wiss.
Mons. Necker, whose popularity declined, is obliged
to leave the kingdom precipitately.
The assembly, having declared the property of the
Crown to be that of the nation, grants to the King the
sum he required for his civil list.
_Sept_. Horrid massacres in the colonies.
_Oct_. 28. Fourteen castles are burned and plundered in
Dauphiny.
30. Outrageous conduct of two regiments at Befort.
_Nov_. 2. The clergy propose to raise four millions of livres
in their own body for the exigence of the state.
The assembly seizes the whole ecclesiastical
revenue, without any respect of persons or
property.
13. Pillage of the house of the Marshal de Castries at
Paris.
21. Duport-du-Terre appointed keeper of the seals.
27. The assembly requires that every ecclesiastic,
doing duty, shall swear to maintain with all his
power and interest the constitution, and every
thing that had been or should be ordained by its
decrees.
1791.

_Jan_. The debts of the church decreed to be national.
The King refuses to sanction the above decrees
respecting the clergy, but is at length forced to
it by threats and terror.
4. The clergy in the national assembly refuse to comply
with the foregoing decree, and in consequence of
their refusal a law passes that their benefices
shall be filled by such of the clergy as will take
the oaths of allegiance to the state.
Abolition of all the parliaments and sovereign
courts of France.
The Count d'Artois finds it prudent to quit the
kingdom.
Out of 138 prelates only four take the
constitutional oath, namely, the archbishop of
Sens, the bishops of Viviers, Orleans, and Autun.
The latter alone carries his apostacy (sic) so far
as to consecrate other bishops, who were presented
to the vacant sees.
Horrid treatment at Chateau