THE

HISTORY

OF

FRANCE,

FROM THE

ACCESSION OF HENRY THE THIRD,

IN 1574,

TO THE

DEATH OF HENRY THE FOURTH,

IN 1610.

PRECEDED BY

A VIEW OF THE CIVIL, MILITARY, AND POLITICAL
STATE OF EUROPE,

BETWEEN THE MIDDLE, AND THE CLOSE OF THE
SIXTEENTH CENTURY;

.

AND FOLLOWED BY

A VIEW OF THE STATE OF EUROPE

AT THE ACCESSION OF LOUIS THE THIRTEENTH.

BY SIR N. WILL". WRAXALL, BART.

THE SECOND EDITION.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES,

IN THE STRAND.

1300L URR

OXFORD

CONTENTS

ог

THE FOURTH VOLUME.

BOOK THE SECOND.

AGE OF HENRY THE THIRD.

CHAP. I.

NATURE, limits, and extent of the royal power, under

the last princes of Valois. Functions of the States-

General.-Institution, and privileges of the parlia-

ments. Provincial assemblies. Revenues.

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nagement of the finances. Public funds.

Cavalry.

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Ma-

Coin.

Excesses of the soldiery. Artillery. - Ransoms. --

Navy. Gallies.

rine.

General state of the French ma-

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CHAP. II.

tempts at colonization. - Manufactures. -Sumptuary

laws. Agriculture. Condition of the peasants. -

Oppression of the inferior orders of society. - Popu-