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A18480	The kinges edict or decree vpon the pacification of the troubles of his realme, made the .xxiij. of March. 1568 Conteyning also the confirmation of another like edict, of the .xix. day of March .1562. The copie whereof is also added, the better to satisfie the readers. And also certayn requestes, made by the Protestants, with the kings answeres therevnto. All nowe translated out of French. The .19. of Aprill.1568.; Proclamations. 1568	France. Sovereign (1560-1574 : Charles IX)	1568 (1568)	STC 5036; ESTC S111091	14,112	46

or hys Lieutenant in his absence who shall commit some person to be there to the end there should be traycted of none other things then of the doctrine and discipline of the religion The .vj. Article And for schooles they doe require that the children may be publikely and openlye instructed taught and priuatelye in perticuler houses The Aunswere The King graunteth and permitteth to instruct their children in the places appointed in the Baylywikes and stewardships for the exercise of the sayd religion and in like maner in the other Cities Townes and places in the which the exercise of their Religion was the vij of March 1562. and hath been alwayes continued And in lyke maner that euery one of them may cause their children to be taught in their houses The .vij. Article Shewing also that the little obedience which some officers haue giuen vnto the Kings Edicts and the boldnesse wherof they haue vsed and further hereafter will vse toward those of the religion if it would not please him to prouide them of present remedy that to this end it wold please him to ordein in euery parliament a Chamber made and gathered of those which shall finde themselfe most quiet and least offended vnto which only it shal priuately but to al others appertain for such time as it shall please his Maiestie to ordeyne for the knowledge of the matter of religion the obseruations of the Edicts of peace in which chamber all those of the sayd religion may when they séeme good cause to be sent all their processe and matters depending in the sayd Courts The Aunswere The king can not make any alteration in the estate and order established in the lawes but he wyll prouyde to cause it to be administred with such sinceritie equalitie to all his subiects indifferently that euery man shall haue iustice The .viij. Article They haue also declared bicause that those which are out of the resorte of the Court of Parliament of Paris cannot haue assured accesse nor withdrawing vnto their houses before that the Edict be published at the Parliaments in the seats resortes of the which they are dwelling that it would please his Maiestie to ordein a certaine time to make the sayd Proclamation and the meanes whereby they may safelye retire them selues vnto their houses there to lay downe their armes The Aunswere It shall be commaunded and enioyned vnto the parliaments to publish the Edict foorthwith which shall bee promptly by a man specially sent and to the kings Attorneyes and Generals to procure and require the sayde publication neuerthelesse in this meane time it shall bee ordeyned vnto them and especially vnto the Gouernours of Cuntries to prouide and bee with all their power helping that those of the sayde Religion may retire themselues safelye into their houses And there to remaine in all safety and to leaue them in the peaceable enioying of all their goods although the said Edict were not yet published The .ix. Article They do require that it would please the King that his Emologation comprobation and allowing for the authoritie of the sayd Edict may be wihout a secret register and that the Kings Attorney be consenting therevnto The Aunswere Agreed his Maiestie meaneth that all the answeres hereaboue made vpon euerie one of the said Articles shall be hereafter obserued and kept ouer al his Realme by all his Gouernors Lieutenants Generals Courtes of Parliament other Iudges hauing to thys ende signed them with his hande and caused his Secretary of estate by name to countersigne them and doeth commaunde that a copie of the Articles be put into the handes of the saide Lorde Cardinall of Chastillon Count of the Rochefoucault of Bouchauanes to vse it at their neede Giuen the .xxiij. day of March 1568. Signed Charles And therevnder signed Fizes ☞ Neuerthelesse the malice of these dayes hath willed and the Lorde also hath by his iudgement vnknowen prouoked as we must nedes beleue with our offences and sinnes left the bridle vnto the sayde tumults In such wise as men haue armed themselues so farre forth as there is come thereof infinite murders vengeaunces robberies forcing and pillage of townes the ruyne of temples Churches battels giuen and so many other euilles calamities and desolations committed and exercised in dyuers places that this euill continuing and seing alredy so many straungers in our sayde Realme knowing also the preparatiues made for the bringing in of more the euident ruyne of the same to be incuitable Considering also the great and vnreparable losse which to our great grief we haue had since the beginning of these tumults of so many Princes Lords Knightes of our order great Capitaynes and men of warre which is next vnto the hand of God the true susteyner pillar defence and protection of this our Crowne and an argument vnto our neighbours which shoulde be of an yll will to pearce and inuade vs as we haue béen and are threatned thereof

1568. signed by the king in his Counsell ROBERTET and sealed with the great seale of the saide Lorde in yelow Wax vpon a single labell confirming the Letters Patents giuen by the saide Lord at Saint Germane in Lay the viij of October M.D.lxi. Signed by the king the Lord Chauncelour present De Laubespine sealed as aboue and verified in the Court of Parliament at Paris the .xviij. day of Februarie in the saide yeare it is permitted vnto Robert Stephanus his ordinarie printer to print or cause to be imprinted to sell and to depute this present Edict of late for the pacyfying of the troubles of this kingdom so that none other Librarie nor Imprinter may print them nor cause to be imprinted without his permission consent within three Monethes after his sayd imprinting thereof vpon paine for such as shall offend therein to confiscate and forfait all that which they may haue imprinted and to fine at pleasure An Edict or decree and declaration made by the king Charles the ninth of that name vpon the peace making of the troubles of Fraunce the xix day of March 1562. Printed at Paris by Robert Stephanus the kinges printer 1562. With Priuiledge of the sayd king CHARLES by the grace of God king of Fraunce vnto all those that shall sée these presents gréeting Euery man hath séene and knowē how it hath pleased the Lord God within these fewe yeares to suffer y t this our Realme should be afflicted and wersed with many troubles seditions and tumultes amongst our subiectes styrred and raised by the diuersity of opinions and scruple of their consciences for y e matter of Religion For remedie whereof and that this fire shoulde not kindle further there hath bene heretofore made diuers assemblies and conuocations of the most great and notable personages of our kingdome and by their good counsayle and aduise set forth manye Edictes and ordinances according to the behoofe and neede which was offered thinking therby to preuent the euill and to go before the inconuenience hanging therevpon Which by vs considered serching al possible remedies how be it that thankes be to God our forces be great and that in apparance we want no men Seing neuerthelesse that all the euill and inconuenience which commeth of this warre turneth to the decay and hurt of our Realme and hauing erperimēted to our great losse such remedie to be neither fit nor conuenient the sicknesse being hidden within the bowelles and mindes of our people We haue thought that the best and most profitable which we might applie therevnto was as a Prince most christian whereof we beare the name to haue recourse to the infinite grace and goodnesse of our Lorde and with his good helpe to finde the meanes to pacify by our gentlenesse the sharpnesse of the sickenesse In calling againe reconciling the willes of our said subiects to an vnion to the acknowleging which they all owe vnto our obedience to the honour of God welth helth and conseruation of this our Realme In prouidinge such meanes as may reteyne and content our sayd Subiectes hoping that the time the fruit of a good holy frée and generall or nationall counsell and the vertue of our ripe age nere comming led and directed by the hand and grace of our Lorde who of his goodnesse hath alwayes had care and garde of this Crowne shall bring hereafter the certeyne and true establishing vnto his honour and glory rest and tranquilitye to our sayde people and subiectes Whervpon we haue well willed to take the good prudent councell of the Queene our right dere and right honourable Lady and mother of our right dere and right welbeloued Cosins the Cardnal of Bourbon Prince of Conde Duke of Mountpensier Prince of the Roche-sur-Yon Princes of our blood Also of our right dere and right welbeloued Cosines the Cardnall of Guyse Duke of Aumale Duke of Mountmorency Cunstable Pairs of Fraunce Duke of Estamps Marshalles of Brissack and of Bordillon Lordes of Andilot of Sansack of Sipierre and others good and great personages of oure priuie counsell whiche all haue béene of the aduice and founde it reasonable for the common wealth of this our Realme to make and ordeyne that which foloweth We giue to vnderstande that we according to their good counsell and for the causes reasons and considerations abouesaid and others good and weightie therevnto mouing vs haue sayde declared constituted and ordeyned doe saye declare constitute and ordeyne we will and our pleasure is That from henceforth all Gentlemen which are Barons Chastelains high Iusticers and Lords holding ful fee of Hawbert and euerie one of them maye lyue in their houses wherein they shall dwell in libertie of their consciences and exercise of the Religion the which they doe call reformed with their familie and subiectes which fréely and without anye constraint would be thereat And the other Gentlemē hauing sée also in their houses for them and their families only So that they dwell not in the Townes Boroughes and Villages of the Lords high Iusticers besides our self In which case they may not vse in the said places any exercise of the sayd Religion except it be by permission licence of their said Lords high Iusticers none otherwise That in euerie Baylywick Stewardship and Gouernement holding place of a Baylywick as Peronne Montdidier Roy and Rochelle and others of like nature resorting barely and without anye meanes in oure Courts of Parliaments We shall ordeine at the request of those of the Religion a Towne in the Suberbes whereof the exercise of the sayde Religion may be vsed of all those of the resort which would goe vnto it and none otherwise nor else where And neuerthelesse euerie one may lyue and dwel ouer al in his house fréely without being examined or molested forced or constrained for the matter of hys cōscience That in all the townes wherein the sayde Religion was vnto the .vij. of this present moneth of March exercised besides the other townes which shall be as it is saide perticularly named of y e sayd Baylywicks and Stewardships The sayde exercise shall be continued in one or two places within the sayde Towne such one or both as by vs shall be ordeyned Prouided that those of the sayde religion shall not vse or take or reteyne any Temple or Church of the Ecclesiasticall sort which we doe meane to be nowe remitted in their Churches houses goodes possessions and reuenues to enioy and vse them so fully as they did before these tumultes To vse and continue the seruice diuine and accustomed by them in their sayde Churches without anye maner of molestation impechment or let nor also that they may chalenge any recompence for the ruines hurtes which haue béene done therevnto We meane also that the Towne and resort of the Preuostie or Marialtie and Vicountie of Paris shall be and remaine exempted of al exercise of the saide Religion And that notwithstanding those which haue their houses within