The memoirs of the Duke de La Rochefoucault containing the private intrigues for obtaining the regency after the death of Louis the Thirteenth, King of France, the wars of Paris and Guienne, the imprisonment of the princes, Cardinal Mazarin's letter to Monsieur de Brienne, articles agreed upon by His Royal-Highness and Monsieur le Prince for the expulsion of Cardinal Mazarin, an apologie for the Duke de Beaufort, memoirs of Monsieur de la Chastre.

VII.

Cardinal Mazarine, who still govern∣ed in effect, though banished in appea∣rance, having hinder'd the general As∣sembly of the States, which the King had promised to convoke the 8th of September last, and having obliged the Deputies, who met at Tours upon the day appointed, to retire with shame and confusion, and besides all this, his Royal Highness and Monsieur le Prince know∣ing that he would still continue the same condition he then held, and that he would endeavor to hinder by all means; whatever could be expected from their meeting, or that if he could be possibly brought to consent to their assembling, it should be only to get them into some place whereof he is Master; therefore his Royal Highness, and Monsieur le Prince, to remove these two inconve∣niences, promise and engage themselves, to spare no pains, to obtain that they may assemble at Paris, as the nearest and most convenient Town where they

may act in full liberty, upon which con∣dition they declare they will submit with all their hearts, their whole Interests, which they protest to be no other than the Interests of King and Country; to their decision, whereof there shall be made a perpetual and irrevocable Edict, which shall be confirmed in the Parliament of Paris, and by all those that enter into this present Union.