The Counter Revolution of June-July 1 1 



On July 2, 3, and 7 similar protests were presented by the nobles. 

 Two of these were signed by individuals who were the sole 

 representatives of their bailliage, while the three others were 

 signed by several deputies, in each case by all those who repre- 

 sented the bailliage.^° 



A careful examination of the declarations, found in the proces 

 of the nobles, shows that few of the protests mentioned the ques- 

 tion of verification at all, but in the six cases where the subject 

 was referred to there was a diversity of opinions. In one, the 

 deputies held that verification in common meant that they desired 

 the vote by head,^^ while another protest expressed the opposite 

 idea asserting that verification in common did not decide the 

 question of the vote.^^ One deputy considered that verification 

 in common was not according to his instructions and said that he 

 could submit only when instructed to do so by his constituents f^ 

 another said he would take no part either in verification or 

 elections without the consent of the three separate orders f* some 

 thought there would be nothing wrong in communicating creden- 

 tials which had been verified on May 27.^^ 



Sixty-one out of sixty-four protests required the vote by 

 order.^" In one protest we find that there must be vote by order 

 in all cases except in matter of taxation f' one stated that if the 

 voting was not by order the instructions would be annulled,^^ 

 while in another case the deputy was ordered to retire, if the 

 vote by order was not employed.^^ Other opinions expressed were 

 that the opinions of two orders could not bind the third ;*° that 

 the consent of each order was necessary to express the national 



30 Proces-verhal . . . de la noblesse, 404-449. 



31 No. 18. 



32 No. 41. 



33 No. 28. 



3* No. 34. 



35 NOS. 58, 73. 



36 All but Nos. 2, II, 21. 



37 No. 27. 



38 No. 8. 



39 No. 23. 



^o Nos. 20, 24, 34. 



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