HiSCoD

Description (langue originale) : Deux commissaires royaux et quatre huissiers se rendent à Troyes afin d'exiger que chaque corporation leurs paye 24 écus (contre 12 écus auparavant) pour être dispensées de lever le métier. Alors que la peste règne à Troyes, la récolte est fort mauvaise et le pain cher. Le peuple s'émeut de cette requête. Après les vêpres, une foule de sept à huit cents personnes, composée d'hommes, de femmes et d'enfants, tous pauvres, s'assemble devant l'hôtel du Dauphin avant d'y entrer et de s'emparer d'un huissier. Il est battu puis mené devant la maison de Cousin, greffier du bailliage, où il est tué. La foule pille ensuite la maison et brûle les archives du bailliage et du présidial. Le calme revient vers minuit après l'intervention d'une force armée qui disperse la foule.

Description (anglais) : 'On Friday, 27 June 1586, two partisans and their assistants arrived at the Logis du Dauphin and prepared to collect a new tax of 24 ecus from each master of each trade. By Sunday people all over the city were beginning to gather and complain. A concerned city council tried to persuade the collectors that it was foolhardy to serve warrants on people on a Sunday 'which was a dangerous day' and that it would be more prudent for them to leave town and then negotiate with each trade separately. But the agents were not dissuaded: by late afternoon they had served notice on five hundred persons. [...] By late afternoon a crowd of reportedly eight hundred men, women, and children had gathered outside the logis where the agents were staying. They broke down the door and stormed inside while the two partisans, four huissiers and two sergeants hid as best they could. One of the huissiers was found hiding in a horse stall and mercilessly beaten with clubs. Begging not to be killed, he blurted out the names of the local financial backers of the new tax (and presumably his employers): Sanguin, Raguin, and Borne. These names suggested further action. The huissier was dragged to the house of Raguin, who was clerk of the bailliage court, and killed on the doorstep. The premises were then pillaged and all of Raguin's papers were burned, including documents belonging to the court. The violence had been redirected from the agents to the profiteers and their institutional connections. Recognizing the need to restore order, the urban militia assembled and dispersed the rioters about midnight.'