vpon hearing of them order may be taken for it 17 Further they beseech your Maiesty to ordaine that the Edict of Exchange touching the Churches of your Soueraignty of Bearne may in all points be effected as it pleased you to accord by the Briefe giuen at Montpellier And that the Exercise of hte Religion and the Ministerie may bee restored in your Towne of Nauarrins That in consideration of the Cession of other Churches they of the Religion may be maintained in the possession of the Churches bells and Church-yards which was granted them by the Commissioners or by the Parliament vpon their report That the Colledges and Academies may be re-established there with payment of the stipends which were formerly allowed Answer The King will cause that to be carefully accomplished and obserued which was accorded to them of the pretended reformed Religion by the Briefe of the 24. of October last 18 And because Iustice is that which most imports your Authority and the conseruation of the Peace May it please your Maiesty to ordaine the speedy re-establishment of the Courts of Iustice equally compounded of Catholikes and those of the reformed Religion in places and Townes where they were wont to be And that during the time of attending the effect of the said re-establishment the Courts of Parliament may be interdicted from taking notice and iudging of causes appertaining to them of the Religion And that all appeales either verball or written interiected by them before Iudges or Commissioners that are to giue Arrests and iudgements may haue the like effect as if they were relieued by Royall Letters according to the 45 Article of the Edict and the 6 of the Conference at Nerac Answer His Maiesty intends that the Court of Iustice of the Edict of Languedoc which only remaineth vn-re-established shall be restored as soone as may be in the Towne of Castres according to the said Declaration 19 By the 6 Article of the Edict and the 2 of the particulars and other answers made to the Requests they of the Religion finde themselues to be iustly discharged from contributing to the constructions reparations of the Church the dependances therof as a thing contrary to their consciences Notwithstanding which the Catholike inhabitants of Arnay le Duc sue to your Councell for leaue to impose generally on the Commonalty as well vpon those of the Religion as vpon themselues the summ of 6000 liuers to build a Church for the Capuchins which would be neyther reasonable nor conformable to your Edicts Wherefore may it please your Maiestie to declare all your subiects of the Religion to be quit and exempted from payments and contributions of the like nature and that the said second Article of the Particulars may be executed Answer It is granted 20 It is well knowne that during these last troubles they of the said Religion haue suffered much violence from their contraries As in the towne of Romerantin where the place of their Exercise in the suburbs of the said towne was twice burnt But that which is yet more strange is this that since the Peace which it pleased your Maiestie to grant vnto your said Subiects the Church which had been built long agoe in your towne of Iergeau was quite pulled downe and the demolishments carried cleane away by meanes whereof they of the Religion are depriued of their Exercise Wherefore they most humbly beseech your Maiesty that in reparation of so notable an infraction of your Edicts and Declarations you wil be pleased to ordaine that the said churches may be re-edified and the Exercise re-established in the said townes of Iergeau and Romerantin Answer The said Commissioners deputed for those places haue in charge to take order for that which is contained in this Article 21 Your townes of Saint Foy and Bergerac most humbly beseech you Sir that you will be pleased out of your singular bountie to discharge them of the oppressions which with so much excesse they haue suffered a long time letting your said towne of Bergerac fully enioy the benefit of your inuiolable promises by hindring so many innouations and the building of the Cittadell there which is now erecting no withstanding that your Subiects of the Religion haue maintained themselues in the firmnes of a most humble subiection and obedience towards your Maiestie therby labouring to deserue the effect of the said Roiall promises their libertie and the peaceable exercise of their Religion Answer His Maiesty will write vnto my Lord the Duke of Espernon Governor and Lieutenant generall in Guienne to take order that the Inhabitants of the said townes of Bergerac and Saint Foy may be releeued and fauourably entreated vpon all occasions that shall present themselues and to see that the men of warre in the said places may liue in such order as they may receiue no kinde of oppression from them 22 And lastly for the easing of your people of the Religion for the setling of them in a sure confidence and further confirmation of the Peace which you haue vouchfased to grant them may it please your Maiesty to raze out all the market of diffidence that are yet remaining and for that one to discharge the many Garisons that still continue in the lower Languedoc and other Prouinces vnder the command of such as are not very well affected to your said subiects of the religion that so there may be no retardment of the effects of that obedience which both they will and ought to render you as well in the demolishments you haue ordained as in all other things which it shall please you to command them Signed Montmartin Deputy Generall Maniald Deputy Generall Answer The King will take order herein as he shall see it to be best for his seruice Signed LOVYS And a little lower Philipeaux FINIS
THE REQVESTS PRESENTED VNTO THE FRENCH KING By the Generall Deputies of the Reformed Churches of FRANCE Together with his Maiesties Answers therevnto LONDON Printed for Nathaniel Butter and William Sheffard 1623. To the King Sir YOur most humble and obedient Servants and Subiects of the RELIGION throughly informed of your Maiesties Royall inclinatiō to re-establish the ruines of your poore people haue charged the generall Deputies which it hath pleased your Maiestie to grant them with infinite wishes and acclamations to be vowed vnto the assured setling of this so much desired Peace to the end that for as much as they find themselues penetrated with so celestiall a benefit they may seeke the continuance thereof with the constancie of their submissions and by the onely recourse which they haue vnto your Clemencie and Iustice they may giue a notable testimony that they aspire vnto no assurance or refuge more availeable against the violence of such as trouble them and that oppose the power of your Lawes then with most humble requests and supplication to invoke the firmenesse of your inviolable Word and the observation of your so authenticall Briefes For seing that the outrages which are done them doe strike directly at the reverence of your Protections and devide that which the Peace their obedience ought to ioyne vnder the felicitie of your Commandements they earnestly beseech your Maiestie to weigh their most humble remonstrances in that ballance of equitie which makes your Scepter so iust and redoubtable and that you will be pleased to cut off with the sword which God hath put into your hand the violent infringements of your gracious concessions to the end that relying in a true confidence on the wisedome and goodnesse of your holy administration they may be alwayes retained within the fidelitie and true obligations of your pure and entire service I. VVHerfore to enioy a full effect of your justice they most humbly beseech your Maiestie would be pleased to send into your Provinces personages both of the one and the other Religion endued with that affection which is requisite for the Peace to the end they may the more profitably put your Edicts and Declarations in execution there and take order in all places for the supplications and necessities of your people of the Religion Answer THe King hath deputed and dispatched away Commissioners as well Catholiques as of the pretended Reformed Religion into the Provinces where they are iudged necessary for the execution of his Maiesties declaration of the 20. of October last II. ANd imparting your compassion and clemencie to those of your Townes which haue rendered you such obedience that thereby you were pleased to grant vs the Peace your Maiestie is most humbly brought to ordaine that the garrison which for many months hath beene with so much oppression at Montpellier may be withdrawne from thence according to your Royall promises and in regard of the misery and mortalitie which is in the Towne Answer AFter satisfaction hath beene made to that which was ordained by the Declaration of the 20. of October last his Maiestie will take order for the contents of the present Article III. ANd that conformably to the particular Briefe which it hath pleased your Maiesty to accord vnto nothing may be innovated in your said towne of Montpellier and expresly in that which concerneth their Consullships and that also the innovation made concerning the Consullship called de Mer may be repaired considering the obedience which is rendered vnto you there in the demolishment of the fortifications in which labour the inhabitants continue with great charge care and diligence Answer THe Election of the Consulls de Mer of the said Towne of Montpellier having beene made according to an Arrest contradictorily given in the Chamber of the Edict of Castres nothing can be altered or changed therein As for the Election of the other Consulls of the said Towne his Maiesties intent is that it should be done with the ordinary formes and according to the liberties and priviledges thereof IIII. YOur Subiects of the Religion also for to take away all occasion of distrust and feare having given satisfaction to your Maiesties pleasure concerning the razing downe of the Forts of the Iles of Olleron and de Re may it please your Maiestie in like manner to ordaine that the Fort erected before your Towne of Rochell may be demolished as it pleased your said Maiestie to promise Answer VPon hearing the report of the Commissioners which his Maiestie hath sent to the said towne of Rochell his Maiesty will take order for that which is contained in the present Article V. ANd as God is all mercy so like vnto him whose image you beare may it please your Maiestie to grant vnto a great number of persons of all ages detained for being in the last Warre or for Religion in your Galleyes with nakednesse rigor and insupportable vsage their pardon and libertie and the same libertie to all others that are prisoners for accusations depending vpon the times and affaires of the said troubles whether they be found iudged or no which fauor pardon and liberty is accorded vnto them by the 73 Article of the Edict which it hath pleased you to confirme Answer His Maiestie will deliuer the prisoners of warre detained at this present in the Gallies and for those which are accused of particular crimes he will take order by the waies of Iustice 6 Your Maiesty by your Letters of declaration of the 24 of April 1621 hath willed that your Subiects which remaine in your obedience shall enioy the grace and concessions granted vnto them aswell by your Maiesty as by the late King Henry the Great of glorious memorie Neuerthelesse the last yeere 1622 they haue beene wholly depriued of the money which your Maiesty was accustomed yeerely to cause to be distributed to them by Monsiur du Candal the Commissioner for it wherby their poore Churches are in particular so disaccomodated that they are constrained to haue recourse vnto your Maiesty and beseech you as most humbly they doe to appoint a stock of money vnto the said du Candal for the said yeere at leastwise for the entertainment of the Pastors of the Prouinces which remained in your obedience and which were faine to borrow for to buy themselues meate and to supply their other necessities 7 Likewise they most humbly beseech your Maiestie that according to the Grant you were pleased not long since to make vnto your said Subiects you would be pleased to ordaine that the said du Candal may be furnished with good and valuable assignations for the entertainment and releefe of their Ministers during the present yeare and for the pensions of the parties of the petit Estate which it shal please you to erect as also for the entertainment of the places which it pleased you to leaue in their guard And that all these assignations may bee paid in such manner as it hath pleased your said Maiesty and the said
late King to grant vnto them by the Briefes which they haue had heretofore Answer to the 6. and 7. The Kings affaires not permitting him to satisfie the suppliants for that which concerneth the time past his Maiesty for the time to come will cause good and valuable assignations to be deliuered to the said du Candal for the releefe and entertainment of the said Ministers as also for the payment of the pensions contained in the petit Estate which he meaneth to erect As for the Garisons the Briefe of the 24. of October last shall be obserued 8 And forasmuch as there resteth great and notable summes vnpaid of the assignations wherewithall the said du Candal was furnished in the yeares 1620. and 1621 which the Receiuers and Farmers vpon whom the said assignations were laid keepe still in their hands they most humbly beseech your Maiesty to ordaine that all delayes set apart he may be satisfied the said remainders Answer The said du Candal presenting his request to the Councell order shall be taken for him therein 9 The Churches of the Prouince of Gex hauing enioyed entertainment for their Pastors out of the Ecclesiasticall reuennues of the said Prouince vntill the yeare 1601 and for many yeares after vnder the late King Henry the great and till such time as it pleased your Maiesty by an Arrest of your Councell of the 5 of December 1612 to take away the said Ecclesiasticall lands and in exchange thereof to ordaine that 3600 liuers should be paid them yearly the said summe of 3600 liuers to bee leuyed vpon the 45000 liuers of augmentation granted to those of the Religion which money was paid them by the said du Candal vntill the moneth of October 1621 May it please your Maiestie to command they may enioy the effect of the said Grant and Exchange and to that end cause necessary assignations to be giuen to the said du Candal as well for payment of the arrerages as of that which is to come Answer The King will take order hereafter for that which is contained in the present Article according as is abouesaid 10 May it please your Maiestie also to extend your liberalitie so farre forth as to furnish your subiects of the Religion in your city of Paris with a stock sufficient for re-edifying reestablishment of their church and other buildings for the place of their exercise which were burnt demolished and the most part of the materials carried away in the popular tumult that hapned in the yeere 1621 notwithstanding that your said Subiects kept themselues within the terms of obedience and thereby vnder your Maiesties safe-guard and protection Answer His Maiesty referres the re-establishment of the said Church to the care and diligence of the Suppliants 11 And after the same manner entreating your subiects of the said profession in your Citie of Tours may it please you Sir to furnish them with the summes which your Maiesty of your grace granted vnto them for the re-edifying of their Church the Site and place whereof may it please your Maiesty to continue vnto them as that which was adiudged them by the Commissioners after hearing of the whole Clergy the Courts of Iustice and the Citie and also was bought built and peaceably enioyed by them vntill the troubles of the yeere 1621 in the possession whereof they were not onely maintained by the Edict of 98 but also by those of the yeeres 1610 and 1612 and more especially by your Maiesties last declaration Answer The Commissioners deputed for the Prouince of Touraine shall take order that the Suppliants may haue a commodious place for the exercise of the pretended reformed Religion As for the re-establishment and re-edifying of their Church his Maiesty referres the care therof vnto the Suppliants 12 The same request is made vnto your Maiesty for the re-edifying of the Church of Bourg in the place which they of the Religion were possessed of by the iudgement ordinance of the Commissioners but now are kept from enioying it Answer The Commissioners which are to be sent into Bresse shall take order for that is contained in the present Article so far forth as shall stand with reason 13 Pleaseth your Maiestie to bee informed that the inhabitants professing the reformed Religion in your Towne of Villemur are molested in the liberty of their Consciences depriued of all exercise of pietie excluded from publike office and greatly ouercharged by the Garison there They also of Fontenay le Comte are chased away and interdicted from Preaching and Prayer neither can they haue their Church againe which is euen quite ruined nor is their Pastor suffered so much as to enter into it nor are they permitted to burie their dead but contrariwise endure all excesse of charge and taxations and vpon their complaints are sent away to your Councell Whereupon may it please you Sir to deliuer them from such oppressions and letting them enioy the fruite of the Peace ordaine the re-establishment of their Religion their Churches their Pastors the suretie of their Sepultures and whatsoeuer else appertaineth vnto your Iustice in other their grieuances 14 May it please your Maiesty in like manner to ordaine the said re-establishment of the Exercise at Lusson where it is denied vnto them of the Religion contrary to the publication of your Declaration although they carried themselues in all obedience and that the said Exercise hath beene continued there for 55 yeeres together euen during all the time of the last warres and gouernment of Monsieur Roches Baritault 15 They of the Religion also are disturbed in the said Exercise at Talmont the Cannon hauing beene planted against them vpon their assembly to heare a Sermon Likewise at Surgers the Lady of the place hath forbidden to Preach there although it was permitted them all the time of these last troubles So in like sort at Baignols at S. Gilles in Languedoc at Figeac in Quercy and at Vic in Armaignac from whence Monsieur Testas the Minister was expelled and dares not returne thither nor can be therewith any safety wherein your Declaration being violated may it please your Maiesty to command the re-establishment of the said Churches and of the said Testas as also that of the Church of Quilleboeuf and the Pastor thereof who a long time hath sued to be restored Answer To the 13 14 15 Articles the Commissioners are particularly charged to see that the Suppliants may receiue satisfaction touching their demands according to the tenor of the Edicts and the said Declaration 16 And whereas the Catholiques of your Towne of Poictiers haue imposed the summe of 1200 liuers vpon those of the Religion for the entertainment of a guard which they vsed in these troubles and whereinto they would not admit any of the aforesaid Religion may it please your Maiesty to discharge them of it as of an imposition that is not reasonable Answer The 16 Article shall be communicated to the Maior and Sheriffs of Poictiers that