count of Carmaing, the lords de la Barde and de Pincornet, who were the principal appellants. In this appeal, the faid Gafcons complained of certain oppreffive grievances which the prince of Wales and of Acquitaine was about to mii£t on them and their valais ; and that the faid Gafcons appealed to and claimed the jurifdi&ion of the king of France, whom, as a matter of right, they had chofen for their judge. When this appeal from the faid Karons and lords of Gafcony had been well drawn, out, and reduced to writing, after different corrections, in the beft poflible manner by the wifeft of the French conn., cil, and after it had been very fully confidered, they refolved that it fhould be fignified to the prince of Wales, that they fummoned him to appear in per-fon,inthe chamber of peers at Paris, to anfwer the complaints made againft him and attend the judg-ment : to which effeâ:, orders were given to an eloquent lawyer, that the bufinefs might be more properly done, and to a very noble knight ofBeauce, called Caponnel de Caponnal. Thefe two commiflioners left Paris with their at-tendants, taking the road towards Bourdeaux. They paffed through Berry, Touraine, Poitou, Saintonge, and came to Blaye, where they croffed the Garonne : from thence they went to Bour-deaux, where the prince and princefs at that time refided, more than at any other place. Thefe com-miflioners declared wherever they paffed, that they were come by orders of the king of France ; by ffMcb means, they were in all places well received. Bbf ' When 375