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A02979 The Kings edict and declaration vpon the former edicts of pacification Published in Paris at the parliament held the xxv. of Februarie. 1599. At Paris, by the printers and stationers ordinary to the King. 1599. Cum priuilegio dictæ Maiestatis.; Proclamations. 1598-04-03 France. Sovereign (1589-1610 : Henry IV); Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610. 1599 (1599) STC 13120; ESTC S103955 31,848 68

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their writs of remoue and letters of confirmation from any where else then in the said courts of Chancerie of Paris or Dolphine according as they themselues shall thinke good XXXIIII All the said Courts composed and appointed as aforesaid shal determine and iudge with soueraigne authoritie and vnauoydable sentence by iudgement vncontrolleable by anie others of the sutes and controuersies raised or to be raised in which those of the said pretended reformed religion shal be the parties principal or the warrāts in demāding or defending that in all maner of matters either ciuill or criminall whether the said sute be by writ or extemporal appeale and that if it so seeme good to the said parties and the one of them require the same before protestation made in the cause in regard of the remouing of the sute excepted notwithstāding al matters of benefices the personages not impropriate ecclesiasticall patronages and all other such causes as wherein shall be handled the rights and duties or reuenues of the Church all which shall be handled and iudged by the courts of Parliament the said Assemblies and courts of the Edict hauing nothing to do to take acknowledgment of the same As likewise it is our will and pleasure that for the iudging and deciding of causes criminall which shal happen betwixt the said Ecclesiasticall persons and those of the said pretended reformed religion if the Ecclesiasticall partie be defendant in such case the triall and iudgement of such causes criminall shall belong vnto our soueraigne high Courts denying all dealing therin vnto the said courts of the Edicts and where such Ecclesiasticall partie shall be plaintife and the partie of the said religion defendant the triall and iudgement of such criminall cause shal appertaine by appeale and with power of absolute definitiue sentence to be determined of in the said established Courts of the Edict The said courts likewise shall heare and examine in vacation times such matters as by the Edicts and ordinances are allotted apointed to be heard and examined of the said established courts in vacation times euerie one in his precinct and iurisdiction XXXV The said court of Grenoble from henceforth shal be vnited and incorporated to the body of the said court of Parliament and the Counsellers and Presidents of the said pretended reformed religion called Presidents and Counsellers of the said court and so held and accounted of the ranke number of the same and for these purposes they shall be first disposed of placed in the other Courts and after drawne out from them to be imployed and do their seruice in such courts as we shall ordaine anew and withall in the places of their charge where they shall be assistant they shall haue a voice and seat in all the consultations which shall be held by the officers of the courts assembled and come together and shall enioy the same fees authoritie and preheminences with the other Presidents and Counsellours of the said court XXXVI And further it is our wil and intent that the said Courts of Castres and Burdeaux be reunited and incorporated in the sayd Parliaments after the same manner that the others are when neede shall be and that the causes mouing vs to make such establishmēt shall cease and shall not haue any more place amongst our subiects and for the same purposes the Presidents and Counsellors of them of the sayd Religion shall be called and held for Presidents and Counsellours of the sayd Courts XXXVII There shall be likewise created and ordained anew in the Court ordained for the Parliament of Burdeaux two Substitutes of our Atturney and Aduocate generall of which our Atturney shall be a Catholike and the other of the sayd Religion and these shall be inuested with the sayd offices competent fees allowed thereunto XXXVIII The two sayd Substitutes shall not take vppon them any other quality or condition but that of Substitutes and when the Courts ordained for the Parliaments of Tholosa and Burdeaux shall be vnited incorporated vnto the sayd Parliaments the sayd Substitutes shall be placed in the offices of Counsellours in the same XXXIX The dispatch of writs out of the Chauncery of the Court of Burdeaux shall be in the presence of two of the Counsellers of the sayd Court whereof the one shall be a Catholike and the other of the sayd pretended reformed Religion in their absence one of the Maisters of the Requests of our sayd Towne House and one of the Notaries Secretaries of the sayd Court of Parliament of Bordeaux shall keepe residence in the place where the sayd Court shall be established or else one of the Secretaries Ordinaries of the Chauncery to signe the writs of the sayd Chauncery XL. We will and ordaine that in the sayd Court of Burdeaux there shall be two chosen out and appointed Registers of the sayd Parliament the one in Ciuill and the other in Criminall causes which shall exercise the sayd charges by vertue of our Commissions shall be called Commissioners for the Register Court Ciuill and Criminall and therefore shall not at any time be cast out or disanulled by the sayd Registers of the Parliament yet notwithstāding they shall be bound to render the profite and commodity of the sayd Register Court vnto the sayd Registers or Clarkes Which sayd Commissioners shall be rewarded by the sayd Registers as shal be adiudged and thought meete by the sayd Court. Furthermore there shall be ordained Sergeants that are Catholikes which shall bee taken in the sayd Court or from elsewhere according as we shall thinke it best besides which there shall also be two of the said religiō newly ordained freely prouided for al the sayd Sergeants shall be ruled by the said Court aswell in the discharging and deuiding of their charge and businesse as of the profits commodities which they ought to take There shall likewise be giuen forth Commission for a Payer of fees and for a Receiuer or Collector of the fines and amercements of the sayd Court for to haue such a one prouided as we shall thinke good if the Court be kept any where else then in the sayd City And the Commission heretofore graunted vnto the pay-maister of the fees for the Court of Castres shal take his full and intire effect and there shall be ioyned vnto the sayd charge the Commission of the receipts of the fines and amercements of the sayd Court XLI There shall care be had for the good and sufficiēt appointmēt of fees for the officers of the Courts ordained by this Edict XLII The Presidents Counsellers and other Catholike officers of the sayd Courts shall be continued as long as possibly may be and as we shall see it to make for our seruice the good of our subiects in this time of thus bearing with and tollerating of the one there shall prouision be made of others to succeed them in their places before their departure and therewithall in such sort
in the matter of Religion contrary to their conscience so that they demeane thēselues in other things according as is enioyned thē in this our present Edict XV. In like manner the publike exercise of the sayd Religion may not be vsed in warres except in those quarters whose Chiefetaines are professors of the sayd Religion and yet furthermore it is to be vnderstood that those quarters must be others then that in which we shall lodge in our owne proper person XVI Following the second Article of the cōference of Nerac we permit them of the said Religion to build places for the exercise of the same in the Cities and places where liberty and license is graunted vnto them for the same and further such places as they haue heretofore to that ende builded shall be restored vnto them or else the grounds whereupon they stood in such state as it now standeth Yea though they be in such places as they may not be suffered to vse the exercise of their Religion except they be translated and changed into the nature of other buildings In which case the possessors of the sayd buildings shall giue vnto them roomes and places of the same price and value that they were of before they were in that manner by them translated or the iust valuation of them in money at a rate set downe by such as are skilfull Reserued alwayes vnto such proprietaries and owners whatsoeuer aide or succor which the law may any way offord them against any whom the matter may concerne XVII We forbid all Preachers Readers and all others which vse to speake in the places of publike assemblies to vse any words discourses or argument tending to the stirring vp of the people vnto sedition hauing rather inioyned them we do againe inioyne them to carrie and behaue themselues modestly not vttering or speaking of any thing but what may tend to the edification and instruction of the hearers and to the maintenance of the peace and tranquility by vs established in this our sayd Realme vppon the paines and penalty set downe in the former Edicts Giuing expresse charge and commandemēt vnto our generall Atturnies and their substitutes to giue informatiō according to their office against such as shall oppose themselues by contrary practises in this point vpon paine themselues to answere in their owne persons and of depriuation from their offices for fayling therein XVIII We forbid in like manner all our Subiects of what condition or quality soeuer they be to traine or draw by force or secret and subtile suggestions the children of the sayd Religion to cause them to be Baptized or confirmed in the Catholike Apostilike Romaine Church contrary to the good liking of their parents As likewise the same inhibitions are to be extended to them of the sayd pretended reformed Religion and that a like to both vpon paine of being punished for examples vnto all others that they may beware to do the like XIX Those of the pretended reformed Religion shall not be any way tyed or stand bound by reason of abiurations promises oathes which they haue made heretofore or for any suretiship which they haue entred into in respect of the matter of the sayd Religion neither shall they be molested or troubled any manner of way at all for the same XX. They shall in like manner be inioyned to keepe and obserue the Festiuall dayes appointed in the Catholike Apostolike Romaine Church neither may they vpon those dayes worke sell or shew wares in their opē shops neither likewise may handicrafts men worke out of their shops either in chambers or in their houses shut close to them vpon the sayd Festiuall dayes or any other prohibited in any occupation or craft which may make a noise to be heard without by such as passe by or yet of their neighbours In which case also there shall not any search be made but by such as are appointed officers for the executing of Iustice XXI The bookes concerning the pretended reformed Religion may not be printed and sold publikely but in the Cities and places where the publike exercise of the sayd Religion is permitted And as for other bookes which shall be printed in other Cities they shall be seene and perused aswell by our officers as Diuines as is appointed by our decrees and ordenances We expresly forbid the printing publishing and selling of all bookes scrolles or writings defamatory and tending to the taking away of any mans good name vpon the paines and punishment contained in our decrees and ordenances inioyning and charging all our Iudges and officers to be diligent in the executing of the same XXII We furthermore ordaine that there shall not be made any distinction or difference in respect of Religion in the receiuing of Scholers to be instructed trained vp in Vniuersities Colledges or schooles or of the sicke and poore in receiuing of them into Hospitals houses for the diseased or publike almes houses XXIII Those of the pretended reformed Religion shall be bound to keepe the lawes of the Catholike Apostolike Romaine Church receiued in this our Realme concerning the matter of mariages already contracted or to be contracted as also concerning the degrees of consanguinity and affinity XXIIII In like maner those of the said religiō shal pay the duties of entring as it is accustomed for the charges and offices which shall be discharged for them without being constrained to giue their attēdance about the executing of any ceremonies cōtrarie vnto their said religion and being vrged to an oath they shall not be bound to make any other then to hold vp their hand and to sweare and promise to God that they will speake the truth and againe they shall not be bound to take anie dispensation for oathes passed by them in matters of bargaines and obligations XXV We wil and ordaine that all those of the said pretended reformed religion and others which haue taken partie with that side of what estate qualitie or condition soeuer they be be bound and tied by all good and reasonable wayes and vpon paine of such punishment as is cōtained in the Edicts made for that purpose to pay and discharge the tenths to the Curats and other Ecclesiasticall persons and to all others to whom they belong and appertaine according to the vse and custome receiued in the places of their abode XXVI Disinheritings or depriuations whether in state of life or in matters disposed of by wil and testamēt comming onely of hatred or for the cause of religion shall not take place either for the time past or that is to come amongst our subiects XXVII To the end that the affections of our Subiects may be so much the better and more firmely knit together as our purpose is and to take away all discontentments that may ensue We declare all them which do or hereafter shall make profession of the said pretended reformed religion capable of holding and exercising all maner of Estates dignities offices publike charges whatsoeuer