordinary to the States General from Charles II. of Spain, who laid claim to Maestricht, which place had been ceded to the Dutch by the eighth article of the Treaty of Nimeguen. 143 Relatione della Pace di Nimega, con la Descrittione di Germania, e de'Pri'pi della med e dell'Olanda, presentata a N. S. Innocentio XI. da Monsignore Beuilacqua Plenipotentiario c Nuncio Apostolico. MANUSCRIPT, dated 1681, 4to. neatly written, 10s. 6d. 144 Positiones ex universis Disciplinis Theologicis, in quibus existentia et catholicitas Ecclesiæ Ultrajectinæ asseritur, pro Laurea Doctorali consequenda publicè propugnandas suscepit Maximilianus Kollueg, Vienna, 1784. MANUSCRIPT, 4to. neatly written, 2s. 6d. 145 Letters from the Netherlands, by A. F. Meuller, Corporal, first Foot Guards. MANUSCRIPT, very neatly written, 4to. in red morocco binding, 17. 16s. The author of these Letters appears to have received an education superior to that which is common to persons in his station, and he has given an amusing account of the campaign in the Netherlands under Sir Thomas Graham, (Lord Lynedoch). It includes a personal narrative of the failure of the British attack on Bergen-op Zoom, where the author was taken prisoner. The volume is unpublished, except two or three letters which were appended to a little work entitled, "The Journal of a Soldier of the 71st regiment." 146 LIBER FRATERNITATIS SANCTI VOLFGANGI, ECCLESIE RATISPONENSIS alias S. Petri tam vivorum quam mortuorum nomina fratrum, memoriam perpetuam, anniversarios eorundem, donationes, kalendarium et alia capita in se continens infra, i. Kalendarium octo Fraternitatum S. Volfgangi cum anniversariis xv. viii. iii. dēn annexis. ii. Anime defunctorum annotate illorumque anniversarii cum donationibus earundem. iii. Statuta, Tractatusque octo Fraternitatum S. Volfgangi, Ordinaciones et consuetudines. iv. Redditus Fraternitatis S. Volfgangi, census Ecclesiarum, Vinearum et Advocacie. v. Observaciones Anniversariorum de fraternitate cum elemosinis luminibus expediendorum : tam panum quam ovorum similiter et vinorum, ad Sacrificium, Turrim, Famulos. vi. Donaciones et Instituciones noue anniversariorum et festorum ex fraternitate. vii. Nota redditus antq: viij fraternitatum civitatis Ratisponensis in commune. viii. Census fraternitatis S. Petri illiusque onera consuetudines modus distribuendí in exequiis fratrum et candelarum appositione festorum. ix. Annotatio seu inscriptio intrantium fratrum in etad fraternitatis summo per annos infrascriptos facta. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, being the ORIGINAL LIEGER Book, or Registry of the Brotherhood, containing all the entries under the above heads from 1309 to 1620, folio, in its old monastic binding, with brasses. 61. 16s. 6d A very curious Manuscript, relating to the imperial free city of Ratisbon. St. Peter was the Patron Saint of Ratisbon, and this brotherhood bearing his name appears to have been of great importance. The Bishops of Ratisbon, and most other persons of distinction, are among the members. It was afterwards united with that of St. Nicholas. These fraternities differed much from monasteries. "Fraternitas dicitur, Societas inita inter monachos variorum monasteriorum qua sua sibi invicem bona ita communicabant ut tanquam fratres alterius monasterii haberentur, in illud reciperentur, epularentur in refectorio, precationum, seu, uti vocant, omnium Beneficiorum essent participes, pro iis, cum è vita migrassent, preces, perinde ac pro monachis indigenis, pro more, funderentur," &c. Laymen also were admitted members. "Fraternitatas, in eadem communione, de Laicis ut vocant, dicitur, qui in participationem orationum, suffragiorum, et beneficiorum à monarchis admissi, in Fratres, vel in Fratres et monachos recipi dicuntur.” In this are the names of many nobles and noble ladies. A Manuscript of this description is of great rarity, and very valuable. The hand-writing, of course, is of every variety. 147 Articoli accordati alla guarnigione e habitanti di Giuliers. MANUSCRIPT, neatly written, folio, 3s. 6d. |