Mélange de pieces [manuscript], ca. 1575-ca. 1585.

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Mélange de pieces [manuscript], ca. 1575-ca. 1585.

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Contents: discourse on the doctrine of the two substances; summary of certain articles concerning heretics; memoires given to the late advocate [Jean] David; speeches before the Queen Mother at Poitiers, November 28 and December 27, 1575; remonstrances of Paris, December 1575, and of Bourges; sonnets written by Catherine [Madeleine?] Des Roches and her daughter; a discourse showing that the domination of several cannot be food; speech before the king, 1583 or 1584; remonstrances of the bishop of Evreux; plea of M. Séguier, May 16, 1583; speeches of M. Faye, 1585, and of M. Brisson before the Parlement; discussion between the ambassadors of France and England touching the proposed marriage of the duke of Anjou to Elizabeth [1581?]; letters from Elizabeth to the King of France and the Queen Mother [1585?]; an acrostic on the three Henries; letters of the King of Navarre to the Parlement and to the Theological faculty of the Sorbonne, October 11, 1585; will of Michel de L'Hospital [1575?]; and lists of decrees, most of the second half of the sixteenth century, a few earlier.

198 leaves ; 32 x 22 cm.

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