Note 593 — Chapter VI

In Provins, on their own initiative, the townspeople taxed their town, bailiwick, and réssort (sénéchausée) to the amount of 7,000 livres tournois, the sum being imposed upon persons of every class, those who had gone to the war in the King’s service alone being exempted. This levy created great discontent, especially among the clergy, who appealed against the bailiff and the gens du roi to the Court of Aids, alleging that the levy was made without royal commission and without the consent of those interested. The bailiff compromised by promising the clergy to restore the money paid by them and not to demand more of them, and so the process was dropped (Claude Haton, I, 296, 297).