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A50728 The last famous siege of the city of Rochel together with the Edict of Nantes / written in French by Peter Meruault, a citizen of Rochel who was in the city from the beginning of the siege until the rendition of it.; Journal des choses plus memorables qui se sont passées au dernier siege de la Rochelle. English Mervault, Pierre, b. 1608.; France. Edit de Nantes. 1680 (1680) Wing M1879; ESTC R35042 174,829 329

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for digestion in such sort that having eaten greedily they fainted away as I have seen many The 14th ditto with the Evening-tide the English Army made a Signal of Fire upon the arrival of a Souldier that the Mayor had sent upon which the Rochellers made immediately another in the Tower of the Chain and from the Lanthorn The 15th ditto in the night came into Rochel a Souldier who reported that my Lord Montague was come into the Camp to treat of a Peace with the King and after having been well received of his Majesty and Cardinal Richelieu he was returned 1628. October thence into the English Army He said also so that a Cannon-shot from the Steeple of S. Bartholomew fell in the Fort Louis over against the King who having at that time the said Montague with him they were by it covered with dust which was the cause that betwixt three and four a Clock in the Evening there was many Cannon-shot discharged from the said Fort against the City And this accident obliged the Rochellers to redouble their Prayers every day at their Sermons for the preservation of his Majesty from all evil At this time the Mayor and his Council seeing that the Spring-tide was passed without the English Army attempting any thing the weather having been always very calm so that they could not hope for relief sooner than with the next Spring-tide assembled the Council in the Town-house to the end to consider how to govern themselves for the time to come Amongst other things they ordained that there should be established in all the Companies of the City Commissioners to make search in all Houses to see what Corn there was or other Provisions and to leave thereof in each House where any was found for fifteen days or three Weeks at the most and to take the rest to distribute to those that had none The search being made there was found in all but 150 Bushels of Corn of all Grain each having done of themselves at the arrival of the English what now the Council would do and helped their Parents and Friends with what they had over expecting nothing less than to see the English Fleet a Month in the Road without doing any thing This little Corn that was found was reserved 1628. October for the nourishment of the Souldiers who with the inhabitants were like Anatomies and by little and little died away And it is most observable what befell two English Souldiers who finding that they could do no more went together to the House of a Joyner to bespeak each their Cossin for the next day by eight in the morning he at first refused it believing they mocked him as thinking himself more wasted with Famine than the Souldiers have you not strength said they to work and pressing of him and paying him in advance the gain made him undertake it and before them and in their presence began to work and finished these two Coffins and came at the time they appointed with them when he saw the same Evening one die and the other the next day betwixt ten and eleven in the morning The 17th of October the Sieur Arnault came to the Port S. Nicholas to Parley there were nominated to hear him the Sieurs Viette Riffault Journault and Mocquay he returned the next day and conferred long with them but could not conclude any thing The 18th in the morning the Mayor and Council sent out Chardeuine to go to the English Army but as he would have passed the Line he received a Musquet-shot in his shoulder which obliged him to return to the City The 19th in the morning before day the Mayors Lodgings were set on fire and he had run an adventure of being burnt had it not been that one that passed that way discovered it crying Fire Fire which brought together the Neighbourhood who quenched it readily before it had time to burn more than part of the doors and 1628. October blacken the Planks of the Shop It was believed that this proceeded from some Inhabitants who despairing of relief desired the rendition of the Town Now the Famine increased dreadfully nothing being left the greatest number having in three Months time not known what Bread was nor any thing of ordinary Provisions Flesh of Horses Asses Mules Dogs Cats Rats and Mice were all eaten up there was no more Herbs or Snails left in the Fields so that their recourse was to Leather Hides of Oxen skins of Sheep Cinamon Cassia Liquorish out of Apothecaries Shops Flemish Colewort frigased Bread of Straw made with a little Sugar Flower of Roots Irish Powder Gelly of the skins of Beasts and Sheep Horns of Deer beaten to Powder old Buff-Coats soles of Shooes Boots Aprons of Leather Belts for Swords old Pockets Leather Points Parchment Wood beaten in a Mortar Plaister Earth Dung which I have seen with my eyes Carrion and Bones that the Dogs had gnawn and indeed all that came in their sight though such food gave rather death than sustenance or prolongation of life from whence there passed not a day that there died not two or three hundred or more persons in such sort that not only the Church-yards but even the Houses Streets and out-parts of the City were in a little time filled with dead bodies without having other Sepulchres than the places where they fell the living not having so much strength as to throw them into the Ditch even many went to die in the Church yards During these Calamities and Miseries some who having reserved hidden Provision sold them 1628. October under-hand at an excessive price to wit the Peck of Corn which is the eighth part of the Bushel of the City for the sum of two hundred Livers which is twelve pound ten shillings Starling a Bisquet which scarce weighed seven or eight ounces for ten or twelve Crowns which is forty five or fifty four shillings Starling a Calf a thousand Livers which is seventy five pound Starling with some reserve for the seller a Sheep from three to five hundred Livers at eighteen pence Starling the Liver and all the rest after the same rate and yet they thought themselves happy who by the Intercession of Friends could get any thing at these Rates In the mean time it was a marvellous thing that the necessities being such and the Mortality so great there was no Confederation or grumbling in the City neither by the common people nor others to oblige the Mayor and his Council to Capitulate but all suffer themselves to be led to their deaths without complaints and murmuring testifying their satisfaction and contentment which shews the great influence that Religion and Liberty have upon the spirits of men As to those without I mean the Kings Army it was also marvellous that having advice of the lamentable and frightful necessity and the extreme feebleness that the place was reduced unto they never attempted the Storming of it when it was impossible for them within to have resisted having no
belongs and all our Subjects as well Catholick as of the Reformed Religion shall be indifferently discharged of all charges which have been imposed by one and the other part during the troubles upon those that were on the contrary party and not consenting as also of debts created and not paid and expences made without consent of the same without nevertheless having power to recover the Revenue which should have been employed to the payment of the said charges LXXV We do not also understand that those of the Religion and others who have followed their party nor the Catholicks who dwell in Cities and places kept and imployed by them and who have contributed to them shall be prosecuted for the payment of Tailles Aids Grants Fifteens Taillon Utensils Reparations and other Impositions and Subsidies fallen due and imposed during the troubles happening before and until our coming to the Crown be it by the Edicts Commands of the deceased Kings our Predecessors or by the advice and deliberation of Governors and Estates of Provinces Courts of Parliament and others whereof we have discharged and do discharge them prohibiting the Treasurers General of France and of our Finances Receivers General and particular their Commissioners and Agents and other Intendants and Commissaries of our said Finances to pros●cute them molest disquiet directly or indirectly in any kind whatsoever LXXVI All Generals Lords Knights Gentlemen Officers Common Councils of Cities and Commonalties and all others who have aided and succoured them their Wives Heirs and Successors shall remain quitted and discharged of all Money which have been by them and their order taken and levied as well the Kings Money to what Sum soever it may amount as of Cities and Communities and particular Rents Revenues Plate Sale of moveable Goods Ecclesiastick and other Woods of a high growth be it of Domains or otherwise Amerciaments Booty Ransoms or other kind of Money taken by them occasioned by the troubles begun in the month of March 1585. and other precedent troubles until our coming to the Crown so that they or those that have by them been imployed in the levying of the said Money or that they have given or furnished by their orders shall not be therefore any ways prosecuted at present or for the time to come and shall remain acquitted as well themselves as their Commissaries for the management and administration of the said Money reporting all thereof discharged within four months after the publication of the present Edict made in our Parliament of Paris Acquittances being duly dispatched for the Heads of those of the Religion or for those that had been commissioned for the auditing and balancing of the Accounts or for the Communities of Cities who have had command and charge during the said troubles and all the said Heads of the Reformed Religion and others who have followed their party as if they were particularly expressed and specified since the death of Henry II. our Father-in-law shall in like manner remain acquitted and discharged of all Acts of Hostility Levies and Conduct of Souldiers minting and valuing of Money done by order of the said chief Commanders casting and taking of Ordnance and Ammunition compounding of Powder and Salt-peeter Prizes Fortifications dismantling and demolishing of Cities Castles Boroughs and Villages Enterprises upon the same burning and demolishing of Churches and houses establishing of Judicatures Judgments and Executions of the same be it in Civil or Criminal matters Policy and Reglement made amongst themselves Voyages for Intelligence Negotiations Treaties and Contracts made with all Foreign Princes and Communities the introduction of the said Strangers into Cities and other places of our Kingdom and generally of all that hath been done executed and negotiated during the said troubles since as aforesaid the death of Henry II. our Father-in-law LXXVII Those of the said Religion shall also remain dischanged of all General and Provincial Assemblies by them made and held as well at Nantes as since in other places until this present time as also of Councils by them established and ordained by Provinces Declarations Ordinances and Reglements made by the said Assemblies and Councils establishment and augmentation of Garrisons assembling and taking of Souldiers levying and taking of our Money be it from the Receivers General or particular Collectors of Parishes or otherwise in what manner soever Seisures of Salt continuation or erection of Taxes Tolls and Receipts of the same at Royan and upon the Rivers of Charant Garonne Rosne and Dordonne arming and fighting by Sea and all accidents and excess happening upon forcing the payment of Taxes Tolls and other Money by fortifying of Cities Castles and Places Impositions of Money and day-works Receipts of the same Money displacing of our Receivers Farmers and other Officers establishing others in their places and of all Leagues Dispatches and Negotiations made as well within as without the Kingdom And in general of all that hath been done deliberated written and ordained by the said Assembly and Council so that those who have given their advice signed executed caused to sign and execute the said Ordinances Reglements and Deliberations shall not be prosecuted or their Wives Heirs and Successors now and for the time to come though the particulars thereof be not amply declared And above all perpetual silence is hereby commanded to our Procurators General and their Substitutes and all those who may pretend to an interest therein in whatsoever fashion or manner it may be notwithstanding all Decrees Sentences Judgments Informations and Procedures made to the contrary LXXVIII We further approve allow and authorize the Accounts which have been heard balanced and examined by the Deputies of the said Assembly Willing and requiring that the same together with the Acquittances and Pieces which have been rendered by the Accomptants be carried into our Chamber of Accompts at Paris three months after the publication of this present Edict and put into the hands of our Procurator General to be kept with the Books and Registers of our Chamber to have there recourse to them as often as shall be needful and they shall not be subject to a● review nor the Accomptants held in any kind liable to appearance o● correction except in case of omission of Receipts or false Acquittances and we hereby impose silence upon our Procurator General for the over-plus that shall be found wanting or for not observing of formalities Prohibiting to our Accomptants as well of Paris as of other Provinces where they are established to take any cognizance thereof in any sort or manner whatsoever LXXIX And as to the Accompts which have not yet been rendred We Will and Ordain that the same be heard balanced and examined by the Commissaries who shall by us be deputed thereunto who without difficulty shall pass and allow all the parcels paid by the said Accomptants by virtue of the Ordinances of the said Assembly or others having power LXXX All Collectors Receivers Farmers and all others shall remain well and