One Proctor-General M. Lewis Maboul, who like∣wise performs the Function of Advocate-General.
One Advocate-General, M. Francis-Nicholas Ber∣thelot.
The Secretaries of the Court of Finances, are the same with those of the Council of State.
There are four Secretaries-Registrers of the Privy-Council; four Commissioners of the Register of the Council, and four Registrers-Keepers of the Council-Bags: all officiating quarterly. And one Chief Registrer of the Requests of the Houshold.
There are eight Ushers, or Door-Keepers in Or∣dinary belonging to the Kings Councils; and eight other Ushers of the Requests of the Houshold.
There is also held another Council called the Council of Parties, because it was established to take cognisance of the Processes or Suits moved by particular Parties one among another, whether it be upon their Appeals from the Judges of a particu∣lar Jurisdiction, or of a Parliament, or any other entire Jurisdiction; or for particular Affairs be∣tween City and City; or between one private Per∣son and another, that this Council has called before it, or of which it has reserved the cognisance to it self.
The Councellors of State that sit in this Council of Parties, or in the Council of the Finances, are for the most part, Persons that have served a long time in other Courts, or Jurisdictions, as in the Parliament, Grand-Council, and even in the very Body of the Masters of Requests, or in Embassies to Foreign Princes and States: Those of the last sort enjoy the Quality and Pension of Councellours of State, at their return from their Ambassages, but