Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	abide_v	according_a	place_n	45	3	3.4825	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49221	The French king's decree against Protestants, prohibiting them the exercise of their religion, &c. to which is added a brief and true account of the cruel persecution and inhumane oppressions of those of the reformed religion to make them abjure and apostatize : together with the form of abjuration the revolting Protestants are to subscribe and swear to, and a declaration of his Electoral Highness of Brandenburgh ... : also a letter from Father La Chese ... to Father Petre ... / newly translated from the French.; Edit de révocation de l'Edit de Nantes. English	France.; Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, 1620-1688.; La Chaise, François d'Aix de, 1624-1709.; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.	1689 (1689)	Wing L3117; ESTC R2440	33,019	41

Council for Authorizing and Establishing of the said places for Exercise notwithstanding III. We likewise Prohibit all Lords of what condition soever they may be to have any Publick Exercise in their Houses and Fiess of what quality soever the said Fiess may be upon penalty to all Our said Subjects who shall have the said Exercises performed in their Houses or otherwise of Confiscation of Body and Goods IV. We do strictly Charge and Command all Ministers of the said Pretended Reformed Religion who are not willing to be Converted and to embrace the Catholick Apostolick and Roman Religion to depart out of our Kingdom and Countries under our Obedience 15 days after the Publication hereof so as not to continue there beyond the said term or within the same to Preach Exhort or perform any other Ministerial Function upon pain of being sent to the Galleys V. Our Will and Pleasure is That those Ministers who shall be Converted do continue to enjoy during their Lives and their Widows after their Decease as long as they continue so the same Exemptions from Payments and Quartering of Souldiers which they did enjoy during the time of their Exercise of the Ministerial Function Moreover We will cause to be paid to the said Ministers during their Lives a Pension which by a third part shall exceed the appointed Allowance to them as Ministers the half of which Pension shall be continued to their Wives after their Decease as long as they shall continue in the state of Widow-hood VI. And in case any of the said Ministers shall be willing to become Advocates or to take the Degree of Doctors in Law we Will and Understand that they be dispensed with as to the three Years of Study which are prescribed by our Declarations as requisite in order to the taking of the said Degree and that after they have pass'd the ordinary Examinations they be forthwith received as Doctors paying only the Moiety of those dues which are usually paid upon that account in every University VII We Prohibit any particular Schools for Instructing the Children of those of the Pretended Reformed Religion and in general all other things whatsoever which may Import a Concession of what kind soever in favour of the said Religion VIII And as to the Children which shall for the future be Born of those of the said Pretended Reformed Religion Our Will and Pleasure is That henceforward they be Baptized by the Curates of our Parishes strictly charging their respective Fathers and Mothers to take care they be sent to Church in order thereto upon Forfeiture of 500 Livres or more as it shall happen Futhermore Our Will is That the said Children be afterwards Educated and brought up in the Catholick Apostolick and Roman Religion and give an express Charge to all Our Justices to take care the same be performed accordingly IX And for a Mark of our Clemency towards those of our Subjects of the said Pretended Reformed Religion who have retired themselves out of our Kingdom Countries and Territories before the Publication of this our present Edict Our Will and Meaning is That in case they return thither again within the time of four Months from the time of the Publication hereof they may and it shall be lawful for them to Re-enter upon the Possession of their Goods and Estates and enjoy the same in like manner as they might have done in case they had always continued upon the place And on the contrary that the Goods of all those who within the said time of four months shall not return into our Kingdom Countries or Territories under our Obedience which they have forsaken remain and be Confiscated in pursuance of our Declaration of the 20th of August last X. We most expresly and strictly forbid all our Subjects of the said Pretended Reformed Religion them their Wives or Children to depart out of our said Kingdom Countries Territories under our Obedience or to Transport thence their Goods or Effects upon Penalty of the Gally for Men and Confiscation of Body and Goods for Women XI Our Will and Meaning is That the Declaration made against those who shall relapse be Executed upon them according to their Form and Tenor. ☞ Moreover those of the said Pretended Reformed Religion in the mean time till it shall Please God to enlighten them as well as others may abide in the several respective Cities and Places of our Kingdoms Countries and Territories under our Obedience and there continue their Commerce and enjoy their Goods and Estates without being any way molested upon account of the said Pretended Reformed Religion upon condition nevertheless as aforementioned that they do not use any publick Religious Exercise nor assemble themselves upon the account of Prayer or Worship of the said Religion of what kind soever the same may be upon forfeiture above specified of Body and Goods Accordingly We Will and Command our Trusty and Beloved Counsellors the people holding our Courts of Aids at Paris Bayliffs Chief Justices Provosts and other our Justices and Officers to whom it appertains and to their Lieutenants that they cause to be Read Published and Registred this Our present Edict in their Courts and Jurisdictions even in Vacation time and the same keep punctually without contrevening or suffering the same to be contrevened for such is Our Will and Pleasure And to the end to make it a thing firm and stable we have caused Our Seal to be put to the same Given at Fountainbleau in the Month of October in the Year of Grace 1685 and of Our Reign the XLIII Signed LEWES Le Tellier VISA This signifies the Lord Chancellors Perusal Sealed with the Great Seal of Green-wax upon a Red and Green string of Silk REgistred and Published the King's Attorney General requiring it in order to their being Executed according to Form and Tenor and the Copies being Examined and Compared sent to the several Courts of Justice Bailywicks and Sheriffs Courts of each District to be there Entred and Registred in like manner and charge given to the Deputies of the said Attorney General to take care to see the same Executed and put in Force and to certifie the Court thereof At Paris in the Court of Vacations the 22th of October 1685. Signed De la Baune A Letter of the French KING to the Elector of Brandenburgh Sept. 6. 1666. Brother I Would not have discoursed the Matter You write to Me about on the behalf of My Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion with any other Prince besides Your Self But to shew You the particular Esteem I have for You I shall begin with telling You that some Persons disaffected to my Service have spread Seditious Pamphlets among Strangers as if the Acts and Edicts that were Pass'd in favour of My said Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion by the Kings My Predecessors and Confirm'd by My Self were not kept and executed in My Dominions which would have been contrary to My Intentions for I take care that they

Witnesses whose Names are under Written this day of the month of the Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord the King and of our Redemption A Declaration of the Elector of Brandenburg in Favour of the French Protestants who shall settle themselves in any of his Dominions We Frederick William by the Grace of God. Marquess of Brandenburg Arch-Chamberlain and Prince Elector of the Holy Empire Duke of Prussia Magdeburg Juilliers Cleves Bergen Stettin Pomerania of the Cassubes Vandals and Silesia of Crosne and Jagerndorff Burg-grave of Noremberg Prince of Halberstadt Minde and Camin Earl of Hohenzollern of the Mark and Ravensberg Lord of Ravenstein Lawneburg and Butow do declare and make known to all to whom these Presents shall come THat whereas the Persecutions and Rigorous Proceedings which have been carried on for some time in France against those of the Reformed Religion have forced many Families to leave that Kingdom and to seek for a Settlement elsewhere in strange and Foreign Countries We have been willing being touched with that just Compassion We are bound to have for those who suffer for the Gospel and the Purity of that Faith We profess together with them by this present Declaration Signed with our own Hand to offer to the said Protestants a sure and free Retreat in all the Countries and Provinces under our Dominion and withal to declare the several Rights Immunities and Priviledges which We are willing they shall enjoy there in order to the Relieving and easing them in some measure of the burthen of those Calamities wherewith it hath pleased the Divine Providence to afflict so considerable a part of his Church I. To the end that all those who shall resolve to Settle themselves in any of our Dominions may with the more Ease and Convenience Transport themselves thither We have given Order to our Envoy extraordinary with the States-General of the Vnited Provinces Sieur Diest and to our Commissary in the City of Amsterdam Sieur Romswinkel at our Charge to furnish all those of the said Religion who shall address themselves unto them with what Vessels and Provisions they shall stand in need of for the Transportation of themselves their Goods and Families from Holland to the City of Hamburg where then our Councellor and Resident for the Circle of the Lower Saxony Sieur Guerick shall furnish them with all conveniences they may stand in need of to convey them further to whatsoever City or Province they shall think fit to pitch upon for the place of their Abode II. Those who shall come from the Parts of France about Sedan as from Champagne Lorain Burgundy or from any of the Southern Provinces of that Kingdom and who think it not convenient to pass through Holland may betake themselves to the City of Frankfort upon Maine and there address themselves to Sieur Merain our Councellor and Agent in the said City or in the City of Cologne to Sieur Lely our Agent to whom We have also given Command to furnish them with Money Pasports and Boats in order to the carrying them down the River Rhine to our Dutchy of Cleves and Mark or in case they shall desire to go further up in our Dominions our said Ministers and Officers shall furnish them with Address and Conveniences for to Arrive at those several respective places III. And forasmuch as the said our Provinces are stored with all sorts of Conveniences and Commodities not only for the necessity of Living but also for Manufactures Commerce and Trade by Sea and by Land those who are willing to Settle themselves in any of our said Provinces may choose such place as they please in the Country of Cleve Mark Ravensberg and Minde or in those of Magdeburg Halberstadt Brandenburg Pomerania and Prussia And forasmuch as We conceive that in our Electoral Marquisate the Cities of Stendel Werbe Rathenow Brandenburg and Frankfort and in the Country of Magdeburg the Cities of Magdeburg Halle and Calbe and in Prussia the City of Koningsberg will be most commodious as well for the great abundance of all necessaries of Life which may be had there at cheap Rates as for the convenience of Trade and Traffick We have given charge that as soon as any of the said French Protestants shall arrive in any of the said Cities they shall be kindly received and agreed with about all those things which shall be thought needful for their Settlement And for the rest leaving them at their full Liberty to dispose of themselves in whatsoever City or Province they shall judge most commodious and best suiting with their Occasions IV. All the Goods Houshold-stuff Merchandize and Commodities which they shall bring along with them shall not be liable to any Custom or Impost but shall be wholly exempt from all Charges and Impositions of what Name or Nature soever they may be V. And in case that in any of the Cities Towns or Villages where the said Persons of the Reformed Religion do intend to settle themselves there be found any Ruinous and decay'd Houses or such as stand empty and which the Proprietors are not in a condition to repair We will cause the same to be Assigned to them the said French Protestants as their Propriety and to their Heits for ever and shall content the present Proprietors according to the value of the said Houses and shall wholly free the same from all Charges to which the same might stand ingaged whether by Mortgage Debts or any other way whatsoever Furthermore Our will is That they be furnished with Timber Quick Lime Stones Bricks and other Materials they may stand in need of for the repairing of whatsoever is decay'd or ruinous in any of the said Houses which shall for six Years be exempt from all sorts of Impositions Free-Quarter and all other Charges whatsoever Neither shall the said French during the time of six Years be lyable to any Payments whatsoever but what are chatgeable upon things of daily Consumption VI. In Cities or elsewhere where convenient places shall be found for to build Houses those of the Reformed Religion who shall make their Retreat into our Dominions shall be fully Authorized and Impowered to take possession of the same for themselves and their Heirs after them together with all the Gardens Fields and Pasture-Grounds belonging to the same without being oblig'd to pay any of the dues and charges with which the said places or their dependances may be Incumbred Moreover for the facilitating their Building in any of the said places We will cause them to be furnished with all the materials they shall stand in need of and will over and above allow them Ten Years of Exemption during which they shall not be lyable to any other charges or payments besides the dues charged upon things of daily spending And furthermore forasmuch as Our intent is to make their Settlement in our Dominions the most easie and commodious for them that may be We have given command to our Magistrates and other Officers

in the said Provinces to make enquiry in every City for Houses that are to be Lett into which it shall be free for the said French to enter and take up their Lodging as soon as they shall Arrive and do promise to pay for them and their Families for Four Years the Rent of the said Houses provided that they engage themselves within the said Term to Build in such places as shall be Assigned for them in manner and upon condition as aforesaid VII As soon as they shall have taken up their Habitation in any City or Town of our Dominions they shall immediately be made Free of the place as also of that particular Corporation which by their Trade of Profession they belong to and shall enjoy the self-same Rights and Priviledges which the Citizens Burgesses and Freemen of the said places or Corporations do enjoy and that without being obliged to pay any thing for the said Freedom and without being lyable to the Law of Escheatage or any other of what Nature soever they may be which in other Countries are in force against Strangers but shall be look'd upon and Treated upon all accounts in the same manner as Our own Natural Subjects VIII All those who are willing to undertake and establish any Manufactures whether of Cloth Stuffs Hats or any other whatsoever shall not only be furnished with all the Priviledges Patents and Franchises which they can wish for or desire but moreover We will take care that they be assisted with Moneys and such other Provisions and Necessaries as shall be thought fit to promote and make their undertaking successful IX To Country-men and others who are willing to Settle themselves in the Country We will cause a certain extent of Ground to be allotted for them to Till and Cultivate and give Orders for their being assisted and furnished with all things necessary for their Subsistance at the beginning of their Settlement in like manner as we have done to a considerable number of Swiss Families who are come to dwell in Our Dominions X. And as for any business of Law or matter of difference which may arise amongst those of the Reformed Religion We do grant and allow that in those Cities where any considerable number of French Families shall be Settled they be Authorized to choose one from amongst themselves who shall have full power to decide the said differences in a friendly way without any formality of Law whatsoever And in case any Differences shall arise between the Germans and the said French that then the said Differences shall be decided joyntly by the Magistrate of the Place and by the Person whom the French shall have Chosen for that purpose from amongst themselves And the same shall be done when the Differences of Frenchmen amongst themselves cannot be accommodated in the forementioned friendly way by the Person thereto by them Elected XI In every City where any numbers of French shall Settle themselves We will maintain a Minister and appoint a convenient place for the Publick Exercise of Religion in the French Tongue according to the Custom and with the same Ceremonies which are in use amongst the Reformed in France XII And forasmuch as such of the Nobility of France who heretofore have put themselves under Our Protection and entred into our Service do actually Enjoy the same Honours Dignities and Immunities with those of the Country and that there are many found amongst them who have been raised to the chief Places and Charges of our Court and Command over Our Forces We are ready and willing to continue the same Favour to those of the said Nobility who for time to come shall Settle themselves in our Dominions by bestowing upon them the several Charges Honours and Dignities they shall be found fitted for And in case they shall purchase any Mannors or Lordships they shall possess the same with all the Rights Prerogatives and Immunities which the Nobility of our own Dominions do of Right enjoy XIII All these Priviledges and Advantages forementioned shall not only be extended to those French of the Reformed Religion who shall Arrive in our Dominions in order to their Settling there after the same Date of this Declaration but also to those who before the date hereof have settled themselves in our Countries provided they have been forced to leave France upon account of their Religion they of the Romish Profession being wholly excluded from any part or share therein XIV In every one of Our Provinces Dutchies and Principalities We shall appoint and Establish certain Commissioners to whom the French of the Reformed Religion may have Recourse and Address themselves upon all occasions of need and this not only at the beginning of their Settlement but also afterwards And all Governours and Magistrates of Our Provinces and Territories shall have order by Vertue of these Presents as well as by other particular Commands We shall from time to time Issue forth to take the said Persons of the Reformed Religion into their Protection and to maintain them in all the Priviledges here before mentioned and not suffer the least hurt or injury to be done unto them but rather all manner of Favour Aid and Assistance Given at Postdam Octob. 26. 1685. Frederick William A Letter from Father La Chese Confessor to the French King to Father Pe●re Jesuit and Great Almoner to the King of England upon the Method or Rule he must observe with His Majesty for the Conversion of His Protestant Subjects Most Reverend Father WHen I compare the Method of the French Court which declares against all Heresies with the Policy of other Princes who had the same Design in former Ages I find so great a difference that all that passes now adaies in the King's Council is an impenetrable Mistery and the eyes of all Europe are opened to see what happens but cannot discover the Cause When Francis I. and Henry II. his Son undertook to Ruin the Reformation they had to struggle with a Party which was but beginning and weak and destitute of Help and consequently easier to be overcome In the time of Francis II. and Charles IX a Family was seen advanc'd to the Throne by the Ruin of the Protestants who were for the House of Bourbon In this last Reign many Massacres hapned and several Millions of Hereticks have been Sacrificed but it answer'd otherwaies and his Majesty has show'd by the peace and mild waies he uses that he abhors shedding of Blood from which you must perswade his Britannie Majesty who naturally is inclin'd to Roughness and a kind of boldness which will make him hazard all if he does not politickly manage it as I hinted in my last when I mentioned my Lord Chancellor Most Reverend Father to satisfie the desire I have to shew you by my Letters the Choice you ought to make of such Persons fit to stir up I will in few words since you desire it inform you of the Genius of the People of our Court of

Some of the most strong and vigorous Souldiers took their Hosts or other persons of the House and walk'd them up and down in some Chamber continually tickling them and tossing them like a Ball from one to another without giving them the least Intermission and keeping them in this condition for three daies and nights together without Meat Drink or Sleep When they were so wearied and fainting that they could no longer stand upon their Legs they laid them on a Bed continuing as before to Tickle and Torment them after some time when they thought them somewhat recovered they made them rise and walked them up and down as before sometimes Tickling and other times Lashing them with Rods to keep them from Sleeping As soon as one Party of these Barbarous Tormenters were tyred and wearied out they were Relieved by others of their Companions who coming fresh to the Work with greater Vigour and Violence reiterated the same Course By this Infernal Invention which they had formerly made use of with success in Bearn and other places many went Dictracted and others became Mopish and Stupid and remain so Those who made their Escape were fain to abandon their Estates yea their Wives Children and Aged Relations to the Mercy of these Barbarous and more than Savage Troops The same Cruelties were acted at Negreplisse a City near to Montauban where these Bloody Emissaries committed unparallel'd Outrages Isaac Favin a Citizen of that Place was hung up by his Arm-pits and tormented a whole Night by pinching and tearing off his Flesh with Pincers though by all this they were not able to shake his Constancy in the least The Wife of one Rouffion a Joyner being violently dragg'd by the Souldiers along the Streets for to force her to hear Mass dyed of this cruel and inhumane Treatment as soon as she reach'd the Church Porch Amongst other their Devilish Inventions this was one They made a great Fire round about a Boy of about Ten Years of Age who continually with Hands and Eyes lifted up to Heaven cryed My God help me and when they saw the Lad resolved to Dye so rather than renounce his Religion they snatch'd him from the Fire when he was at the very point of being Burnt The Cities of Caussade Realville St. Anthonin and other Towns and Places in the Upper Guinne met with the same Entertainment as well as Bergerac and many other Places of Perigord and of the Lower Guinne which had a like share of these cruel and inhumane Usages The forementioned Troops marched at last to Castres to commit the same Insolencies and Barbarities there also And it is not to be doubted but that they will continue and carry on the same course of Cruelties where ever they go if God in Pity and Compassion to his People do not restrain them It is to be feared for it seems but too probable that this dreadful Persecution in conjunction with those Artifices the Papists make use of to disguise their Religion and to perswade Protestants that they shall be suffered to Worship God as formerly will make many to comply with them or at least make their Mouths give their Hearts the Lye in hopes of being by this means put into a condition to make their escapes and returning to that Profession which their weakness hath made them deny But Alas this is not all for those poor Wretches whom by these Devilish ways of theirs they have made to Blaspheme and Abjure their Religion as if this were not enough must now become the Persecutors and Tormentors of their own Wives and Children for to oblige and force them to Renounce also for they are threatned that if within three days time they do not make their whole Family Recant in like manner those rough Apostles the Dragoons shall be fain to take further pains with them in order to the perfecting of their Conversion And who after all this can have the least doubt but that these unhappy Dragoons are the very Emissaries of Hell whose very last Efforts and Death struglings these seem to be This Relation hath given a short view of some of those Sufferings the Reformed have undergone but not of all It is certain that in divers places they have tryed to wear out their Patience and overcome their Constancy by applying Red-hot Irons to the Hands and Feet of Men and to the Breasts of Women At Nantes they hung up several Women and Maids by their Feet and others by their Arm-pits and that stark Naked thus exposing them to publick View which assuredly is the most cruel and exquisite Suffering can befall that Sex because in this case their Shamefac'dness and Modesty is most sensibly touched which is the most tender part of their Soul. They have bound Mothers that gave Suck unto Posts and let their little Infants lye Languishing in their sight without being suffered to Suckle them for several days and all this while left them crying moaning and gasping for Life and even Dying for Hunger Thirst that by this means they might Vanquish the Constancy of their Tender-hearted Mothers Swearing to them they would never permit they should give them Suck till they promised to Renounce their Profession of the Gospel They have taken Children of Four or Five Years of Age and kept them from Meat and Drink for some time and when they have heen ready to faint away and give up the Ghost they have brought them before their Parents and horribly Asseverated that except they would Turn they must prepare themselves to see their Children Languish and Dye in their presence Some they have bound before a great Fire and being half Roasted have after let them go They beat Men and Women outragiously they drag them along the Streets and Torment them day and night The ordinary way they took was to give them no rest for the Souldiers do continually Relieve one another for to Drag Beat Torment and Toss up and down these Miserable Wretches without Intermission If it happen that any by their Patience and Constancy do stand it out and Triumph over all the Rage and Fury of those Dragoons they go to their Commander and acquaint him they have done all they could but yet without the desired success who in a Barbarous and Surly Tone answers them You must return upon them and do worse than you have done the King Commands it either they must Turn or I must Burst and Perish in the Attempt These are the pleasant Flowry Paths by which the Papists allure Protestants to return to the Bosome of their Church But some it may be will object You make a great noise about a small matter all Protestants have not been exposed to these Cruelties but only some few obstinate Persons Well I will suppose so but yet the Horror of those Torments Inflicted on some hath so fill'd the Imagination of these Miserable Wretches that the very thoughts of them hath made them comply it is indeed a Weakness of which we are ashamed