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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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within the benefite of the generall pardon established by our present Edict and stand still subiect to be searched and inquired after there beno souldier but that he may be adiudged to be punished whereupon might ensue a renuing of troubles For this cause we will and ordaine that only the cursed and execrable cases and misdemeanours stand excepted from the benefite of the said pardon as namely rapes and rauishing of wiues and maides burnings and consumings by fire murthers and robberies committed by trecherie and wilfully and that not in the feats of hostilitie but vpon some particular grudge and contrarie to the lawes of armes infringing and violating of passeports and protections with the committing of murther and pillages without anie warrant in respect of them of the Religion and others which haue taken the part of such as were the chiefe and had authoritie ouer them grounded vpon particular occasions which did mooue them to commaund and ordaine the same LXXXVII We ordaine likewise that the punishing of crimes and trespasses committed amongst men of the same side and partie if it be not in such cases and deedes as they were enioyned to do by the chiefe of the one side and of the other according to the necessitie Lawes and Orders of armes shall be looked vnto executed and as concerning the leuying and exacting of moneys bearing of armes and other feats of warre grounded vpon priuate authoritie and without good auouch it shall be prosecuted by way of Iustice LXXXVIII The ruines and razings of Cities dismantled during the troubles may by our permission be reedified and repaired by the inhabitants at their costs charges and the prouisoes graunted heretofore to that end shall hold and haue place LXXXIX We ordaine and will and it pleaseth vs that all the Lords Knights Gentlemen and others of what qualitie or condition soeuer they be of the said pretended reformed Religion and others which haue taken partie with them do reenter and become effectually conserued in the enioying of all and euery part of their goods rights titles accompts dignities and actions the Iudgements following in the times of the said troubles and by reason thereof notwithstanding the which iudgements seazures and definitiue sentences and whatsoeuer else shold haue ensued we haue to this end declared and doe declare to be none and of no effect and value XC The purchases that those of the pretended reformed Religion and others which haue taken partie with them haue they done it by the authoritie of anie others then of the deceased Kings our Predecessours if they be any of the immoueables belonging to the Church shal take no place or effect But rather we graunt and will and it pleaseth vs that the said Church-men reenter incontinently and without delay and be conserued in the possession and real enioying of the said goods so aliened without being bound to restore the prices of the said sales and that notwithstanding the said cōtracts of sale which to that effect we haue razed out reuoked as none and so also as that the said purchasers shall not haue any redresse or reliefe by course of law of them which were the Chiefe and by whose authoritie the said goods haue bene sold may yet notwithstanding get into their purses againe the moneys that they haue truly and without fraud disbursed there shall be graunted out our letters patents of permission to them of the said Religion to impose make euen vpon them the summes whereunto the said sales shall amount and the purchasers of the said goods may not pretend any action for their damages interest for lack of the enioying of them but rather they shal be content with the restoring of the money laid out by them for the price of the sayd purchases reckening for part of paiment of the said price the fruits by them reaped thereupon in case that the said sale be found to be made at a verie low and vniust price XCI And to the end that aswell our Iustices and Officers as other our subiects may be clearely and with all assurance aduertised of our will and intention to take away all vncertainties and doubts which might arise by reason of the former Edicts through the diuerse variablenesse that is in them we haue declared and do declare all other the former Edicts secret Articles letters declarations qualifications restraints interpretations iudgements and inrolements as well secret as other consultations heretofore made by our selfe or others our predecessors in our Courts of Parliament and elsewhere concerning the matter of the sayd Religion and troubles caused in our said Realme to be of no effect and value which together with the things therein annihilated and disanulled we haue by this our present Edict abrogated and disallowed and do abrogate and disallow and from henceforth as then we did race reuoke and disanull them expresly declaring that we will that this our Edict be firme and inuiolable kept and obserued as well by our sayd Iustices and officers as other our Subiects without leauing or hauing any regard vnto all that which might be contrary or derogatorie vnto it XCII And for the stronger assurance of the maintaining obseruing of the same as we desire it shold we will ordaine and it is our pleasure that all Gouernors and Lieutenants generall of our Prouinces Baylifs Lieutenants special and other ordinary Iudges of the Cities of our Realme presently after the receipt of the sayd Edict do cause it to be obserued and kept euery one in his place as also the Mayors Eschetors Consuls and Iurats of Cities aswell those that continue but one yeare as those that are perpetuall We likewise enioyne our sayd Baylifs Gouernours or their deputies and other Iudges to take an oath of the chiefe inhabitants of the sayd Cities as well of the one as of the other Religion for the maintaining of the present Edict incontinently after the publishing of the same taking al them of the sayd Cities into our protection and safegard and commending the one to the good obseruing and and marking of another and charging them respectiuely and by publike actes to aunswere and curteously fulfill our requests in discouering the resistances which shall bee made against or in our sayd Edict within the sayd Cities by the inhabitants of the sme or else to present and bring before the Iustices the sayd resisters XCIII We commaund our louing friends and faithfull people keeping our Courts of Parliament Courts of accompts and Courts of Aides that incontinently after the present Edict receiued they let al maner of things cease and vpon paine of hauing whatsoeuer they shall continue to do disanulled to take the like oath as aboue and to cause the same our Edict to be published and inrolled in our sayd Courts according to the forme and tenour of the same sincerely and simply without vsing of any manner of qualifications restraints declarations or secret registers and that without expecting or looking for any other prouocation or commandement from vs and of our Atturneys general incontinently without delay to require and put in practise the publishing of the same XCIIII So likewise we giue in charge to our sayd Seruants and officers of our sayd Courts of Parliament Courts of Accompts and Courts of Aides Baylifs Gouernours Prouosts and others our Iustices and officers to whom it shall belong and to their deputies that they cause to be read published enregistred this our present Edict and Ordenance in their Courts and iurisdictions and the same to keepe maintaine and obserue from point to point and to cause all them whom it concerneth to enioy and vse whatsoeuer contained in the same in all full ample and peaceable maner staying and ceasing and causing to stay and cease all troubles impeachments to the contrary for such is our will and pleasure In witnesse wherof we haue signed these presents with our owne hand and vnto the same that so they may become a firme and stable thing for euer caused our seale to be set put Giuen at Nantz in the moneth of Aprill and in the yeare of grace 1598. And of our Raigne the ninth Signed Henry By the king sitting in this Counsell Forget And vpon the side Visa And sealed with the great seale with greene waxe vpon a ribond of red and greene silke Read published and enregistred yea and that the Atturney generall for the king at Paris in the Parliament the xxv of February 1599. consenting thereunto Signed Voysin Reade published and registred in the Court of Accompts yea and that with the consent of the Atturney generall of the king The last day of March 1599. Signed De la Fontaine Read published and registred and yea that the kings Atturney generall consenting thereto at Paris in the Court of Aides the thirtieth of Aprill 1599. Signed Bernard FINIS
of the said Religion they shall be enlarged and set at full libertie LXXIIII Those of the said Religion shall not hereafter be surcharged or ouer borne with any maner of charges ordinarie or extraordinarie more then the Catholikes according to the proportion of their goods and abilitie and as for such as do find themselues ouercharged they shall haue their redresse before the Iudges to whome the examination of such matters doth appertaine And all our Subiects as well those of the Catholike as those of the pretended reformed Religion shall indifferently be discharged of all charges which haue bene imposed vpon the one side or vpon the other during the troubles by them which were of the contrarie partie and not consenting And so in like maner of debts arising and growing due but not paid and of the costs and charges defraied laid out without their consent But there shall not anie demand be made of the fruites which shall haue bene imployed in the paiment of the said charges LXXV Our meaning likewise is not that those of the said Religion and others which haue taken partie with them neither yet that the Catholikes which were dwelling in the cities and places by them forcibly held and taken and were made to contribute to thē may be sued for the paiment of the taxes subsidies graunts great fifteenes litle fifteenes toles reparations and other impositions and helpes falling imposed vpon them during the troubles happening before vnto our comming to the Crowne whether it be by the Edicts and Preceptes of the deceased Kings our Predecessours or by the aduice and counsell of the Gouernours and Estates of the prouinces Courts of Parliament and other Courts we haue discharged and acquited do discharge and acquite them forbidding our generall Treasurers of Fraunce and of our Fine Offices our Receiuers generall and particular their commissioners brokers and others the attendants Commissioners of our Fine offices to search molest or disquiet thē directly or indirectly in any maner of sort whatsoeuer LXXVI All Dukes Lords Knights Gentlemen incorporations of Cities and Communalties and all others which haue aided and releiued them their widowes heyres and successors shall stand quit and discharged of all moneyes by them taken and leuied whether of the kings money to what summe soeuer it might amount or of those raised of the Citie communalties particular persons of rents reuenewes plate the sale of the mouables of Ecclesiasticall persons and others timber trees whether they were of demaine or others amercements booties ransoms or monies of any other nature whatsoeuer by them taken vpon the occasion of the troubles begunne in the moneth of March 1585. and the other troubles going before euen vnto our comming to the Crowne so that neitheir they nor those which shall haue bin by thē committed set on worke for the leuying of the sayd moneyes or which haue giuen or furnished them therewith by their ordinances shall be any manner of way searched or inquired after either for the present or in any other time to come and both they and their Commissioners shall stand quit discharged of all maner of ordering disposing of the said moneys bringing of al maner of discharges within foure moneths after the publicatiō of this present Edict made in the court of Parliamēt of Paris acquittances iustly truly obtained of the heads of them of the religion or of them which shall haue bene by the sayd leaders and heads made Commissioners to audit and take the accompts or of the communalties of the Cities which haue had commandement and charge during the sayd troubles They shall likewise stand acquitted of all feates of hostilitie leauies and conducts of souldiers coyning and rating of moneyes made according to the appointment of the sayd heads and Commaunders melting and taking of artillery and munitions making of gun-pouder and salt-peter taking fortifying dismantling and ouerthrowing of Cities Castles Boroughes and hamlets attempts made vppon the same burnings and pullings downe of Churches and houses establishing of Iustice iudgements and executing of the same whether it were in ciuill matters or criminall rule and gouernment framed amongst themselues voyages intelligences traficke treaties contracts made with all straunge Princes and communalties and bringing in of the sayd strangers into the Cities and other places of our Realme and generally of all that which hath bene done acted gested and traded during the said troubles since the death of King Henry the second our most Honourable Lord and Father in Law by them of the sayd Religion and others which haue taken parties with them although that it ought to be particularly expressed and specified LXXVII Those also of the sayd relgion shall stand discharged of all both generall and prouinciall assemblies by them made and holden either at Mante or afterward in anie other place vntill this present in like maner of counsels established by them and ordained by the prouinces consultations ordinances orders and directions giuen to the said assemblies and Counsels setting and augmenting of garrisons mustering of souldiers leauying and taking of our moneyes were it in the hands of our Receiuers general or particular collectors of parishes or otherwise in what maner soeuer it were iudgement vnder seale continuance or new establishing of treaties toles the receipt thereof namely at Roan and vpon the riuer of Charante Garonne of Rosne and Dordone armories and fights by Sea fortifications of cities castles and places impositions of mony borowing receipt of the said moneys displacing of our Receiuers and Farmers and other officers the establishing of others in their places and of all manner of marches vnions and trades made as well within as without our Realme and generally of all that which hath bene done deliberated written and ordained by the said Assemblies and Counsels Those which haue giuen their aduise signed executed caused to signe and execute the sayd ordinances rules consultations not being to be searched or inquired after neither yet their widowes heires or successors for the time present nor any time hereafter to come howsoeuer euerie of the particulars be not here full set downe and declared and as for our Atturneyes generall their substitutes and all those which might pretend anie interest or dealing therein by any maner of meanes whatsoeuer we inioyne them perpetuall silence in all and euerie one of the said points all iudgements sentences determinations informations proceedings to the contrarie notwithstanding LXXVIII We further approue ratifie and authorise the accounts which haue bene heard taken and examined by the Deputies of the sayd assembly and we will that they as likewise their acquittances and particulars which haue bene giuen vp by accomptants be caried into our court of Accounts of Paris three moneths after the publication of the present Edict put into the hands of our Atturny generall to be deliuered to the Custos Rotulorum and Registers of our said court there to haue recourse vnto