Magistrates or by the Commissaries whom we shall depute for the execution of this present Edict there be as commodious a place allotted them for this purpose as may be And such Churchyards as heretofore they had and whereof they were depriued by reason of the troubles shall be restored them except they be at that present built vpon of what qualitie soeuer they be in which case they shall be prouided of others at free cost XXIX We most expresly enioyne our said officers to haue a care that at the said interments no scandall be committed and they shall be bound within fifteene dayes after request made to prouide those of the said Religion of a commodious place for their said burials without vsing any delay or protraction therein vnder penaltie of fiue hundred crownes to be seissed on their proper names and persons The said officers also as well as all others are prohibited to execute nothing for the conueyance of the said dead bodies vpon penaltie of seuere punishment XXX To the end that iustice may be yeelded and ministred to our subiects without any partialitie hatred or fauour as being one of the principall meanes to maintaine them in peace and concord we haue and do ordaine that in our Court of Parliament of Paris shall be established a Chamber or Counsell of estate consisting of one President and sixteene Counsellours of the said Parliament which shall be called and entitled the Chamber of the Edict and it shall examine not onely the causes and processes of those of the said pretended reformed Religion which shall be within the iurisdiction of the said Court but also of those depending on our Courts of Normandie and Brettaine according to the immunitie conferted vpon it by this present Edict and this to go current vntill in each of the said Parliaments there be established a Chamber to minister iustice in their proper precincts We also ordaine that of the foure offices of Counsellours in our said Parliament of Paris being of the last erection by vs made there shall be presently receiued and entertained into the said Parliament foure of those of the said pretended reformed Religion sufficient and capable who shall be thus distributed the first receiued into the said Chamber of the Edict and the other three in order as they haue bene receiued into three of the Chambers of Inquests and moreouer that of the two first offices of lay Counsellours of the said Court which by the death of any one shall grow vacant they shall be furnished with two of the said pretended reformed Religion and they thus receiued to be distributed into the two other Chambers of Inquests XXXI Besides the chamber heretofore established at Castres for a reference to our Court of Tholouse which shall continue in the estate it now stands we haue and for the same consideration do ordaine that in each of our Courts of Parliament both of Grenoble Bourdeaux there shall be likewise a Chamber consisting of two Presidents the one a Catholicke and the other of the pretended reformed Religion and of twelue Counsellours whereof sixe shall be Catholickes and the other sixe of the said Religion which Presidents and Catholicke Counsellours shall be selected and chosen by vs out of the bodie of our said Courts And as for those of the said Religion there shall a new creation be made of a President and sixe Counsellours for the Parliament of Bourdeaux and of a President three Counsellours for that of Grenoble who with the three Counsellours of the said Religion which are at that present in the said Parliament shall be employed in the said Chamber of the Daulphiney And the said offices of the new creation shall be lyable to the same pensions honours authorities and preheminences as the other of the said Courts And the said Sessiō of the said Chamber of Bourdeaux shall be in the said Bourdeaux or at Nerac and that of Daulphiney at Grenoble XXXII The said Chamber of Daulphiney shall determine the causes of those of the pretended reformed Religion with reference to our Parliament of Prouence without hauing need to take letters of summons or other citations then in our Chamber of Daulphiney as also they of Normandie and Brettaine of the said Religion shall not be vrged to take letters of summons or other citations then in our Chancerie at Paris XXXIII Our subiects of the Religion of the Parliament of Burgundie shall haue the election and choice to pleade in the Chamber erected in the Parliament of Paris or in that of Daulphiney And they shall not also be tyed to take letters of summons or any other citations but in the said Chanceries of Paris or Daulphiney according to their owne opinion and liking XXXIIII All the said Chambers disposed as aforesaid shall determine and iudge in soueraigntie and sentence definitiue by finall decree before all other of suites and differences moued and to be moued in which they of the pretended reformed Religion shall be principall parties or warranties in cases of plaintiffe or defendant in all matters as well ciuill as criminall whether the said processe be by writ or verball appeales and that if it so seeme good to the parties or that one of them requireth it before any Plea in the cause in respect of sute to be commenced alwayes excepted matters of benefices and the possessors of tenthes not enfeoffed Ecclesiasticall patronages and causes wherein the rights Demaine of the Church are questioned all which shall be ended and iudged in the Courts of Parliament without that the said Chambers of the Edict shall haue any thing to do to determine therein As also our pleasure is that to iudge and recide criminall causes which shall happen between the said Ecclesiastickes and those of the pretended reformed Religion if the person Ecclesiasticall be defendant in this case the iudgement of the criminall cause shall belong priuatiuely to our Soueraigne Courts of the said Chambers and where the Ecclesiasticke shall be plaintife he of the said Religion defendant the iudgement and determination of the criminall cause shall belong by appeale and in the last reference to our said established Chambers The said Chambers also in vacation times shall determine of matters referred by the Edicts and Ordinances to the Chambers or Courts established in times of vacation each one in his proper prerogatiue XXXV The Chamber of Grenoble shall from this present be vnited and incorporated to the body of the said Court of Parliament and the Presidents and Counsellors of the said pretended reformed Religion entitled Presidents and Counsellors of the said Court and held in the rancke and number of them and for these ends they shall be first disposed of in the other Chambers and then culled and drawen out from them to be employed and to serue in that which we institute anew with iniunction notwithstanding that they shall be present and haue a voice and session in all deliberations made and Counsels assembled and shall enioy the
constrained to do any thing in respect of their Religion against their conscience bearing themselues in other matters according as is comprehended in this present Edict XV. Neither shall the publicke exercise of the said Religion be performed in Armies but only in the quarters of such Chieftaines as make profession thereof neuerthelesse not where our proper person shall belodged XVI Conformable to the second Article of the Conference of Nerac we permit those of the said Religion to build places for the exercise thereof in townes and places accorded vpon and those shall be restored to them they haue heretofore built or the soile and ground of them in the same estate it is in at this present that is to say the places where the same exercise is not instantly permitted except they haue bene conuerted into some other nature of edifices In which case there shall be giuen them by the possessors of the said edifices places and buildings of the same price and value that they were of before they were built or the iust estimation of them by the iudgement of men expert in those things Reserued alwayes for the said proprietaries and possessors their remedie against whomsoeuer it shall lie XVII We prohibite all Preachers Lecturers and others that teach publickely to vse any words speech or discourse which may tend to excite the people to seditiō but contrariwise we haue and do enioyne them to containe and beare themselues modestly and to vtter nothing which shall not be for the instruction and edification of their auditors and to the maintenance of that tranquillitie and peace by vs estableshed within our said Kingdome vpon the penalties enacted by our precedent Edicts Most expresly enioyning our Procurors general and their substitutes to enforme out of their office against those who shall herein offend vpon penaltie of answering for it in their proper and peculiar persons and by the priuation of their offices XVIII We also forbid all our subiects of what qualitie or condition soeuer they be to draw by force or any other manner of induction against the parents consent children of the said Religion to cause them to be baptized or confirmed in the Catholike Apostolicke Romaine Church as likewise the same prohibition is made to those of the said pretended reformed Religion and that vnder penaltie of suffering exemplarie punishment XIX Those of the said pretended reformed Religion shall no wayes be constrained nor remaine bound by reason of any abiuration promise or oath formerly made or cautions by them giuen concerning the practise of the said Religion neither shall they hereupon be molested or troubled in any sort whatsoeuer XX. They shall also be bound to obserue all festiuall dayes bidden and diuulged in the Catholicke Apostolike Romaine Church neither shall they worke on those dayes sell no◠retaile in open shop neither shall trade or handicrafts men worke out of their shops or in close chambers or houses on festiuall dayes and other prohibited dayes in any profession or mysterie the noise whereof may be heard without by neighbours or those passing along which neuerthelesse shall not be sought or looked into but onely by officers of Iustice XXI Neither shall the bookes touching the said pretended Religion be imprinted or publickly sold but in Townes and places where the publicke exercise of the said Religion is permitted And for other books which shall be printed in other places they shall be viewed and perused as well by our officers as by diuines as our Ordinances therin do import We expresly forbid the impression publication and vent of all bookes libels and defamatorie writings vpon the penaltie set downe in our Ordinances enioyning all our Iudges and officers to haue a speciall care therein XXII We enact that there shall be no difference or distinction made in respect of the said Religion to entertaine schollers to be instructed in Vniuersities Colledges and schooles and the sicke and poore in hospitals guest-houses and publicke almes houses XXIII They of the pretended reformed Religion shall be bound to obserue the lawes of the Catholicke Apostolicke Romane Church receiued in this our kingdome in the point of marriages contracted and to be contracted within the degrees of consanguinitie and affinitie XXIIII In like manner those of the said Religion shall pay the rights of entrie as hath bene accustomed for the charges and offices appointed for their vse without being vrged to be present at any ceremonies contrarie to their said Religion and being cited by oath they shall be bound to do it no otherwise then by lifting vp their hand by swearing and promising vnto God that they will speake the truth neither shall they be constrained to dispence with the oath by them made in passing of contracts and obligations XXV We will and ordaine that all those of the pretended reformed Religion and others who haue followed their partie of what estate or qualitie soeuer they be shall be bound and obliged by all due and reasonable meanes and vnder the penalties comprehended in the Edicts hereupon made to pay and cleare the tenthes to Curates and other Ecclesiasticall persons and to all others to whom they appertaine according to the vse and custome of the places XXVI All disinheriting and priuations whether by disposition of those liuing or testamentaries made only in hatred or by reason of Religion as well for the time past as that to come shall take no place XXVII The better to reunite the wills of our subiects according to our intention to preuent all cōplaints hereafter to come we denounce all those that do or shall make profession of the said pretended reformed Religion capable to hold discharge all estates dignities offices and publicke charges whatsoeuer Royall Lordly or of the Cities Lands Countries and Seigniories within our obedience notwithstanding all oathes to the contrarie and to be indifferently admitted thereunto and our Courts of Parliament and other Iudges shal be pleased to enquire and take notice of the life manners Religion and honest conuersation of those who are or shall be inuested into offices as well of the one as of the other Religion without taking any other oath of them then well and faithfully to serue the king in the discharge of their functions and to obserue the Ordinances as they haue bene obserued in all times And when any vacancie of the said estates places and offices shall happen for those that lye in our dispositiō we wil indifferently furnish them without any distinction with persons capable as a thing that concerneth the vnion of our subiects We intend also that they of the pretended reformed Religion shall be admitted and receiued to all counsels deliberations functions which depend on the aboue said matters without that for cause of Religion they be reiected or hindred from enioying this priuiledge XXVIII We ordaine for interring of the dead of those of the said Religion within all the Townes and places of this Kingdome that in each place by our Officers and
except the parties had rather attend the renouation of the said Chamber or Court. And if it happen that the same processe be commenced in all the Chambers separately the issue thereof shall be returned to the said Chamber of Paris XLVIII Refusals brought in against the Presidents Counsellours of the Chambers distinctly may be determined by the number of sixe to which number the parties shall be restrained otherwise it shall go forward without any regard had to the said Refusals XLIX The examination of Presidents and Counsellors newly chosen in the said Chambers by equal numbers shall be made by our priuie Counsell or by the said Chambers each one within its precinct when they are met in sufficient number and yet the accustomed oath shall by them be exhibited in the Courts where the said Chambers shall be established and vpon their refusall in our priuie Counsell except those of the Chamber of Languedoc who shall take their oath from the hands of our Chancellour or in the said Chamber L. We will and ordaine that the reception of our Officers of the said Religion shall be iudged in the same seuerall Chambers by the pluralitie of voices as is vsuall in other iudgements not being requisite that the voices should differ two thirds according to the Ordinance the which in this respect remaines abrogated LI. All propositions deliberations and resolutions pertaining to publicke peace and for the particular estate and policie of Townes shall be made in the said seuerall Chambers and in the said Townes where the said Chambers reside LII The article of the iurisdiction of the said Chambers ordained by this present Edict shall be followed and obserued according to forme and tenor thereof especially in that which concerneth the execution omission or violation of our Edicts when those of the said Religion shall be parties LIII The subalternate royall Officers or others the reception of whom belongs to our Courts of Parliaments if they be of the same pretended reformed Religion may be examined receiued in the said Chambers that is to say those of the dependant Courts of the Parliaments of Paris Normandie and Brettaine in the said Chamber of Paris those of Daulphiney and Prouence in the Chamber of Grenoble those of Burgundie in the said Chamber of Paris or Daulphiney at their choice those of the Precincts of Tholouse in the Chamber of Castres and those of the Parliament of Bourdeaux in the Chamber of Guyenne and no other to oppose their admissions or make parties but our Procurors generall and their Substitutes and those placed in the said offices yet neuerthelesse the accustomed oath shall by them be exhibited in the Courts of parliaments which shal haue no iurisdiction in their said receptions and vpon the refusall of the said Parliaments the said Officers shall minister the oath in the said Chambers which being so ministred they shall be bound by some Clerke or Notarie to present the act of their receptions to the Greffiers or Registers of the said Courts of Parliaments and to leaue a compared copie thereof with the said Greffier or Register who are enioyned to register the said acts vpon penaltie of paying all the charges dammages and interests of the parties and if the said Registers refuse to do it it shall be sufficient for the said Officers to bring the act of the said reception drawne by the said Registers or Notarie and to cause the same to be registred in the greffe or rowle of their iurisdictions there to be viewed when need shall require vpon penaltie of annihilating their proceedings and iudgements And as for those Officers whose reception was not accustomed to be made in our said Parliaments in case they whom it concerneth make refusall to proceed in the said examination and reception the said Officers shall repaire to the said Chambers to be furnished as they ought LIIII The Officers of the said pretended reformed Religion which shall hereafter be chosen to serue within the bodies of our said Courts of Parliaments Grand Counsell Chamber of Accompts Court of Aydes Receiuers for the Treasurers generall of France and other Officers of the Exchequers shall be axamined and receiued in the places where they vse to be and in case of refusall and deniall of iustice they shall be constituted in our priuie Councell LV. The reception of Officers made in the Chamber heretofore established at Castres shall remaine in force notwithstanding all Iudgements or Ordinances to the contrarie the reception also of Iudges Counsellours and other Officers of the said Religion made in our priuy Counsell shall be validious or those chosen by Commissaries by vs ordained vpon the refusall of our Courts of parliament of the Aydes or Chambers of Accompts euen as if they had bene made in the same Courts and Chambers and by the other Iudges to whom such receptions appertaine and their pensions shall be allowed by the Chambers of Accompts without scruple and if any haue bene dismissed they shall be reestablished without any further command then this present Edict and the said Officers shall not stand bound to present any other reception notwithstanding all Decrees passed to the contrarie which shall remaine inualidious and of no effect LVI Vntill meanes be procured to defray the expences of the Iustice of our said Chamber out of the monies of fines or confiscations we will assigne a valuable and sufficient proportion to discharge the said expences without leuying monyes out of the goods of those condemned LVII The Presidents and Counsellours of the said pretended reformed Religion heretofore receiued into our Court of Daulphiney and into the Chamber of the Edict incorporated into the same shall continue and hold their Sessions and places there that is to say the Presidents as they haue and do enioy at this present and the Counsellours according to the Iudgements and Decrees which they haue obtained in our priuie Counsell LVIII We further declare that all sentences Iudgements Decrees Seizures Vents and Orders set downe and established against those of the pretended reformed Religion as well liuing as dead since the departure of the late King Henrie the second our most honourable Lord and Father in law by reason of the said Religion troubles tumults since happened together with the execution of the same Decrees from this present to be razed reuoked and nullified We ordaine that they shall be razed and wiped out of our Registers of the Stewards of Courts as well soueraigne as inferiour as likewise our pleasure is that all markes foot-steps and monuments of the said executions bookes and Acts defamatorie to their persons memoriall and posterity shall be remoued and defaced and that the places wheâ—e vpon these occasions any ruines or demolitions haue bene made shall be restored in the same condition they were to the proprietaries of the same to enioy and dispose of them at their pleasure And generally we haue reuoked cashiered and annihilated all proceedings and informations made for any enterprises whatsoeuer
and troubles past and as for crimes and insolencies growing vpon other occasions then about matters of the troubles from the beginning of the moneth of March in the yeare a thousand fiue hundred fourescore and fiue till the end of the yeare 1597. in case they do proceed in triall of them Our pleasure is that they may haue an appeale from their Iudgements before the Chambers ordained by this present Edict as shall in like manner be obserued to Catholicke complices wherein those of the said pretended reformed Religion shall be parties LXVI We also will and ordaine that from this time forward in all instructions other then criminall processes in the Stewardships of Thoulouse Carcassonne Rouergue Loragais Beziers Montpellier and Nismes the Magistrate or Commissarie deputed for the said instruction if he be a Catholicke shall be bound to take an Associate of the said pretended reformed Religion whereupon the parties shall meete and if it so fall out that they cannot meete one by authoritie shall be taken of the said Religion by the aboue named Magistrate or Commissarie as in like manner if the said Magistrate or Commissarie be of the said Religion he shall be bound in the forme aboue mentioned to take a Catholicke Assistant LXVII When any occasion of criminall triall groweth by the Prouosts of the Marshals or any of the Lieutenants against any one of the said Religion an housholder who shall be charged and accused of any publicke crime the said Prouosts or their Lieutenants if they be Catholickes shall be bound to call to the proceeding of such a matter an Assistant of the said Religion the which Associate shall also iudge in iudgement of the offence and in the iudgement definitiue of the matter which offence shall not be tried in any other place but at the next Presidentall Tribunall in open assemblie by the principall Officers of that circuit who are then in place on paine of being put out of office except the conuented require to haue the said offence tried in the Chamber or Courts ordained by this present Edict in which case for those inhabiting in the Prouinces of Guyenne Languedoc Prouence Daulphiney the Substitutes of our Procurots Generall in the said Chambers at the request of those inhabitants shall cause the inditements and informations made against them to be brought in to discerne and trie whether the matters be liable to Prouosts courts or not that afterwards according to the quality of the crimes they may be returned to the ordinarie or Prouostall Iudges as they ought to do by reason in obseruing the contents of this present Edict And the Presidentall Iudges Prouosts of Marshals Vicebailifs Vnderstewards and others that haue definitiue authoritie to iudge to obey respectiuely and obserue the commandements imposed on them by the said Chambers euen as they vsed to do in the said Parliaments vpon paine of forfait of their estates LXVIII The outcries publicke sales by writing and vendition of inheritances by the Speare shall be performed in the places and at the houres accustomed if it may be according to our Ordinances or else in the open market places if in the place where the same inheritances be seated there be a market place and where there is none they shall be made in the next market place within the precinct of that Session where the iudgement should be passed and the paper of notice shall be fastened on a post in the said market place and at the entrie of the Auditorie of the same place and so by this meanes the said publicke outcries shall be good and validious and so to go forward to the interposition of a Decree without depending on such nullities as may be alledged in this respect LXIX All titles papers instructions and informations that haue bene taken shall be rendred and restored of the one side and the other to those to whom they appertaine although the said papers or the Castels or houses wherein they haue bene reserued were taken and seized vpon whether it were by speciall Commission from the late last King deceassed our most honourable Lord and father in law or the commandements of the Gonernours and Lieutenants generall of our Prouinces or by authority of the Heads of the other part or vnder what pretext soeuer it were LXX The children of such as haue retired themselues out of our Kingdome since the death of the late King Henrie the second our most honourable Lord and father in law by reason of Religion and the present troubles though the said children were borne out of the Kingdome shall be held for true French men and subiects and such we haue and do declare them to be and they shall not need to sue out letters of naturalitie or other warranties from vs then this present Edict notwithstanding all constitutions to the contrarie the which we haue and do abrogate vpon condition that the said children borne in forreine Countries shall be bound within ten yeares after the publication of this Edict to come and reside within the Kingdome LXXI Those of the said pretended reformed Religion and others that haue followed their partie who shall haue farmed before the troubles any Offices or other Demaines customes forreine impositions or other prerogatiues to vs appertaining the which they could not peaceably enioy by reason of the same troubles shall remaine discharged as we discharge them of that which they haue not receiued out of the said farmes or that without fraud they haue payed otherwise then into the Receipts of our Exchequers notwithstanding all obligations entred into by them in this respect to the contrarie LXXII All places Townes and Prouinces of our Realme Countries Lands and Seignories vnder our obedience shall vse and enioy the same priuiledges immunities liberties enfranchisements faires markets iurisdictions and seates of Iustice which they did before the troubles begun in the moneth of March in the yeare 1585. and others preceeding notwithstanding all letters to the contrarie and the remouing of the said seates so they were made onely by reason of the troubles which seates shall be restored and reestablished in the Townes and places where before they were LXXIII If there be any prisoners yet detained by authority of Iustice or otherwise yea euen in the Galleys by reason of the troubles or of the said Religion they shall be enlarged and set at free libertie LXXIIII Those of the said Religion shall not hereafter be surcharged nor oppressed with any charges ordinarie or extraordinarie more then the Catholikes and according to the proportion of their goods and substance and the parties that pretend themselues to be surcharged may haue remedie before the Iudges to whom the ordering thereof belongs and all our subiects as well of the Catholicke Religion as of the pretended reformed shall be indefferently discharged of all charges that haue bene imposed on the one partie and the other during the troubles vpon those that were of the contrarie partie and not cohering together of debts credited