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cause_n	christian_a	church_n	religion_n	1,433	5	5.5815	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18479	An edict or ordonance of the French King conteining a prohibition and interdiction of al preaching and assembling, and exercise of any other Religion, then of the Catholique, the Apostolique, and the Romaine Religion. Item an other edict of the same king, remouing al Protestants from bearing any office vnder the King, in the Realme of France. Nevvly translated out of Frenche into English.; Proclamations. 1568-09-28	France. Sovereign (1560-1574 : Charles IX)	1568 (1568)	STC 5035; ESTC S111060	10,011	43

Ladie and Mother being then not able to withstand was forced against her opinion to let passe shee beinge alwaies otherwise most Christian In like manner also were forced our moste deere and best beloued Cousen the Cardinal of Bourbon with our most dere and welbeloued Cousens also the Cardinal of Tournon the Duke of Montmorency Cōstable and the Mareshal of S. Andre who were the principal and most auncient Counsellers and Officers of our Crowne that the deceased Kings our said Lordes our Father and Brother had lefte vnto vs. Who also among other occasions which moued them to the toleration aboue said declared to our said moste excellent Ladie and Mother that this was yet the lesse mischiefe that then could be suffered Prouided alwaies that this tolerated exercise of the said new opinion shuld not in any wise enter into any towne And that also it was to be hoped that we should be able to redresse this mischiefe at what time we should come to our full yeares authoritie and power al whiche should make our subiectes more obedient vnto vs. Vpon the which hope our said most excellēt Ladie and Mother most gredily attending disposed her selfe to goe foreward with al diligence possible in the bringing vp of vs and of our most dere and best beloued brethren and of our moste deere and best beloued Sister in the true Religion of the Catholique Apostolique and Romaine Churche which the most Christian Kinges our Predecessours haue kept and mainteined almost these eleuen hūdred yeres whereof wee and our subiectes are greatly boūd and beholden vnto her And though that by the said Edicte of Ianuarie those of the newe opinion had good cause to quiet and contente them selues if some other ambition and practise had not rather pricked them then the quieting of their consciences as doe sufficiently witnesse vnto vs their behauiours going ordinarily to their preachinges and assemblies with armes and weapons yet notwithstanding they not contenting them selues with the saied licence and toleratiō straight after our Edict published declared most amply and manifestly to the whole worlde their wicked intention and purpose arming them selues vpon their owne priuate Authoritie against vs. Taking vp our townes bringing strangers into our saied Realme and doinge all Actes of hostilitie and open enmitie euen so farre that they gaue vs a Battail vnder the towne of Dreus In the whiche God gaue vs the victory hauing compassion of his people subiected vnto vs and that we might once agayne ouercome by Clemency our rebellyous Subiectes and reduce them vnder our obedience Again hoping that in time the goodnesse of God by the meanes of our ripe yeares woulde bringe them also vnder the obedience of his Church with continuance of the common quyet we graunted vnto them being yet in our Minority the Edict of Pacification made at Amboyse the xix of March in the yere 1562. In the which we permitted vnto them the exercise of their Religiō such as is there more amply conteined And though that afterward to take awaie from them all maner of feare mistruste or surmise that possibly might be conceiued we did publish euen by their owne aduise and after their owne meaning diuers declarations Rules and Ordonances all tending to a common quiet and reuniting of all our subiectes yet notwithstanding they for their part haue daily and licentiously infringed and violated our said declarations Rules and Ordonances Yea though that by the same Declarations Rules and Ordonaunces our saied Edicte whiche yet was neuer other then by waye of prouision onely and by vs at all times reuocable was the better maintained only to auoyde tumultes and calamities ensuing therevpon not geuing them thereby so much as the lest occasion in the worlde to take weapon and armes againe as they did notwithstanding at Michelmas last and set vpon vs in the waye betweene Meaus and Paris we being then accompanyed with our sayed most Excellent Lady and Mother and our said most dere and best beloued brethern and Sister Pretending afterward that they meant the same time to presente vs a Supplicatiō for the maintenaunce of their Religion And yet did they notwithstanding without intermission continue open warre against vs so farre that they beseaged vs in our Head Citie of Paris that they burned the milles to famish vs that they tooke vppe many of our Cities that they brought in straungers once againe into our Realme and forced vs at last to geue them battail euen vnder the gates of Paris to rayse the siege which they had laied against vs briefely vsing all wayes and meanes of open enmytie and hostilitie Al this notwithstāding we desiring to spare the bloude of our Nobilytie and of other our subiectes hoping stil to winne them by Clemency and gentlenesse and hauing greate pitie vpon the poore peple spoiled and deuoured by bothe Armies being required of them to haue a pacification made by our letters patentes to be geuen at Paris the xxiij of March last we graūted to them the selfe same former Edict of pacification made the xix of Marche in the yeare 1562. vpon promise made to vs that they for their part should entierly and fully obserue it and kepe it and trouble no more our saied Realme The whiche promise they breaking though we in the meane failed not to keepe and obserue the saied Edict to the vttermost they breaking I say their promise made vnto vs for so muche as they woulde not rendre vp vnto vs our townes of Rochelle of Montaubam of Castres and of diuerse other as well in Languedoc as in the Dolphyne whiche they promised to doe for so muche as also in certaine places of our saied Realme they haue caused metinges in armes whiche haue murdred many of our Catholique subiectes and haue farder practised with straungers pretending to them that certaine of their Religion haue bene killed by the Catholikes sence the time of the Edict of pacification of whiche matters vpon their complainte we haue geuen forth commission to take information and to doe Iustice vpon suche trespasses they as I saie these many waies breaking their promise haue within fiue moneths after their promise made taken weapon agayne and armes against vs. They haue retired agayne to the saied Rochelle and the Countrie there aboute making there open warre Wherein we seeing them so ofte and so many times to abuse our Clemency and fauour that we can no more doubte of their wicked and damnable enterprise which is to establish and to set vppe in this saied Realme some other Soueraintie and Supreme Gouernement to the ouerthrowing of ours ordayned and set vp by God and by suche practises to plucke from vs our good subiectes by the meanes of the permission and toleration of the saied exercise of their Religion and of the assemblyes whiche they make vnder colour of their prechings and communions at the whiche they make gatherings of mony billing of men othes cōfederacies conspiracies practises and deuises and by Armes as well within as