65 - [PARIS PARLIAMENT - EDMONDES (Thomas)]. Remonstrances Presented to the King by the Lords of Parliament, on the twenty-first of May, 1615. n.p., n.d., 1615. In-12, 32 pp., paperback, modern cover. Ex-libris stamp: A.A. Beaujour, Caen.

[PARIS PARLIAMENT - EDMONDES (Thomas)]. Remonstrances Presented to the King by the Lords of Parliament, on the twenty-first of May, 1615. n.p., n.d., 1615. In-12, 32 pp., paperback, modern cover. Ex-libris stamp: A.A. Beaujour, Caen. Included with it: - The King’s Response to the Remonstrances Presented to Their Majesties by Sir Edmondes, Ambassador of the King of Great Britain. 1615. 12mo, 12 pp., paperback, modern cover. Ex-libris stamp: A.A. Beaujour, Caen. - Remonstrances made by the Ambassador of Great Britain to the King and to the Queen, his mother, in June 1615. n.p., n.d., 1615. In-12, 16 pp., paperback, modern cover. Ex-libris stamp of A.A. Beaujour, Caen. An interesting collection of three original political documents published in 1615, against the backdrop of the unrest shaking the kingdom under the rule of Marie de Médicis, in the aftermath of the Estates General of 1614. The first reproduces the remonstrances addressed to Louis XIII by the Parliament of Paris, which sought to assert its political role in the face of royal authority. The other two concern the intervention of Sir Thomas Edmondes (1563–1639), ambassador of James I of England to the French court, and the response sent to him on behalf of the king. In particular, the ambassador protested against the proposed marriages between the royal houses of France and Spain, which were likely to upset the diplomatic balance in Europe. A collection of three contemporary accounts of the political and diplomatic tensions of 1615, on the eve of the Princes’ Revolt and the conclusion of the Spanish marriages.