ullas, & prope necessarias: eas vero justissimas maximeque
necessarias videri, cum populus Tyranni saevitia oppressus auxilium a
legitimo Civium conventu implorat. Altho' all Sorts of Seditions are
troublesome, yet some of them are just, and in a Manner necessary; but
those are extraordinary just and necessary, which are occasion'd when
the People oppress'd by the Cruelty of a Tyrant, implores the Assistance
of a Lawful Convention."

_Gaguinus_, in his Life of _Lewis_ the _Eleventh_, pag. 265. gives us
_Charles_, the Duke of _Burgundy's_ Answer to that King's Ambassadors.
"_Charles_ (says he) heard the Ambassadors patiently, but made Answer,
That he knew no Method so proper to restore a firm Peace, at a Time when
such great Animosities, and so many Disorders of the War were to be
composed, as a _Convention of the Three Estates_. Which when the
Ambassadors had by Special Messengers communicated to King _Lewis_, he
hoping to gain his Point by Delays, summon'd the _Great Council_ to meet
at _Tours_, on the Kalends of _April_ 1467; and at the appointed Time
for the _Convention_, they came from all Parts of the Kingdom, &c."

The same Passage, and in almost the same Words, is recorded in the Book
of Annals, _fol. 64._ and in the Great Chronicle, _Vol. 4. fol. 242._
where these very remarkable Words are further added.--"In that Council
it was appointed, that certain approved Men shou'd be chosen out of each
of the _Estates_, who shou'd establish the Commonwealth, and take care
that Right and Justice shou'd be done." But _Gillius_ in the Place
above-mention'd says: "After the Battel at _Montlebery_, many
well-affected and prudent Men were elected to be _Guardians_ of the
_Publick Good_, according as it had been _agreed_ upon between the
_King_ and the _Nobles_; among whom the Count of _Dunois_ was the
Principal, as having been the chief Promoter of that Rising."--For it
had grown into Custom after the Wealth of the _Ecclesiasticks_ was
_excessively_ increas'd, to divide the People into Three _Orders_ or
_Classes_, whereof the _Ecclesiasticks_ made one; and when those
_Curators_ of the _Commonwealth_ were chosen, Twelve Persons were taken
out of each Order. So that it was enacted in that _Council_, that 36
Guardians of the Republick shou'd be created, with Power, by common
Consent, to redress all the Abuses of the Publick. Concerning which
Thing, _Monstrellettus_, Vol. 4. fol. 150 writes thus: "In the first
Place (says he) it