ingdom (stirred
up by the daily Complaints and Solicitations of the _Commons_,)
"resolv'd to gather Forces, and raise an _Army_; that (as _Philip de
Comines_ expresses it) they might provide for the _Publick Good_, and
expose the King's wicked Administration of the Commonwealth." They
therefore agreed to be ready prepared with a good Army, that in Case the
King should prove refractory, and refuse to follow good Advice, they
might _compel him by Force_: For which Reason that War was said to have
been undertaken for the Publick Good, and was commonly called the War
_du bien public_. "_Comines_, _Gillius_, and _Lamarc_, have recorded the
Names of those Great Men who were the principal Leaders, the _Duke of
Bourbon_, the _Duke of Berry_, the King's Brother; the _Counts of
Dunois_, _Nevers_, _Armagnac_, and _Albret_, and the _Duke_ of
_Charalois_, who was the Person most concern'd in what related to the
Government. Whereever they marched, they caused it to be proclaimed,
that their Undertakings were only design'd for the _Publick_ Good; they
published Freedom from Taxes and Tributes, and sent Ambassadors with
Letters to the _Parliament_ at _Paris_, to the Ecclesiasticks, and to
the Rector of the University, desiring them not to suspect or imagine
these Forces were rais'd for the King's Destruction, but only to reclaim
him, and make him perform the _Office_ of a _Good King_, as the present
Necessities of the _Publick_ required."--These are _Gillius_'s Words,
lib. 4. fol. 152.

The Annals intituled the Chronicles of _Lewis the Eleventh_, printed at
_Paris_ by _Galliottus_ fol. 27. have these Words.----"The first and
chiefest of their Demands was, That a _Convention_ of the _Three
States_ should be held; _because in all Ages it had been found to be the
only proper Remedy for all Evils, and to have always had a Force
sufficient to heal such sort of Mischiefs_."--Again, Pag. 28. "An
Assembly was called on Purpose to hear the Ambassadors of the Great Men,
and met on the 24th Day in the Town-House at _Paris_; at which were
present some Chosen Men of the University, of the Parliament, and of the
Magistrates. The Answer given the Ambassadors, was, That _what they
demanded was most just_; and accordingly a _Council_ of the _Three
Estates_ was summon'd."--These are the Words of that Historian.--From
whence the Old Saying of _Marcus Antoninus_ appears to be most
true.--"Etsi omnes molestae semper seditiones sunt, justas tamen esse
nonn