Aduis, remontrances et requestes aux Estats generaux tenus à Paris, 1614

"Advice and petition of "six Paysans" addressed to the Estates General. The petitions consist of 56 articles which cover religion, taxation, system of justice, the French system of government, the army, Jews, foreign policy, esp. with Italy and Spain, duelling, finances, nobility, Jesuits, etc. Number 56 is quite telling, i.e. that no edict be given which cannot be enforced. "L'obseruation des Edicts ne dure pas trois iours ...""--French Political Pamphlets Digital Collection, Brigham Young University.