A LETTER Written to the French King, By the LORDS Spiritual The ARCH-Bishops And the BISHOPS, Together with the other ecclesiastics, appointed by the Clergy of France, assembled at St. Germains en Say.  
About the last Breve of the POPE, upon the Subject of the Regale.  
Sire,  
WE have understood, to our great grief and sorrow, that our Holy Father the POPE hath written a Breve to your Majesty, by which he doth not only exhort and require you not to subject any of our Churches to the 
* The Sovereign Patronage of the Archbishoprics, Bishopric Abbeys, and other Benefices of Royal Foundation, due unto the King of France, and adherent unto his Person, in the right of his Crown, and therefore not to be transferred, committed, or aliened unto any other, and hereby he hath the Profits of them during vacancy, and the Provision, Collation and Presentation of Successors unto them.  Right of Regale, but likewise he declares, that he will make use of his Authority, if your Majesty will not submit to the Paternal Remonstrances that he hath both made, and often repeated to you upon this point.  
We have judged it, Sire, our Duty not to be silent upon such an important Occasion as this is, where we shall suffer, with a most sensible and extraordinary affliction, his Holiness to threaten the eldest Son, and the Protector of the Church, as He hath done at other times, and upon other accounts, those Princes who have usurped his Rights. 'Tis not the least of our design to enter with your Majesty into the bottom of an Affair: Wherein our Predecessors of the like Assemblies have received upon divers occasions very considerable Marks of your Justice and your Piety; but this extraordinary Procedure gives us a most wonderful trouble, for it is so far from maintaining the honour of Religion, and the glory of the Holy-See, that in all likelihood it is enough to lessen them, and to produce very ill effects. It is but too plain and evident that he would not do this, but to favour the malice of some turbulent and seditious Spirits, that, contrary to the Intentions of his Holiness, which we look upon to be very good, would make use of his Name and his Authority, as they do every day, in letting extravagant Roports fly abroad in the World, against the honour of your Majesty, and the most qualified Prelates of your Kingdom. They do also endeavour what they can to stir up a misunderstanding between the Priesthood and the Royalty, and that at such a time, when they have more reason than ever to preserve a perfect Union, by the Protection you give to the Faith, to the Ecclesiastical Discipline, and to the extirpation of Heresies and Novelties. It is very easic for us, Sire, being supported by your Majesty, to prevent so pernicious and fatal an Evil, either by making known our Sentiments to his Holiness, with observing that respect that is due to him, or by taking up Resolutions commensurate to the Prudence and the Zeal of the greatest Prelates of the Church. Our Predecessors very well understood upon the like conjunctures how to maintain the Liberties of their Churches, without departing from those Measures of respect which their Birth and their Religion have inspired into them for KINGS: And as your Majesty, Sire, surpasses by your Zeal and your Authority all those that have been before you, we are so strictly engaged and fixed to it, that nothing is capable of effecting any separation from it. This Protestation being sufficient to deceive the vain erterprises and attempts of the Enemies of the Holy-See, and the State, we desire to renew it to your Majesty with all the sincerity and the affection as is possible for us, it being fit that all the world should be informed, that we ●o right well understand, as we ought, how to make that ●●ve we bear to the Discipline of the Church agree with the 〈…〉ous quality which we will study ever to preserve,  
Sire, Of your most humble, most Obedient, most Faithful, and most Obliged Servants and Subjects; the Archbishops, Bishops, and other the ecclesiastics appointed by the Clergy of your Kingdom. 

† The Archbishop of Paris, Duke and Peer of France, Commander of the Orders of the King; Provisor of Sorbonne, President.  
† De Grignan, Coadjutor of Arles.  
† Phelippeaux, Patriarch Archbishop of Bourges.  
† Hyacinte, Archbishop of Alby.  
† Francois, Bishop of Amiens.  
† G. Bishop of Perigueux.  
† Charles Francois, Bishop of Constance.  
† S. De Guemadeuc, Bishop of S. Malo.  
† L. M. Bishop, Duke of Langres.  
† Jean Louis Bishop of Air.  
† J. B. M. Colbert, Bishop of Montaubon.  
† Louis Aube, Bishop of Grace.  
† The Bishop of Cisteron.  
† Poncet de la Riviere, Bishop and Earl of Vzez.  
† Andre, Bishop of Auxerre.  
† Louis Alphonce, Bishop Dallet, Proctor.  
De Grance.  
De Tonnerre.  
De Coetlogon.  
De Villars.  
De Broglio.  
Phelippeaux.  
De Marillat, Dean of S. John.  
de Lion.  
De Fleury.  
De Viens.  
De Gourives.  
Cheron.  
De Ventimille du luc.  
J. le Gentil.  
De Moncassin.  
De S. Valier.  
Boucaut.  
Des Marests, Agent General of the Clergy of France.  
De Besons, Agent General of the Clergy of France.   By our Lords of the General Assembly.  
The Abbot de Grignan, nominated by the King to the Bishopric of Eureux, Secretary. From S. Germain's en Say, this 10th of July 1680.  
FINIS.