All these Reafons, and a world of others which we omit, oblige us to require that it would please the Court to admit Us as appea ling against the Abuse of the Bull, dated in the Month of May laft, and of the Ordinance given in pursuance thereof: And upon our Appeal, to declare the faid Bull and Ordinance void and abufive; making Prohibition to all Perfons, of vending them in the Kingdom, on pain of being proceeded against according to the feverity of the Law; enjoyning all thofe that have Copies of them, to bring them to the Regifter of the Court, in order to their being fup preffed: As likewife, to order that the Act of Appeal, made by the Attorney General to the future Council, be Regiftred in the Regifter of the Court: That the King fhall be moft humbly befought to employ his Autho rity for the maintaining of the Franchifes, and the Immunity of the Quarter of his Ambaffadours at Rome, in the whole Extent that they have hitherto had: Moreover that His Majefty may be humbly defired to order the holding of Provincial Councils, nay and of a National Council, if need be, or the Affembly of the Nobles of his Realm; and after having heard their advice to choose the means he shall reckon moft fitting, for the hindring the Dif orders which the vacancy of fo many Arch-bi fhopricks and Bishopricks in the Kingdom do produce, and prevent the Increafe and Progrefs of fo dangerous an Evil. We further require that the King be alfo moft humbly befought

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to forbid his Subjects to have any Commerce in the mean while with Rome, and of fending any Money thither, and in this to interpofe his Authority as far as he fhall judge convenient, and that it be ordered by the Court that the Arreft that fhall intervene upon our prefent Conclufions, fhall be affix't in the publick Places, and every where as fhall be needful in the wonted manner.

The King's Council being withdrawn, a Copy being perus'd, Printed at Rome of a Bull concerning the Franchifes of the Quarters of the faid Town, and of the following Ordinance of December 26. laft, together with the Act of Appeal put into the future Council by the King's Attorney General the 28th of this Month, and the Conclufions by him taken in writing, the Matter being brought under Debate.

The Attorney General's appealing from the abufe of the faid Bull, and of the following Ordinance on the 26th of November last, the Court admitted of the faid Appeal, and declares the faid Bull and Ordinance as null and abufive; Prohibits all Perfons whatsoever to vend them in the Kingdom, on pain of being proceeded against according to the severity of the Law; enjoining those that have Copies of them to bring them to the Register of the Court, there to be fuppreffed; orders that the Act of Appeal put in by the King's Attorney General to the future Council, fhall be regiftred in the Regifter of the Court, and that the King fhall be moft humbly defired to em ploy

ploy his Authority for the maintaining the Franchifes and Immunities of the Quarter of his Ambaffadors in the Court of Rome, in the whole extent they have hitherto had, to order the holding of Provincial Councils, or even of a National Council, or an Affembly of the Nobles of His Kingdom, fo to advise about the most fuitable Means for the Remedying the Disorders which the long Vacancy of leveral Archbishopricks and Bishopricks, has therein introduced, and to prevent the progrefs and encrease of them, and in the mean while to forbid his Subjects in fuch manner as the faid Lord the King fhall judge convenient to have any Commerce, or remit any Money into the Court of Rome. And this prefent Arreft to be affix'd in the public and ufual Places of this Town, and every where as fhall be needful. Done in Parliament on the 23d. of Jan. 1688.

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Act of the Appeal put in by the Attorney General to -the Council upon the Subject of the Pope's Bull concerning the Franchises in the City of Rome, and of the following Ordonance on the 26th. of December last.

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Efore the underwritten Apoftolical Notary was prefent in his own Perfon, Meffire Achilles de Harlay, Councellor of the King in his Council of State, and his Majefties Attorney General, who in the Prefence, and by the Ad

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vice and Council of Meffire Denis Talon and of Meffire Francois Criteau de la Moignon alfo,Coun fellors of the King in his Council of State, and his Advocates General in his Court of Parliament, has declared that having fome time fince feen Copies of a Bull given on the 12th. of May laft paft, by our Holy Father Pope Innocent the 11th, concerning the Franchises which certain Perfons are in Poffeffion of enjoying in the City of Rome, he could not have. imaginedthat his Holinefs could have conceived the defign of comprehending the Ambaffadors which the King was willing to fend to him, in the general Menaces of Excommunication which he judg'd convenient to infert therein, contrary to the Ufe obferved by other Popes in the Bulls made by them; he had hoped that if the Remembrance of the Sovereign Power which the Kings, his Majefty's Predeceffors exercifed in Rome of their Liberalities to the Holy See, and of the Protection they gave to several Popes, could not induce this Pope to cause to be rendred to the King in the Perfons of his Ministers, Honours and Teftimonies of Acknowledgment proportionable to his Bounties, at leaft his Holinefs as vifible Head of the Church, would not be infenfible to the Prodigies which the King had perform'd before his Eyes for the re-uniting in the Bofom of this good Mother fo vaft a number of Children that were gone aftray from her, that he would be affected with the Piety of this Prince, and the powerful Protection he continually gives

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to Prelates, tho' he was not with his Victories and Power; and that he would not enter into difpute with him about Rights that had not fuffered any Invafion, even for feveral years under his Popedom.

But being informed that his Holiness had given order to the Cardinal that is his Vicar in Rome, to declare the Church of St. Lewis of the faid City, and the Ecclefiaftics that officiate in it, interdicted for having admitted to the participation of the holy Myfteries and Sacraments on the Night wherein is celebrated the Solemnity of our Lords Nativity; Monfieur le Marquis de Lavardin the Kings Ambaffador extraordinary to his Holiness, and that it was fuppofed by the Ordonance delivered upon this Subject, that he was notoriously Excommunicated for pretended Contraventions to this Bull, the faid Attorney General did not think that he could without being wanting to his Duty, remain any longer in the Silence he had hitherto kept.

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Now if the Matter which has given an occafion to fo great an Excéis, did concern the Ecclefiaftical Jurifdiction which belongs to the Pope, he would eafily fhew the Errors that have been committed by proceeding against a Perfon that has not been particularly fpecified in that Bull, to whom the State of Matters has not been fignified fince his being at Rome, who might be ignorant of them in France, where it was not publifht, that the Pope could not condemn him as an Ambaffador tho' his Character