has been inserted in the _Recueil des Ordonnances des Bois des France,_ t.xxi.

p.

323, dated 30th of May, 1505.] When Louis had recovered, discreet measures were taken for arousing the feeling of the country as well as the king's conscience as to this great question.

In the course of the year 1505 there took place throughout the whole kingdom, amongst the nobility and in the principal towns, assemblies at which means were proposed for preventing this evil.
Unpleasant consequences might have been apprehended from these meetings, in the case of a prince less beloved by his subjects than the king was; but nothing further was decided thereby than that a representation should with submission be made to him of the dangers likely to result from this treaty, that he should be entreated to prevent them by breaking it, and that a proposal should be made to him to assemble the estates to deliberate upon a subject so important.

[_Histoire de France,_ by Le Pere Daniel, t.viii.