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A88567	The French King's declaration, enjoining the execution of his edict in Octob. 1685. for the revocation of the Edict of Nants, &c. Given at Versailles the 13th of Dec. 1698. and registred in Parliament. Faithfully translated from the original printed at Paris, 1698.	France. Sovereign (1643-1715 : Louis XIV); Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.	1698 (1698)	Wing L3105C; ESTC R230713	5,043	12

THE French King's DECLARATION Enjoining the EXECUTION Of His Edict in Octob. 1685. For the REVOCATION of the EDICT of NANTS c. Given at Versailles the 13th of Dec. 1698. And Registred in PARLIAMENT Faithfully Translated from the Original Printed at Paris 1698. Published by John Nutt near Stationers-Hall MDCXCVIII THE French King's DECLARATION FOR Putting in Execution his Edict in October 1685 for the Revocation of the Edict of Nants c. I. LEWIS by the Grace of God King of France and Navarre To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Our Desire of an Union of all Our Subjects in the Catholick Apostolick and Roman Religion Established and so Religiously observed in our Kingdom during so many Ages having obliged Us to repeal by Our Edict in the Month of October 1685 those by which the Kings Our Predecessors and particularly King Henry the Fourth of glorious Memory being obliged thereto by the Disorders which happened during their Reigns have Tolerated the pretended Reformed Religion We have with great Satisfaction seen the greatest part of Our Subjects that were engaged in it return into the Communion of the Church from which their Fathers had separated themselves during the last Age But notwithstanding that the addition of Care and Labour which has lain upon Us during the late War has not diminish'd in Us a continual Application for the perfecting of so great a Work Yet the Persons who are entrusted with the Execution of Our Commands throughout the several Provinces of Our Kingdom being hindred by the many different Affairs that We have been obliged to employ them in for some years past from performing their Parts with the same vigilancy We have to Our great Dissatisfaction understood that some of the pretended Reformed Ministers who have formerly resided in the Kingdom and even some of Our said Subjects hardened in their Errors taking advantage in this Juncture of the Weakness and Levity of others have flattered them with vain Hopes whereby some have been enticed to fall back from their former good Dispositions And as We desire nothing more earnestly than to see a Design brought to its full Perfection which We have undertaken for the Glory of God and the Salvation of so great a number of Our Subjects We thought Our selves obliged to renew Our Care herein at this time that it has pleased God to grant Peace to Europe thereby to undeceive Our said Subjects from the false Reports which some have endeavoured to delude them with and to use the most Effectual Means to bring them back sincerely and truely into the Bosom of the Catholick Church out of which they cannot expect to be saved Therefore We have Said and Declared and by these Presents Signed with Our Hand do Say and Declare We Will and it is Our Pleasure That Our Edict in the Month of October 1685 repealing the Edict of Nantes and others made in pursuance thereof be Executed We do again forbid all Our Subjects to Exercise the pretended Reformed Religion within the whole extent of Our Kingdom to meet together in any Place on this account in any Number or under any Pretence whatsoever To Harbour any Ministers and Directly or Indirectly to hold any Correspondence with them Which We again in most express manner forbid them to do upon the Penalties expressed in the Edicts and Declarations we have already made on this Account it being Our Will that they be Executed according to their Form and Tenour We Require all Our Attorneys General and their Substitutes and all other Our Officers to be Aiding and Assisting and to inform us carefully of all Proceedings herein as Occasion shall occur II. We Admonish and also Enjoin all Archbishops and Bishops of our Kingdom that they continue residing within their Bishopricks according to the Constitutions of the Holy Canons and Our Ordinances to employ their utmost Zeal and Application in the Instruction and Salvation of Our Subjects whom it has pleased God to entrust to their Spiritual Authority and to provide with a more particular Care for the Instruction of such of Our Subjects who are re-united to the Catholick Apostolick and Roman Religion as shall happen to be within their Diocese III. We likewise Admonish and Enjoin all Archbishops and Bishops to employ all that Authority which it has pleased God to add to their Character in infusing the like Sentiments into the Clergy and particularly the Curates who under their Authority have the chief Care of the Souls of our Subjects in their several Parishes that they may with a particular Application instruct them in the Mysteries of Our Holy Religion and the Rules of Christian Morality that to this Effect they may at least on Sundays and Holidays read Instructions and Catechisms at certain Hours in such manner as shall be prescribed them by the said Archbishops and Bishops and may take Care that the Preachers Teach these Truths to Our said Subjects in their Sermons IV. We Admonish and Enjoin the said Archbishops and Bishops that they appoint such Clergy men as they shall think fit to give the said Instructions during the time they shall judge proper when they shall not find the Curates of some certain Places where there are many Persons who have lately reunited themselves to the Catholick Religion able to do it with success and we are willing to provide out of our own Treasure for the subsistence of the said Clergy-men according to the Accounts we shall receive from the said Prelates of the Necessity of doing it V. We recommend it to all Our Subjects and especially to those who are Lords of Mannors and other the most Considerable Persons together with such as have lately reunited themselves to the Church to assist with all possible Exactness at Divine Service that they may bring down those Blessings which God grants to such as join their private Prayers to those of his Church We command them that they always behave themselves therein with Reverence especially during the time of the Celebrating the Holy Mass and adore on their Knees the most Holy Sacrament on the Altar As likewise that they observe the Commands of the Church as to Fasts Abstinency from Flesh and Rest from all manner of Work and take Care that their Children and Servants do exactly perform the same VI. We likewise Command all Our said Subjects that they pay all due Honour and Respect to all that relates to the Religion within and without the Churches by their Actions and by their Words that they Honour the Persons of the Clergy and particularly the Arch-Bishops and Bishops and the Curates of their Parishes and that they receive with deference the Advice they shall give them in Matters of Religion and concerning their Spiritual Conduct The whole on Pain of Exemplary Punishment to such as shall fail therein VII We Command all Our said Subjects reunited to the Church That they observe in the Marriages they shall be willing to Contract the Solemnities prescribed by the