Be the Lawes of France a slave, let him be a Turk, slave to a Venitien or Spaniard, etc. (such enemies they pretend themselfes to be to servitude, tho their be legible enough marks of it amongs them as in their gens de main mort,[178] etc.), no sooner sets he his foot on French ground but ipso facto he is frie.  Yet al strangers are not in the same condition their, nether brook they the same priveledges, for some they call Regnicolls,[179] others Aubiens[180] (suivans les loix du Royaume, bastards).  The principal difference they make betuixt them is this, that if a Regnicoll such as the Scots are, chance to dy in France they have the power of making a testament and disposing of their goods as they please which they have their, whither they be moveable or immoveable.  If they die not leiving a testament yet its no less secure, since their friends to the 10 degrie may take possession of them.  Its not so wt the Aubiens who have no such right, but dieng, the King is their heir, unless it may be they be Aubiens naturalized, who then begin to have the priveledges of the others and the very natives.

    [178] Serfs under the feudal law, whose power of disposing of their
        property by will was restricted.

    [179] A legal term meaning native or naturalised citizens.

    [180] Aubains.  Foreigners, whose succession fell to the Crown
        (droit d’aubaine).

The Laws of France [this is the rigor][181] denies children begotten in Adultery or incest aliments, which tho harsh, condemning the innocent for the guilty, yet they think it may serve to deterre the parents from sick illicit commixtions.

    [181] Interlined.

The Laws of France, as of the most of Europe (tho not practicate wt us), in thess case wheirin a man gets a woman wt child, ordains that ether he marry hir or that he pay hir tocher good, which is very rigorously execute in France.

We can not forget a Anagram that one hes found in Cornelius Jansenius, to wit, Calvini sensus in ore.

At Rome the Jews have a street assigned to them to live in a part.  In France, especially in Montpeliers, wheir theirs seweralls, they dare not wear hats of that coleur that others wear, as black or gray, but ether rid or green or others, that all may know them from Christians.

The King of France amongs other titles he assumes, he calls himselfe Abbot of St. Hilaire, to wit of that church that bears the name in Poictiers, whence its amongs the aenigma’es of France that the Abbot of St. Hilaire hath the right of laying with the Queen of France the 1 night of the marriage.  Wheirupon when this king married the Infanta of Spaine, some of the French nobility told hir that the Abbot of St. Hilaire had the right of lying wt the Queen of France the first night, she replied that no Abbot sould lay wt hir but her prince.  They pressing that the laws of France ware such, she answered she would have that law repealed.  They telling hir the matter she said the Abbot sould be welcome.