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
proceedings to all the World and that it may not be imputed to us that we are prodigal of the blood of your Majesties Subjects to ill purpose or that we will spare our own No Sir there is no impossibility in the case as is feigned but the only cause of our fears proceeds from the continual neglects from one day to another and from one Week to the next which make our hopes recoil After thereturn of your Fleet we comforted our selves with the promise that was made us from your Majesty that it should set sail again within fifteen days and when more than twenty were past they added thereunto fourteen After that divers other neglects in such sort as make up now two Months compleat Good God Sir time seems long with them that have not Bread we know well the good Inclinations that your Majesty hath for us as also we have had most certain proofs of the Duke of Buckingham your High-Admiral passionate applying himself for us and the same of the Lords of your Council but shall we not be excusable if seeing the effects crossed by delays we entertain jealousies that your Majesty is not well served and that there is some hidden 1628. July hand which obstructs that which the zeal of others endeavour to advance It is ordinary with men in misery to be suspitious and possibly we are injuriously so and indeed we do not know any person upon whom to determine our diffidence nor do we intend the calling to mind any thing that is passed for for ever Sir may that remain buried in perpetual Oblivion and as for the time to come let those at least to whom your Majesty shall give your Commands answer your kindness to us with their affection and diligence in putting your Fleet to Sea without any more delay for delivering us out of the Jaws of Death If upon this occasion Sir you discern those that serve you faithfully from others if there be any such let your Majesty hold it indisputable if it please you that all those who under any pretext whatsoever shall counsel the least neglect do it from an evil intention there being none that are ignorant of the horrible necessities of our City and that one day of delay may be its ruine Have consideration thereof Sir we beseech you by the tears and pitiful cryes of more than twelve thousand languishing Souls whom Hunger devours and who are all ready to perish by the interest of more than a Million of others who without doubt will see themselves buried under our Ruines and will find the Knife at their Throats the next day after we are lost By the glory of your Scepter under the Sanctuary of which we are come to put our selves and which it hath pleased you to tender us for our security by the Magnificent Title of Defender of the Faith which obligeth your Majesty to relieve those that are oppressed out of a hatred to it In â—ine by the Faith and Word of a King which it 1628. July hath pleased you in grace and favour to ingage to us Permit not Sir our Innocent Blood to reflect upon your Crown to stain it to Ages that shall succeed you and at present to cry against your Majesty before God and Men. This is that Sir which our Consciences and the duty we owe to our afflicted Fellow-Citizens obligeth us to represent again unto your Majesty in whose Charity Magnanimity Piety and inviolable Fidelity we have such confidence that we assure our selves you will take this in good part and into convenient consideration And now seeing that all our supplications tend to the making your Fleet without delay set sail and that to that end your presence at Portsmouth is so absolutely necessary that without it we can scarce hope for any success we are forced to take the boldness to supplicate in all humility the putting in execution the resolution you have taken to go thither And now Sir we fall upon our knees before your Majesty with most ardent prayers and cryes to God that it will please him to make us find more and more favour in your sight and that even we who now supplicate you and are come to render to you our most humble acknowledgment as our Great Deliverer from whom after God we hold our goods honours and lives may have cause to leave the memory of our Deliverance to our Children to the end they may Celebrate it after us The 27th of July the Dutchess of Rohan caused two of her Coach-Horses to be killed as well for her own eating as for the nourishment of her Family besides her necessity whereof she was sensible it was an example to others to suffer the utmost extremity rather than to render the City 1628. July At this time the necessity which was horrible obliged divers to seek ways and means to pass the Line others to scatter themselves in Vineyards to gather even but Verges Grapes and some to render themselves willingly It was now published in the Camp upon pain of death not to suffer them to approach the Line nor to take Prisoners any that should come out of Rochel but by Musquet-shot force them to return within their Counterscarp and Ports from whence many were killed chusing rather to finish their lives by a Musquet-Bullet than to return home to die there miserably of Famine And many Women and Maids of the common people going into the Vineyards were violated and beaten with Forks and shafts of Halberts then stripped as naked as when they came from the Wombs of their Mothers and so sent back to the City and in this sort I have seen some return But to meet them other Women went to carry them Gard-robes and Cloaks to cover their nakedness AVGUST The third of August the Sieur Fequiere who had been Prisoner in the Tower of Moureil seven or eight Months acquainted the Mayor by his Guards that he desired to speak with him or some from him to the end to see if there were no way for coming to an Accommodation or Treaty of Peace He immediately sent the Sieurs Viette and Defos who having heard his Propositions made presently report thereof to the Mayor and his Council but they found it in many things very difficult and above all who they should depute towards the King which they judged of too great 1628. Aug. consequence for fear that the noise of a Treaty being spread it should hinder their relief besides that la Rose's words at his death for not trusting to Articles had made great impressions upon the spirits of men and so the thing went no further The eighth of August upon a Remonstrance made the day before by Sieur Paul Mervault Master of the Artillery to the Mayor and Council of War that he found no Bullets in the Magazine for Culverines and Bastards and that to undertake to cast more as they had done three Months before was time and money lost for that they knew not the secret of the
the wise gave no heed to this but the common people comforted themselves with it whatever it was this night had something extraordinary which caused the inflammation of the Air in such a manner as occasioned a great Allarum in the City and that all run to the places of Arms and Court of Guards where they remained until day upon the fear of those Fantasmes which the Watch took for men 1628. Septemb. The 28th of August an Inhabitant called John Mattin came into Rochel from England bringing a Letter from the Deputies advising that the Army was put to Sea and was on this side the Channel and that it had come sooner had not the death of the Duke of Buckingham who was killed at Portsmouth by a Lieutenant hindered it the History of whose Death because he was a great Lord and the first Author of this War I have inserted here with the circumstances of it having extracted it from the Journals of one of the Deputies who was in England and since his return hath given me a Narrative of it An Extract of the Journal of Sieur Vincent THe 26th of September 1628. being at Portsmouth where the preparations for the Naval Army were preparing with all diligence the Duke of Buckingham sent for us early in the morning and communicated to us some Letters received from the Kings Camp before Rochel by which they gave him advice that the City had then received a notable refreshment of Victuals and particularly fifty or sixty Oxen We answered that these reports were scattered artificially to retard our relief and that except Oxen could fly it was impossible that the News could be true The Duke of Soubize came in at the very instant of time and confirmed the same that I had said beseeching him not to slacken upon this noise his good affections and diligence in our Affairs He promised us that there should not be one moment of delay but however he continued the news and intended himself to carry it to the King who 1628. Septemb. was four miles from thence and thereupon he got a slight Breakfast and going from the Table he was presented with a certain Plat-form for a Building by a Captain of a very little stature and viewing of it went towards the door where the Tapistry being held up for him he stayed some time looking upon and considering the Platform In this place and at this instant there came up a certain young man a Lieutenant of a Company who over the shoulder of the said Captain stabbed him with a Knife at one blow in the Stomach and so retired into the Croud The Duke laid presently his hand upon his Sword and pursued him the length of the Antichamber pronouncing these words Ha Dog thou hast killed me Then finding himself to faint let fall his Sword and pulled out the Knife himself which he who stabbed him had left in his Body As soon as it had taken wind he fell upon the ground and being lifted up by his Servants was laid along upon a Table to make the blood come from him which came out at his mouth and then he gave no more any sign of life This was so sudden as one can scarce imagine We being in the Chamber at the door where he was stabbed there rise a report that the French had killed the Duke The noise and confusion which was in the Croud being amongst his Train put us into a most great Allarm every one laying their hands upon their Swords crying and demanding who it was and we had assuredly run a great Adventure had not he who committed the Murther seeing others wrongfully accused accused himself declaring with a loud voice that it was he Whereupon being seized and interrogated upon the cause which 1628. Septemb. had moved him to this action he answered that they would find it in the Crown of his Hat where presuming that he should be killed upon the place he had hid them and there they found a Writing the substance whereof was that the Duke having been declared by Vote of Parliament a Copy of which he recited an Enemy to the State his Life by the Laws of the Kingdom was exposed as a prey and to this publick injury he joyned another as to his own particular viz. in that for advancing his own Favourites he had twice prevented him of a Captains Command when it was his due so that he believed he had a right to revenge by that Stab both himself and the Publick And as he had committed this to writing he continued afterwards to declare the same by word of mouth that having killed a Publick Enemy he was authorised therein by the Laws of the Land and other Confession than this they had no way to draw from him the Rack not being permitted in England But to return to the Duke so soon as he was expired all the great Croud which filled his House went away by little and little and returning thither two hours after I found the Body extended in a Corner of the Room upon a miserable old Mat and guarded solely by one Valet de Chambre And this opposed to the splendour in which we saw him in the morning having about him all the gallantest Nobility of the Kingdom and the Principal Captains of the Army presenteth to us a sad document of the vanity and inconstancy of the fading things of this World The News was carried presently to the King who was in his Chappel at that days service When they told it him in his Ear he stirred 1628. Septemb. not from his place nor enquired after any particulars of it which was taken for a Testimony of the great Reverence he carried to the Place and Action which he would not trouble only as a mark of a grand Emotion they observed the blood to come into his face which became as black as a Hat Prayers being ended he enquired after the Fact sent to condole the Widdow and assured her that the Offices of the Father should be preserved for the Son and sent us word also that this accident should not in any kind divert his good will and kindness giving us order to acquaint our City with the same This was the end of this great Lord raised by King James and had all the Power under the present King his Son who having put him upon amplifying the Rights of his Royalty beyond what the Laws of England seem to permit he had drawn upon him the hatred of all the Kingdom as appeared during his life and much more after his death in that they would at a great rate have redeemed the life of him that had assassinated him The 27th of Septemb. new Stile about seven or eight in the Evening the Land-Forces and all the Batteries made a Consort with Cannon and Musquet-shot mixed with an infinite number of Fire-works and cryes of Vive le Roy which continued above an hour and a half in Celebration of the Kings Nativity The 28th of Septemb. arrived in Rochel
him 1628. October The said Sieur Fequiere accepted most willingly this Commission and presently writ accordingly Now I hold my self obliged in duty to impart unto the Publick a Narrative which came from Cardinal Richelieu's own particular Family a little after the rendition which is believed to have been composed either by one of his Secretaries or possibly by himself which may very well serve to illustrate that which follows touching the Conditions granted the Rochellers and shew the manner and grounds upon which they were granted the Tenour of which is as followeth Cardinal Richelieu understanding by Letters from Sieur Fequiere to Sieur Arnault his Brother-in-law that the Rochellers desired Pass-ports to seek his Majesties Grace which he was pleased with his first care was to give the King ready advice thereof who received it with great joy and immediately did the Cardinal the Honour to go to him to Sousay where he assembled the Council for to deliberate upon some Conditions under which they would receive the City notwithstanding their obstinacy in their Rebellion All agreed that they had merited a most rigorous Chastisement and that they ought to make them a Signal Example to all those of the Kingdom which might for the time to come have a thought of opposing the will of the King and making Revolts or Commotions in the Estate But when it came to be debated though all agreed that the King might in Justice take the severest way yet whether that would be most for his Grandeur and Glory and most agreeable to the true Maxims of State they were divided into 1628. October three different Opinions some for the â—igour of Justice others that the King should take this occasion to signalize his Clemency and a tâ—â—â—d sort were for a middle way betwixt both that after the punishing some of the greatest Mâ—tâ—â—â—ers to shew Grace to the rest The Cardinal gathering the sense of one and the other without giving his Opinion represented all to the King to the end that he should make a decision thereof yet nevertheless tempered his discourse so as his inclinations might thereby appear Beginning with those who were for making the City an Example of Justice he said their advice was very well fortified and possible that none can be rendered more deserving punishment considering her obstinacy the trouble it hath a long time given his Majesty and that the Ruines of no place which the King hath demolished to the Foundations cry higher for teaching the people obedience to their Soveraigns that this and that there is no Ramparts secure against Rebellion As to those which held the middle Opinion he extolled their Reasons and said that in such Rencounters the punishment of the most Culpable was an awe upon Mutineers and the pardoning others shewed the bounty of the Prince and hindered the obstinacy of a Community in like cases as is ordinary with those that despair not of mercy of which the Rochellers was even then an Example But when he came to the advice of those that concluded for a General Pardon he inlarged and insisted very much upon their Reasons And first he represented as most considerable that which 1628. October they had supposed that possibly there was never so Illustrious an occasion as this presented to any Prince to signalize his Clemency which is the vertue by which Kings approach nearest to God whose Image they are most in well doing giving life and not in destroying and exterminating it Further that the more culpable that Rochel was and had given the King cause of great irritation the more it would make his Magnanimity appear in after overcoming the City with his Invincible Arms reducing it to a naked submission to him to surmount himself in pardoning it in doing of which the Celebrated Name of this City would proclaim his Glory thoroughout the World and transmit it to Posterity shewing him thoroughout as an incomparable Prince be it in conquering or in the moderate use of his Victories In the second place he weighed the Reasons they had alledged drawn from Rochel it self who though it was culpable beyond what they could say nevertheless the lives of so many thousands as their faults had cost were sufficient Victims to the Justice of his Majesty and interceded for the remainder of the miserable People which might be left which may be judged of by those that are every day seen as Anatomies and Fantasmes about the Line and indeed true Images of Death the sight only whereof doth suffice to disarm his Majesty of all revenge and though he had had a design to triumph over and consume them to change all his Irritation and Thundering into pity He added that it seemed good that they should also consider of what had been alledged and that though their Crimes were most great and without 1628. October excuse yet they had not committed that offence which ought to exclude the people from all hopes of mercy as if they had shaken off the Authority of their Soveraign and submitted to another Scepter Indeed factious spirits made use of the danger of his Majesties forcing their Religion to deceive them into the adhering to the Arms of England for the preserving of their Priviledges but his Majesty knows that the Rochellers made use only of that pretence to the English and that there were other reasons which carried them to the undertaking of this War for that he was perfectly informed that the Rochellers never intended to give themselves up to them which he knew as well by divers of his Servants which he had secretly in the City as from his Confidents which he maintained in England who had constantly writ him that though they had every way assaulted the Fidelity of their Deputies and deferred relief to oblige them to offer themselves to them they would never hearken to it and the perfect Confirmation of this they received by the Packet which one of their Pinnaces coming from England threw into the water when at the passing of the Digue they thought they should be taken Their Treaty made with the King of England and all their Negotiations being deciphered it appeared that though the English had highly Courted them for getting Conditions to the prejudice of this Crown they would never be brought to it and defended themselves therein with all the constancy and firmness that their condition could bear And therefore though they are most Culpable yet since they have preserved their hearts and affections for France it seems to invite his 1628. October Majesty to mercy and not to use them as such who would have shaken off the Yoke of the Monarchy and offered the hand to another Master In the third place he insisted much upon reason of State upon which this advice was founded and pressed the present Constitution of Affairs to require that his Majesty by a Signal example of Clemency and an exact Capitulation mutually agreed upon should endeavour to overcome the Arms of the Duke of Rohan and
provincional and National by the permission of His Majesty XXXVI The Ministers Elders and Deacons of the said Religion shall not be constrained to answer in Courts of Justice in quality as a Witness for things that shall be revealed in their Consistory when they shall pass Ecclesiastical Censures except for things concerning the Person of the King or the conservation of his State XXXVII It shall be lawful for those of the said Religion who live in the Country to go to the exercise of the same in Cities Suburbs and other places where it shall be publickly established XXXVIII Those of the said Religion may not keep publick Schools except in Cities and Places where the publick exercise of the same is permitted them and the provisions which have heretofore been granted to them for the erecting and keeping of Colleges shall be verified when it shall be needful and issued out with full and entire power XXXIX It shall be lawful for Fathers making profession of the said Religion to provide their Children such Tutors as shall seem good unto them and to substitute one or more by Testament Codicils or other declaration passed before Notaries or in writing signed by their hands whilst the Laws received in this Kingdom the Ordinances and Customs of places are in force and vertue for gifts and provisions for Tutors and Curators XL. For the Marriages of Priests and Religious Persons who have been heretofore Contracted his said Majesty for many good considerations will not nor doth not intend that they be searched after or therefore molested and in these cases he imposeth silence to his Procurators General and other Officers of the same But his said Majesty declares nevertheless that he understands that the Children issue of the said Marriages may inherit only Moveables Acquests Conquests and Immoveables of their Fathers and Mothers and for want of such Children the Kindred most near and qualified to succeed and the Testaments Donations and other dispositions made or to make by persons of the said quality for Goods moveable Acquests and Conquests immoveable are declared good and valuable But his said Majesty will not nevertheless that the said Men and Women professing Religious lives may come to any Succession directly or collaterally but may only take the Goods which have been left them or shall be left them by Testament Donations or other Dispositions except nevertheless those of the said Successions direct or collateral and as to those who shall have made profession before the age appointed by the Ordinances of Orleance and Blois the said Ordinances shall be followed and observed in that which regards the said Successions and the tenour of the said Ordinances each according to the time that they have had place XLI His said Majesty will not also that those of the said Religion who have heretofore contracted or shall hereafter contract Marriage in the third or fourth degree may be therefore molested nor the validity of the said contracts called in question nor likewise the Succession taken away nor the Children born or to be born of the same to be quarrelled with and as to the Marriages that may be already contracted in the second degree or of the second or third amongst those of the said Religion applying themselves to his said Majesty those who shall be of the said quality and shall have contracted Marriage in such degree there shall be given them such provisions as shall be necessary for them to the end that they shall not be inquired after nor molested nor the Succession quarrelled at nor their Children troubled about it XLII For to judge of the Validitie of Marriages made and contracted by those of the Reformed Religion and to decide if they are lawful if he of the said Religion be Defendant in that Case the Judge Royal shall have Cognizance of the said Marriage and when he shall be the Plantiff and the Defendant a Catholick the Cognizance thereof shall belong to the Official and Judge Ecclesiastick and if both parties are of the said Reformed Religion the Cognizance shall belong to the Kings Judges His Majesty wills that in regard of the said Marriages and differences which shall arise from the same the Judges Ecclesiastick and Royal together with the Chamber established by his Edict shall have Cognizance respectively thereof XLIII The Donations and Legacies made and to make be it by disposition of Money by the last Will and Testament at death or during life for the maintenance of Ministers Doctors Scholars and the Poor of the said Reformed Religion and other pious uses shall be valid and shall issue out in their full and entire effect notwithstanding all Judgments Decrees and other things to the contrary without prejudice nevertheless of the rights of his Majesty and others in case that the said Legacies and Donations fall to one that is dead all actions and prosecutions necessary for the enjoying of the said Legacies pious uses and other rights shall be made by the Procurator in the name of the body or Commonalty of those of the Church or Commonalty of the said Religion who shall have Interest and if it is found that heretofore there hath been a Disposition of the said Donations and Legacies otherwise than is contained by the said Article there shall not be any restitution other than what is found without having the property altered XLIV His said Majesty permits to those of the said Religion to assemble before the Judge Royal and by his Authority to levy equally upon themselves such sums of money as he shall judge necessary to be imployed for defraying the charges of their Synods and entertaining of those who perform the duties in the exercise of their Religion of which they shall give an account to the said Judge Royal for him to keep the Copy thereof which shall be sent by the said Judge Royal from six months to six months to his said Majesty or to his Chancellor and the Taxes and Impositions for the said money may be distrained notwithstanding any opposition and appellation whatsoever XLV The Ministers of the said Religion shall be exempt from going upon the Guards and Rounds and quartering of Souldiers and other Assessments or gathering of Tailles together from Tutorships Curators and Commissions for the keeping Goods seized by authority of Justice XLVI In case that the Officers of his Majesty do not provide convenient places for the Sepulchers of those of the said Religion within the time appointed by the Edict after demand made and that there is delay and remissness in the thing it shall be lawful for those of the said Religion to Interr their dead in the burying places of the Catholicks in Cities and places where they are in possession to do it until they are otherwise provided And as to the interrment of the poor of those of the said Religion heretofore used in the Church-yards of the said Catholicks in whatsoever place or City that it is his Majesty doth not understand that there shall