Remarkable extracts selected from a work printed in ... 1687 ... entitled The accomplishment of the Scripture prophecies, etc. : In which are pointed out ... many things analogous to the present great changes in France; particularly the fall of the Pope's authority; of tyranny; of the nunneries, etc. and of titles of honour ... To which are added, several Acts and Decrees of the National Assembly of France / [By E. May].
- Pierre Jurieu
- Date:
- 1793
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Remarkable extracts selected from a work printed in ... 1687 ... entitled The accomplishment of the Scripture prophecies, etc. : In which are pointed out ... many things analogous to the present great changes in France; particularly the fall of the Pope's authority; of tyranny; of the nunneries, etc. and of titles of honour ... To which are added, several Acts and Decrees of the National Assembly of France / [By E. May]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![A(h and Decrees of the National Affembly of.France. LEST thefeExtra&s fhould fall into the hands-of any¬ one not acquainted with the very great changes in the Government, &c. of France, fince about the middle of the year 178 9, it has been thought proper, to fubjoin the following Ads and Decrees of the AfTembly of that nation (as published in the General Evening Poft) that they may be the more readily compared therewith. No. I National Affembly, Augufi 4, 1789. cc The Houfe adjourned to feven o’clock in the evening, cs when die three Eflays of Me IT. lx Abbe SyCyes, u Mounicr, and Target, on the Rights of Men, were to bo <c examined, and one of them, if approved of, accented, cc The debates ran high; b'it between twelve and one, <£ feme Members departing from the (object, and touching cc on fome points of the Cpnftitution,,al] the Houfe, actu r Cl ated by one of thofe principles which fprings from pure *( patriotifmy divefting thenifelves of all private inter eft, “ formed but one body, and, as if vying with one another in point of generofity, unanimoufly agreed to pafs tlle <( following Acts, which were figned in the morning by his £c Majefty. 1. A proportionable diflribution of impofh 2. A renunciation of all privileges in towns and provin¬ ces. The inhabitants of Paris having patriotically renoun¬ ced all theirs, requeft a general conformity in the kingdom* h that for the future a confederacy may be formed. 3. The recovery* of feudal rights, 4. Suppreflion of mortmain, and all perfonal fervitude. 5. The price for the recovery of the clergy’s rents to be >£s the profit of livings. 6. Abolition of all privileges of the chace and ranger’s P What i3 here meant will be clear when Y/t e^mc to the Prprec on this fubjcA £ f in the cufe of Xytk 7. .Abolition](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30374583_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
