Chap. IV. through F 
feized on Dr. Moulinss and hurried him away in a Se- 
dan to the Baftile ; the Captain firft read the Order or 
Warrant commanding him to apprehend one Moulins 
wherever he could find him. Mr, Hewlett^ Dr. JVard, 
and Mr. Ray went away this Day for England, but Mr. 
Lifler and myfelf not liking that Way of travelling by 
the Chajfe Maree, ftaid a little longer in Paris-, in which 
Time we could not learn any Thing concerning the 
Imprifonment of D.^ Moulin*&, only Gweflfes were made 
that his chief Crime was, he had lived too long among 
the French Proteftants in Languedoc and that the 
French King fufpefted he might difcover the prefent 
Inclinations of that Party after his Arrival in England, 
he being very intimate with fome of good Quality, 
that were difeontented with the prefent Management of 
Affairs in France. 
When Oliver Cromwell was Frotedor, there happen- 
ed this Accident at Nifmes the Protefiants having a 
Right to chufe Magiftrates, the popifli Party were re- 
folved to hinder them by Force on the Day of Eledtion, 
and had fome of the King’s Guards, and all the Papifts 
in Arms ftanding ready about the Town-Houfej the 
Protefiants alfo armed in great Numbers, and one 
Proteftant Gentleman being nigh the Door that led 
into the Maifon de Ville, had a Pifiol in his Hand, and 
being demanded why he flood in that Pofture, an- 
fwered, to defend their Privileges ; then they command- 
ed him to deliver up his Arms, which he refufing, the 
Guard fhot him dead ; which gave fuch an Alarm to 
the Protefiants, that they immediately fired at the Guards 
and others, and killed the Bifhop of Nifmesh Nephew, 
and then turned the Guards, and the reft of the Papifts 
out of the City. After that they began to fortify, and 
had many of their Friends come in daily to their Affift- 
ance, from the Sevennes, &c. But fome more confide- 
rate Perfons confulting what was to be done, at laft 
refolved to fend Dr. Moulins, then in Nifmes, into Eng- 
land, and acquaint the ProteJlor with it, and to defire 
his Interceflion with the Court of France *, fo Dr. Mou- 
lins immediately and privately rode^away for Lyons, in 
bitter fnowy Weather, and in eight Days arrived in Eng- 
land, having firfi: waited upon Lord Lockhart, the Eng- 
lijh Ambaffador at Paris. In this Journey, Dr. Moulins 
rode Poll with a Frenchman, that feeing the Pofiboy fall 
down dead with the Extremity of Cold, opened his 
Codpiece, and rubbed his Membrum virile, with Snow, 
till he recovered him, which he did in a little Time, 
and the Boy was able again to ride Poft. Dr. Moulins 
ftaid but a very fhort Time at London, and then return- 
ed with Secretary Lhurloe^s Letters to the Englijh Am- 
baflador and Cardinal Mazarine ; the Poftfeript of the 
I^etter to Cardinal Mazarine was written with the Pro- 
tedlor’s own Hand the Words were to this Effed : 
As you fhew Kindnefs to the Protefiants, fo you have me 
your Friend or your Foe. Dr. Moulin^s, upon his Arrival 
at Paris, delivered the Letters to the Ambaffador ; 
within a fhort Time he attended on the Ambaffador 
to the Cardinal’s, who read the Letter, and then had 
fome private Conference with Lockhart after which 
Moulins was called in, who heard the Cardinal pro- 
mife to the Ambaffador, the Protefiants at Nifmes fhould 
not be meddled with •, and added, Mr. Ambaffador, 
Tou know France is not in a Condition to deny England any 
Thing. Acccordingly, Orders were fent exprels to flop 
the Troops which were marching againft Nifmes, and 
within a Day’s March of the Place when they receiv- 
ed the Orders. 
Dr. Moulins fent a Note for fome Linnen to our 
Lodging, and Mr. Lifier returned by the Melfenger 
a little Billet, which only condoled his Misfortune, but 
the Captain of the Guard at the Baftile tore it in 
Pieces. All this while we heard of no Crime laid to his 
Charge. He was kept a Prifoner at the King’s Charge, 
and well dieted and ufed.' After the City of London 
was burnt, the French King fent a Courtier, I think 
Rouvingny, to Moulins, to acquaint him he fhould make 
any Province in France his Prifon, if he would give 
Security in a great Sum of Money not to go out of it, 
which he faid he was not able to give. Some Time 
after the King offered him all France for his Prifon, 
VoL. II. N^CXIX. 
RANGE. 725 
upon the faid Security y to which he anfwered as before, 
Ac laft the King fent for him and told him, he had 
done him no Wrong, and then bid him begone out of 
France within a Fortnight. This Relation I had from 
Dr. Moulins after his Coming into England. 
17. The Romifh Galilean Church confifts at prefent 
of fourteen Archbifliopricks, which are, i. Lyons. 2. 
Amhrune. 3. Aiichs. 4. Arles. 5. Tours. 6. Rheims, 
7. Bourdeaux. 8. Thouloufe. 9. Bourges. Jo. Nar- 
bonne. ii. Aix. 12. Viernie. 13. Rouen. 14. Paris. 
Under thefe Archbifhopricks are Eighty five Suffragan 
Bifiiopricks, which contain 7000 Parfonages, Priories, 
and Parifhes, above 1140 Commanderies of Malta, 
157000 Chapels, befides 557 Abbeys of Friars, and 
above 700 Convents of Cordeliers, exclufive Of the 
Carmelites, Jacobins, Augufiins, Carthufians, Ccelefiines, 
Jefiiits, Minims, and other religious Orders, who pof- 
fefs 14077 Convents. To thefe Clergy belong 259000 
Farms, and 17000 Acres of Vineyards, which are by 
them leafed out in France, not reckoning 3000 Acres 
from which they take the Third and the Fourth. The 
Revenue of the faid Church is eftimated at 920,000 
Crowns per Annum, exclufive of the Refervations in 
their Leafes, which amount to 120,000 Crowns, con- 
fifting of three Livres each. The faid Calculatioa 
was made by order of the Affembly of the Clergy 
of France, held in the AugufiirA^ Convent, at the 
End of Pont Neuf, in Paris the i6th of November, 
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18. April the iff, Vix.Poley, Mx. Lifier and myfelf 
gave eighteen Livres a Man for our Places in a 
Coach- Waggon that holds eight Perfons we had in 
the Coach with us, one of Geneva, (a Genevrite as they 
vulgarly call them) who had lived many Years, and mar- 
ried a Wife in Venice but the laft Year the Inquifition 
took Notice of fome that were privately Proteftants, 
and clapped two into Prifon. This Man had Intelli- 
gence of their Defign, and therefore prefently retired 
out of Venice, and undertook a Journey for London, 
where he refolved to end his Days. We had alfo in 
the Coach, a Fioui yovmo Swedijh Soldier, who had 
ftolen away a young Woman •, and that Morning we 
fet forward, three Frenchmen pretending themfdves 
the King’s Officers, attempted to get her away, 
and carry him to Prifon, becaufe he had , dreffed 
the Wench he fometimes call’d his Wife, in 
Men’s Cloaths *, but the Szvede outvapour’d them, 
and turned them down Stairs, and went after them, 
hectoring them all the Way to the Inn-Gate, When 
I came to London, I met with this Szvede, and asked 
him in Italian, where was his Bella Donna, he replied, 
he had difmiffed her and faid, Jo Tenge una piu 
hella, i. e. I have got a handfomer. This Day we rode 
through St. Dennis, four Leagues from Paris, and four 
Leagues ■ further lodged in Beaumont, a little Town 
fituated by the River Loazzo. We obferved fome few 
Vineyards this Day. 2d. We travelled four Leagues^ 
and dined at the White Crofs in Tilliar, and three 
Leagues further lodged in Beauvais, a large Town, 
but the Houfes low, and built of Wood. 
The Royal Manufadliire here employs four of five 
hundred Men in weaving Tapeftry, having feveral 
Looms in long Chambers ; and Painters are invited 
thither to draw the Pidlures that are to be woven. We 
obferved thofe that weave have the Fidltire they work 
juft underneath jhe Tapeftry they are weaving. The 
Cathedral in this City was not finiflied. The Choir is 
built like thqfe in England, very high and handfome 
within and without : There is a large Piazza in this 
Town. On the 3d, after fix Leagues riding, we dined 
at St. Puy ; then three Leagues brought us to Pais, a 
Village where the Duke of Crecqui hath a Caftle. On 
the 4th, we went five Leagues, and dined in Alraines, 
a great Village, and after Dinner rode four Leagues 
more to Abbeville, a large Town with wooden Lloufes. 
Good Guns and Piftols made in this City. There are 
likewife three or four large Piazza’s here. St. Ulfranc 
is the chief Church, a lofty ftone Building, not finiflied. 
The River Soanne crofles the City in three Places little 
Veffels of 80 Tons come up hither, the Sea being buc 
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