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A72087	A declaration set forth by the Protestants in France shewing the lamentable distresse and calamities that they of Bearn in France are fallen into, by meanes of the oppression and wrong done vnto them, in regard of their profession of the reformed religion. With all the troubles which happened vnto them since the beginning of the edicts sent out against them by the French king vntill this time. Together with the rest of their proceedings, vntill this present moneth of Iuly. 1621.	Eglises réformées de France.; Bern (Switzerland : Canton) aut	1621 (1621)	STC 11303.5; STC 11303; ESTC S118170	17,708	31

within 4. dayes after the verification of this Edict against so many other reasons and so many other Edicts that ought to assure this place vnto vs you would take it away from vs Alas we haue said it and are againe constrained to reiterate the same pardon vs noble Prince it is not against your royall Maiesty that our clamours and complaints are made but against the rage and malice of our enemies which haue done you that wrong not to permit your promises to be inuiolable Hauing taken Nauarreux from vs they began to turne the State vpside downe and therein to make alterations preiudiciall to the Religion Garrisons were put into all the Townes to oppresse the liberty of the Countrey besides the 4. Companies that are in Nauarreux in Orthes they put 6. Companies of the regiment of Picardie in Sanueterre 4. Companies of the regiment of Champaigne as many in Oloron of the same regiment and a company of light Horsemen in Nay Who can sufficiently declare the great excesses and disorders which those people vndertake in a Countrey where they are as it were animated by the hope of pillage Who can without horror tell and speake of the horrible blasphemies that they belch forth against God and the iests and scornfull brauadoes which they vomit out of their mouths against those of the Religion what a seruitude it is to liue like slaues at home in our owne houses and as strangers in the Towne to see our streets full of Corcelets Pikes and Muskatiers our meanes and our liues in the power of the enemies of our Religion ready if God did not restraine their impetuositie by his prouidence assaile vs and to put their tyrannous intents in execution All the Countrey concerning Martiall gouernment is diuided into 6. parts which are called Parsans euery Parsan alwaies had a Captaine that commanded ouer the Souldiers vnder the Kings Lieutenant most ancient Officers and as it were ordained at the first beginning of the State all those 6. Captaines were of the Religion but what fell out Enuy could not endure that that remnant of authoritie should continue in the hands of those of the religion but rather to weaken them all together and onely to let them goe and scape away with their liues the sayd 6. Captaines were discharged without any crime or offence imposed vpon them and in their places there was a new Officer made in the Countrie that is a Prouost Marshall with certaine Archers to attend him and that Office giuen to a Papist What an alteration of affaires is this To suppresse the auncient Officers and to make new onely to aduance the Papists and to raise them to a formall greatnes and to imbace those of the religion and reduce them to a pittifull and lamentable condition And further Monsieur de Bernac the chiefe Baron of Bearn whose auncesters haue made themselues famous in respect of their sincere affection and loyalty to the Kings seruice and the conseruation of the Countries liberty had a grant in possession from father to sonne of the chiefe Precedence in the State But enuy could not endure that a most affectioned family to the religion should be in possession of that dignity and therefore sought to dispossesse him thereof to inuest the Bishops with the same and the better to bring their desiring to effect a bruit was spread abroad in the Court that it was not good for Monsieur de Bernac to stay in Pau and that if he presented him selfe he should serue for an offering to redeeme and recompence the disobedience of Bearn aduice was giuen him from all places by men of greatest quality in the Court that he was appointed to be an example and an abashment to the rebells he chusing rather to loose his estate then his head in Court resolued to keepe himselfe secretly in one of his houses and in his absence the Bishops were instabled without any contradiction in the Precedence of the States and by that meanes they had places in the Counsell or Parliament next to the Presidents and free voyces therein to Iudge of all affaires specially of those of the religion although one of the Bishops had a Cousin that sate in the same Parliament and that by the law of the Country the Vncle and the Cousin cannot be Iudges in one cause and company But when there is any thing to be done that may disaduantage those of the religion there is no law which they will not violate nor custome which they care not to breake But this is not all Bearn is vnited vnto France and by this Vnion the whole estare thereof is turned vpside downeward We haue two kinds of lawes the one is the lawe of the Soueueraigne which may be altered changed or disanulled as occasions fall out the other is the Lawes of the Soueraignetie whereby the Prince is aduanced to the Soueraigne estate and are as it were the Articles and causes of the contract made betwene the Soueraigne and the Countrie Those are inuiolable and cannot be changed vnlesse the state be changed as being the props whereupon it holy stayeth and dependeth The principallest of those lawes being that which bindeth the Soueraigne to maintaine the state in the Title of Soueraignetie and to defend the same from allienaton and transportation else where Now by incorporating Bearn with France the Title of Soueraignetie is taken from it and carried else where seeing that the King endoweth the Crowne of France therewith and by consequent ouerthroweth the estate by the which intrusion an infinite number of mischiefes are introduced By the same meanes Nauarre is ioyned to Bearn making the Chancerie of Nauarre and the Counsell of Pau one Parliament by that coniunction to introduce a great number of Papists into the body thereof and so much the more to weaken those of the religion Monsieur de Lescun the Kings Councellor would neuer consent vnto the verification of the Kings Edict touching the Spiritull liuings but still in the Countrie in the Court and in the generall assembly did maintaine Gods cause and the Churches right with an inuincible and impenecable vigure and constancie he was hated in the Court and diligently sought for and being not found he was summoned to appeare within twice 24. houres and failing therein he was prohibited from executing his charges Most braue and generous wrastler receiue I pray thee this prohibition for an honorable reputation and a glorious marke of thy incomparable zeale for the conseruation of the Church and in the meane time expect most greene Garlands of Laurell and immortall Crowne from him whose cause thou hast defended with so great constancy And you poore and desolate Churches which in times past were like to the land of Goshen onely light while all the Countrey about it was obscure and darke and which at this present perceiue and behold darknesse to get the vpperhand and to preuaile against you to extinguish our light you that haue seene the purity of Gods seruice

planted reestablished in enery place and Idolatry wholy banished out of the Countrey and now behold it to be spread abroad in all the quarters thereof to ouerwhelme both the Townes and fields and to build her nest in your Churches already behold squadrons of wormes and grashoppers rise out of the bottomlesse pit of hell to gather your grapes and mowe your fields in danger of prohibition not to enter into the house of God reioyce and comfort your selues God at this time calleth you to endure persecutions why are you abashed and astonished thereat it is your condition it is the liuery of your head and commander whose head being Crowned with Thornes why should the Church dreame of dignities earthly Crownes you see the world rise vp against you Why should you be dismayed it is the ordinarie course thereof it is the enemy of the truth of the Gospell which is not of this world but of heauen an enemie of the Church which hath withdrawne it selfe from the world to be transported planted in an other Territorie and place of aboad your places of defence are taken from you and are not you lodged in the closet of the Soueraigne God and vnder the shadow of the wings of the most Mighty and who can pull you out from thence is that Fortresse to be batred is it to be taken by men The liuing destined and appointed for your Ministers are taken from you And hee that in times past commanded the Crowes to be Puruoirs and victuallers for the Prophet Elias he that commanded the oyle in the pitcher not to wast and the oyle in the glasse not to decay or waxe nought is not he at this day the same God should his arme be shortned that he cannot or the bowels of his mercy shut vp that hee will not haue a care of his Church and prouide food for his Ministers you haue the honour to suffer persecution for righteousnes sake although your enemies seeke to imblemish the same with the Title of rebellion and disobedience but where doe the effects much lesse the proofes of this rebellion appeare can they obiect that you did euer at any time conspire against the Kings sacred person or attempted any thing against his State that the murtherers of Kinges infernall furies of hell were found or came out from you that your Ministers did euer goe vp into their pulpits to proclaime warre to kindle a reuolt or to sowe sedition in your hearts can you be reproched that you are bound by oath of fidelity and obedience to any other but vnto the King your Soueraigne that you acknowledge any superiour power in the world that can put downe or transport his Crowne to any other haue your Ministers bookes bin condemned to be burnt as free of falsehood and detestable propositions tending to the subuertion of Soueraigne powers and the rising vp of Subiects against their Princes as the bookes of those that defame and slander you by iniuries and violently pursue you haue bin then where is the rebellion and disobedience that is improprietated vnto you It is say they because you did withstand the verification of the Kings Edict and thereupon they exclaime and crie out saying what audaciousnesse is this what an attempt worthy of death is this What consolation and comfort haue you when you see and perceiue that they can not accuse you but onely by changing the names of things and by calling that rebellion which is nothing but obedience The King hauing giuen the Ecclesiasticall liuings to the Bishops you could neuer obtaine that fauour to be heard by the Kings Counsell it being instantly sought for and desired answer was made that you should be fully heard before the Iudges to whom the King would send his Edict or Commissions You presented your selues before those Iudges with respect and humility you desired to be maintained in your possession of 51. yeares grounded vpon Edicts Decrees and letters Patents of the King your Soueraigne Is it cald rebellion with honor to solicite your cause to the Iudges appointed by the King and to whom he sent you to be heard rebellion to aske and demaund the obseruation of the Kings Edicts and execution of his promises What Title will they giue to Rebellion and disobedience if respectiue and humble requests and solicitations are qualified with the name of disobedience and rebellion An ingenious age wherein the names of things are changed thereby afterward to haue the meanes to change and peruert all thinges And you Brethren that by one selfe same band of Faith and Religion are vnited and strictly bound vnto vs Behold in this sorowfull spectacle what hath bin done and what more they will doe vnto you Consider our calamities therein and seeing you are members of the same body behold your owne therein Make your selues sensible of our miseries helpe vs to finde some remedies either by your most humble prayers vnto God that he will be pleased to appease his iust wrath and indignation inflamed against vs because of our sinnes and vnthankfulnes or else by your supplications to our good King to be admitted and restored to our first estate or by your good assistance against those that doe nothing else but labour vtterly to root out and destroy vs by these chollerous alterations In the meane time God graunt that these strange alterations be not the causes of other as dangerous and ominous alterations God graunt that so often striking against the hardnesse of our patience they doe not make some sparkles flie out and that of those sparkles some great side should chance to burst forth But before all thinges God graunt that our good and debonarie King may be liuely touched with the pure zeale of his house to the end that thinking vpon the greatnesse of the mischiefes that he hath bin counselled to doe vnto vs he will shew himselfe to be our restorer and the nourisher of our Churches And for our parts attending that time and happy motion of changing rechanging and of turning all thinges vpside downward wee are fully resolued neuer to change our affections vnto God as Christians nor to the willes nor desires not to honour the King as his faithfull Subiects But rather as we pray vnto God to strengthen our patience that it may not breake vnder the burthen of so many calamities that are procured vnto vs so wee beseech him to prosper the King and to giue him long and many dayes a flourishing Empire and faithfull Subiects BY THE KING SOVEraigne Lord of Bearn LOuing friends and our trusty seruants wee are certified that you haue sent vnto vs for your Deputies Messieurs de Gillot and de Lendresse to make your duties known and to certifie vs of your fidelities without any further charge committed vnto them although Monsieur de Causaus chiefe President gaue you to vnderstand that it was our pleasure that you should send some of your Deputies to speake with vs about our Edict touching the Spirituall reuenewes to receiue our commandments and to yeild vs an account of things past grounding this doubt vpon this that by the sayd Monsieur de Casaus letter it seemed that your deputation was referred vnto that with those of the religion P. R. of our Soueraignetie are to make And although you haue nothing at all to doe with them and that it is free for them to take that occasion which the time that we haue granted yeilds vnto them and for that it tendeth to the good of our affaires and seruice the quietnes of the Countrey that our intents and pleasure should forthwith be made knowne vnto you for these causes we will and command you that forthwith and without any delay you nominate and send some of your company vnto vs to receiue those orders touching the Spiritual liuings that we will giue vnto them without depending vpon the deputation of the said Messieurs de Gillot and de Lendresse your duties to obserue our Cōmandments binde you thereunto faile not therein for such is our pleasure Giuen in Burdeaux the 21. of February 1621. Signed LOVIS And somewhat lower DELOMENIS And belowe to our louing friends and faithfull seruants of our Counsell in the Soueraigne Courts of Bearn This letter being receiued by the Parliament of Pau The Decree following word for word translated into French was thereupon made THE Counsell Chambers assembled-together hauing seene the requests of the reformed Churches of this Countrie and the Kings letter sent to the Counsell bearing date the 22. of Nouember last past importing that it is free for those of the reformed religion to take aduantage of the time that was giuen them agreeing with that which before had bin granted to the assembly in Loudun It is decreed That before all things his Maiestie shall most humbly be intreated to giue audience vnto the most humble supplications and declarations of the sayd Churches willing the said Churches to present themselues vnto his Maiestie before the said time be expired which being expired and for not doing it we will proceed to the registring and publishing of the Edict according to the contents of the Commission bearing date the 10. of September last And to that end Messieurs du Four and de Marca are appointed Deputies presently to goe to Bourdeaux or any other place where the King shall be Giuen in Pau the last of Ianuary 1621.