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A55460 Popish mercy and justice being an account, not of those (more than an hundred thousand) massacred in France by the papists, formerly, but of some later persecutions of the French Protestants : set forth in their petition to the French king / translated for the information of English Protestants, by Ezreel Tonge ... Tonge, Ezerel, 1621-1680. 1679 (1679) Wing P2952; ESTC R40649 12,009 20

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have reduced it by his discretion to supportable terms because this is a point of highest consequence in the judgement of a Sute and and not to have left it to a Sub-delegate to whom he could have only committed the simple prosecution and information and not that which might give the decisive blow to the chief concern or issue of the cause There was also an Abuse or Error in regard of the person who obtained this S n ence which was the Gray Fryer alone notwithstanding he neither was nor could be a party to the Sute but your Majesties Attorney only who declared when the said Appeal upon abuse was signified to him that he had no notice of the Sentence nor of the publication made thereof Add hereto that by the Ordinance of the said Lord Bouchu of the 19. of August no Witnesses ought to have been examined but such as should have been appointed by your Majesties Attorney whence it follows that the 20 Witnesses who were examined to the said last Sentence being pick't by the said Gray Fryer du Han out of more then 1200 which were propounded to be examined This Indictment or Sentence was also Null being it must needs be presumed That this Monk would chuse none but his Accomplices in his Fury who for their own and his discharge would be careful not to fail in accusing your Petitioners and this is very considerable because of another Nullity observable in the proceedings of the Lord Bouchu which is omitting the Re-examination of the Witnesses and confronting them with the Defendents which formalities are for certain absolutely necessary to perfect and put the last hand to criminal Processes that are of any consequence The Re-examination consists in this that the witnesses who proves any charge being summoned a second time for this purpose and appearing before the Judge his Deposition be read unto him to know whether he persist therein and whether he have any thing to add to it or take from it and Confronting is the presenting the Witnesses and the Defendant face to face that on the one hand the Witness may declare whether he know the Defendant and whether he be the person against whom he deposes and on the other side the Defendant may say whether he know the Witness and whether he may be creditable or he have some exception against him which he is obliged to make presently otherwise he will not be allowed see here what is observable on the behalf of the Defendant who appears to make any Defence by way of cross Interrogatories put into the Judge and presents himself to be confronted by the Witnesses and for them who make default by not appearing and contumacy there is a re-examination of the witnesses only had that serves instead of a confrontation which in this case is termed imaginary Now as for the private Catholicks who were of the number of the Seditions there was no need of confrontation nor re-examination for what concerned them for there being nothing from the begining Decreed against them but that they should appear personally they presented themselves and having made their Defence and finding the Lord Bouchu disposed to treat them favourably they declared that they would be judged of that which was charged against them but as to your Petitioners who of Plaintiffs were made Defendents and of Accusers accused and perceived very well by the first Decrees that the Lord Bouchu made against them as soon as he was declared their Soveraign Judge that he had a design to treat them as Criminals they were very far from declaring that they would take judgement on the charges deposed against them by such Witnesses as were themseves guilty of the Violences and Robberies committed against them so that the Lord Bouchu ought if he would condemn them to have observed against them all the ordinary formalities In doing which he ought first to have past Sentence on your Petitioners Appeal of Abuse against the Indictment granted against them the scandalous Publication whereof had produced that cloud of 1000 Witnesses after that if he could have convinced the Petitioners and had judged the Indictment valid whereof the Witnesses had been prict not by the Attorney Royal but by the Gray Fryer then he should have consulted with his Assistant and made the new decretal Orders against the Petitioners and have caused them to be signified unto them to obliged them to appear put in their defence and abide the confrontation of the Witnesses against them and thereupon to re-examine the Witnesses and confront them effectually against them that appeared and by supposition against those who made default but for certain there was nothing done of all this but he stuck to his first Decrees though they were annulled by your Majesties Order of the 24. of October as well as the Information taken by the Lord Chammelis upon which his Judgement was made and this is the sorry foundation on which he hath built and taken advantage of your Petitioners as contumacious because they would not appear upon his first Decrees and without citing them by Writ according to use and without re-examination of Witnesses he condemned them by his Judgment As for what concerns the Lord D'Ollon he appeared before him made his Defence as he was required which was also taken only two days before the said Judgment he still declaring that he was ready to abide the confrontation of the Witnesses if any of them could give in any charge against him It cannot be pretended that he was wanting in any thing but on the contrary he would have been well pleased that the said Witnesses had been presented to him because he could easily have excepted against them and have convinced them to have been themselves guilty of all the Disorder neither would any other proof have been needed against them than the Indictment brought against them at the beginning at the request of the Petitioner wherein it was by 60 unreprovable Witnesses That those who were last examined who insisted on any charge were they who executed the Conspiracy against the Assembly of the Synod where your Petitioners were Assaulted Wounded Murdered Massacred dragg'd by the hair left for dead the Money they had about them rob'd from them and their Hats Swords Belts and Coats and the rest of their Cloaths torn in pieces and many of their Houses broken up and plundered and all this at the sound of the Alarm Bell and with a continual cry of Harlau Harlau against the Hugonets which is the word to raise Sedition Nor can any Comparison be made betwixt these two Informations because the former was made according to all the forms of Law and was confirmed and authorized by your Majesties Order of the 24 of October whereas this latter is a pure recrimination and absolutely null in that it was made contrary to all Judicial Order and it is to be considered that the Catholicks who were summoned at first upon the former Information and did personally appear knowing
that they were convicted of Violence and Robbery did acknowledge one part of their Charge That they had entred into the Houses of the Protestants and taken some of their Goods believing that it was allowed them and that the Plunder had been given the Catholicks and this notwithstanding by the Judgment of the Lord Bouchu they were purely and simply dismissed and discharged from the Court and Sute without condemning them to the Restitution of what they had Robbed This Judgment wherein he took to him no Assistant of the Protestant Religion can therefore neither subsist in form and matter being it is against all Rules of Legal Proceedings and against Justice which cannot allow that the Guilty convicted both by their own confessions and good proofs whereunto they have nothing to object whereon they have joyned Issue should be sent away absolved and the Gentlemen who had always lived in Peace and with all Sweetness and Moderation in the Country without being ever accused of the least Violence and who on all occasions when they were called to your Majesties Service have behaved themselves according to their Duty and finally who have by the same Information proved by 60 unreprovable Witnesses that they have no hand nor were any partakers of the Sedition in Question but only as they were the sad and unhappy objects thereof who suffered therein all imaginable Outrages and Indignities and yet are condemned in great penalties as some great and criminal Offenders and threatned to be deprived as seditious persons of that which is more dear unto them than their Lives to wit the Liberty of their Conscience and Exercise of their Religion in their Churches This Judgement is not at all difinitive for if it had been given in Parliament or in some Soveraign Court the Petitioners who are condemned as contumatious would always or for five years at least have liberty to appear make their defence and submit to Confrontations and it is certain That their appearance only would annul the Sentence of their Condemnation their defaults and contumacy But they most humbly pray your Majesty that they may not be constrained to appear before the Lord Bouchu and to acknowledge him for their Soveraign Judge after so irregular and unjust proceeding as he hath used in the said Indictment and Judgement upon the whole Sute They require not to be dismissed and absolved upon what they report of their Innocency nor that they should be condemned upon their simple Affirmation whom they accuse to have conspired to Massacre them and to have exercised against them the cruelties and robberies which have been above declared all this appears in the consideration of the Cause There are two Informations The one taken upon your Petitioners complaint and request in which there is no defect and your Majesty hath judged it good and valid by your Sentence of the four and twentieth of October and as for the other it is Null by the reasons related above which are of much greater force than those whereby your Majesty was induced to vacate and reject by the firm Sentence which the Lord Chaumelis had made in that besides the recrimination which is common to both the Indictment in hand had for its foundation an abusive monitory citation obtained by a Criminal Monk and without making your Majesties Attorney party thereunto who alone had power to prosecute the Information upon the Process and to produce the Witnesses and who would not have taken the way of a monitory citation in a matter wherein it can never be allowed in regard it is not possible to have justice against a Sedition if means be given to the Seditious to prevent themselves and to be Witnesses in their own Cause and for their own justification and for the Lord Bouchu without doubt cannot be disposed to condemn and reject that which he hath already approved and other Judges will make great difficulty to do it your Majesty is most humbly besought to pass Sentence as you have already done of the nullity of the Information of the Lord Chaumelis and to give them other Judges such as are not suspected of partiality against your Petitioners both to determine on the first Information and to take others if they judge it needful and to make an end of sitting this Process for Re-hearing This considered Great Sir and the Importance of the affair whereon there is question of doing Justice on a Sedition of this nature and quality for securing the repose and tranquility of the Country May it please your Majesty without insisting on the Ordinance of the Lord Bo chu of the nineteenth of August 1667. and all that which is don and ensued thereupon to send back unto some Royal Court of the Province of Burgundy other than that of Avalon the Instruction Issue and Judgement of this Sute and to Ordain That to this end the first information taken by the Lord Guijon and Rey de morande his Assistant be brought thither viewed and determined and a new one taken thereon if it be necessary by good Witnesses to be produced by your Majesties Attorny of the said Court on whose information and instance and not of any other the said Judgement may be wholy made an Assistant of the Reformed Religion being Assumed to him therein according to the Edict at Nants and the said Order of the 24 of October all without prejudice to an Appeal to one of the Chambers of the Edict unless your Majejesty will rather be pleased to assume the cause and give Judgment therein you self And your Petitioners shall continue their Prayers unto God for your Majesties Health and Prosperity But this Petition avail'd nothing for redress of these Grievances complained of by the Protestants Finis The Publisher to the Reader THis Translation and several other Pieces were prepared for the Press some time before this Plot broke out and attended till Now a convenient season for their Publication Ez. Tonge ADVERTISEMENT THere is lately Published The Universal Dispensatory Containing as the Preface to it shews you the Choisest things in the Augustan Dispensatory in Paracelsus in Horstius in Faber Sala Quercetan Hartman Schroder Mynsicht c. in short 't is the Sum of all the most excellent Designations from the greatest Scholars the profoundest Wits the most wise industrious and experienced Physicians through all Ages to this day whether Greek Latin or English thereby rendring this Work the most compleat of any thing that is or can be in that kind Its Title Page is Pharmacopoeia Londinensis Reformata Or the New London Dispensatory In six Books Translated into English for the publick Good and fitted to the whole Art of Healing Illustrated with the Preparations Virtues and Vses of all Simple Medicaments Vegitable Animal and Mineral Of all Compounds both Internal and External And of all the Chymical Preparations now in Vse Together with several choise Medicines added by the Author As also the Praxis of Chymistry as it 's now Exercised fitted to the meanest Capacity By William Salmon Professor of Physick To which is added a Table shewing the Difference betwixt the Text and Comment necessary to be known by every Student Printed for Th. Dawks Th. Basset J. Wright and R. Chiswel 1679. Price bound 7 s.
to the Lord Guijon Lieutenant Criminal of Avalon to take Information thereof and to take for his Assistant of the pretended Reformed Religion the Lord Rey de Morand a Councellor at Law which was done the next day and sixty Witnesses examined as well of the one as of the other Religion which related all the Circumstances of the Sedition of which the said Gray-fryer du Han having had Advice and not doubting that he was charged as the principal Author of all that hapned he went and inticed the Attorny General of the Parliament of Dijon who upon his sute deputed the Lord Chaumelis a Senator of the said Parliament to take Information of the same Fact pretending against all appearance of Reason That they of the Protestant Religion who were not above 70 or or 80 persons comprising in that number the Ministers Elders Oldmen Women and Children had intended to abuse them of the Catholick Religion who were in number 6000 and more and the same du Han having caused himself to be examined produced for witnesses those who were the most violent in the Assault and Plunder Your Petitioners being advised thereof had cause to sear that this Information being delivered into that Parliament they should be treated as Criminals were oblig'd to make Application to your Majesty who having taken Notice that this Proceeding was a Recrimination and that the Parliament of Dijon was not competent to take Cognizance of this Affair wherein the Religion was so much concern'd remitted it to the said Lord Bouchu thereof after Information taken to Judge with Sovereign Authority and joyning to them in Commission seven Graduats This Power which made the said Lord Bouchu absolute Master of the Affair wrought a notable change in the manner of his Proceedings for whereas before he had treated them well and testified to them That he had all manner of Inclination to do them Justice for the Abuses and Indignities they had suffered They were surprized to find that in stead thereof he had sent to seek for the Information taken by the Lord Chaumelis and having compared it with that of the Lord de Guijon he had put one part of your Petitioners under an Arrest and obliged others of them and some Catholiques also to a personal Appearance and directed a new Commission to the said Lord Guijon Lieutenant Criminal of Avalon with an Assistant of the pretended Protestant Religion to continue the Inquisition and to perfect the Process unto Judgment exclusively and which was more strange he permitted his said Delegate to take Information more at large of all the Articles and Instructions of your Majesties Attorny and of the said Gray-Fryer du Han that the Witnesses appointed by the said Attorny might be examined upon the Contents of the said Articles which was very unreasonable for that the said Gray-Fryer is dead to the World and therefore uncapable to act and plead in Law and besides accused and convicted to have been the Boutefew or Incendiary of this popular Insurrection and therefore could not be Plantiff nor ought those his Articles of Charge to be received which were contrived for his own Discharge This Partiality made way for another which was that this Gray-Fryer being thus authorized to give-in Articles went on so far as to frame and obtain an injurious and scandalous Sentence against your Petitioners whom he accused to have attempted to begin a Civil WAR in France by this Insurrection of which he suggested they were the Authors Which obliged them when the first Publication thereof was made to interpose an Appeal as against an Abuse which being signified to your Majesties said Attorney of the said place of Avalon he made a Return on the foot of the Writ on the 5 of September that he had done nothing therein nor known nothing thereof and yet nevertheless when they would have stopt them from proceeding in the said Publications which tended towards new Seditions the aforesaid Delegate of his own private Authority ordained That it should go on In pursuance whereof the said Publications being made there were at least a Thousand Witnesses offered themselves to be examined out of which the said Gray-Fryer chose 206 who were the very same that followed his Orders in this Insurrection and caused them to be heard by the said Lord Guijon the Delegate But this Information which was not finished till the Month of November was never yet concluded on nor any Decretal Judgment made upon the Charges contained therein the said Delegate contenting himself with the Judicial Decrees of Arrest and personal Appearance which the said Lord Bouchu had made upon the first Informations by his Ordinance of the 19th of August which obliged your Petitioners cited by those Decrees to apply themselves again to your Majesty to whom it being represented that by your first Order of the 6 of July you had judged the Parliament of Dijon incompetent of that Affair and consequently the Information also that was taked by the Lord Chaumelis an Assistant or Commissioner of the said Parliament who had not called to him any Assistant of the pretended Protestant Religion was also null and ought not to have been regarded Your Majesty gave out another Order of the 24 of October by which it was ordained That in the Prosecution and Judgment of the said Affair the said Lord Bouchu should have no regard to the Information of the Lord of Chaumelis but only to those taken by the said Lord Guijon and Rey de Morant his Assistant and what the said Lord Bouchu would should cause to be made anew and in the aforesaid form on which he should further execute the said Order of the 6 of July according to its Form and Tenure In pursuance of which last Order it is certain That not only the said Information of the said Lord of Chaumelis but the Decrees of personal Appearance and Arrest of the said Lord Bouchu judged by his Determination thereon against your Petitioners were vacated and consequently that the process against them ought to be made upon new Charges and new Decrees nevertheless upon them it is that the greater part of your Petitioners are Condemned as contumacious and the Lord Bouchu hath given Judgment against them without other Information and against all form of Law on the 30 of July last having first declared by certain particular Catholicks whom he caused presently to appear in person and that the said Charges and Allegations were sufficient to ground the Process By this Judgment which without doubt will surprize your Majesty he hath declared the Defaults of six of your Petitioners and four others to be legally taken and obtained and to be effectual giving Judgment against them and six others who appeared and put in their Defence and for reparation of the Charges arising from the Process he hath condemned your said Orators alone in 6000 livers solid fine whereof the said Lords of Ollon Barveil and Pougues were each to pay 1000 livers and the Lords of