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A49219 The French King's declaration, that the children of those of the pretended reformed religion may change their religion at the age of seven years with a prohibition that those of the said religion may not send their children to be bred in forreign countries : registred in Parliament the 8th day of July new stile, 1681. and printed at Paris.; Declaration du Roy, portant que les enfant de la religion pretendue reformée pourront se convetir à l'âge de sept ans. English France. Sovereign (1643-1715 : Louis XIV) 1681 (1681) Wing L3116; ESTC R10009 2,972 1

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The French King's DECLARATION That the CHILDREN of those of the Pretended Reformed Religion may change their Religion at the age of Seven years with a Prohibition that those of the said Religion may not send their CHILDREN to be bred in Forreign Countries Registred in Parliament the 8th of July New Stile 1681. and Printed at Paris LEwis by the grace of God King of France and of Navarre To all those that shall see these present Letters greeting The great successes which it hath pleased God to give to the spiritual excitations and the other reasonable means which We have hitherto used for the Conversion of Our Subjects of the pretended Reformed Religion do oblige Us to second the motions which God has given to many of Our said Subjects to acknowledge the errour wherein they were born We therefore have resolved to Repeal some things in Our Declaration of the first of February 1669. by which the Children of that Religion were in some sort hindred to convert themselves to the Catholick Apostolick and Roman Religion after the age of Seven years in which they are capable of reason and choice in a matter so important to them as is that of their Salvation till the Males were of the age of Fourteen years and Females of the age of Twelve though in the Edict of Nantes and in the other Edicts made in favour of the pretended Reformed Religion there is no such provision made And this being a thing of which it is necessary for Us to take care For these Reasons and for other Considerations moving Us thereunto We have said and declared and do say and declare by these Presents signed with Our Hand And it is Our Will and Pleasure that Our said Subjects of the pretended Reformed Religion both Males and Females having attained to the age of Seven years may lawfully embrace the Catholick Apostolick and Ronan Religion And to that effect they shall be admitted to make abjuration of the pretended Reformed Religion so as that their Fathers or Mothers may not give any hindrance to it upon any pretence whatsoever And to that effect We repeal so much as concerns this point in Our said Declaration of the first of February 1669. Besides We Will that the said Children that shall be converted after the age of Seven years compleat shall enjoy the effect of Our Declaration of the Fourteenth of October 1665. And that according to it it shall be left to their choice after their Conversion either to return to live and be bred up in the same house with their Fathers and Mothers or to go elsewhere and to demand of them a Pension for their Subsistence proportionably to their condition and abilities which Pension their said Fathers and Mothers shall be bound to pay to their Children quarterly And in case they shall refuse to do it Our Will is that they shall be compelled to it by all due and reasonable ways And We being informed that many of Our Subjects of the said pretended Reformed Religion have sent their Children to be bred in Forrein Countries by which they may receive Maximes contrary to the State and the Fidelity which they owe Us by their birth We do require them most expresly to recal them without delay under the following pains that those who have Estates in Lands shall forfeit their whole Revenue during the first year and a moity of their said Revenue during all that time that they shall keep their Children in forrein Countries And for those who have no Estates in Lands they shall be obliged to recal their said Children under the pain of a Fine which shall be determined proportionably to their Goods and Abilities And they shall be obliged to make payments of their said Revenues and Fines every year till they have recalled their Children We prohibit Our Subjects of the said pretended Reformed Religion to send for the future their Children into forrein Countries to be educated in them before they are Sixteen years old without Our express leave under the pains above-mentioned We do also Give in Charge to our beloved and faithful Counsellors that constitute Our Court of Parliament of Paris that they make these Presents to be read published registred and executed according to their Form and Tenour without suffering them to be contravened in any sort or manner whatsoever for such is Our pleasure In witness whereof We have put Our Seal to these Presents Given at Versailles the 17th of June in the year of Lord 1681. and the 39th year of Our Reign Signed LEWIS In the Counterpart by the King Colbert And sealed with the Great Seal in yellow Wax Read Published and Registred at the instance of the King's Attorney-General that they might be executed according to their Form and Tenour according to the Judgement made the said day at Paris in the Parliament the 8th of July 1681. Signed James An Order of the Council of State THe King being informed in Council of the progress made in the Catholick Religion in many places of the Lower Poictou and that several of the Inhabitants that were seduced by errour do reunite themselves to the Church And His Majesty likewise considering that the chief motive of the Edict of Grace granted by the late King of glorious Memory in the year 1629. to his Subjects of the pretended Reformed Religion was to deface the memory of what was past in hopes that his said Subjects devesting themselves of all passions might be more capable to receive the light of the Gospel and to re-enter into the true Faith in which this Kingdom had continued above 1200. years And whereas the Ministers of the pretended Reformed Religion do endeavour by all sorts of Artifices to obstruct so good a work which is contrary to his Majesties intentions He having thereupon considered the Edict of 1629. together with the whole affair His Majesty in Council does most expresly forbid all Ministers Elders or others of his Subjects professing the said pretended Reformed Religion to use any Menaces Intimidations Artifices or any fact whatsoever to hinder the Conversion of those of the pretended Reformed Religion And forbids all Ministers and Elders to enter their houses either by day or by night except it be to visit the Sick and do other functions of their Ministry under the pain of Corporal punishment And His Majesty ordains that he be informed of the violations of the said Edicts and of this present Order by the diligent care of his Attorneys and that process be made against the guilty who shall violate the same by the Judges to whom the Cognizance of it ought to belong Given at St. Clou the 19th of April 1681. Signed le Tellier Some Particulars extracted out of a Letter of the 29th of June WHile our Enemies are every where pulling down our Churches they procure an Edict that our Ministers may not visit us in our houses and so they intend to take from us the exercise of our Religion both in private and publick I need not acquaint you with the slight pretences that serve to procure a condemnation of our Churches how weak soever it is in Law and how weakly soever it is proved yet every thing alleadged against us is sufficient Every complaint made of our Ministers is believed We have no more any humane confidence to depend upon We are imprisoned and kept there without any thing objected to us Our Enemies will not be so kind as to make us feel all their rage at once and make us die a single death but intend to famish us and make us die of hunger and that not onely of the Word of the Lord by depriving us of our Churches and Pastors but even of our daily bread In all these our sufferings we cannot be accused of one act of rage against our Enemies or of disloyalty to our King And now our miseries encrease upon us for an Edict is coming out that our Children at Seven years old may change their Religion We know what will follow upon us and that our busie Enemies will be every where tempting our little ones so that we dare no more reprove or chastize them for their faults lest we thereby drive them to renounce our holy Faith at an age in which they cannot distinguish truth from falshood nor good from evil We have nothing left us but to fly to God by Fasting Mourning and Prayer and who knows if he will turn these evils from us In which we humbly beg the assistance of all our Brethrens Prayers Printed at London for Andrew Forrester in Kings street Westminster 1681.