The present state of France containing a general description of that kingdom corrected and purged from the many gross mistakes in the French copy, enriched with additional observations and remarks of the new compiler, and digested into a method conformable to that of the state of England / by R.W. ...
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The present state of France containing a general description of that kingdom corrected and purged from the many gross mistakes in the French copy, enriched with additional observations and remarks of the new compiler, and digested into a method conformable to that of the state of England / by R.W. ...
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Wolley, Richard, fl. 1667-1694.
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London :: Printed for Gilbert Cownly ...,
1687.
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France -- Court and courtiers.
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"The present state of France containing a general description of that kingdom corrected and purged from the many gross mistakes in the French copy, enriched with additional observations and remarks of the new compiler, and digested into a method conformable to that of the state of England / by R.W. ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A27526.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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CHAP. VI.
Of Dukes and Peers whose Patents are not yet verified.
THere are several Letters Patents for Dutchies and Peerages, which are not yet verified, notwith∣standing which non verification, because the persons possessing them, will during their Lives enjoy all Honours belonging to them, we shall insert them, being 11. in all.
Dutchies.
1. Bournonville, Erected in 1600.
2. Cardonne, in 1642.
3. Arpajon, in 1651.
4. Pavan la Vieville, in 1652.
5. Nogent le Rotrou d' Orval, in 1652.
6. Duras, in 1668.
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7. Bethune Charots, in 1672.
8. The Archbishoprick of Paris, in 1674.
9. De Lude, in 1675.
10. La Roche Guyon, in 1679.
11. Roquelaure, in 1683.
The present Dukes.
1. Ambrose of Bournonville.
2. Lewise de Prie, Dutchess Dowager, and Heiress.
3. Lewis d' Arpajon.
4. Charles de la Viéville.
5. Francis de Bethun.
6. James Henry de Duras-fort.
7. Armand de Bethune.
8. Francis Harlay de Chanvallon.
9. Henry de Daillon, dead last year without Issue.
10. Francis de la Rochefoucault, Great Hunter of France.
11. Antony Gaston.
There is still one Dutchy, which is only so by Brief, which is that of Clermont Tonnerre, now Ex∣tinct: But all the foregoing ones are so by Patent under the Great Seal.
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