The archbishop of Cambray, Duc de Cambray, Comte de Cambresis, possesses the suzerainty over all the fiefs of a region which numbers over seventy-five thousand inhabitants.

He appoints one-half of the aldermen of Cambray and the whole of the administrators of Cateau.
He nominates the abbots to two great abbeys, and presides over the provincial assemblies and the permanent bureau, which succeeds them.

In short, under the intendant, or at his side, he maintains a pre-eminence and better still, an influence somewhat like that to day maintained over his domain by grand duke incorporated into the new German empire.

Near him, in Hainaut, the abbe of Saint-Armand possesses seven-eighths of the territory of the provostship while levying on the other eighth the seigniorial taxes of the corvees and the dime.

He nominates the provost of the aldermen, so that, in the words of the grievances, "he composes the entire State, or rather he is himself the State."[1326] I should never end if I were to specify all these big prizes.