he returned not a little discontented The 22. between Nine and Ten in the morning the Duke of Soubize followed by Mr. Baker Agent for the Duke of Buckingham came to the Gate of S. Nicholas desiring entrance into the City The Guard before the admitting of him acquainting the Mayor therewith he immediately repaired thither and sinding him betwixt the two Gates remonstrated to him the consequence of his coming into the City intreating of him if he desired the good and Conservation of Rochel and the Church of France to return to the Duke of Buckingham but the old Dutchess of Rohan his Mother who was some Months before retired hither coming to meet her Son after Salutations and Imbraces took him by the hand saying with a loud voice that she might be heard by the Mayor and the multitude that were there My Son come 1627. July see your Sister who is very sick At which words without demanding leave of the Mayor who found himself surprized and durst not openly and by force oppose him he went into the City with her as did also Mr. Baker who demanding to be heard in Council which was held after Dinner he made this Speech as followeth Gentlemen I am sent by my Lord the Duke of Buckingham High-Admiral of England to declare to you the Reasons for which by the Command of the King my Master he is come to the place where he now is and in sight of you accompanied with a Fleet of Ships laden with Souldiers Artillery and Ammunition ready to make a descent if occasion require It is sufficiently known to the World how the King of Great Britain our Master having Personally by an Adventure very rare and by a Prudence exceeding much his Age discovered before and since his coming to the Crown the danger ready to fall upon him and the rest of Christendom by the Ambition Fraud and Power of the House of Austria hath used all industry to prevent this danger and that not only by his own Forces but also by those of his Allies to which Resolution as he hath been pressed by almost all Princes and Estates of Christendom so none hath done it with more vehemency and efficacy than the French King his Brother-in-law and his Ministers not only by Arguments but also by Promises of Union and Assistance in that Common Cause And to conserve this Mutual Interest against a Common Enemy or suspected Friend was the reason why the King our Master hath more desired 1627. July the Amity and Alliance of France than of all the World besides hoping by this means to have the Power to divert the thoughts of this Great King from the ruine of his best Subjects those of the Reformed Religion and humbling the true Enemies of his Estate who keeps from him so many brave Provinces and Kingdoms possessed by his Predecessors In the prosecution of which Design he was willing to have sacrificed all his Interest for Common Good and securing of Christendom But his Majesty hath found by too dear experience that being ingaged in a War with Spain he did not only not receive the favour and assistance of France which with reason he might have expected but by expecting it received more prejudice and hinderances than from Spain it self and the reason hereof is most apparent for the grand design of this Estate is to take the advantage of the Ingagement of the King our Master with Spain to ruine and extirpate at the same time those of the Reformed Religion in France not that his Majesty will believe that this proceeds from the French King his Brother-in-law or the Queen his Mother being so great Princes and so nearly Allied to him but you Gentlemen know better than we the Powerful Influences that the Jesuits and Spanish Faction have upon the Councils of France which are said to be so strong that even with a high-hand Affairs are often carried against the King himself and by the force of this Faction proceeded the refusal of a passage to Mansfields Army raised and furnished in England 1624. at the very instant of their departure contrary to a Solemn Article 1627. July agreed upon with the French King for their passage by which refusal the Liberty of Germany hath been betrayed and twelve thousand English near totally destroyed The King our Master having interposed his Ambassadours for appeasing the last Wars against those of the Religion and with the consent of the French King himself becoming Guarrantee for the Peace and that those of the Religion were willing to submit to harder terms than at that time their Condition considered they needed to have done in hopes that the designs of this Estate would turn against their Common Enemies in Italy by the Power of this Faction it is nevertheless come to pass that not only the Confederates of the King in Italy have been abandoned but the Arms imployed there have since been made use of to reduce you to the extremity of Poverty and Famine of which I need not say more than that the Complaints of this City and all the Body of the Reformed Religion do still continue the Dukes of Rohan and Soubize having represented them to the King our Master Finally when this Faction perceived that all was to no purpose without prohibiting this City all Trade to Sea under pretext of an Imaginary Society of Commerce they have built a number of Ships of War but doubting that it would be sufficient to their design to fortifie themselves at Sea without at the same time weakning there the King our Master by an unexampled and unheard of Injustice in the midst of a full and perfect Peace and at a time when the King our Master was deeply ingaged in War by whch the Assurance and Riches of France increased they 1627. July made seizure of 120 Ships of his Subjects with Artillery Merchandize and Marriners and what other design could they have in it than to assure themselves of the ruine of this City For these Reasons alledged and many other of the same nature the King our Master the most Religious and Pious Prince in the World setting aside all other Respects than that of his Conscience hath a Sympathy of your Sufferings and his own Honour and finding himself obliged by Promise to procure the accomplishment of the Articles agreed upon especially being invited thereunto by my Lords the Dukes of Rohan and Soubize in the Name of the whole Body of the Reformed Religion he hath therefore sent hither my Lord the Duke of Buckingham who hath given me in Charge to make you an Offer in his Name of a powerful assistance as well by Land as Sea in case you resolve to accept of it for redeeming your Liberty by joyning with you in an actual War which he will do upon such Conditions as you your selves Gentlemen and all the World shall acknowledge that the King our Master hath no Eye to his own advantage but vour good the vindication of his Honour and discharge
of his Conscience for his Majesty is far from pursuing any Demands or Pretensions of his own or to invade the Territories of the French King his Brother with whom he desires to come to a perfect Union so it may be accompanied with the assurance of those in France who make Profession of the same Religion with himself If it be demanded how it comes that the King of Great Britain offers at this time Succours to 1627. July those of the Reformed Religion and this City when being formerly earnestly solicited to it he would not hearken thereunto I answer that the King at that time was not obliged by Promise to take care that the Articles agreed upon by the last Peace were observed besides that then the Treaties between these two Kingdoms were in their Vigour and Reputation and that the King our Master had hopes to be as beneficial to you by his Intercession as by his Arms for he well understands that the Church of God is our true Common Country and therefore hath been very careful in all his Seizures by Sea and Land to preserve those of the Reformed Religion and especially this City from all damage But at present the proceedings of this Estate hath put his Majesty out of doubt as to their designs and left him at liberty by having trodden under feet the Reverence due to Publick Treaties and therefore if you refuse this opportunity you will hereafter seek it in vain and in such case my Lord the Duke of Buckingham hath commanded me to make a Solemn Protestation before God and Man that he holds the King his Master in Honour and Conscience fully acquitted from all Engagements and his Excellency will dispose himself to execute the other Commands which he hath in Charge God hath in mercy given you the opportunity of making choice of Good or Evil and I have it in Command to press you to a ready Answer and Declaration as to which of the two you will make choice of You ought to consider that you may at present resolve clearly hereof as well as with suspention and that as to us each hour of delay will be very prejudicial 1627. July After this he presented the Duke of Buckgham's own Manifest Signed by himself containing a Declaration of the King of Great Britain's Intentions as followeth WHat share the Kings of Great Britain have always taken in the Affairs of the Reformed Church of this Kingdom and with how much Zeal and Care they have laboured their good is most eminently known to all the Examples thereof having been as ordinary as the occasions The present King my most honoured Lord and Master had not come therein behind his Predecessors if his honest and laudable designs for their good and advantage had not been perverted to their ruine by those whose interest it was to have accomplished them What Advantages hath he refused what Parties hath he not pursued that by his Alliance with France he might work the more profitably and powerfully for the restitution of the Churches to their Antient Liberty and Splendour And how could we have expected less from so strict an Alliance and so many reiterated Promises from the Mouth of a Great Prince than Effects truly Royal and suitable to his Grandure but the Issue is so far short of that that his Majesty instead of obtaining freedom and security for the Churches and a general Peace to France by the reconciliation of those who breathe after nothing but all sort of obedience to their King under the enjoyment of Edicts hath met with nothing but the contrary some having prevailed by the interest they had in those of the Religion to the deceiving of them and that not only by dividing them from him but also by rendering him if not odious at least under suspect with them in perverting the means that he ordained for 1627. July their good to an end wholly contrary Witness the English Vessels not designed for the extirpation of those of the Religion express promises having been given not to make use of them to their prejudice and yet nevertheless they were carried to Rochel and imployed â—n the last Naval Fight against them What can any expect from so puissant a King as the King my Master for being publickly illuded than a Resentment equal and proportionable to the injury done him But he hath had Patience beyond Patience and whilest he could hope to relieve the Churches by other means he hath not had recourse to Arms until being made instrumental of the last Peace upon Conditions disadvantagious enough which had never been accepted of without the intercession of His Majesty who interposed His Credit and Interest with the Churches even with Menaces for procuring their agreeing to them for salving the honour of the most Christian King and giving him assurance not only of the observance of them but also of the melioration of the said Conditions whilest he should remain Caution towards the Churches but what hath been the issue of all this nothing but the abuse of his Bounty and that which His Majesty thought would have been a Remedy to all their Evils hath it not carried the Churches to almost the last point of ruine So little it fails that by the continuation of the Fort before Rochel the demolishing whereof was promised by the violence of the Soldiers and Garrisons in the said Fort and Isles as well towards the Inhabitants of the said City as Strangers who instead of being intirely with-drawn have been dayly augmented and other Forts built and by the Commissioners remaining in the said City beyond the time agreed Cabals have been held by the means of which Divisions have crept in amongst the Inhabitants to 1627. July the opening the Gates to Neighbour Troops and byother breaches of the Peace the said City and in it the whole Church hath wanted little of drawing its last Breath and nevertheless his Majesty hath contained himself and not opposed such great Injuries and Violations of Faith more than by Complaints and Intercessions until having had certain advise confirmed by intercepted Letters of the great preparations that the most Christian King made for falling upon Rochel and then his Majesty could not do less than vindicate his honour by a ready taking Arms against those that had rendered him as a Confederate in their Fraudes and Treachery and to give Testimony of the Integrity and Zeal which he hath always had to the establishment of the Churches which shall ever be most dear and pretious to him above all other things and that if any shall question whether this is the only end of his Arms and not rather some particular interest let him consider the Circumstances of time and dispositions of his Affairs and they cannot believe that the King my Master hath any design upon France or can have thoughts of Conquest in a time so disadvantagious That he hath at present for Enemy one of the most puissant Princes in the World and that if that
Pass-ports it is superfluous to desire them such as those as shall go under the Faith of them may be in full assurance of having an entire liberty of going and coming This and all the rest which can concern this Affair we refer to your great care and expect your Answer by the Sieur Farnon for whom we have procured liberty to bring us thither after the delivery of this to you We will not hold you longer than to desire God that it would please him to calm these Storms which hath so long exercised France our dear Country and to establish there a firm Peace by the means of which we may serve it obey our King and Prince and deceive the Enemies of the Crown in the hopes which they may have conceived In our particular we are In the Road at the Head of the Bay Octob. 22. 1628. Monsieur Vos c. The Prisoner was dispatched the two and twentieth with this Letter Captain Forant brought a Ship about two hundred Tun well equipped for War who without resistance was suffered to take him aboard where there commanded one Poyane of the Religion but long suspected and where was also a Gentleman called Beaurepair Having presented these to the General it was found fit to arrest Poyane and as to the other being acquainted that from the beginning he had things of great consequence to impart which required secresie they heard him in particular He declared there that being come from Spain where he was Prisoner for his Religion they had 1628. October stipulated with him to be serviceable to the King upon occasion as his Majesty shall find fit to imploy him that having promised any thing to free himself from danger and the misery he was under they had associated him with Poyane to come into the English Army under pretext of serving the Party and that he had order with the first opportune occasion by night to intangle himself with the Generals Ship or with that of the Duke of Soubize and that saving themselves in a Shalloop should set the Powder on fire and to the end to gain the more credit his order was to offer his service even to carry Letters into Rochel and to bring back Answers in which they would facilitate to him the means of going and coming without taking notice of him until he had acted the design Having well deduced the whole by steps in conclusion he said that the other had the intention of those that sent him and he his own and that his chief Obligation being to his Conscience and his Religion he had been willing to declare from the first what they had stipulated with him and the design of Poyane to the end it might be prevented And further that if they judged it to purpose to manage for their advantage what was designed against them he was ready keeping the thing secret to go into the Kings Camp feigning always to be well intentioned and to gain belief in what he pretended he offered to carry their Letters to Rochel and to bring other back and to execute all faithfully and acquaint those of Rochel with the truth and what they should desire him to impart to them and bring them back again the estate and condition of the City 1628. October Having heard his Propositions though he seemed to the Deputies to speak with ingenuity yet nevertheless they thought there was no reason to confide much in one that had dealt so double and that it might be a triple Treason But notwithstanding all things maturely considered and reducing things to a point they judged it convenient to serve themselves in all Adventures managing things in such sort that if he should cheat them and follow the directions of those who first imployed him their Deputies might make their advantage by it which was to maintain a Communication betwixt them and the City and prepare things for the Accommodation projected Having thus agreed among themselves and having communicated it to the General they gave him two Letters one without Cyphers which he might shew to the Lords the Ministers being accommodated to that which they desired they should know and the other in a most difficult Cypher and such as never any of their intercepted Letters whereof there was many could be deciphered by which they expressed the true Foundation of their Intentions with charge to the Messenger not to shew them at Court but deliver them only to the Mayor And further in the second Letter the Duke of Soubize sent one to the Dutchess of Rohan his Mother of the same Tenure all three which were trusted with this Man are as followeth 1628. October The Letter not in Cyphers from Sieur Vincent to the Messieurs of Rochel Gentlemen SInce the coming of Sieur la Land du Lac whereof we have advertised you by the Signals agreed upon we have not sent any to you because that which Chardeuine delivered you contained all that we had to tell you since that the obstinate Calms and contrary Winds hath hindered us from attempting any thing hut nevertheless they have not slackned their firm resolution of relieving you whatever it cost them If it may be by a Treaty rather than by the Effusion of Blood you and we shall have cause to praise God We hear there are some Reciprocal Inclinations for this and the Conference between the Cardinal and Monsieur Montague and his Voyage with a Pass-port for England seems to promise the effect For our part we endeavour it here we sought yesterday a way for obtaining if it can be a Pass-port to the end that two of us might go to the Camp of his Majesty which if it be granted and that we discover that they will treat freely with us we will endeavour to get leave to visit and confer with you to inform you of all to the end that you may thereupon take your Resolutions In the mean time we will not dissemble the fears we have that by Conferences they may lay snares to surprize you and lull us asleep Your diligence will in the first place remedy it and on this side you may relye upon our care in as much as it is seconded by the good intentions of the General For the rest we refer you to this Gentleman conformable to that above-mentioned and upon the assurance that he hath given us to be able to go and come we hope he will report to us at 1628. October large your condition And now we pray God to continue to you the Miracle of your patience until it shall please him to deliver you altogether Gentlemen your most humble and most obedient Servants in behalf of all your Deputies to the King of Great Britain in the absence of Sieurs Bragneau Dehinse and Gobert who are in another Ship to whom we cannot give advice of this occasion Ph. Vincent from aboard the Duke of Soubize Octob. 13. 1628. Since the writing of this there hath been a Skirmish which you may have seen it cost not
Substitutes of the said Procurator General who are injoyned and obliged to the execution of the same and to certifie the Court within a month of having done it At Paris in Parliament the 3d of August 1643. Signed GVYET THE DECLARATION Of King Louis XIV of France confirming the Priviledges granted to his Subjects of the Reformed Religion Given at St. Germain in Laye the 21th of May 1652. LOUIS by the Grace of God King of France and Navarre To all to whom these Present shall come greeting The deceased King our most honoured Lord and Father acknowledging that one of the most necessary things for conserving Peace in this Kingdom consisted in maintaining his Subjects of the Reformed Religion in the full and intire enjoyment of the Edicts or Laws made in their favour and to suffer them to enjoy the free exercise of their Religion He had a most particular care to prevent by all convenient means the troubling them in the enjoyment of the Liberties Prerogatives and Priviledges granted them by the said Edicts Having to that effect immediately after his coming to the Crown by Letters Patents of the 22th of May 1610. and since his Majority by his Declaration of the 10th of November 1615. declared and required that the said Edicts should be executed to the end to give to his said Subjects so much the more reason to keep within the bounds of their duty and after the example of so great a Prince and to imitate him in his Bounty we have resolved to do the like having from the same motives and Considerations by our Declaration of the 8th of July 1643. willed and ordained that our Subjects of the Reformed Religion shall enjoy all the Concessions Priviledges and Advantages especially of the free and intire exercise of their said Religion according to the Edicts Declarations and Reglements made in favour of them upon that Subject And forasmuch as our said Subjects of the Reformed Religion have given us certain testimonies of their affection and fidelity especially in our present Affairs from whence we remain most satisfied We therefore give you to understand That We for these reasons and upon the most humble supplications which have been made us in behalf of our Subjects of the Reformed Religion and after having brought this Affair into deliberation in our Council We being present We from the advice of the same and from Our certain Knowledg and Royal Authority have said declared ordained saying declaring and ordaining that our Will and Pleasure is That our said Subjects of the Reformed Religion be maintained and kept as certainly we will maintain and keep them in the full and intire enjoyment of the said Edict of Nantes other Edicts Declarations Decrees Rules Articles and Breviats expedited dispatched in their favour registred in Parliaments Chambers of Edict especially in the free and publick exercise of the said Religion in all the places where it hath been granted by the same notwithstanding all Patents and Decrees as well of our Council as by our Soveraign Courts or other Judicatures to the contrary willing and requiring that the Opposers of our said Edicts be punished and chastised as Disturbers of the publick Quiet And therefore we command and require our well beloved the members of our Courts of Parliaments Chambers of Edicts Bailiffs Chief Justices their Lieutenants and other our Officers each in his place as it belongeth to him That they cause the said Presents to be inregistred read and published where it shall be needful and all the Contents to be kept observed and maintained according to their Form and Tenour And forasmuch as there may be need of these Presents in many and sundry places We will and require That to the Copies thereof duly examined by one of our well-beloved Councellours and Secretaries faith be as well given as to the present Original for such is our Will and Pleasure In testimony of which we have caused our Seal to be put to these Presents Given at St. Germain in Laye the 21th day of May in the Year of Grace 1652 and of our Reign the tenth Signed LOVIS And under the King PHILIPPEAVX And sealed with the Great Seal EXTRACT OF THE Registers of the Council of State UPon that which is represented to the King being in Council by the General Deputy of his Subjects of the Reformed Relion because of the poverty of the Inhabitants of divers places making profession of the said Religion and of the want of the money which hath formerly been granted them for the maintenance of their Ministers in Consideration of the Tenths which they pay to the Ecclesiasticks they are constrained to cause one and the same Minister to preach in several places where the exercise of the said Reformed Religion is permitted which they call annexed places Now though they do not any thing herein which is not permitted them by the Edicts So it is that divers Decrees in the Council of his Majesty have been made which prohibite the said Ministers to preach in other places than those of their habitation which causeth great trouble and vexation to them for which it being necessary to provide his Majesty being in Council hath ordained and doth ordain That the exercise of the said Reformed Religion may be publickly practised by one and the same Minister in divers places in which the said exercise is permitted by the Edicts and no where else nothwithstanding all Decrees given to the contrary which his Majesty hath cancelled and revoked as contrary to the Edicts And his Majesty prohibits all his Officers and Subjects even to the Ecclesiasticks to trouble those of the Reformed Religion in their injoyments of the said Edicts Done in the Council of State of the King his Majesty being there Held at St Germains in Laye the 21th of May 1652. Signed PHILIPPEAVX LOVIS by the Grace of God King of France and Navarre To our first messenger or Sergeant upon this request greeteth We command thee and do command thee by these Presents signed with our hand That the Decrees of our Council of State whereof the Extract is here annexed under the Contra-Seal of our Chancellour thou signifie to all to whom it shall belong to the end they may not pretend ignorance thereof and defer obedience thereunto and further cause them to defend the Contents hereof and all other acts and things requisite and necessary for the execution of the said Decree and we give thee power Commission and especial Command herein without demanding other permission Willing that to the Copies examined of the said Decree and of the said Presents faith be given as to the Originals for such is our pleasure Given at St Germains in Laye May 21. 1652 and of our Reign the tenth Signed LOVIS PHILIPPEAVX by the King in Council Examined with the Original by me Councellor Secretary of the King and of his Finances EXTRACT OF THE Registers of the Council of State THE King being willing that his Subjects of the Reformed
II. Nor may those of the said Religion be constrained to contribute to the reparation or building of Churches Chapels or the Houses of Priests nor to the buying of Sacerdotal Ornaments Lights Casting of Bells Consecrated Bread Rights of Convents or Fraternities Rents of Houses for Priests or Fryers to dwell in and the like if they are not obliged thereunto by foundations endowments or other disposition made by them or the Founders and Predecessors III. They shall not also be constrained to hang and adorn the outside of their houses upon Festival days as is ordained but suffer them only to be hung and adorned by the Authority of the Officers of the place without that those of the Religion shall contribute any thing upon that account IV. Nor in like manner shall those of the Reformed Religion be obliged to receive exhortation when they shall be sick or near death by Condemnation of Justice or otherwise from other than from the same Religion and they may be visited and comforted by their Ministers without being therefore troubled and as to those that shall be condemned by Justice the said Ministers may in like manner visit and comfort them and visiting them in the Prisons may pray by them there and out of the said Prisons may assist and comfort them without praying in publick except in places where the said publick Exercise is by the said Edict permitted to them V. It shall be lawful to those of the said Religion to have publick exercise of the same at Pimpoul and for Dieppe in the Suburbs of Pouler and the said places of Pimpoul and Pouler shall be ordained for places of Bailiwicks As to Sancerre the said exercise shall be continued as at present except for the establishing it within the said City the Inhabitants do make the consent of the Lord of the place to appear to them that shall be appointed by the Commissaries which his Majesty shall depute for the execution of the Edict The said Commissioners shall provide for those of the said Religion in the Cities of Chaalons upon Marne Vascy and French Vitry permitting them the said exercise within the said Cities or Suburbs of the same during War if they cannot with safety â—njoy the same in places where they ought to have it by the said Edict And the said free and publick exercise shall be also reâ—â—â—ablished within the City of Montagnac in low Languedoc VI. Upon the Article making mention of the Bailiwicks it hath been declared and agreed as followeth First that for the establishment of the exercise of the said Religion in two places in each Bailiwick chief Jurisdiction and Government those of the Religion shall name two Cities in the Suburbs of which the said exercise shall be established by the Commissaries which his Majesty shall depute for the execution of the Edict And where it shall not be judged convenient by them those of the Religion shall name two or three Market-Towns or Villages near the said Cities for each of the same whereof the said Commissioners shall chuse one And if by Hostility contagion or other lawful impediment it cannot be continued in the said place there shall be given to them others for the time that that obstruction shall continue Secondly that in the Government of Picardy there shall not be appointed more than two Cities in the Suburbs of which those of the Religion may have the exercise of the same for all the Bailiwicks chief Seats of Justice and Governments which depend thereon and where it shall not be judged convenient to establish it in the said Cities there shall be given them two commodious Market-Towns or Villages Thirdly for the great extent of the chief Jurisdiction of Provence and Bailiwick of Vienna His Majesty doth agree that there shall be in each of the said Bailiwicks and chief Jurisdictions a third place whereof the Choice and Nomination shall be as above for establishing the exercise of the said Religion besides the other places where it is already established VII That which is agreed by the said Article for the exercise of the said Religion shall have place in the Territories which appertained to the deceased Queen-mother of his Majesty and in the Bailiwicks of Beaujolois VIII Besides the two places agreed for the exercise of the said Religion by the particular Articles of 1577. in the Isles of Marenne and Oleron shall be given to them two others for the conveniency of the said Inhabitants viz. one for all the Isles of Marenne and another for the Isle of Oleron IX The provisions granted by his Majesty for the exercise of the said Religion in the City of Mets shall go forth in their full and entire effect X. His said Majesty willeth and intendeth that the twenty seventh Article of his Edict touching the admission of those of the said Religion to Offices and Dignities be observed and kept according to its form and tenour notwithstanding the Edicts and Agreements heretofore made for the reduction of any Catholick Princes Lords Gentlemen and Cities under his obedience the which shall not have place to the prejudice of those of the said Religion in that which concerns the exercise of the same And the said exercise shall be regulated according as is contained by the Articles which follow and according to the same shall be framed the Instructions for the Commissioners which his Majesty shall depute for the execution of his Edict according as is contained in the same XI According to the Edict made by his Majesty for the reduction of the Duke of Guyse the exercise of the Reformed Religion may not be made nor established in the Cities and Suburbs of Reims Rocroy St. Disier Guyse Joinville Montcornet and Ardannes XII Nor shall also be made in other places about the said Cities and places forbidden by the Edict 1577. XIII And to take away all ambiguity which may arise upon the word in and about his Majesty declares his meaning to be of places which are within the Bailiwick of the said Cities in which places the exercise of the said Religion is not to be established except permitted by the Edict 1577. XIV And for as much as by the same the said Religion was generally permitted in Fiefs possessed by those of the said Religion without excepting the Circuit belonging to Fiefs his said Majesty doth declare that the same permission shall have place even in Fiefs which shall be within those held by those of the said Religion according to the import of his Edict given at Nantes XV. According also to the Edict made for the reduction of the Mareschal de la Chastre in each of the Bailiwicks of Orleans and Bourges there shall be but one place for the exercise of the said Religion yet nevertheless it may be continued in the places where it is permitted to them to continue by the said Edict of Nantes XVI The permission to preach in Fiefs shall in like manner have place in the said Bailiwicks according to
provincional and National by the permission of His Majesty XXXVI The Ministers Elders and Deacons of the said Religion shall not be constrained to answer in Courts of Justice in quality as a Witness for things that shall be revealed in their Consistory when they shall pass Ecclesiastical Censures except for things concerning the Person of the King or the conservation of his State XXXVII It shall be lawful for those of the said Religion who live in the Country to go to the exercise of the same in Cities Suburbs and other places where it shall be publickly established XXXVIII Those of the said Religion may not keep publick Schools except in Cities and Places where the publick exercise of the same is permitted them and the provisions which have heretofore been granted to them for the erecting and keeping of Colleges shall be verified when it shall be needful and issued out with full and entire power XXXIX It shall be lawful for Fathers making profession of the said Religion to provide their Children such Tutors as shall seem good unto them and to substitute one or more by Testament Codicils or other declaration passed before Notaries or in writing signed by their hands whilst the Laws received in this Kingdom the Ordinances and Customs of places are in force and vertue for gifts and provisions for Tutors and Curators XL. For the Marriages of Priests and Religious Persons who have been heretofore Contracted his said Majesty for many good considerations will not nor doth not intend that they be searched after or therefore molested and in these cases he imposeth silence to his Procurators General and other Officers of the same But his said Majesty declares nevertheless that he understands that the Children issue of the said Marriages may inherit only Moveables Acquests Conquests and Immoveables of their Fathers and Mothers and for want of such Children the Kindred most near and qualified to succeed and the Testaments Donations and other dispositions made or to make by persons of the said quality for Goods moveable Acquests and Conquests immoveable are declared good and valuable But his said Majesty will not nevertheless that the said Men and Women professing Religious lives may come to any Succession directly or collaterally but may only take the Goods which have been left them or shall be left them by Testament Donations or other Dispositions except nevertheless those of the said Successions direct or collateral and as to those who shall have made profession before the age appointed by the Ordinances of Orleance and Blois the said Ordinances shall be followed and observed in that which regards the said Successions and the tenour of the said Ordinances each according to the time that they have had place XLI His said Majesty will not also that those of the said Religion who have heretofore contracted or shall hereafter contract Marriage in the third or fourth degree may be therefore molested nor the validity of the said contracts called in question nor likewise the Succession taken away nor the Children born or to be born of the same to be quarrelled with and as to the Marriages that may be already contracted in the second degree or of the second or third amongst those of the said Religion applying themselves to his said Majesty those who shall be of the said quality and shall have contracted Marriage in such degree there shall be given them such provisions as shall be necessary for them to the end that they shall not be inquired after nor molested nor the Succession quarrelled at nor their Children troubled about it XLII For to judge of the Validitie of Marriages made and contracted by those of the Reformed Religion and to decide if they are lawful if he of the said Religion be Defendant in that Case the Judge Royal shall have Cognizance of the said Marriage and when he shall be the Plantiff and the Defendant a Catholick the Cognizance thereof shall belong to the Official and Judge Ecclesiastick and if both parties are of the said Reformed Religion the Cognizance shall belong to the Kings Judges His Majesty wills that in regard of the said Marriages and differences which shall arise from the same the Judges Ecclesiastick and Royal together with the Chamber established by his Edict shall have Cognizance respectively thereof XLIII The Donations and Legacies made and to make be it by disposition of Money by the last Will and Testament at death or during life for the maintenance of Ministers Doctors Scholars and the Poor of the said Reformed Religion and other pious uses shall be valid and shall issue out in their full and entire effect notwithstanding all Judgments Decrees and other things to the contrary without prejudice nevertheless of the rights of his Majesty and others in case that the said Legacies and Donations fall to one that is dead all actions and prosecutions necessary for the enjoying of the said Legacies pious uses and other rights shall be made by the Procurator in the name of the body or Commonalty of those of the Church or Commonalty of the said Religion who shall have Interest and if it is found that heretofore there hath been a Disposition of the said Donations and Legacies otherwise than is contained by the said Article there shall not be any restitution other than what is found without having the property altered XLIV His said Majesty permits to those of the said Religion to assemble before the Judge Royal and by his Authority to levy equally upon themselves such sums of money as he shall judge necessary to be imployed for defraying the charges of their Synods and entertaining of those who perform the duties in the exercise of their Religion of which they shall give an account to the said Judge Royal for him to keep the Copy thereof which shall be sent by the said Judge Royal from six months to six months to his said Majesty or to his Chancellor and the Taxes and Impositions for the said money may be distrained notwithstanding any opposition and appellation whatsoever XLV The Ministers of the said Religion shall be exempt from going upon the Guards and Rounds and quartering of Souldiers and other Assessments or gathering of Tailles together from Tutorships Curators and Commissions for the keeping Goods seized by authority of Justice XLVI In case that the Officers of his Majesty do not provide convenient places for the Sepulchers of those of the said Religion within the time appointed by the Edict after demand made and that there is delay and remissness in the thing it shall be lawful for those of the said Religion to Interr their dead in the burying places of the Catholicks in Cities and places where they are in possession to do it until they are otherwise provided And as to the interrment of the poor of those of the said Religion heretofore used in the Church-yards of the said Catholicks in whatsoever place or City that it is his Majesty doth not understand that there shall
and of none effect as also all the Informations and Proceedings made on one part and the other LVIII All Prosecutions Proceedings Sentences Judgments and Decrees given as well against the deceased Sieur de la Nove as against the Steur Odet de la Nove his Son since their restraints and imprisonments in Flanders happening in the months of May 1580. and of November 1584. during their continual imployment in the Wars and service of the King shall remain cancelled and annulled and all that consequently followed the same shall be received in defence of them and the said de la Nove's shall be restored to the same condition as they were in before the said Judgments and Decrees without being obliged to refund the expences or assign the payment of the Penalty or Fines if they have incurred any nor shall men alledge against them any Non-suit or Prescription during the said time Done by the King being in his Council at Nantes the last day of April 1598. Signed HENRY And below FORGET And Sealed with the great Seal of yellow Wax HENRY by the grace of God King of France and Navar To our trusty and well-beloved the members of our Court of Parliament at Paris Greeteth Besides and above the Articles contained in our Edict made and granted in the present month concerning the Reformed Religion we have yet farther Granted some Particulars which we did not esteem necessary to comprehend in the said Edict and which nevertheless we will and require that they be observed and have the same effect as if they were therein comprised and to that end that they be Read and Inregistred in the Offices of our Court of Parliament to have recourse thereunto when it shall be needful and the Case require it For this Cause we Will Command and most expressly Injoyn That these Articles Signed by our own Hand hereunto annexed under the Counter-Seal of our Chancery you shall enter in the Registers of our said Court and cause the same to be observed in all poynts in the same manner as it is and ought to be in our said Edict For such is our will and pleasure Given at Nantes the last of April 1598. and of our Reign the ninth Signed by the King in Council FORGET And Sealed with the great Seal of yellow Wax with a single Label A DECLARATION By the present French King Lewis the XIV in favour of his Subjects of the Reformed Religion confirming the Edicts of Pacification Declaration Reglements and Articles heretofore granted them Dated at Paris the 8th of July 1643. and Verified in Parliament the 3d of August 1643. Printed at Paris 1644. with the Kings Licence LOVIS by the Grace of God King of France and Navarre To all to whom these presents shall come greeting The deceased King our most honoured Lord and Father acknowledging that the most necessary and effectual means for the preservation of peace in this Kingdom consisted in suffering his Subjects of the Reformed Religion to live under the benefit of his Edicts and defending them in the free exercise of their Religion he had a particular care to prevent by such wayes as he judged suitable to his Authority the troubling or disquieting of them in the said Exercise Having to that effect immediately after his coming to the Crown confirmed the said Edicts by his Letters Patents in form of a Declaration dated the 22th of May 1610. to the end that he might thereby so much the more oblige his Subjects of the said Religion to a dutiful obedience And to follow his example and imitate him in his bounty we will give them a testimony of ours and treat them as favourably as is possible if they shall render themselves worthy thereof by the continuation of their fidelity and obedience towards us as they have protested they will and never withdraw from us This makes us to hope that comporting as good and Loyal Subjects and living in that Union and Concord which is requisite for the good of our Service we may as it is our greatest desire with Divine assistance and under the prudent and wise administration of the Queen Regent our most honoured Dame and Mother whose good and sincere intentions are known to every one make all our Subjects as well Catholicks as of the said Reformed Religion to be sensible of our affection towards them and of our desire of maintaining them in a firm and assured peace We do therefore hereby give you to understand That we for these reasons and upon the most humble supplication on the behalf of our said Subjects of the Reformed Religion after having brought this affair into deliberation in the presence of our most honoured Dame and Mother the Queen Regent We by her advice together with that of our most dear and beloved Uncle the Duke of Orleance and of our most dear and beloved Cousin the Prince of Conde first Prince of our blood Dukes Peers and Officers of our Crown and many eminent persons of our Council have said and declared and we do say and declare by these presents signed with our Hand that it is our will and pleasure That our Subjects making profession of the Reformed Religion enjoy and have the free and entire exercise of the said Religion according to the said Edicts Declarations and Rules made upon this account without being troubled or inquieted in any sort or manner whatsoever The which Edicts remaining as well good as perpetual we have de novo so far as is or shall be needful confirmed them and we do by these presents confirm them willing and commanding the opposers of the same to be punished and chastised as disturbers of the publick Peace And we command our well beloved the members of our Courts of Parliament Chambers or Courts of Edict Bailiffs Chief Justices their Lieutenants and other our Officers to whom it shall belong each in his place that he cause these presents to be Inregistred Read and Published where need shall be and all the contents thereof to be received kept and observed according to their form and tenour and inasmuch as there may be need of these presents in many and sundry places we will and require that two Copies duly examined by one of our well beloved Counsellors and Secretaries faith be given to them as to the Original For such is our pleasure In witness of which we have caused our Seal to be put to these presents Given at Paris the 8th day of July 1643. and of our Raign the first Signed LOVIS And upon the fold the King and Queen Regent his Mother being present Signed PHILIPPEAVX And Sealed with a double Label with the great Seal of yellow wax Read published and inregistred in the Registers of the same requiring the Procurator General of the King to execute it according to its form and tenour and to send examined Copies to the Bailiwicks Chief Jurisdictions of this Circuit to be there in like manner read published Registred and executed with diligence by the
for digestion in such sort that having eaten greedily they fainted away as I have seen many The 14th ditto with the Evening-tide the English Army made a Signal of Fire upon the arrival of a Souldier that the Mayor had sent upon which the Rochellers made immediately another in the Tower of the Chain and from the Lanthorn The 15th ditto in the night came into Rochel a Souldier who reported that my Lord Montague was come into the Camp to treat of a Peace with the King and after having been well received of his Majesty and Cardinal Richelieu he was returned 1628. October thence into the English Army He said also so that a Cannon-shot from the Steeple of S. Bartholomew fell in the Fort Louis over against the King who having at that time the said Montague with him they were by it covered with dust which was the cause that betwixt three and four a Clock in the Evening there was many Cannon-shot discharged from the said Fort against the City And this accident obliged the Rochellers to redouble their Prayers every day at their Sermons for the preservation of his Majesty from all evil At this time the Mayor and his Council seeing that the Spring-tide was passed without the English Army attempting any thing the weather having been always very calm so that they could not hope for relief sooner than with the next Spring-tide assembled the Council in the Town-house to the end to consider how to govern themselves for the time to come Amongst other things they ordained that there should be established in all the Companies of the City Commissioners to make search in all Houses to see what Corn there was or other Provisions and to leave thereof in each House where any was found for fifteen days or three Weeks at the most and to take the rest to distribute to those that had none The search being made there was found in all but 150 Bushels of Corn of all Grain each having done of themselves at the arrival of the English what now the Council would do and helped their Parents and Friends with what they had over expecting nothing less than to see the English Fleet a Month in the Road without doing any thing This little Corn that was found was reserved 1628. October for the nourishment of the Souldiers who with the inhabitants were like Anatomies and by little and little died away And it is most observable what befell two English Souldiers who finding that they could do no more went together to the House of a Joyner to bespeak each their Cossin for the next day by eight in the morning he at first refused it believing they mocked him as thinking himself more wasted with Famine than the Souldiers have you not strength said they to work and pressing of him and paying him in advance the gain made him undertake it and before them and in their presence began to work and finished these two Coffins and came at the time they appointed with them when he saw the same Evening one die and the other the next day betwixt ten and eleven in the morning The 17th of October the Sieur Arnault came to the Port S. Nicholas to Parley there were nominated to hear him the Sieurs Viette Riffault Journault and Mocquay he returned the next day and conferred long with them but could not conclude any thing The 18th in the morning the Mayor and Council sent out Chardeuine to go to the English Army but as he would have passed the Line he received a Musquet-shot in his shoulder which obliged him to return to the City The 19th in the morning before day the Mayors Lodgings were set on fire and he had run an adventure of being burnt had it not been that one that passed that way discovered it crying Fire Fire which brought together the Neighbourhood who quenched it readily before it had time to burn more than part of the doors and 1628. October blacken the Planks of the Shop It was believed that this proceeded from some Inhabitants who despairing of relief desired the rendition of the Town Now the Famine increased dreadfully nothing being left the greatest number having in three Months time not known what Bread was nor any thing of ordinary Provisions Flesh of Horses Asses Mules Dogs Cats Rats and Mice were all eaten up there was no more Herbs or Snails left in the Fields so that their recourse was to Leather Hides of Oxen skins of Sheep Cinamon Cassia Liquorish out of Apothecaries Shops Flemish Colewort frigased Bread of Straw made with a little Sugar Flower of Roots Irish Powder Gelly of the skins of Beasts and Sheep Horns of Deer beaten to Powder old Buff-Coats soles of Shooes Boots Aprons of Leather Belts for Swords old Pockets Leather Points Parchment Wood beaten in a Mortar Plaister Earth Dung which I have seen with my eyes Carrion and Bones that the Dogs had gnawn and indeed all that came in their sight though such food gave rather death than sustenance or prolongation of life from whence there passed not a day that there died not two or three hundred or more persons in such sort that not only the Church-yards but even the Houses Streets and out-parts of the City were in a little time filled with dead bodies without having other Sepulchres than the places where they fell the living not having so much strength as to throw them into the Ditch even many went to die in the Church yards During these Calamities and Miseries some who having reserved hidden Provision sold them 1628. October under-hand at an excessive price to wit the Peck of Corn which is the eighth part of the Bushel of the City for the sum of two hundred Livers which is twelve pound ten shillings Starling a Bisquet which scarce weighed seven or eight ounces for ten or twelve Crowns which is forty five or fifty four shillings Starling a Calf a thousand Livers which is seventy five pound Starling with some reserve for the seller a Sheep from three to five hundred Livers at eighteen pence Starling the Liver and all the rest after the same rate and yet they thought themselves happy who by the Intercession of Friends could get any thing at these Rates In the mean time it was a marvellous thing that the necessities being such and the Mortality so great there was no Confederation or grumbling in the City neither by the common people nor others to oblige the Mayor and his Council to Capitulate but all suffer themselves to be led to their deaths without complaints and murmuring testifying their satisfaction and contentment which shews the great influence that Religion and Liberty have upon the spirits of men As to those without I mean the Kings Army it was also marvellous that having advice of the lamentable and frightful necessity and the extreme feebleness that the place was reduced unto they never attempted the Storming of it when it was impossible for them within to have resisted having no
him 1628. October The said Sieur Fequiere accepted most willingly this Commission and presently writ accordingly Now I hold my self obliged in duty to impart unto the Publick a Narrative which came from Cardinal Richelieu's own particular Family a little after the rendition which is believed to have been composed either by one of his Secretaries or possibly by himself which may very well serve to illustrate that which follows touching the Conditions granted the Rochellers and shew the manner and grounds upon which they were granted the Tenour of which is as followeth Cardinal Richelieu understanding by Letters from Sieur Fequiere to Sieur Arnault his Brother-in-law that the Rochellers desired Pass-ports to seek his Majesties Grace which he was pleased with his first care was to give the King ready advice thereof who received it with great joy and immediately did the Cardinal the Honour to go to him to Sousay where he assembled the Council for to deliberate upon some Conditions under which they would receive the City notwithstanding their obstinacy in their Rebellion All agreed that they had merited a most rigorous Chastisement and that they ought to make them a Signal Example to all those of the Kingdom which might for the time to come have a thought of opposing the will of the King and making Revolts or Commotions in the Estate But when it came to be debated though all agreed that the King might in Justice take the severest way yet whether that would be most for his Grandeur and Glory and most agreeable to the true Maxims of State they were divided into 1628. October three different Opinions some for the â—igour of Justice others that the King should take this occasion to signalize his Clemency and a tâ—â—â—d sort were for a middle way betwixt both that after the punishing some of the greatest Mâ—tâ—â—â—ers to shew Grace to the rest The Cardinal gathering the sense of one and the other without giving his Opinion represented all to the King to the end that he should make a decision thereof yet nevertheless tempered his discourse so as his inclinations might thereby appear Beginning with those who were for making the City an Example of Justice he said their advice was very well fortified and possible that none can be rendered more deserving punishment considering her obstinacy the trouble it hath a long time given his Majesty and that the Ruines of no place which the King hath demolished to the Foundations cry higher for teaching the people obedience to their Soveraigns that this and that there is no Ramparts secure against Rebellion As to those which held the middle Opinion he extolled their Reasons and said that in such Rencounters the punishment of the most Culpable was an awe upon Mutineers and the pardoning others shewed the bounty of the Prince and hindered the obstinacy of a Community in like cases as is ordinary with those that despair not of mercy of which the Rochellers was even then an Example But when he came to the advice of those that concluded for a General Pardon he inlarged and insisted very much upon their Reasons And first he represented as most considerable that which 1628. October they had supposed that possibly there was never so Illustrious an occasion as this presented to any Prince to signalize his Clemency which is the vertue by which Kings approach nearest to God whose Image they are most in well doing giving life and not in destroying and exterminating it Further that the more culpable that Rochel was and had given the King cause of great irritation the more it would make his Magnanimity appear in after overcoming the City with his Invincible Arms reducing it to a naked submission to him to surmount himself in pardoning it in doing of which the Celebrated Name of this City would proclaim his Glory thoroughout the World and transmit it to Posterity shewing him thoroughout as an incomparable Prince be it in conquering or in the moderate use of his Victories In the second place he weighed the Reasons they had alledged drawn from Rochel it self who though it was culpable beyond what they could say nevertheless the lives of so many thousands as their faults had cost were sufficient Victims to the Justice of his Majesty and interceded for the remainder of the miserable People which might be left which may be judged of by those that are every day seen as Anatomies and Fantasmes about the Line and indeed true Images of Death the sight only whereof doth suffice to disarm his Majesty of all revenge and though he had had a design to triumph over and consume them to change all his Irritation and Thundering into pity He added that it seemed good that they should also consider of what had been alledged and that though their Crimes were most great and without 1628. October excuse yet they had not committed that offence which ought to exclude the people from all hopes of mercy as if they had shaken off the Authority of their Soveraign and submitted to another Scepter Indeed factious spirits made use of the danger of his Majesties forcing their Religion to deceive them into the adhering to the Arms of England for the preserving of their Priviledges but his Majesty knows that the Rochellers made use only of that pretence to the English and that there were other reasons which carried them to the undertaking of this War for that he was perfectly informed that the Rochellers never intended to give themselves up to them which he knew as well by divers of his Servants which he had secretly in the City as from his Confidents which he maintained in England who had constantly writ him that though they had every way assaulted the Fidelity of their Deputies and deferred relief to oblige them to offer themselves to them they would never hearken to it and the perfect Confirmation of this they received by the Packet which one of their Pinnaces coming from England threw into the water when at the passing of the Digue they thought they should be taken Their Treaty made with the King of England and all their Negotiations being deciphered it appeared that though the English had highly Courted them for getting Conditions to the prejudice of this Crown they would never be brought to it and defended themselves therein with all the constancy and firmness that their condition could bear And therefore though they are most Culpable yet since they have preserved their hearts and affections for France it seems to invite his 1628. October Majesty to mercy and not to use them as such who would have shaken off the Yoke of the Monarchy and offered the hand to another Master In the third place he insisted much upon reason of State upon which this advice was founded and pressed the present Constitution of Affairs to require that his Majesty by a Signal example of Clemency and an exact Capitulation mutually agreed upon should endeavour to overcome the Arms of the Duke of Rohan and
other rebellious Cities who had all their eyes upon Rochel for according to the usage that they shall meet with they will conclude as to themselves suppose then that his Majesty exercising rigour towards them he makes the least paultry Town stand out a Siege and obstinately resist unto the last were it not better to grant an absolute Pardon to this City whereby he may dispose the rest to beg the Clemency of his Majesty who by this means will in a little time see all his Country in peace and may then pursue his designs against the Spaniards Invasion of his Allies He added that which themselves had also alledged that though in all appearance the Rochellers were not able to do any more yet nevertheless he was not to believe that they had deferred treating until the last morsel and that as they had been three Months deceived in their Opinion that they still could not hold out any longer it may be that those that have the major Vote and who fear their Heads may prevail for hindering the rendition and hold out yet some time and the least delay is of great consequence the Affairs of Italy being very pressing Above 1628. October all it behoves us much to consider that my Lord Montague who was gone into England was expected back every day with the allowance of his King for the rendition of the City and it will be infinitely more for his Majesties glory to receive his Subjects into Grace upon their repentance and voluntary submission to his Commands than at the Intercession of a Stranger Prince and therefore it imported them very much to prevent the said Montague to the end that at his arrival he might find his Majesty Triumphant in the place of his glorious Conquest and that they might not be obliged in Contests which otherwise they may have with him touching the Conditions of this rendition and to ingage in a further War with England when their Affairs require the contrary the making of Peace with them This was the substance of that which Cardinal Richelieu represented to his Majesty who declared that having well weighed all circumstances he would deceive those of Rochel in giving them cause to bless his entry into the City and commanded that they should have all the assurances possible given them for their Lives Goods and Religion and that forgetting all their faults they should be treated as his other Subjects provided they remained faithful for the time to come but that he intended to demolish all their Walls for taking from them the means of rendering themselves at any other time miserable and that they should not speak any more of their Priviledges which had hitherto inflamed them unto so high a degree This is the Contents of the above-mentioned Piece which I esteem worthy to be inserted in this 1628. October place it serving to clear the Articles which were afterwards agreed to Rochel The 27th the Mayor and Council being assembled those that had been sent to the Sieur Fequiere reported that he thought it necesiary for reaping the fruit of his Intercession which they had desired that they should nominate some with whom he might communicate before the arrival of his Brother-in-law who would not stay as he hoped which being approved of they deputed to him the Sieurs Viette Riffault Mocquay and Charles de la Coste The same day about ten in the morning Sieur Arnault presented himself with Pass-ports for the Deputies if they would send any and the four above-named being chosen went with him to the Cardinal Richelieu who after hearing them told them that he had no Commission from the King to treat with his Subjects of the City of Rochel but only to hear their Propositions and Demands Nevertheless that he would not cease to intercede for them to his Majesty to procure them their Lives Religion and Estates but as to their Priviledges and form of Government his Majesty would reserve that in his own Power not that he would put Souldiers into the City nor make a Citadel but rather demolish the fortifications and that in a day or two at furthest they should return the same to him or other Conditions to accept of and besides that he gave them this Answer by word of mouth he gave it them also in writing in a little Note Being come back the Mayor and Council ordered that the Bell of the City-House should be tolled the next day being October 28. at seven in the 1628. October morning to the end that they might resolve upon these offers and being assembled in the Hall of the City and having heard the report of the Deputies according to the tenure of the said Note or Billet they resolved to receive the best Conditions of Peace that they could get and to that end was named the Sieurs d'Angoulin and de la Goute to agree with the above-said Deputies upon the Articles Having composed the Articles and shewed them to the Council the Deputies went from the City betwixt three and four in the Evening and came to Sausay to wait upon Cardinal Richelieu who deferred them till the next morning but in the interim caused them to be well treated both as to Bed and Board The next morning being the 29th they were called before him finding him with my Lords the Keepers of the Seal Marshal Schomberg and other Lords of the Council and presented to him their Propositions and Demands upon which he told them that the King was pleased of pure grace to grant them their Lives Estates and Liberty of Conscience but as to that Head which imported the treating in general for all those of their Party that it did not behove them to meddle with any thing but what concerned themselves only according as the French in the English Army treated for themselves apart and the better to perswade them to it he shewed them the Deputies from the English Fleet but without permitting them to speak together In the end after many Contests and above all about liberty of the exercise of their Religion within the City they agreed upon Articles of Peace under the Conditions as followeth 1628. October The Mayor Sheriffs Peers Burgers and Inhabitants of the City of Rochel represented by John Berne Esq Sieur d'Angoulin Esq and Sheriff Peter Viette Daniel de la Goute James Riffault Peers Elie Mocquay and Charles de la Coste Burgers having the Commission of Deputies from the Body of the said City acknowledging the great faults that they have committed not only in resisting the just will and pleasure of the King as they have a long time done in not submitting to him and opening of the Gates of Rochel as they were obliged but further in adhering to Strangers who have taken Arms against this State do supplicate with all humility his Majesty to pardon them the Crimes which they have committed in governing themselves in this manner and to receive for satisfaction thereof the obedience which they desire at present to render
discouraging reports of the Digue which had abated the courage of the men and have since obstinately hindered in Council the employing of the Vessels which were for the Mine and which was the only means of opening the Digue That he in particular had lost them all by his obstinate Communication with the other Party though they spared not to remonstrate the consequence thereof and that after the Army appeared to treat there was no more hopes left for them each desiring rather to have the Quarrel decided by Composition without danger to him than by fighting where he might be slain That having then these just reproaches against him it ill became him to complain of those that he had ruined and was the cause of all whereof he accuseth them It was notorious to all that the City had given proof of a miraculous and not to be parallel'd Constancy and were left by them to dye by thousands for expecting the performance of the word of their King their Master and the relief that he had promised them that the Succours arriving after so long expectation they saw them remain a whole Month making such feeble Attaques as seemed to be in jest leaving Famine to finish her last spoiles adventuring the City to be taken away by their first Attaque as considering their feebleness and small number it had indubitable been had the Enemy made the least Attempt That if in the end they did capitulate they knew 1628. October it to be after they saw their last Morsel and after they knew that Montague had designed their reduction and was gone to consert it in England from whence it was to be doubted whether he could return so soon as he promised Hereupon they resolved since it behoved them to render and not to act any longer as they had done to accept a Capitulation which at least would conserve their lives Sieur Vincent called Heaven and Earth and all honest men that were present to witness if it were not unjust and inhumane to lay the blame of this occasion upon them thereby to ravish them of the sole Consolation left them in their misery and so to leave nothing und one that might aggravate their sufferings instead of endeavouring to defend them who have witnessed a Constancy which Posterity will think a Prodigy or hardly believe it The General who carried fair to Sieur Vincent acknowledged the truth of that which he said and seeing him transported with grief stayed the Discourse and restrained Montague who in great passion demanded reparation for this discourse and so left the Company This passing the 31. Octob. the Sieur Vincent conferring the same day with the Duke of Soubize and the other Rochel-Deputies who remained there touching the French in the English Army and what course they should take They agreed that it was best to assemble them and communicate the stipulations for them to the end that those that would might lay hold of the Grace which was obtained for them and acquainted the General with it who approved of it declaring that having no Commands from his Majesty but for their 1628. October good and ease if they esteemed it best for them to return home he would not hinder it and accordingly being aboard Captain Bragneau Sieur Vincent made known to them what had passed causing the Kings Declaration to be read to them which they had obtained in their favour adding what he had understood from the General as to that which concerned them to the end they might participate with them This was the cause of a long Contestation among them some inclining to return and others said they could not trust to the promises that had been made Sieur Vincent's advice being thereupon desired he represented to them that considering the different Sentiments which he found them in he could not judge it in his power to satisfie all That it was true that those who shewed diffidence wanted not apparent reason for it but in his opinion there was more than enough to assure him that the Treaty had been made by the Intercession of the Cardinal who was very jealous of his word that fear of it ought to proceed from some great profit which would redound from the breach of it as there can be none at all for Rochel with its Priviledges being now given up as the price of our Lives Estates and Liberty those remaining in the Ruines are not other ways considered than as other private persons of the Religion in the Villages of Bries that an evil Treatment is not to be feared but with reason to expect favour seeing Montauban and the other Cities hold out yet so that the usage of Rochel will be a President of hope or fear to them As to himself they knew that he would be well received if he returned into England 1628. October and would find advantageous means of subsisting there but he believed it to be his duty in Charity to his Fellow-Citizens to submit to the same Conditions with them and that with more reason they to whom he spoke ought to do the same who returning into a strange Country would be reduced to Alms and lose their Estates on this side but concluded that each was to do as he should think best but it seemed to him that those that should return for England would follow ill counsel The greatest part yielding to these Reasons resolved to take the benefit of the Declaration but the next morning the first of November there were some that changed their minds That which passed aboard Captain Bragneau being come to the knowledge of the English some represented to the General that if they parted with the French they should be so weakned as not to be able to execute the Enterprises they designed amongst which there was one upon Brouage not to be acted until their return when they shall have need of their Conduct all along the Coast even unto the Channel or Narrow Seas because they had more knowledge therein than they had Above all that it would concern the Honour of their King that being under his Banner they should make a Treaty without him nor ought they to ratifie it but leave the thing entire to his Majesty The Council being assembled it was hereupon resolved to carry all the French and even the Sieur Vincent to give an account to the King of what he had done in the Treaty The General having sent for him aboard acquainted him with it to which he answered that 1628. October if they detained them they should protest against the Violence and that besides their general complaint for not relieving them but suffering their City to perish they had done them this particular injustice to expose their Estates as a Prey to those who henceforward would have them in their disposition That the City of which they were and for which they had acted not being any more but lost thorough want of being relieved in time by his Majesty the Treaty made with him had no
into the City commanded 1628. Novemb. the last Mayor the Sieurs Salbert and Polinier Ministers and about ten others as well of the Corps of the City as Burgers to leave the City and to absent for six Months which was done by a meer Verbal Command The fourth and fifth they ranged in the Castle-yard all the Cannon of the City as also of the Forts and Digue and Quarters of the Camp in order to the conveying them from thence to Brouage and other places as was done some days after The same day about four in the Evening the English Fleet after having been a Month and six days in the Road and seen from thence the reduction of Rochel to the obedience of the King set sail to carry the news of it for England and carried with them a great Party of French The sixth seventh and eighth of this Month was so great a Storm at South-East and with such violence that the Digue in many places and above all upon the Coast of Portneuf was so shaken the Engines and Candlesticks so broken and removed that a Flemish Ship of two hundred Tuns laden with Victuals for the relief of the City which had stayed at the Head of the Bay being driven by the impetuosity of the Storm ruâ— on shore having passed the Digue with little difficulty which we observed as the Lords particular protection of the affairs of his Majesty since had this Storm come eight days sooner the City had been relieved Some days after the King went to Port de Coigne to see a Mine sprung which they had made at a Peece detached from the said Port to the end that according as this should succeed they might 1628. Novemb. deal with the new as well as ancient Walls of the City having ordered the demolishing of all its fortifications and this Mine succeeded well The sixteenth the Keeper of the Seal sent for the Registers of the Council and made a strict search into the Memoires and Instructions given the Deputies the City had sent to the King of England and of the Treaties made by them with the said Prince and found that the said Instructions and Treaty had always been with the reservation of their Fidelity which they ought to the Crown It was said that this search was made that they might the better know how to frame the Kings Declaration which was soon after published and that some were of opinion that in the Preamble of it the King should alledge for cause of his Arms that Rochel had not only called in the English but also given themselves up to them but the said Keeper of the Seal refused it not judging it honest or convenient except they could make the truth of it appear whereas by all the Inquest that they could make as well as by those Publick Records finding the contrary the Declaration touched not at all thereupon But he gave order that as well the said Registers as all the other Instruments should be carried to Paris to the Chamber of Accounts where they still are The eighteenth was published thorough the ordinary Quarters of the City the Declaration of the King establishing the Order which he would have observed by the same he dissolves and abolisheth the Common-Councel of the City and all her Priviledges as the Dignity of Mayor the Prevote or ordinary Jurisdiction of the City uniting 1628. Novemb. them to the Chief Justiceship with an Intendant of Justice reducing the five Parishes to three assigning to every Cure three hundred Livers upon the Revenue of the Town-House the said Hall together with all other Edifices and common places being united to the Kings Demain discharged those of the City in general of all acts of Hostility whatever Negotiations in Forreign Countries and of all other acts without being liable to prosecution for the same saving in cases execrable excepted by the Edicts or Laws and such as may concern the Person of the King and in like manner discharge them for casting of Guns and Cannon Minting of Money seising and taking of Money as well belonging to the Ecclesiasticks as the King together with the levying of Souldiers and constraint used against the absent even by demolishing of their Houses willing that the exercise of the Religion to the Inhabitants which make profession thereof be left free to them within the City with prohibition nâ—vertheless to all others of the said Religion for coming to live there if they had not dwelt there before the descent of the English that the Taxes of the City shall in favour of Trade be limited to four thousand Livers that the fortifications both new and old shall be demolished and razed even with the ground except from the Port of S. Nicholas to the Tower of the Lanthorn joyning to the Port of two Mills which is on the side of the Sea and that the Policy be administred by two Councellors and four Burgesses which the King shall every year make This Order being established the King with all 1628. Novemb. his Court and a great number of Lords and Nobless took Horse the nineteenth for Paris betwixt seven and eight in the morning and left Monsieur de Vignolles with four Regiments to wit those de Chappes du Plessis Praulin Castlebayrd and la Meilleraye to remain there until the demolition of the fortifications were finished The Kings second Residence here was six Months twenty five days he held the City besieged from the fourteenth of August 1627. when the Duke of Angoulesme took up his Quarters at Estre until the thirtieth of October 1628. that the Marshal Schomberg and Marilac made their Entry being one year two months and sixteen days And thus ended the Siege of this so long Celebrated City of Rochel which for the space of about seventy years had given France so much exercise and drawn the Eyes of the greatest part of Christendom upon them THE EDICT OR STATUTE Granted by Henry the Fourth of France to those of the Reformed Religion of that Kingdom for the free Exercise of their Consciences in matters of their Religion c. called the Edict of Nantes because Enacted at that City with the Kings Declaration upon the precedent Edicts of Pacification HENRY by the Grace of God King of France and Navarre To all present and to come Greeteth Among the infinite mercies that God hath pleased to bestow upon us that most signal and remarkable is his having given us power and strength not to yield to the dreadful Troubles Confusions and Disorders which were found at our coming to this Kingdom divided into so many Parties and Factions that the most legitimate was almost the least enabling us with constancy in such manner to oppose the storm as in the end to surmount it reducing this Estate to peace and rest for which to him alone be given the honour and glory and us the grace to acknowledge our obligation in having our labours made use of for the accomplishing so good a work in which it hath
been visible to all that we have not only done what was our duty and in our power but something more than at another time would peradventure have been agreeable to the Dignity we now hold as in not having had more care than to have many times so freely exposed our own life And in this great concurrence of weighty and perillous Affairs not being able to compose all at one and the same time we have chosen this Order First to undertake those who were not to be suppressed but by force and rather to remit and suspend others for some time who might be dealt with by reason and justice for for the general differences among our good Subjects and the particular evils of the soundest parts of the State we judged might be easily cured after the principal cause the continuation of the Civil Wars was taken away in which we have by the blessing of God well and happily succeeded all Hostility and Wars thorough the Kingdom being now ceased and we hope he will also prosper us in our other affairs which remain to be composed and that by this means we shall arrive at the Establishment of a good Peace with tranquillity and rest which hath ever been the end of all our vows and intentions as all the reward we desire or expect for so much pain and trouble as we have taken in the whole course of our life Amongst our said affairs towards which it behoves us to have patience one of the principal hath been the many complaints we have received from divers of our Provinces and Catholick Cities for that the exercise of the Catholick Religion was not universally re-established as is provided by Edicts or Statutes heretofore made for the Pacification of the troubles arising from Religion as also the Supplications and Remonstrances which have been made to us by our Subjects of the Reformed Religion as well upon the execution of what hath been granted them by the said former Laws as that they desire to have some addition for the exercise of their Religion the liberty of their Consciences and the security of their Persons and Fortunes presuming to have just reasons for desiring some inlargement of Articles as not being without great apprehensions because their ruine hath been the principal pretext and original foundation of the late Wars Troubles and Commotions Now not to burden us with too much business at once as also that the fury of War was not compatible with the Establishment of Laws how good soever they might be we have hitherto deferred from time to time giving remedy herein But now that it hath pleased God to give us a beginning of injoying some rest we think we cannot imploy our self better than to apply to that which may tend to the glory and service of his holy Name and to provide that he may be adored and prayed unto by all our Subjects and if it hath not yet pleased him to permit it to be in one and the same Form of Religion that it may at the least be with one and the same intention and with such Rules as may prevent amongst them all trouble or tumults and that we and this Kingdom may always conserve the glorious Title of most Christian which hath been by so much merit so long since acquired and by the same means take away the cause of mischief and trouble which may happen from the actions of Religion which of all others are most prevalent and penetrating For this cause acknowledging this affair to be of the greatest importance and worthy of the best consideration after having considered the Papers of Complaints of our Catholick Subjects and having also permitted to our Subjects of the Reformed Religion to assemble themselves by Deputies for framing their complaints and making a Collection of all their Remonstrances and having thereupon conferred divers times with them viewing the precedent Laws we have upon the whole judged it necessary to give to all our said Subjects one general Law clear pure and absolute by which they shall be regulated in all differences which have heretofore risen among them or may hereafter rise wherewith the one and other may be contented being framed according as the time requires and having had no other regard in this deliberation than solely the zeal we have to the service of God praying that he would henceforward render to all our said Subjects a durable and established Peace Upon which we implore and expect from his Divine bounty the same protection and favour as he hath always visibly bestowed upon this Kingdom from our Birth during the many years we have attained unto and give our said Subjects the grace to understand that in the observation of this our Ordinance consisteth after that which is their duty towards God and us the principal foundation of their union concord tranquillity rest and the re-establishment of all this Estate in its first splendour opulency and strength As on our part we promise to cause all to be exactly observed without suffering any contradiction And for these causes having with the advice of the Princes of our Blood other Princes and Officers of our Crown and other great and eminent Persons of our Council of State being near us well and diligently weighed and considered all this affair WE HAVE by this Edict or Statute perpetual and irrevocable said declared and ordained saying declaring and ordaining I. That the memory of all things passed on the one part and the other since the beginning of the month of March 1585. until our coming to the Crown and also during the other precedent troubles and the occasion of the same shall remain extinguished and suppressed as things that had never been And it shall not be lawful or permitted to our Atturnies General nor other person or persons whatsoever publick or private in any time or for any occasion whatsoever it may be to make mention thereof Process or prosecution in any Courts or Jurisdiction whatsoever II. We prohibit to all our Subjects of what state or condition soever they be to renew the memory thereof to attaque resent injure or provoke one the other by reproaches for what is passed under any pretext or cause whatsoever by disputing contesting quarrelling reviling or offending by factious words but to contain themselves and live peaceably together as brethren friends and fellow Citizens upon penalty for acting to the contrary to be punished as breakers of the peace and disturbers of the publick quiet III. We Ordain That the Catholick Religion shall be restored and re-established in all places and quarters of this Kingdom and Country under our obedience and where the exercise of the same hath been intermitted to be there again peaceably and freely exercised without any trouble or impediment Most expresly prohibiting all persons of what state quality or condition soever upon the penalties before-mentioned not to trouble molest or disquiet the Ecclesiasticks in the Celebration of Divine Service injoying and receiving of Tithes the Fruits
〈◊〉 and one of the Reformed Religion Defendant the Cognizance and Judgment of Criminal process shall belong in last appeal to the said Chambers established And we acknowledge also the said Chambers in time of Vacations for matters attributed by the Edicts and Ordinances to belong to the said Chambers established for times of Vacation each within his Jurisdiction XXXV The Chamber of Grenoble shall be from henceforward united and incorporated into the body of the said Court of Parliament and the President and Councellors of the Reformed Religion shall be called President and Councellors of the said Court and hold the rank and number of the same And to this end shall be first distributed through the other Chambers and then drawn from them to be imployed and serve in that which we now ordain of new with Condition nevertheless that they shall assist and have voice and session in all the deliberations which the Chamber assembled shall have and shall enjoy the same Salarie Authority and Preheminence which the other Presidents and Councellors of the said Court do enjoy XXXVI We Will and Ordain That the said Chamber of Castres and Bourdeaux be United and Incorporated in the same Parliaments in the same manner and form as the others and when need shall require and that the Causes which have moved us to make this establishment shall cease and shall not have any more place among our Subjects then shall the Presidents and Councellors of the same of the said Reformed Religion be held for Presidents and Councellors of the said Courts XXXVII There shall also be a new Creation or Erection in the Chamber ordained for the Parliament of Bourdeaux of two Substitutes for our Procurators or Attornies and Advocates General whereof one shall be Catholick and the other of the Reformed Religion which shall have the said Offices with competent Salaries XXXVIII These Substitutes shall not assume other qualities than that of Substitutes and when the Chambers or Courts ordained for the Parliaments of Tholouse and Bourdeaux shall be United and Incorporated to the said Parliaments the said Substitutes shall have the Office of Councellors in the same XXXIX The dispatches of the Chancery of Bourdeaux shall be perused in the presence of two Councellors of the same Chamber whereof one shall be a Catholick and the other of the Reformed Religion In the absence of one of the Masters of Request of our Palace one of the Notaries and Secretaries of the said Court of Parliament of Bourdeaux shall be Resident in the place where the said Chamber shall be established or else one of the ordinary Secretaries of the Chancery to sign the dispatches of the said Chancery XL. We Will and Ordain That in the said Chamber of Bourdeaux there shall be two Commissioners of the Register of the said Parliament the one Civil and the other Criminal who shall exercise their Offices by our Commissions and shall be called Commissioners to the Register Civil and Criminal but nevertheless shall not be revoked by the Registers of the Parliament yet shall be accountable for the profits of the Offices to the said Registers which Commissioners shall be Salaried by the said Registers as the said Chambers shall think fit to appoint There shall be ordained some Catholick Messengers who shall be taken in the said Court or elsewhere according to our pleasure besides which there shall also be two de novo freely chosen of the Reformed Religion and all the said Messengers or Door-keepers shall be regulated by the said Chamber or Court as well in the exercise of their Offices as in the Profits or Fees which they shall take There shall also be a Commission dispatched for payment of Salaries and receiving of Amerciaments of the said Court which shall be such as we shall please to appoint If the said Chamber shall be established in other place than the said City the Commission heretofore agreed for paying the Salaries of the Chamber of Castres shall go out in its full and entire effect and there shall be joyned to the said Office the Commission for the Receipt of the Amerciaments of the said Court XLI There shall be provided good and sufficient Assignations for the Salaries of the Officers of the Chambers ordained by this Edict XLII The Presidents Councellors and other Catholick Officers of the said Chambers or Courts shall be continued so long as we shall see it to be for our service and the good of our Subjects And in dismissing any of them others shall be admitted in their places before their departure they having no power during their service to depart or be absent from the said Chambers without the leave of the same which shall be judged of according to the Ordinance XLIII The said Chambers or Courts Mypartis shall be established within six months during which if the establishment shall be so long in doing the Process Commenced and to be Commenced where those of the Religion shall be parties within the Jurisdiction of our Parliaments of Paris Roven Dyon and Rennes shall be presently removed to the Chamber or Court established at Paris by vertue of the Edict of 1577. or else to the great Council at the Election of those of the said Religion if they require it and those which shall be of the Parliament of Bourdeaux to the Chamber or Court Established at Castres or to the said grand Council at their Election and those which shall be of Provence to the Parliament of Grenoble And if the said Chambers or Courts are not established within three months after the presentation of our Edict that Parliament which shall make refusal thereof shall be prohibited the Cognizance and Judgment of the Causes of those of the Religion XLIV The Process not yet judged depending in the said Courts of Parliaments and great Council of the quality abovesaid shall be sent back in what estate soever they be to the said Chambers or Courts each within his Jurisdiction if one of the parties of the Religion require it within four months after the Establishment of the same and as to those which shall be discontinued and are not in condition of being judged those of the said Religion shall be obliged to make declaration upon the first intimation and signification to them of the prosecution and the time passed shall not be understood to require the dismission XLV The said Chambers or Courts of Grenoble and Bourdeaux as also that of Castres shall keep the forms and stile of Parliaments where the Jurisdiction of the same shall be established and shall judge by equal numbers of the one and the other Religion if the parties consent not to the contrary XLVI All the Judges to whom the address shall be made for execution of Decrees Commissions of the said Chambers and Patents obtained in Chanceries for the same together with all the Messengers and Serjeants shall be obliged to put them in execution and the said Messengers and Serjeants shall do all acts throughout our Kingdom
no effect and value XC The Acquisitions that those of the Reformed Religion and others which have followed their Party have made by the Authority of the deceased Kings our Predecessors or others for the Immoveables belonging to the Church shall not have any place or effect but we Ordain and our pleasure is That the Ecclesiasticks re-enter immediately and without delay be conserved in the possession and injoyment really and actually of the said Goods so alienated without being obliged to pay the Purchase-money which to this effect we have cancelled and revoked as null without remedy for the Purchasers to have against the Generals c. by the authority of which the said Goods have been sold Yet nevertheless for the re-imbursement of the Money by them truly and without fraud disbursed our Letters Patents of permission shall be dispatched to those of the Religion to interpose and equalize the bare Sums that the said Purchases cost the Purchasers not being allowed to bring any Action for their damages and interest for want of injoyment but shall content themselves with the re-imbursement of the Money by them furnished for the price of the Acquisitions accounting for the price of the fruits received in case that the said Sale should be found to be made at an under rate XCI To the end that as well our Justices and Officers as our other Subjects be clearly and with all certainty advertised of our will and intentions and for taking away all ambiguity and doubt which may arise from the variety of former Edicts Articles secret Letters Patents Declarations Modifications Restrictions Interpretations Decrees and Registers as also all secrets as well as other deliberations heretofore by us or the Kings our Predecessors made in our Courts of Parliaments or other ways concerning the said Reformed Religion and the troubles happening in our said Kingdom we have declared and do hereby declare them to be of no value and effect And as to the derogatory part therein contained we have by this our Edict abrogated and we do abrogate and from henceforward we cancel revoke and annul them Declaring expresly that our will and pleasure is That this our Edict be firmly and inviolably kept and observed as well by our Justices and Officers as other Subjects without hesitation or having any regard at all to that which may be contrary or derogatory to the same XCII And for the greater assurance of the keeping and observing what we herein desire We will and ordain and it is our pleasure That all the Governors and Lieutenants General of our Provinces Bailiffs Chief Justices and other ordinary Judges of the Cities of our said Kingdom immediately after the receipt of this same Edict do bind themselves by Oath to keep and cause to be kept and observed each in their district as shall also the Majors Sheriffs principal Magistrates Consuls and Jurates of Cities either annual or perpetual Enjoyning likewise our Bailiffs Chief Justices or their Lieutenants and other Judges to make the principal Inhabitants of the said Cities as well of the one Religion as the other to swear to the keeping and observing of this present Edict immediately after the Publication thereof And taking all those of the said Cities under our protection command that one and the other respectively shall either answer for the opposition that shall be made to this our said Edict within the said Cities by the inhabitants thereof or else to present and deliver over to Justice the said opposers We Will and Command our well-beloved the People holding our Courts of Parliaments Chambers of Accompts and Courts of Aids that immediately after the receipt of this present Eâ—ict they cause all things to cease and upon penalty of Nullity of the Acts which they shall otherwise do to take the like Oath as above and to publish and register our said Edict in our said Courts according to the form and tenour of the same purely and simply without using any Modifications Restrictions Declarations or secret Registers or expecting any other Order or Command from us and we do require our Procurators General to pursue immediately and without delay the said Publication hereof We give in Command to the said People of our Courts of Parliaments Chambers of our Courts and Courts of our Aids Bailiffs 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 inregistred this our present Edict and Ordinance in their Courts and Jurisdictions and the same keep and observe punctually and the Contents of the same to cause to be injoyed and used fully and peaceably by all those to whom it shall belong ceasing and making to cease all troubles and obstructions to the contrary For such is our pleasure And in Witness hereof we have signed these Presents with our own Hand and to the end to make it a thing firm and stable for ever we have caused to put and indorse our Seal to the same Given at Nantes in the month of April in the Year of Grace 1598. and of our Reign the ninth Signed HENRY And underneath the King being in Council FORGET And on the side VISA This VISA signifies the Lord Chancellors perusal Sealed with the Great Seal of green Wax upon a red and green String of Silk Read published and registred the Kings Procurator or Atturney General hearing and consenting to it in the Parliament of Paris the 25th of February 1599. Signed VOYSIN Read published and inregistred in the Chamber of Accompts the Kings Procurator General hearing and consenting the last day of March 1599. Signed DE LA FONTAINE Read published and registred the Kings Procurator General hearing and consenting at Paris in the Court of Aids the 30th of April 1599. Signed BERNARD PARTICULAR ARTICLES Extracted from the General which the King hath granted to those of the Reformed Religion and which his Majesty would not have comprised in the said General nor in the Edict which hath been made and framed for the same Given at Nantes in the Month of April 1598. And yet nevertheless His Majesty hath agreed that they shall be entirely accomplished and observed altogether as fully as the Contents of the said Edict And to that end they shall be registred in his Courts of Parliament and in other places where it shall be needful and all necessary Declarations Provisions and Patents shall be therefore dispatched THE FIRST ARTICLE THE sixth Article of the said Edict touching Liberty of Conscience and permission to all the Subjects of his Majesty to live and dwell in this Kingdom and the Countries under his obedience shall have place and be observed according to its form and tenor and as well for the Ministers and Pedagogues as all other Professors and Masters of School and generally for those who are and shall be of the said Religion whether Inhabitants only or others so long as they comport themselves according as is contained in the said Edict
the form directed by the said Edict of Nantes XVII The Edict made for the reduction of the Mareschal de Bois-Dauphin shall be in like manner observed and the said exercise may not be practised in Cities Suburbs and places brought by him to the Service of his Majesty and as to the Circuits about and belonging to the said places there the Edict of 1577. shall be observed even in houses of Fiefs according to the import of the said Edict of Nantes XVIII There shall be no exercise of the said Religion in Cities Suburbs and Castle of Morlays according to the Edict made upon the reduction of the said City and the Edict of 77. shall be observed in the Jurisdiction of the same even for Fiefs according to the Edict of Nantes XIX According to the Edict for the reduction of Quinpercorintin there shall not be any exercise of the said Religion in all the Bishoprick of Cornoaille XX. According also to the Edict made for the reduction of Beauvais there shall not be any exercise of the said Religion in the said City of Beauvais nor within three leagues of it But it may nevertheless be established in the rest of the Bailiwick in places permitted by the Edict of 77. even in houses of Fiefs as the Edict of Nantes imports XXI And for as much as the Edict made for the reduction of the deceased Admiral de Villars is but provisional until the King shall order otherwise his Majesty willeth and understandeth that notwithstanding the same his Edict of Nantes shall have place for the Cities and Jurisdictions brought under his obedience by the said Admiral as the other places of his Kingdom XXII According to the Edict made for the reduction of the Duke of Joyeuse the exercise of the said Religion shall not be in the City of Tholose the Suburbs of the same nor within four Leagues of it nor nearer than are the Cities of Villemur Carman and the Isle of Jordan XXIII Nor shall it be restored in the Cities of Dalet Fiac Auriac and Montesquiou upon Condition nevertheless that if any of the said Religion in the said Cities do sue to have a place for the exercise of the same there shall be given them by the Commissioners which His Majesty shall depute for the execution of this Edict or by the Officers of the places assigned for each of the said Cities a commodious place and of safe access which shall not be above a League from the said Cities XXIV The said Exercise shall be established according as is contained by the Edict of Nantes within the Jurisdiction of the Court of Parliament of Tholose except nevertheless in the Bailiwicks or Chief Jurisdictions whereof the Seat of Justice hath been brought back to the obedience of the King by the said Duke of Joyeuse in which case the Edict of 77. shall have place His said Majesty understanding nevertheless that the said Exercise may be continued in Places of the said Bailiwicks or Chief Jurisdictions where it was at the time of the said reduction and that the granting of the same in houses of Fiefs hath place in the same Bailiwicks and Chief Jurisdictions according as is contained by the said Edict of Nantes XXV The Edict made for the reduction of the City of Dijon shall be observed and following the same there shall be no other exercise of Religion than that of the Catholicks in the said City or Suburbs of the same nor within four Leagues of it XXVI The Edict made for the reduction of the Duke of Mayenne shall in like manner be observed and accordingly there shall be no exercise of the Reformed Religion in the Cities of Chaalon Seure and Soissons or Bailiwicks of the said Chaalon nor within two Leagues of Soissons during the time of six Years to begin from the Month of January 1596. After which time the Edict of Nantes shall be there observed as in other Places of this Kingdom XXVII It shall be permitted to those of the Religion of what Quality soever they be to inhabit go and come freely in the City of Lyons and other Cities and Places of the Government of Lyonnois notwithstanding all prohibitions made to the contrary by the Syndics and Sheriffs of the said City of Lyons and confirmed by His Majesty XXVIII There shall not be ordered more than one place in a Bailiwick for the exercise of the said Religion in all the Chief Jurisdictions of Poictiers besides those where it is at present established and as to the Fiefs they shall follow the Edict of Nantes And the said exercise shall be continued in the City of Chauvigny XXIX The said exercise shall not be established within the Cities of Agen and Perigueux though by the Edict of 77. it may be there XXX There shall not be more than two places in the Bailiwick for the exercise of the said Religion in all the Government of Picardie as hath been said before and the two said places shall not be given within the Jurisdiction of the Bailiwick and Government reserved by the Edicts made for the reduction of Amyens Peronne and Abbeville but the said exercise may nevertheless be made in houses of Fiefs throughout all the said Government of Picardie according as it is contained in the said Edict of Nantes XXXI There shall not be any exercise of the said Religion made in the City or Suburbs of Sens and there shall not be ordered more than one place in the Bailiwick for the said exercise in all the Jurisdiction of the Bailiwick without prejudice nevertheless to the permission granted for the houses of Fiefs which shall have place according to the Edict of Nantes XXXII In like manner there shall not be the said exercise practised in the City or Suburbs of Nantes nor there shall not be any place ordered in the Bailiwick for the said exercise within three Leagues of the said City but nevertheless in Houses of Fiefs it may be practised according to the said Edict of Nantes XXXIII His Majesty wills and intends that his said Edict of Nantes be observed henceforward in that which concerns the said Religion in the places where by the said Edicts or Agreements made for the reduction of any Catholick Princes Lords Gentlemen and Cities it was forbidden by provision so long as until it was otherwise ordered And as to those where the said prohibition is limited to a certain time the time being expired it shall not have any more force XXXIV There shall be given to those of the Religion a place for the City Provostship and Viscounty of Paris within five Leagues at most in which they may have publick exercise of the same XXXV In all places where the exercise of the said Religion shall be publickly practised they may assemble the People also by the Sound of a Bell and do all Acts and Functions belonging as well to the exercise of the said Religion as to the regulating of discipline as in holding Consistories Conferences Synods
Religion should enjoy what his Majesty had granted them by his answer to the Fourth Fifth and Sixth Aticles of the Paper presented to him the 17th of this present month of May by the Deputy General of his said Subjects concerning the Consulship and Charges or Offices Politick of the Cities and Places there named His Majesty being in his Council conformable to the answer of the said Paper hath ordained and doth ordain That the Decrees of the abovesaid Council of the 18th of March and 11th of April last for an equal Division of the Charges of the Consuls and others thereupon depending given in favour of his Subjects of the City of Montpellier making profession of the Reformed Religion shall be executed according to their Form and Tenour And as to Sommieres Ginac Luncâ— Montagnac Bariac Bagnols Bedarrieux Florensac Vendemain Pignan St. Andre Aimarguâ—s and Mogmo It his Majesties Will and Pleasure that in the next Elections and others following upon the days accustomed the Consulships and Offices thereon depending shall in like manner be equally divided in the said places provided there is no immemorial possession or Capitulations to the contrary according to the Declaration of the 19. of October 1631. and conformable to the same His Majesty ordaineth That there shall be no alteration at Alles nor at any other places for the second Consul which shall be of the Reformed Religion no more than for the first which shall always be a Catholick And for the City of Nismes His Majesty also willeth That the Council Politick be augmented with one Councellor of the Reformed Religion which shall abstain from going into the said Council when the Bishop of the said City or his chief Vicar shall not be there and this shall be executed notwithstanding any oppositions or appellations whatsoever which shall not be made use of for deferring it and if any things intervene they shall be judged in the Chamber of Edict at Castres to which his Majesty gives therein all power Jurisdiction and Cognizance and prohibits the same to the Court of Parliament of Tholouse until his Majesty shall otherwise ordain His Majesty enjoining That all Patents and Declarations herein necessary be dispatched acted and done in the Council of State of the King his Majesty being there Held at St. Germains in Laye the 21th of May 1652. Signed PHILIPPEAVX LOVIS by the Grace of God King of France and Navarre To our Chief Messenger or Sergeant in this Case required greeteth We command thee and thou art commanded by these Presents signed with our hand That thou signifie the Decree of our Council of State the Extract of which is hereâ—nto annexed under the Counter-Seal of our Chaâ—â—â—ry to all to whom it shall appertain to the end they may not pretend ignorance for deferring obedience and further to cause them to defend the Contents hereof and to do this and all other acts and matters requisite and necessary for the execution of the said Decree giving thee Power Commission and especial Command without need of other permission And we will that to the Copies of the said Decrees and of these said Presents faith be as well given as to the Originals For such is our pleasure Given at St. Germains in Layâ— the 21th of May 1652. and of our Reign the 10th Signed LOVIS By the King in his Council PHILIPPEAVX Examined with the Originals by me Councellour Secretary to the King and of his Finances FINIS Books Sold by John Wickins at the White Hart over against St. Dunftans Church in Fleetstreet ROyal Pharmacopoeia Galenical and Chymical according to the Practice of the most eminent and learned Physicians of France and published with their several approbations By Moses Charras the Kings Operator in his Royal Garden of Plants Faithfully Englished Illustrated with several Copper Plates fol. 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