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A02949 The edict or proclamation set forthe by the Frenche Kinge vpon the pacifying of the troubles in Fraunce, with the articles of the same pacification. Read and published in the presence of the sayd King, sitting in his Parlament, the xiij. day of May, 1576. Translated out of Frenche by Arthur Golding. Cum priuilegio; Proclamation. 1576-05-14. France. Sovereign (1574-1589 : Henry III); Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606. 1576 (1576) STC 13091; ESTC S115684 21,299 67

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THE EDICT OR PROCLAMATION SET FORTHE BY THE Frenche Kinge vpon the pacifying of the troubles in Fraunce with the Articles of the same pacification Read and published in the presence of the sayd King sitting in his Parlament the xiiij day of May 1576. Translated out of Frenche by ARTHVR GOLDING CVM PRIVILEGIO Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautrollier dvvelling in the Blacke Friers THE KINGES EDICT VPON THE pacification of the troubles of his Realme containing the order vvhich his Maiestie purposeth and intendeth to haue kept for the maintenance of the same HENRY by the grace of God King of France Pollande To all that are present and to come greeting WE haue not desired any thing so muche since it pleased God to call vs to this Crovvne for the singuler good vvill and loue vvhich vve beare to our Subiects as to bring them to a perfect vnion and concorde and to set them againe in good peace quietnes and rest For the bringing whereof to passe after seeking of all meanes expedient for the same and after aduise had therevpon by graue and great deliberation vvith the Queene oure most honorable Lady and Mother vvith the Princes of our bloud with the officers of our crovvne and vvith other Lordes and notable personages of our priuie coūsell We haue by this our continuall and vnreuocable Edict sayde declared enacted and ordained and do say declare enact and ordaine as followeth I. FIRST That the Remembrance of all things past as well on the one side as on the other during and since the troubles that haue hapned in our sayd Realme and by occasion of them shall lie quenched deade as things that had neuer bin done And it shall not be lawfull ne sufferable for our Attorneys generall or any other persons publique or priuate what so euer to commēce any action processe or sute for them at any time or for any maner of occasion In any of our courtes or places of Iustice. II. WE forbid all our Subiectes of what estate or calling so euer they be to renewe the remēbrāce of those thīgs any more or quarelously to molest or prouoke one an other in way of reproche for ought that is past by reasoning tvvitting quarelling or greeuing one an other in vvord or deede And vve commaund them to refraine thē selues and to liue quietly together as brethren frēds fellow citesens vnder paine of beeing punyshed as breakers of the peace and troublers of the cōmon quiete III. WE ordayne that the Catholique and Romane religion shall be set vp and stablished agayne in all places and parts of this our Realme of the contryes vnder our gouernance vvhere the excercise therof hath bin lefte of That it may be freely and quietly excercised vvithout any trouble or lette Forbidding moste expressly all persones of vvhatstate condition or calling soeuer they be vnder the payne aforesayd to trouble vexe or disquyet the ecclesiasticall persons in the celebration of theyr deuine seruise or in the inioying taking vp of the tythes frutes and reuenevves of their benefices and of all other rights and dueties belonging to them And our vvill is that all such as in the time of these present former troubles haue entred vpon the churches hovvses landes reuenevves belonging to the Ecclesiasticall persons and do still holde and occupy the same shall giue vp the vvhole possession of them and let them peaceably inioye them vvith suche rights liberties assurances as they had before they vvere dispossessed of them IIII. And to take avvay all occasion of trouble and disagreemēt among our subiects vve haue graunted and do graunt free open and generall exercise of the pretēded reformed religion through all cities and places of our Realme and through all cōtries vnder our obedience protection vvithout restraynt of tyme persō or place condicionally that the same places belōg vnto themselues or that it be done vvith the good vvill consent of the ovvners to vvhome they belonge In the vvhiche tovvnes and places the professors of the sayde Religion may preache praye singe Psalmes minister Baptisme and the Lords supper aske the bands of Matrimony and solempnize mariages publiquely cathechize and reade lectures vse discipline according to the sayde Religion and doo all other things belonging to the free full exercise of the same Also they may hold consistories Sinodes assemblies or counsells as vvell prouinciall as generall So they make our officers priuie therevnto in the places vvhere those Synodes shall bee called and assembled And vvee enioyne our sayde officers or some of them to assist those general prouinciall counsells Yet neuerthelesse vve vvill and ordayne That the professors of the sayde Religion shall forbeare the open excercyse thereof in our cittie of Paris in the suburbes thereof and vvithin tvvo leagues about the same Whiche tvvo leagues vve haue limitted and do limitte to the places following That is to witte Sainct Denis Sainct Maure de Fosses Pont de Charenton ▪ Le bourg la Royne Port de Nully In the whiche places our meaning is that there shall not be any excercise of the sayd Religion Hovvbeeit notvvithstanding that the professors of the same Religion shall not be sowght or sifted for any thing that they doo in their howses as concerning the sayde Religion nor their children or the teachers of them bee compelled to doo any thing contrary or preiudiciall to the same Also they shall abstayne from the sayde excercise of Religion in oure Courte and vvithin two leagues aboute it And likevvise in our landes contries vvhich are on that syde the mountaynes sauinge that in those contryes they shall not be sought or sifted for aught that they doo in their howses concerning the sayde Religion And vve hope that God vvyll graunt vs the grace to see all our subiects knit together agayne in one fayth Religion and beleefe by the determination of a free and holy generall counsell vvhich is our desier and cheefe intent V. Yt shall not be lawful to sell any bookes vvithin oure Realme and the contryes landes Lordships vnder our obedience vntill they haue firste bin perused by oure officers of those places Or in respect of the bookes concerning the sayde Religiō by the chambers heereafter to be ordayned by vs in euery court of iustice to iudge the causes and controuersies of the professers of the Religion most expresly forbidding the printing publishing and selling of all bookes libels and writings of defamation as well on the one parte as on the other vnder the paynes contayned in our decrees And wee charge all our Iudges officers to take good heede therto VI. We ordayne that for the burying of the deade among the professers of the sayde Religion beeing within our cittie suburbes of Paris there shall bee appoynted to them the churche yearde of the trinity and in all other citties and places our officers magistrates shall out of hande prouide them places as commodious as may be
righte deare and welbeloued Cousin the Prince of Condey our right deare and welbeloued ▪ Cousin Monsieur d' Amuile Marshall of Fraunce and likewise all other Lordes Knights Gentlemen and other persons of what state or Condition so euer they bee as well Catholicks Confederate as those of the foresaid Religion shall enter againe into their gouernments charges roomes and offices royall which they had before the xxiiij of August 1572. and bee meintained in the enioying of them without driuing of them too take newe Commissions or Patents notwithstanding any sentences definitiue and iudgements giuen against them and notwithstanding the Patents that haue bin obtained of those roomes by other men Likewise they shall enter ageine into the inioying of all and singuler their goods rights titles duetyes doings notwithstanding the iudgements that haue ensewed by reason of the sayde trubles which definitiue sentēces Iudgementes Patentes all other thinges that might ensew therof we haue for the same purpose denounsed do denounse to be vtterly voyde of no effect nor valew XXIIII WE meane not by the things aforesaid that such as haue resigned their auctoritys officies by vertue of the letters Patents of vs or of the late Kinge our right deare Lorde brother should recouer the same and take possession of them againe Howbeit that neuertheles wee reserue vnto thē their actions againste the professors and holders of the sayd offices for the paymēt of suche summes as were agreed vpon betwixt them for the same resignations And as towching those whome priuate persons haue driuen by force to resigne their roomes offices We giue leaue to them and to their heires to make sute by order of Lawe as well against them that haue vsed suche force as against their heires and successors XXV AND if any commaundaries of the order of S. Iohn of Ierusalem belonging to the Catholicks confederate or to those of the foresayde Religion be found to be seazed by the auctoritie of our Iudges or if by occasion and vnder pretence of the troubles they haue in any wise bin dispossessed of them by other persons we or dayne also That full and whole surrender of them be made vnto the sayde Cōmaunders that they shal be set ageine in the same state and possessiō of their Cōmmaūdaries wherin they were before the 24. day of Aug. 1572. XXVI And as touching those as well of the Catholicks confederate as of the sayd Religion whiche were prouided of offices were not yet admitted vnto them It is our will and pleasure That they shall be receaued into those rowmes that all necessary furderances therin should be ministred vnto them out of hande XXVII LIKEWISE oure will and pleasure is that the sayd Catholicks confederate shall enter againe into the former possession inioyment of their benefices whiche they had before the sayd xxiiij day of August that all such as haue taken vp inioyed the frutes of the sayd benefices belonging to the Catholicks confederate vpon their owne priuate authoritie withoute commaundement or graunt from vs shall bee driuen constreyned to yeeld them vp to restore them backe ageine XXVIII AS for all controuersies concerning the fines raunsomes of suche as haue bin taken prizoners on either parte during these troubles we reserue them to ourselues to our owne person prohibiting the parties to commence sute thereof any where else than before vs and also forbidding all our Officers and Magistrates to call any courte vpon those caces or to take vpon them any iurisdiction intelligence or information of the matter XXIX THE Proclamations bills and extents for the sales of heritages that are sewed by decree shall be made and set forth in places and howres accustomed if it may bee according to our Lawes or else in open markets if there be a market where the inheritances lye or if there bee none they shall be made in the nexte market that is within the diuision of the hundred where the adiudgement ought to be made And the billes shall be sticked vppon a poste in the sayde marketsteds and at the entrie of the mootehall of the same place so shall the sayd Proclamations be good auaylable passe on to the prefermēt of the decree without staying for any barre in lawe that may be alledged in that behalfe XXX THE purchaces which the Catholikes confederate or those of the said pretended reformed Religion shall haue made by authoritie of any others than of vs for vnmoueable possessions belonging too the Churche shal be voyde and of none effect And it is our ordinance will and pleazure that the said Ecclesiasticall persones shall incontinently and without delay reenter and be mainteined in reall and actuall possession and inioyment of the said possessiōs so alienated without rendering the price that was paid for them notwithstanding the said bargaines of sale which wee haue broken reuoked as frustrate in this case sauing that the buyers may haue recours ageinst those too whom it shal apperteine And yit neuerthelesse wee will graunt out our letters patents of permission to those of the said Religion to charge and indifferently to lay vpō them the summes whervnto the said Sales shall amount that the buyers may be repayed the mony by them truly and without fraud disbursed howbeit that the said purchacers shall not commence any action for their domages and losses by their forgoing of the said possessions but content themselues with the repaiment of the monny which they laid out for the prizes of the said purchaces reckening the frutes by them receiued as parcell of the price if the sale be found too haue bin made too cheape and too farre vnder foote XXXI ALL disinheritings or dispossessings bee it by conueyance in life time or by last will and Testament done in hatred of religion or of the troubles shal be void as well in respect of time past as in respect of time to come so as they shall not preiudice the Catholikes of the Vnion nor yit those of the pretended reformed Religion prouided that there bee none other cause than the doings of the same Religion and the bearing of armes And our meaning is also that the like be performed in respect of the disinheritings and dispossessings done in hatred of the catholike Religion Neuerthelesse the last willes and Testaments of souldyers that haue bin made during the present and former troubles as well on the one part as on the other shall stand in full force and strength according too the order of Lawe XXXII THE disorders and outrages committed the xxiiij of August and the dayes next following at Paris and in other Cities and places of our Realme happened to our great greef and misliking Wherfore too shew our singular goodnesse and wel meaning towardes our subiects bee it knowen that the widowes and children of all such as were slaine the same dayes in what part of our Realme so euer it were shal bee exempted from