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Bodin Sources Index – République/De Republica Release Date – April 2015 Bodin Sources Index – République/De Republica Release Date – April 2015 1 Slip Reference W Page Notes 5340 *** Anjou, incident in R 40 “comme de faict il est advenu de nostre memoire au pays d’Anjou” a father who killed his son accidentally with a clod of earth - and then hanged himself 9390 *** Antoine de Paul R 1029 judges refuse to obey Henry II & condemn an Italian - as I know from Antoine de Paul, second President of Thoulouze, one of the judges 8985 *** Anvers, un marchand d’ R 877 100,000 pieces of cloth, etc. exported from England to Low Countries in 1565 - as I’ve been assured by a merchant of Anvers 9039 *** Blois, Estates at R 890 false reckoning of the possible taxes to be exacted from France, made by a bankrupt (quem honoris causa praetereo) at Estates at Blois where I was a deputy 9105 *** Blois, Estates General R 921 use of gold for non-monetary purposes - people L 685 complain to king at Estates at Blois 9112 *** Blois, Estates General, special committee on R 936 while at Estates at Blois B. on a committee coinage about coinage, with the first President, 3 generals of money & Marcel, the superintendent of finances - but the “maladies of the state were deemed incurable” 9660 *** Blois, Estates General ut non ita pridem apud RL 503* need for three speakers to overcome distrust a Blesenses conventus L363C among estates – three orders of citizens useful in all types of states 8986 *** Blois, Estates, grievances of merchants R 877 when B. went to Blois (ad conventus Gallicos RL L 653 accepta legatione) he heard the merchants complaining that, though exports of wool were forbidden, a certain Italian had got round this ban and made a fortune by reimporting clothes made up in Florence 8213 *** Canaye, M. R 637 advocat en Parlement - told B. of the case of the Norman gentleman condemned for treason because he’d confessed to a Franciscan that he wished to kill the king 5256 *** Chastillon sur Oing, 1565 R 31 case of a father's quarrel with his son - the punishment 9372 *** corrupt judge R 1027 B. remembers a Iuge ruzé en chiquanerie (iudex RL sordidissimus) who said, “Here come the lawsuits & heaps of gold” when a new law was being put forward 9465 *** crime, at Angers (?) RL 1042 “I remember a thief crucified at Andes” for L 766 robbery with violence 5895 *** Dale (Dail), [Valentine] R 139 powers of English Parliament - comme j'ay sceu de M. Dail, Ambassadeur d’Angleterre 9203 *** debate at Oxford, 1566 R 973 scholars of Oxford (in disputation before Queen) decide king to be chosen by vote 6530 *** diplomatic incident, 1556 R 247 "et me souvient avoir entendu" that the Emperor's ambassador complained to the privy council of Henry II in 1556 about the seizing of 2 shipwrecked galleys in Corsica by Iourdan Ursin. 8469 *** edict, royal, 1558 // 1548 R 705 further building in Paris forbidden by edict of King 1548 (B. says “quod Lutetiae Senatuscon- sulto factum memini”) Bodin Sources Index – République/De Republica Release Date – April 2015 2 Slip Reference W Page Notes 8375 *** England, Bodin’s visit RL 684 B.’s account of conversation between Mendoza, L 507B Spanish Ambassador to England & Dalus, the magister libellorum, on sexual jealousy 8354 *** England, Bodin’s visit to RL 682 Bodin’s inquiries about treatment of lunatics at L 505D London 9217 *** England, mission, 1581 R 981 English not to discuss a successor to Elizabeth - RL L 723 when I went to England on the embassy of François, Duke of Anjou 8766 *** “example assez notable de nostre memoire” R 829 the treaty of Chambord of 1552 strictly forbade secret individual peace feelers with the Emperor (Article 22), yet this was violated soon after 8967 *** foreign pensions R 872 Lord Hastings refuses to give a receipt for his pension from Louis XI 9654 *** Ghent (Gaunt), trial at RL 503* we have heard that at Ghent a judge ordered a L361C father and son, condemned for the same offence, to cast lots as to who should be the other’s hangman 9213 *** Horbort, seigneur R 978 royal power in Poland - as I’ve learned from seigneur Horbort, one of the 13 ambassadors of Poland [L adds: whom I was ordered to attend upon] 8502 *** l’Allemant, President des Comptes à Paris R 712-713 “Allemanus rationum publicarum Praetor mihi a RL curiosius omnia conquirenti narrabat...” that the church had seven twelfths // “duos fere trientas” of revenues of France 9080 *** Languedoc, Estates of, 1556 “ou _ j’estois pour R 911 offer by Syndic Martin Durant to deliver taxes lors” to the treasury without losing one third to financial officers 8112 *** Languedoc, Estates, 1556 R 585 comme il fust arresté aux Estats du païs de Languedoc tenus à Montpellier l’an MDLVI où j’estois alors... 8991 *** le Maistre, President R 879 President le Maistre says no regular taxation on the French before Louis IX 9109 *** letter, Jaques Pinatel R 932 coinage - forgery - B. has a letter of Jaques Pinatel to K. Henry II to warn of forgeries but this official, appointed 1552, was corrupt and grew rich from forgeries himself 9500 *** Paris, court case R 1048 B. remembers the case of an unnamed Lieutenant civil [L - Praetor urbanus Parisiorum cuius nomen facile patior sileri] who had charged extra for judging a case involving a substantial property - appealed and tried before Ranconet, President de la Chambre 9257 *** Paris, court case, 1517 RL 993 decision of court between the heirs of Johannes L 732 Vastus, son of Count of Fuxaei (Foix?), & Fran- ciscus Phaebus 8572 *** Paris, court case, 1556 RL 729 Iudicatum in Curia Parisiorum adversus L 542C Mareschallum à Sancto Andraea ac pro D. de Partenay anno 1556 - feudal succession 9272 *** Paris, court case, 17 July 1563 RL 993 judgment of Curia between Vilierus & L 733 Bayencurtius about the estate left by Franciscus Bloquaeus - rights of first-born upheld 8132 *** Paris, criminal trial R 595 le Conseiller Potier sieur du Blanc Menil persuades the rest of his fellow judges that a woman condemned to death is innocent; B. says Bodin Sources Index – République/De Republica Release Date – April 2015 3 Slip Reference W Page Notes his sons are Maistre des Requestes & Secretaire des finances 8964 *** pensions, reports, Diet of Worms, 1552 R 871 princes don’t give large pensions to foreigners RL unless they’ve taken an oath against their country, as a prince of Germany said at the Diet of Worms in 1552 - L adds details: princeps nescio quis palam questus est (nihil enim praetor auditum habeo:) nec illum opinio fefellit. fuit enim eo tempore princeps aliquis, cuius nomen praetereo, qui aureos bis mille pensionis annuae pactus, omnia…arcana delatarum…etc. 6305 *** Poland, precedence at court R 210 question of precedence of ambassadors at court of Poland “as I heard from M. Nouailles, Abbé de Belle Isle, who was ambassador in Poland then and is now at Constantinople” 6451 *** Rouen, claims of privilege R 239 Chapter of the Church at Rouen claim privilege of granting pardons during the feast of St. Rommain. This right was challenged in a case at which Bodin was present, "y estant en commission pour la reformation generale de Normandie." 9398 *** Rouen, Parlement de, remonstrances R 1031 on penalties - representation to King by President Lisoire & d’Amours Advocat du Roy, deputies of Parl. of Rouen to preserve court’s power to vary fines - B. was then procurator principis pro fisco in Normandy 7909 *** Sborochi, Salomon R 540 when at Metz B. was told by Salomon Sborochi, Polish ambassador, that the Poles would have imposed harsher terms on the newly elected king if they had not respected the King of France 9078 *** speech, by Baleus R 910 n1 speech of President des Comptes at St. Maur RL des fossés resists reduction of offices, l’an 1566. le 20. May 6833 *** Swiss cantons, government of R 340 "comme j'ay appris de M. de Basse-fontaine Evesque de Limoges" 5248 *** Torquatus (Turquetus), case of RL 30 we have seen in our time Torquatus the parricide executed (with details of the tortures); he is named only in L 9358 *** Toulouse, court case R 1024 when I was interpreting the laws of the Romans at Toulouse I remember Barthelemy, one of the Presidents des enquestes, insisted on judges following the law 9429 *** Toulouse, criminal trial R 1036 debate over differential penalties imposed on de l’Ormeau, fourth President and his clerk, on account of different status 5494 *** Toulouse, legal case R 62 I remember when I was in Toulouse a Genoese merchant who was passing through Toulouse was forced to free his slave 7278 *** Toulouse, legal case R 420 I remember Bartholemaeus, president of court of inquiry at Toulouse, compelled all his fellow judges to change their erroneous decision & vote according to the law - "cum apud Tholosates agerem." Bodin Sources Index – République/De Republica Release Date – April 2015 4 Slip Reference W Page Notes 5257 *** Toulouse, Parlement of R 31 recent court case of mother maltreated by her son 8752 *** treaty, of Louis & Charles R 825 treaty between Louis & Charles the Bald (sons of Ludovicus Pius) in Romande language “que M. le President Fauchet, homme bien entendu & mesmement en nos antiquités, m’a monstrees en Guytard, historien Prince du sang.” “Pro Deo amur, & pro Christian poblo & nostro commum salvament…” [6 lines] - these texts are the renowned Strasbourg Oaths of 842 9228 *** “un avocat des plus fameux de son age” R 986-987 Bodin remembers him citing Ulpian’s words in a RL a Paris case: populus ei, & in eum omnem suam potestatem contulit; the King’s officials reacted, the Court struck the words from the record, and the advocate “has not pleaded a case since, as everybody at the Palais knows.” (F) 8984 *** wine exports, to Belgium RL 877 Bodin hears that one merchant exports 33,00 L 653 modios of wine to Belgium in 1578, despite military obstacles 5172 ** Act of Divorce of Rabi Ieïel of Paris, 29 Oct.
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