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A49222	An edict of the French King prohibiting all publick exercise of the pretended reformed religion in his kingdom wherein he recalls and totally annuls the perpetual and irrevocable edict of King Henry the IV, his grandfather, given at Nantes, full of most gracious concessions to protestants : together with a brief and true account of the persecution carried on against those of the foresaid religion for to make them abjure and apostatize : to which is added to form of abjuration the revolting protestants are to subscribe and swear to : with a declaration of his Electoral Highness of Brandenburg, in favour of those of the reformed religion, who shall think fit to settle themselves in any of his dominions / translated out of French.; Edit de révocation de l'Edit de Nantes. English	France.; Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, 1620-1688.; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.	1686 (1686)	Wing L3119; ESTC R14911	28,599	40

are witnesses of all these Cruelties with which they feast their Eyes and of all their Infamous and abominable words which ought to cover them with Horror and Confusion make only a matter of Sport and Laughter of it Thus these miserable Wretches being neither suffered to Live nor to Dye for when they see them sainting away they force them to take so much as to keep Body and Soul together and seeing no other way for them to be delivered out of this Hell in which they are continually Tormented are fain at last to stoop under the unsupportable Burthen of these extremities So that excepting only a few who saved themselves by a timely Flight preferring their Religion before all Temporal Possessions all the rest have been constrained to go to Mass Neither is the Country any more exempt from these Calamities than Towns and Cities nor those of the Nobility and Gentry than Citizens They send whole Companies of Souldiers into Gentlemens Houses who Treat them in the most outragious and violent manner conceivable insomuch that not a Soul can hope to escape except it may be some few who like the Believers of old wander in Desarts and lodge in Dens and Caves of the Earth Furthermore I can assure you that never was any greater consternation than that which we are in here at present the Army we hear is come very near us and the Intendant is just now Arrived in this City the greater part of the most considerable Merchants are either already gone or casting about how best to make their escape abandoning their Houses and Estates to their Enemies and there are not wanting some Cowardly Spirits who to avoid the mischief they are preparing for us have already promised to do whatsoever is required of them In a word nothing is seen or heard in these parts but Consternation Weeping and Lamentation there being searce a Person of our Religion who hath not his Heart pierced with the bitterest Sorrows and whose Countenance hath not the Lively Picture of Death Imprinted on it and surely if our Enemies Triumph in all this their Triumph cannot likely be of any long continuance I confess I cannot perswade my self to entertain so good an opinion of them as to think that ever they will be ashamed of these their doings so Diametrically opposite to the Spirit of the Gospel for I know the Gospel in their accounts passeth for a Fable but this I dare averr that this Method of theirs will infallibly lay waste the Kingdome which according to all appearance is never like to recover of it and so in time they themselves will be made as sensible of these miseries as others now are Commerce is already in a manner wholly extinct and there will need little less than a Miracle to recover it to its former State What Protestant Merchants will henceforward be willing to engage themselves in Trade either with persons without Faith and who have so cowardly behav'd their Religion and Conscience or with the Outrageous and Barbarous Persecuters of the Religion which they profess and who by these courses declare openly and frankly that it is their Principle not to think themselves oblig'd to keep their word with Hereticks And who are those of what Religion soever that will Negotiate with a State exhausted by Taxes and Subsidies by Persecutions by Barrenness and Dearth of several years continuance full of a despairing people and which infallibly will ere long be full of those that are proscrib'd and be bathing in its own Blood And these miserable Wretches who have been deceived by those who have told them that it would never be impos'd upon them to abjure their Religion and who are stupified by the extremity of their Sufferings and the terror of their bloody and cruel Enemies are wrapt up in so deep an astonishment as doth not permit them to be fully sensible of their Fall but as soon as they shall recover themselves and remember that they could not embrace the Communion of Rome without absolutely renouncing the holy Religion they professed and when they shall make a full reflection upon the unhappy change they have been forced to make then their Consciences being awakened and continually reproaching their faint-heartedness will rend them with sorrow and remorse and inflict torments upon them equal to those the Damned endure in Hell and will make them endeavour to be delivered from this Anguish and to find rest in the constant profession of that Truth which they have so unhappily betray'd And on the other side their Enemies will be loath to take the Lye at this time of day and therefore will endeavour through fear of Punishments to oblige them to stay in that Abyss of horror into which they have precipitated them but because all the Sufferings they can possibly threaten them with will be no ways considerable when compared with those Tortures their Consciences have already Inflicted upon them and wherewith they threaten them in case of a Relapse they will be constrained to drag them to the place of Execution or else seek to rid themselves of them all at once by a general Massacre which many good Souls have so long desired I hope Sir You will not be wanting in your most Earnest Prayers to beg of God that he would be pleased to take pity of these miserable Wretches and make the Heart of our Soveraign to Relent towards us that he would Convert those who in their Blindness think they do him Service by putting us to Death that he would cause his Voice to be heard by them from Heaven as to St. Paul Saul Saul Why Persecutest thou me and make the rest the Examples of his Exemplary Justice finally that he would grant that all those who have denied him being touched with a true Repentance may with St. Peter Go out and Weep Bitterly I am SIR Yours An Extract of a Letter containing some more Instances of the Cruel and Barbarous usage of the Protestants in France BUt this Sir is not the thing which troubles me most at this time there 's another cause of my Grief which is but too just and even pierceth my Heart with Sorrow and that is the Cruel Persecution which the Poor Protestants of France do suffer amongst whom I have so many near and dear Relations the Torments they are put to are almost Incredible and the Heavenly Courage wherewith some of them are strengthned by their great Captain and Leader to undergo them is no less amazing and wonderful I shall give for Instance one or two of these Champions that by them you may judge of the rest A Young Woman was brought before the Council in order to oblige her to abjure the Truth of the Gospel which she boldly and man fully refusing was commanded back again to Prison where they shaved her Head and sing'd off the Hair of her Privities and having stript her Stark-Naked in this manner led her throngh the Streets of the City where many a blow was given

Houses or otherwise of Confiscation of Body and Goods IV. We do strictly Charge and Command all Ministers of the said Pretended Reformed Religion who are not willing to be Converted and to embrace the Catholick Apostolick and Roman Religion to depart out of our Kingdom and Countries under our Obedience 15 days after the Publication hereof so as not to continue there beyond the said term or within the same to Preach Exhort or perform any other Ministerial Function upon pain of being sent to the Galleys V. Our Will and Pleasure is that those Ministers who shall be Converted do continue to enjoy during their Lives and their Widdows after their Decease so long as the continue so the same Exemptions from Payments and Quartering of Souldiers which they did enjoy during the time of their Exercise of the Ministerial Function Moreover we will cause to be paid to the said Ministers during their Lives a Pension which by a third part shall exceed the appointed Allowance to them as Ministers the half of which Pension shall be continued to their Wives after their Decease as long as they shall continue in the state of Widdow-hood VI. And in case any of the said Ministers shall be willing to become Advocates or to take the Degree of Doctors in Law we Will and Understand that they be dispensed with as to the three Years of Study which are prescribed by our Declarations as requisite in order to the taking of the said Degree and that after they have pass'd the ordinary Examinations they be forthwith received as Doctors paying only the Moiety of those dues which are usually paid upon that account in every University VII We Prohibit any particular Schools for Instructing the Children of those of the Pretended Reformed Religion and in general all other things whatsoever which may Import a Concession of what kind soever in favour of the said Religion VIII And as to the Children which shall for the future be Born of those of the said Pretended Reformed Religion our Will and Pleasure is that henceforward they be Baptized by the Curates of our Parishes strictly charging their respective Fathers and Mothers to take care they be sent to Church in order thereto upon Forfeiture of 500 Livres or more as it shall happen Furthermore Our Will is that the said Children be afterwards Educated and brought up in the Catholick Apostolick and Roman Religion and give an express Charge to all Our Justices to take care the same be performed accordingly IX And for a Mark of our Clemency towards those of our Subjects of the said Pretended Reformed Religion who have retired themselves out of our Kingdom Countries and Territories before the Publication of this our present Edict our will and meaning is that in case they return thither again within the time of four Months from the time of the Publication hereof they may and it shall be lawful for them to Re-enter upon the Possession of their Goods and Estates and enjoy the same in like manner as they might have done in case they had always contiued upon the place And on the contrary that the Goods of all those who within the said time of four Months shall not return into our Kingdom Countries or Territories under our Obedience which they have forsaken remain and be Confiscated in pursuance of our Declaration of the 20th of August last X. We most expresly and strictly forbid all our Subjects of the said Pretended Reformed Religion them their Wives or Children to depart out of our said Kingdom Countries or Territories under our Obedience or to Transport thence their Goods or Effects upon Penalty of the Gally for Men and of Confiscation of Body and Goods for Women XI Our Will and Meaning is that the Declarations made against those who shall relapse be Executed upon them according to their Form and Tenor. Moreover those of the said Pretended Reformed Religion in the mean time till it shall please God to enlighten them as well as others may abide in the several respective Cities and Places of our Kingdoms Countries and Territories under our Obedience and there continue their Commerce and enjoy their Goods and Estates without being any way molested upon account of the said Pretended Reformed Religion upon condition nevertheless as forementioned that they do not use any publick Religious Exercise nor assemble themselves upon the account of Prayer or Worship of the said Religion of what kind soever the same may be upon forfeiture above specified of Body and Goods Accordingly We Will and Command our Trusty and Beloved Counsellors the people holding our Courts of Aids at Paris Bayliffs Chief Justices Provosts and other our Justices and Officers to whom it appertains and to their Lieutenants that they cause to be Read Published and Registred this Our present Edict in their Courts and Jurisdictions even in Vacation time and the same keep punctually without contrevening or suffering the same to be contrevened for such is Our Will and Pleasure And to the end to make it a thing firm and stable we have caused our Seal to be put to the same Given at Fountainbleau in the Month of October in the Year of Grace 1685 and of Our Reign the 43. Signed LEWES This signifies the Lord Chancellors perusal VISA Le Tellier Sealed with the Great Seal of Green-Wax upon a Red and Green string of Silk REgistred and Published the Kings Procurator or Attorney General requiring it in order to their being Executed according to Form and Tenor and the Copies being Examined and Compared sent to the several Courts of Justice Bailywicks and Sheriffs Courts of each Destrict to be there Entred and Registred in like manner and charge given to the Deputies of the said Attorney General to take care to see the same Executed and put in Force and to certifie the Court thereof At Paris in the Court of Vacations the 22th of October 1685. Signed De la Baune A short Account of the Violent Proceedings and unheard of Cruelties which have been Exercised upon those of Montauban and which continue to be put in Practise in other places against those of the Reformed Religion in France for to make them Renounce their Religion ON Saturday the 8 18 of August 1685. the Intendant of the Upper Guienne who Resides at Montauban having Summoned the Principal Protestants of the said City to come before him representing unto them that they could not be Ignorant that the absolute Will and Pleasure of the King was to Tolerate but one Religion in his Kingdom viz. the Roman Catholick Religion and therefore wished them readily to comply with the same and in order thereto advised them to Assemble themselves and consider what Resolution they would take To this Proposal some answered That there was no need of their Assembling themselves upon that Account forasmuch as every one of them in particular were to Try and Examine themselves and be always in a readiness to give a reason of the Faith which was