Memoirs Concerning the Ancient Alliance Between the French and Scots, and the Privileges of the Scots in FranceThomas Moncrieff |
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Page 28 - affift at mafs, fermon, vefpers, and or" dinary meals. On high holidays, at the *' ceremony of the royal touchy the erec" tion of Knights of the King's order, the <c reception of extraordinary ambafladors, " and the public entries of cities, there " muft be fix of their number next to the " King's perfon, three on each fide of his *' Majefty : and the body of the king muft *' be carried by thefe only, wherefoever " ceremony requires ; and his effigy muft " be attended by them. They have the " keeping...
Page 27 - There are, moreover, an hundred complete lances, and two hundred yeomen of the said nation, beside several that are dispersed through the companies : and for so long a time as they have served in France, never hath there been one of them found that hath committed or done any fault against the kings or their state ; and they can make use of them as of their own subjects/' The ancient rights and prerogatives of the Scottish lifeguards were very honourable.
Page 1 - Moncrieff, Thomas. Memoirs, concerning the ancient alliance between the French and Scots, and the privileges of the Scots in France.
Page 28 - ... colour in France ; the keys of all the cities where the king makes his entry given to their captain in waiting or out of waiting. He has the privilege in waiting, or out of waiting, at ceremonies, such as coronations, marriages, funerals of the kings, baptisms and marriages of their children, to take duty upon him ; the coronation-robe belongs to him ; and this company by the death or change of a captain, never changes its rank, as do the three others.
Page 29 - ... said nation of Scotland, and sprung from a good family, &c. * This regulation did not hinder afterwards others than Scots from being sometimes admitted,• as appears by the remonstrances made upon that subject, from time to time, by the queen-mother, and her son James VI. and by the privy council of Scotland, in the roll of the year 1599, given in by• the captain of the Scots guards to the chamber of accounts. Three fourths of the yeomen, as well of the body as of the sleeve, were still, however,...
Page 34 - VII. upon that occasion, for the great loyalty and virtue which he found in them, he selected two hundred of them for the guard of his person, of whom he made an hundred men at arms, and an hundred lifeguards. And the said hundred men at arms are the hundred lances of our ancient ordinances ; and the lifeguard-men are those of our guard, who still are near and about our person.
Page 27 - Scots, that of four hundred men appropriated for the king's life-guards, there are an hundred of the said nation, who are the nearest to his person, and in the night keep the keys of the apartment where he sleeps. There are, moreover, an hundred complete lancers, and two hundred yeomen of the said nation, besides several that are dispersed through the companies.
Page 64 - Scotland, without taking out any letters of naturalization ; but also it should have been granted to the said Scots, to pay only the fourth part of the duties upon all goods which they transport to the said country of Scotland ; a privilege which they have ever enjoyed, and do enjoy at this day : that even whatever rupture there may have been between the crowns of France and England, since the union of the kingdom of England with that of Scotland, the French have been nevertheless still treated by...
Page 67 - ... private stipulation made by them to the contrary. Done in the king's council of state, his majesty being there, and the queen-regent his mother present, held at Fontainebleau, the nineteenth of September, one thousand six hundred and forty-six. Signed Le Tellier. Privileges of the Scottish merchants trading in France, granted by King Francis I. in 1518. FRANCIS, by the grace of God, King of France. Be it known to all present and to come, that we mean to treat favourably the subjects of our most...
Page 33 - IV. in his letters-patents given at Fontainebleau in the month of March, 1599. This copy is done from a copy collated with the original in parchment. Letters of general naturalization for the whole Scottish nation in France, by King Lewis XII. in 1513. LEWIS, by the grace of God, King of France, Be it known to all present and to come, that as, in all time and antiquity, between the kings of France and Scotland, and the princes and subjects of the two kingdoms, a most strict friendship, confederacy,...