Meeting of the Estates-General, 1789. 79 
signed ;!° in one instance, two deputies, each sole representative 
from different districts, combined in a protest;!7 another state- 
ment was signed by six deputies from five different bailliages of 
Burgundy;'8 in still another, one deputy made a declaration to 
which several others from scattered bailliages subscribed;'9 
finally one deputation passed in two separate protests, part of 
the members having taken no action on the decree, while the 
rest accepted it, but all declared themselves subject to the 
will of their constituents.?° 
As already indicated, three of the declarations were submitted 
before the decree was passed. In these cases, the deputies gave 
notice of their appeal to their constituents for new instructions 
or for the interpretation of certain articles in the mandates 
already confided to them.2!. The fundamental reason for the 
great majority of the other declarations was the fact that the 
king’s plan, accepted by the decree of the chamber, opened the 
prospect of vote by head in the general assembly, proposed for 
the estates of 1789.” In two cases, there were also objections 
to statements in the decree itself, those touching the renunciation 
of pecuniary privileges and the consolidation of the public debt;?# 
one of the two protested further against the articles in the first 
declaration of the king, concerning restrictions upon instructions, 
present or future, against the form of the royal session, and 
finally, against article XXIII of the king’s second declaration 
which referred to the estates-general protests of ancient estates 
against the institution of new provincial estates. But the 
16 Nos. 11, 40, 45, 48. Those signing No. I1 were alternates from the 
bailliage of Amont in Franche-Comté, and were not seated in the national 
assembly, according to Brette, Les Constituants, 129. 
17 No. 29. 
ENO. 43. 
B® No. 47. 
20 Nos. 17,.18. 
oe Nos. 1,2, 3: 
INOS: 4, (0, 0, 9, 11, 15, 16, 17, 22,23, 26, 28, 20, 31, 33; 35) 39) 39, 41, 43> 
46, 49, 50. All of these state or imply that voting by head was against their 
instructions. 
*3 Nos. 43, 45. 
4 No. 43. Art. XXIII follows: ‘ The disputes occurring in the province 
where ancient estates exist and the protests that have arisen against the 
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