------------ DE GESVRES.
------------ DE ROHAN.
The archbp. of CAMBRAY.
-------------- REIMS.
-------------- NARBONNE.
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-------------- EMBRUN.
-------------- AUSCH.
-------------- BOURDEAUX.
-------------- *.
-------------- ARLES.
-------------- TOULOUSE.
The bishop of LANGRES.
------------ MANS.
------------ VALENCE.
------------ MACON.
------------ BAYEUX.
------------ AMIENS.
------------ NOYON.
------------ S. PAPOUL.
------------ COMMINGES.
------------ S. MALO.
------------ DIE.
------------ APOLLONIE.
------------ S. PAUL-DE-LEON.
------------ CHARTRES.
------------ RHODEZ.
------------ SARLAT.
------------ ORLEANS.
------------ MEAUX.
------------ ARRAS.
------------ BLOIS.
------------ METZ.
------------ ANGOULEME.
------------ VERDUN.
------------ SENLIS.
------------ ANGERS.
------------ DIGNE.
------------ AUTUN.
------------ VENCE.
------------ EVREUX.
The coadjutor of STRASBOURG.
The bishop of LEICTOURE.
------------ TROYES.
------------ NANTES.

_General Agents for the Clergy._

M. l'abbe DE BROGLIE.
M. l'abbe DE JUIGNE.

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_A Copy of the Letter of the Archbishop of Paris, dated January 1, 1762._

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,

If, in company of the other prelates, I did not add my name to the answer
which they had the honour to present your majesty, it was not that I
differed in the least from their judgment as to the four articles, which
your majesty was pleased to propose to their examination, concerning the
usefulness, the doctrine, the conduct, and the government of the Jesuits. I
am very sensible that, in point of virtue and learning, there is no bishop
in the nation to whom I ought not to give the precedency; and, in this
view, would willingly have subscribed after all my brother bishops: but
there is a regard due to the dignity of the see, to which your majesty has
graciously been pleased to call me, and I must not take a step, that may
interfere with those prerogatives, which, after the example of your august
predecessors, you think it your duty to maintain. No other consideration
could have prevented my setting my hand to a testimony so much to the
advantage of the Jesuits of your kingdom: and, whilst I have the honour to
assure your majesty of my entire adherency to that solemn act, I once more
beg leave to implo