Magistrates or by the Commissaries whom we shall depute for the execution of this present Edict there be as commodious a place allotted them for this purpose as may be And such Churchyards as heretofore they had and whereof they were depriued by reason of the troubles shall be restored them except they be at that present built vpon of what qualitie soeuer they be in which case they shall be prouided of others at free cost XXIX We most expresly enioyne our said officers to haue a care that at the said interments no scandall be committed and they shall be bound within fifteene dayes after request made to prouide those of the said Religion of a commodious place for their said burials without vsing any delay or protraction therein vnder penaltie of fiue hundred crownes to be seissed on their proper names and persons The said officers also as well as all others are prohibited to execute nothing for the conueyance of the said dead bodies vpon penaltie of seuere punishment XXX To the end that iustice may be yeelded and ministred to our subiects without any partialitie hatred or fauour as being one of the principall meanes to maintaine them in peace and concord we haue and do ordaine that in our Court of Parliament of Paris shall be established a Chamber or Counsell of estate consisting of one President and sixteene Counsellours of the said Parliament which shall be called and entitled the Chamber of the Edict and it shall examine not onely the causes and processes of those of the said pretended reformed Religion which shall be within the iurisdiction of the said Court but also of those depending on our Courts of Normandie and Brettaine according to the immunitie conferted vpon it by this present Edict and this to go current vntill in each of the said Parliaments there be established a Chamber to minister iustice in their proper precincts We also ordaine that of the foure offices of Counsellours in our said Parliament of Paris being of the last erection by vs made there shall be presently receiued and entertained into the said Parliament foure of those of the said pretended reformed Religion sufficient and capable who shall be thus distributed the first receiued into the said Chamber of the Edict and the other three in order as they haue bene receiued into three of the Chambers of Inquests and moreouer that of the two first offices of lay Counsellours of the said Court which by the death of any one shall grow vacant they shall be furnished with two of the said pretended reformed Religion and they thus receiued to be distributed into the two other Chambers of Inquests XXXI Besides the chamber heretofore established at Castres for a reference to our Court of Tholouse which shall continue in the estate it now stands we haue and for the same consideration do ordaine that in each of our Courts of Parliament both of Grenoble Bourdeaux there shall be likewise a Chamber consisting of two Presidents the one a Catholicke and the other of the pretended reformed Religion and of twelue Counsellours whereof sixe shall be Catholickes and the other sixe of the said Religion which Presidents and Catholicke Counsellours shall be selected and chosen by vs out of the bodie of our said Courts And as for those of the said Religion there shall a new creation be made of a President and sixe Counsellours for the Parliament of Bourdeaux and of a President three Counsellours for that of Grenoble who with the three Counsellours of the said Religion which are at that present in the said Parliament shall be employed in the said Chamber of the Daulphiney And the said offices of the new creation shall be lyable to the same pensions honours authorities and preheminences as the other of the said Courts And the said Sessiō of the said Chamber of Bourdeaux shall be in the said Bourdeaux or at Nerac and that of Daulphiney at Grenoble XXXII The said Chamber of Daulphiney shall determine the causes of those of the pretended reformed Religion with reference to our Parliament of Prouence without hauing need to take letters of summons or other citations then in our Chamber of Daulphiney as also they of Normandie and Brettaine of the said Religion shall not be vrged to take letters of summons or other citations then in our Chancerie at Paris XXXIII Our subiects of the Religion of the Parliament of Burgundie shall haue the election and choice to pleade in the Chamber erected in the Parliament of Paris or in that of Daulphiney And they shall not also be tyed to take letters of summons or any other citations but in the said Chanceries of Paris or Daulphiney according to their owne opinion and liking XXXIIII All the said Chambers disposed as aforesaid shall determine and iudge in soueraigntie and sentence definitiue by finall decree before all other of suites and differences moued and to be moued in which they of the pretended reformed Religion shall be principall parties or warranties in cases of plaintiffe or defendant in all matters as well ciuill as criminall whether the said processe be by writ or verball appeales and that if it so seeme good to the parties or that one of them requireth it before any Plea in the cause in respect of sute to be commenced alwayes excepted matters of benefices and the possessors of tenthes not enfeoffed Ecclesiasticall patronages and causes wherein the rights Demaine of the Church are questioned all which shall be ended and iudged in the Courts of Parliament without that the said Chambers of the Edict shall haue any thing to do to determine therein As also our pleasure is that to iudge and recide criminall causes which shall happen between the said Ecclesiastickes and those of the pretended reformed Religion if the person Ecclesiasticall be defendant in this case the iudgement of the criminall cause shall belong priuatiuely to our Soueraigne Courts of the said Chambers and where the Ecclesiasticke shall be plaintife he of the said Religion defendant the iudgement and determination of the criminall cause shall belong by appeale and in the last reference to our said established Chambers The said Chambers also in vacation times shall determine of matters referred by the Edicts and Ordinances to the Chambers or Courts established in times of vacation each one in his proper prerogatiue XXXV The Chamber of Grenoble shall from this present be vnited and incorporated to the body of the said Court of Parliament and the Presidents and Counsellors of the said pretended reformed Religion entitled Presidents and Counsellors of the said Court and held in the rancke and number of them and for these ends they shall be first disposed of in the other Chambers and then culled and drawen out from them to be employed and to serue in that which we institute anew with iniunction notwithstanding that they shall be present and haue a voice and session in all deliberations made and Counsels assembled and shall enioy the
pretended crimes of treason or others notwithstanding the which proceedings Iudgements and Decrees comprehending reunion incorporation and confiscation our meaning is that those of the Religion and others who haue followed their partie and their heires shall reenter into the reall and actuall possession of all and each of their goods LIX All procedings made Iudgements an decrees giuen during the troubles against those of the said Religion that haue borne armes or withdrawne themselues out of our Realme or within the same into townes and countries by them held for some other occasion then that of Religion the troubles together with all exemptions of instances prescriptions as well legall conuentionall as those vsuall and customarie and feodall seizures accrewing during the said troubles or by lawfull impediments arising thereof and whereof the censure remaineth in our Iudges shall be esteemed as not performed hapned nor granted and such we haue and do declare them to be and haue and do annihilate and the parties shall haue no aide nor authoritie herefrom but they shall be restored to the same estate wherein before they stood notwithstanding the iudgements and executions of them and the possession shall be restored to them wherein they were for this respect That aboue mentioned shall likewise take place in respect of others who haue followed the partie of those of the said Religion or that haue absented themselues out of the Kingdome by reason of the troubles And for the yonger children of those of the condition aboue mentioned which died during the troubles we restore the parties to the same estate wherin they were before without paying charges or being bound to bring in any forfaites but yet we do not meane that Iudgements denounced by Presidentall Iudgdes or other inferior Iudges against those of the said Religion or that haue followed their partie should remaine inualidious if they haue bene denounced by Iudges keeping their Sessions in townes by them held and whither they had free accesse LX. The Iudgements denounced in our Courts of Parliament in matters the decision whereof belongeth to the Chambers ordained by the Edict of the yeare 1577. and the Articles of Nerac and Flex in which Courts the parties procecded not voluntarily that is to say they haue alledged and propounded ends declinatorie or which haue bene denounced through defaut or misprision as well in matters ciuill as criminall notwithstanding the which ends the said parties haue bene constrained to go forward shall likewise be annihilated and of no worth And in respect of Iudgements giuen against those of the said Religion who haue proceeded voluntarily without propounding declinatorie endes those Iudgements shall remaine in force and yet without preiudice to the execution of them they may if they thinke good take some course by way of ciuill request before the Chambers ordained by this present Edict and the time runne set downe by the Ordinancies shall be no preiudice to them and vntill the said Chambers and their Chanceries be established verball Appeales or those by writing propounded by those of the said Religion before the Iudges Registers or Committies executors of Sentences and Iudgements shall take the same effect as if they had bene procured by letters patents LXI In all inquiries made vpon what occasion soeuer in ciuill causes if the Inquisitor or Commissarie be a Catholicke the parties shall be bound to appeare with one consent and if they appeare not one shall be taken by vertue of his Office by the said Inquisitor or Commissarie who is of the said pretended reformed Religion and the like course shall be taken when the Commissarie Inquisitor is of the said Religion for the partie which shall be Catholicke LXII We will and ordaine that our Iudges shall determaine of the validitie of Testaments wherein those of the said Religion shall be interessed if they demand it and the Appeales of the said Iudgements may be taken out of the said Chambers ordained for pocesses of those of the said Religion notwithstāding all customes to the contrarie yea euen those of Brettaine LXIII To preuent all differences which may happen betweene our Courts of Parliament and the Chambers of those Courts ordained by our present Edict we will set downe an ample and plaine order betweene the said Courts and Chambers and such as those of the pretended reformed Religion shall haue entire benifite of by the said Edict which order shall be ratified in our Courts of Parliament and obserued and kept without hauing respect to those precedent LXIIII. We prohibit and forbid all our soueraigne Courts and others within this Kingdome to determine or Iudge the ciuill or criminall causes of those of the said Religion the triall whereof by our Edict is referred to the said Chambers so any returne be demaunded as was expressed in the fourth Article aboue mentioned LXV Our will also is by way of care and circumspection and till we haue otherwise ordained that in all sutes moued or to be commenced wherein those of the said Religion shall stand as plaintifes or defendants parties principall or warranties in ciuill causes wherin our Officers Presidentall tribunes haue power to Iudge for a last triall they be permitted to demād that two of the Chamber where the cause is to be tried abstaine from the Iudgement of them who without alledging any cause shall be bound in this case to abstaine notwithstanding the Ordinance by which the Iudges cannot be excepted against without iust cause there remaining vnto them besides this Refusals of right against the others and in matters criminall wherein also the said Presidents and other royall Iudges subalternate iudge with peremptorie triall the conuented being of the same Religion may demand that three of the said Iudges abstaine from iudgement of their causes without any expression of cause And the Prouosts of the Marshals of France Vicebailifs Vicemarshals Lieutenants of the short Robe and other Officers of such like qualitie shall iudge according to the Ordinances and Rules heretofore set downe in respect of vagabonds and as for housholders charged and ceassed with maintenance of Prouosts if they be of the said Religion they may demand that three of the said Iudges abstaine from iudgement of their causes and they shall be bound to abstaine without any expression of cause except when in the companie where the said causes shall be iudged there be to the number of two in matters ciuill and three in matters criminall of the said Religion in which case they shall not be permitted to refuse without allegation of cause the which shall likewise be common and reciprocall to Catholickes in manner and forme aboue mentioned in respect of the refusall of Iudges where those of the said pretended reformed Religion shall be in greater number But yet we do not meane that the said Presidentall Tribunals Prouosts of Marshals Vicebailifs Vicemarshals or other which iudge with absolute triall should take vpon them by vertue of that which hath bene said the iudgement of tumults
for our enioyance of some better repose and quiet we esteeme that we cannot better employ it then in prosecuting and intending that which concerneth the seruice and glorie of his holy Name procuring that it may be adored and prayed vnto by all our subiects and though it yet stand not with his pleasure that this should be vnder one and the same forme of Religion notwithstanding that it might be at least with one intention and meaning and with such gouernment that no vprores or tumults might accrew betweene them and that our selues and this kingdome might alwayes deserue and preserue the glorious title of Most Christian which was purchased so long time since and with so many worthy demerits and so by the same meanes to supplant the cause of all molestations and troubles which might ensue hereafter vpon the point of Religion which hath euer bene the most preualent and penetrant of all others For the same occasion obseruing this affaire to be of such high consequence and worthie of deepe and waightie consideration after a reuoluing of all Registers of the complaints of our Catholicke subiects and hauing also permitted our said subiects of the said pretended reformed Religion to assemble by deputies for the exhibiting of their aggrieuances and for reducing together all their said Remonstrances and hauing conferred with them diuers times vpon this point reuiewed the precedent Edicts We haue thought is conuenient to enact at this time generally for all our subiects a Law vniuersall cleare plaine and absolute by which they shall be limited gouerned in all differences that haue heretofore growne betweene them in these points or that may hereafter happen and wherein both the one and the other may remaine satisfied according as the quality of the present times doth permit Our selues being entred into this deliberation for no other end but out of the zeale we beare to the seruice of God and that from this time forward there may be ratified and confirmed betweene our said subiects a firme and perpetuall Peace Wherein we both inuoke and attend from his diuine Maiestie the same protection and fauour which he hath euer most euidently conferred vpon this Kingdome from the erection thereof and during the many ages it hath continued and that he will bestow the grace vpon our said subiects truly to apprehend that in the obseruation of this our ordinance and Decree next to their immediate duties towards God and Our selues consisteth the maine foundation of their vnion and concord tranquillitie and repose and the restauration of this whole Estate to her originall splendor opulencie and power Euen as We on our part promise to procure it most exactly to be performed without permitting it in any sort to be disanulled or broken For these reasons hauing by the aduice of the Princes of our bloud of other Princes and Officers of the Crowne and of other eminent and remarquable persons of our Counsell and Estate neare about vs maturely and diligently wayed and considered this whole businesse by this perpetuall and irreuocable Edict we haue denounced declared and ordained and do denounce declare and ordaine I. First that the memoriall of all things passed both of the one side and the other from the begnning of the moneth of March 1585. till Our comming to the Crowne during the other precedent troubles or by meanes of them shall remaine extingushed and razed out as matters that neuer had happened And it shall not be permitted nor lawfull for our Procurors generall neither for any other persons whosoeuer publike or priuate at any time or vpon any occasion whatsoeuer to make mention thereof or to commence any processe or sute thereupon in any Courts or Iurisdictions wheresoeuer II. We forbid all our subiects of what estate or qualitie soeuer they be to renew any memorie to assaile vrge iniurie ' or prouoke one another by way of reproach for what is past vpon any cause or pretext soeuer to debate thereupon to contest quarrell outrage or offend either in word or deed but to forbeare and liue peaceably together as brethren friends and fellow citizens vpon penaltie for the delinquents to be punished as breakers of the peace and disturbers of publike quiet III. We Enact that the Catholicke Apostolicke Romaine Religion shall be reestablished and restored in all the places and parts of this our Kingdome and countrie vnder our obedience where the exercise thereof hath bene interrupted there to be peaceably and freely put in practise without any hinderance or disturbance Forbidding expresly all persons of what estate quality or condition soeuer they be vpon the penaltie aboue mentioned no wayes to trouble molest or disturbe Ecclesiasticall persons in the celebration of diuine Seruice the enioyance or taking of tithes the fruits and reuenues of their benifices with all other rights and inmunitâ—â—s to them appertaining and that all they who during the troubles seized on the Churches houses goods or reuenues belonging to the said persons Ecclesiasticall or that detaine possesse them shall surtender vnto the said Ecclesiastickes the entire possession and peaceable enioyance thereof with such title liberties and securitie as they had before they were disseized thereof We also expresly forbid those of the said pretended reformed Religion to make any Sermons or performe any other exercise of the said Religion in the Churches houses or habitations of the said Ecclesiastickes IIII. It shall remaine at the choise of the said Ecclesiastickes either to buy such houses buildings erected in places prophane whereof they were disposessed during the troubles or else to constraine the owners of the said buildings to purchase the ground euen conformable to the valuation made thereof by experienced men which both the parties shall bring together and in case they do not agree the Iudges of the places shall giue order herein reseruing euer vnto the said possessors their peculiar remedie to whom soeuer it shall belong And where the said Ecclesiastickes shall constraine the possessors to purchase the ground the estimate money shall not be put into their hands but the said possessors shall remaine charged with it to yeeld profit therefore after the twentieth penny while it hath bene thus let out for the benefit of the Church and this shall be in the compasse of a yeare And the same tearme being past if the purchasor will no longer continue the said rent or profit he shall be thereof discharged by assigning ouer the money to the partie to whom it is due by order and course of Iustice And for sacred places course shall be taken by the Commissaries that are ordained for the execution of this present Edict being by vs constituted for the same end V. Notwithstanding no ground nor places occupied for the reparation and fortification of townes and places within our kingdome nor the materials therein vsed can be chalenged or recouered by the said Ecclesiastickes or any other publicke or priuate persons but then onely when the said reparations and
same pensions preuiledges and preheminences which the other Counsellours and Presidents of the Court do XXXVI Our meaning and pleasure is that the said Chambers of Castres and Bourdeaux should be reunited and incorporated into those Parliaments in the same manner as the others when need shall be and that the causes which haue moued vs to make any establishment thereof may ceasse and haue no more place among our subiects and the Presidents and Counsellors of the same for these endes being of the said Religion shall be held for Presidents and Counsellors of the said Courts XXXVII There shall be also newly created and chosen in the Chamber ordained for the Parliament of Bourdeaux two Substitutes of our Procuror and Aduocate Generall whereof he in deputation to the Procuror shall be a Catholicke and the other of the said Religion who shall discharge the said offices for competent pensions XXXVIII Neither shall the said Substitutes take vpon them any other qualitie then of a Substitute and when the Chambers ordained for the Parliament of Tholouse and Bourdeaux shall be vnited and incorporated into the said Parliaments the said Substitutes shall be prouided of Counsellors places in the same XXXIX The expeditions of the Chancerie of the Chamber of Bourdeaux shall be performed in the presence of the two Counsellors of the same Chamber whereof the one shall be a Catholicke and the other of the said pretended reformed Religion in the absence of one of the maister of Requests of our Hostell and one of the Notaries and Secretaries of the said Court of Parliament of Bourdeaux shall make residence in the place where the said Chamber shall be established or else one of the ordinarie Secretaries of the Chancerie to seale the expeditions of the said Chancerie XL. We will and coÌ„mand that in the said Chamber of Bourdeaux there be two CoÌ„mitties of the Greffier of the said Parliament the one ciuill the other criminall which shall exercise their charges by our Commissions and shall be called Committies of the Greffe Ciuill and Criminall and therefore they cannot be reuoked nor displaced by the said Griffiers of the Parliament and yet they shall be tied to yeeld the emoluments of the said Griffiers to the said Griffiers the which Committies shall be hired by the said Griffiers according as it shall be aduised and arbitrated by the said Chamber Besides there shall be ordained certaine Catholicke Deputies which shall be appointed by the said Court or otherwhere according to our good pleasure besides which there shall be newly erected two of the said Religion and freely hired and all the said deputies shall be gouerned by the said Chamber both in the execution and discharge of their places as in the profits they do receiue A Commission also shall be dispatched for a payer of pensions and a receiuer of fines for the said Chamber to be prouided therein as shall be pleasing to vs if the Chamber be established in any other place then in the said Citie And the Commission heretofore agreed vpon to the Payer of pensions of the Chamber of Castres shall take full authoritie and commission and the Comission for the receipt of fines in the said Chamber shall be enioyned to the same charge XLI There shall be prouided sufficient Assignements for the pensions of the Officers ordained by the said Edict XLII The Presidnts Counsellors and other Catholicke Officers of the said Chambers shall be continued as long as possibly may be and as we shall finde it most expedient for our seruice and the good of our subiects and in dismissing some others shall be constituted in their places before their departure and they shall not depart during the time of their seruice nor absent themselues from the said Chamber without their leaue which shall be iudged by the procedings of the Ordinance XLIII The said Chambers shall be established within sixe monethes during which if the establishment continue so long a setling the suâ—es moued or to be moued wherein those of the said Religion shall be partie from the authoritie of our Courts of Parliaments of Paris Roan Dion and Rhemes they shall be called to the Chamber established presently at Paris by vertue of the Edict of the yeare a thousand fiue hundred three score seuenteene or else to the grand Counsell at the election and choice of those of the said Religion if they demand it those that are of the Parliament of Bourdeaux into the Chamber established at Castres and into the said grand Counsell at their choice and those that are of Prouence into the Parliament of Grenoble And if the said Chambers be not established within three monethes after presentation there made of this our present Edict he of our Parliaments that maketh refusall shall be prohibited to iudge or determine of causes touching those of the said Religion XLIIII Sutes not yet determined hanging in the said Courts of Parliament and grand Councell of the qualitie aboue-mentioned shall be returned in what state soeuer they stand into the said Chambers each cause to his Court of reference if one of the parties of the said Religion require it within foure moneths after the establishment thereof and as for such as shall be discontinued and are not in state to be iudged and determined the aboue-mentioned of the Religion shall be bound to make a declaration to the first intimation and signification of the pursute which shall be made vnto them and the said tearme being once past they shal no more be admitted to demand the said Returnes XLV The said Chambers of Grenoble and Bourdeaux as also that of Castres shall obserue the forme and style of Parliaments in the precincts where they shall be established and they shall iudge in equall number both of the one and other Religion except the parties agree on the contrarie XLVI All Iudges who are sought vnto for the execution of iudgements and commissions of the said Chambers or letters obtained out of the Chanceries thereof and also all Officers and Sergeants shall be bound to put them in execution and the said Officers and Sergeants to performe all their executions in euery part of our Kingdome without demanding placet visa ne pareatis vpon penaltie of suspension of their places and paying the dammages charges and interests of the parties the censure whereof shall belong to our said Chambers XLVII No reuocation of causes shall be agreed vpon the triall whereof is referred to the said Chambers except in the case of Ordinances the reuocation whereof shall belong to the nearest Chamber established according to our Edict and the issues of sutes of the said Chambers shall be tried in the next Chamber obseruing the proportion and forme of the said Chambers from whence the processe proceedes except for the Chamber of the Edict in our Parliament of Paris where the processes depending shall be disposed of in the same Chamber by the Iudges which by vs shall be nominated by our particular letters to this effect
this end declared and do declare void and of no effect nor value XC The purchases which they of the pretended reformed Religion haue made and others vpholding their partie vnder the prerogatiue of any other then of the late Kings our predecessors for stable possessions belonging to the Church shall take no place nor effect but we both will and ordaine and are well pleased that the said Ecclesiasticks reenter incontinently and without delay and that they shall be maintained in the actuall possession and enyoiance of the said goods so alienated without being bound to restore the price of such sales and this notwithstanding the contracts of vendition and sale the which for this effect we haue abrogated and made voide and that the said purchasors shall haue no remedy against the Heads by whose authoritie the said goods haue bene sold And yet neuerthelesse for the disbursement of moneys by them truely and without faud layed out letters patents of permission shall be granted to those of the said Religion to sesse and equally lay the said summes vpon them whereunto the said sales shall amount and the said purchasors shall not pretend any action for their dammages and interests for defaut of enioyance but they shall be contented for the disbursement of those moneys by them furnished for the price of the said acquisitions or purchases making good vpon the same price the fruits and benefites by them receiued in case that the same vent and sale was made at too meane and vnequall a price XCI And to the end that as well our Iustices and Officers as other our subiects may be clearely and with all certaintie aduertised of our will and intention and to remoue all ambiguities and doubts which may be cast by meanes of the precedent Edicts by reason of the diuersitie of them we haue and do cleare all precedent Edicts secret articles declarations moderations restrictions interpretations Iudgements Registers as well secret as other deliberations heretofore by vs or the Kings our predecessors made in Courts of Parliaments or otherwhere touching the matter of the said Religion and troubles happened within our said Realme to be of no effect and validitie the which and all abrogations therein contained we do by this our present Edict annihilate and abrogate and and from this present as then we do reuoke cashire and annihilate declaring expresly how our pleasure is that this our Edict shall remaine firme and inuiolable to be obserued and held not onely by our said Iustices and Officers but also by other subiects without depending or hauing respect to whatsoeuer may be derogant or contrarie to the same XCII And for the greater assurance of the obseruation and keeping thereof which we ayme at we will and ordaine and it stands with our pleasure that all the Gouernours and Lieutenants of our Prouinces Bailiffes Stewards and ordinarie Iudges of the Townes within our said Realme incontinently after the receiuing of this Edict shall sweare euery one within their peculiar iurisdictions to obserue and keepe it as also Mayors Shiriffes Deputies and Consuls and Iurours of the Townes whether annuall or perpetuall We further enioyne our said Bailiffes Stewards or their Lieutenants and other Iudges to cause the inhabitants of the same Townes both of the one and other Religion to be sworne to the embracing of this present Edict presently after the publication thereof taking all those of the said Townes into our protection and safegard and one to the protection and safegard of another charging them mutally and by publicke acts to answer in comely manner to all oppositions that shall be made within the said Townes to this our said Edict by any of the inhabitants of them or else to commit into the hands of Iustice the said opposites We commaund our faithfull and beloued those that keepe Courts of Parliament Chambers of Accompts and Courts of Aides that presently after this Edict receiued all things ceasse and vpon paine of annihilating the acts they shall otherwise performe to minister the like oathes as aboue mentioned and to cause our said Edict to be published and inrolled in our said Courts according to the forme and tenor of it plainely and sincerely without vsing any qualifications restrictions declarations or secret Registers nor attending any other iniunction or command from vs and so we will our Procurors generall presently and without delay to require and prosecute the said publication In like manner we impose our command vpon the said people keeping our Courts of Parliament Chambers of our accomtps Courts of aides Bailiffes Stewards Prouosts and other our Iustices and Officers to whom it shall appertaine and their Liuetenants that they cause to be read published enregistred this our present Edict and Ordinance in their seuerall Courts and iurisdictions and the same to embrace obserue keepe from point to point and to cause all such whom it any wayes concernes fully and peaceably to enioy the benefit of the contents thereof ceassing and causing to ceasse all lets and hinderances to the contrarie For so our pleasure is In witnesse whereof we haue sealed these presents with our owne hand and to the end it may euer continue for a firme and stable Act we haue set and put to our Seale Giuen at Nantes in the moneth of Aprill the yeare of our Lord a thousand fiue hundred fourescore and eighteene And of our reigne the ninth Signed HENRY And vnderneath By the King sitting in Counsell FORGET And on the side VISA And sealed with the great Seale in greene waâ—â— vpon labels of red and greene silke Like our tenor of knights seruice A custome in France