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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49223	An edict of the French king prohibiting all publick exercise of the pretended reformed religion in his kingdom wherein he recalls and totally annuls the perpetual and irrevocable edict of King Henry the IV, his grandfather, given at Nantes, full of most gracious concessions to Protestants : to which is added, the French king's letter to the Elector of Brandenburg, containing several passages relating to the foregoing edict : as also, a brief and true account of the persecution carried on against those of the foresaid religion ... : together with the form of abjuration the revolting Protestants are to subscribe and swear to, and a declaration of His Electoral Highness of Brandenburg ... / translated out of French.; Edit de révocation de l'Edit de Nantes. English	France.; Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, 1620-1688.; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.	1686 (1686)	Wing L3120; ESTC R2487	29,428	42

like a Ball from one to another without giving them the least Intermission and keeping them in this condition for three days and nights together without Meat Drink or Sleep When they were so wearied and fainting that they could no longer stand upon their Legs they laid them on a Bed continuing as before to Tickle and Torment them after some time when they thought them somewhat recovered they made them rise and walked them up and down as before sometimes Tickling and other times Lashing them with Rods to keep them from Sleeping As soon as one Party of these Barbarous Tormenters were Tyred and wearled out they were Relieved by others of their Companions who coming fresh to the Work with greater Vigour and Violence reiterated the same Course By this Infernal Invention which they had formerly made use of with success in Bearn and other places many went Distracted and others became Mopish and Stupid and remain so Those who made their Escape were fain to abandon their Estates yea their Wives Children and Aged Relations to the Mercy of these Barbarous and more than Savage Troops The same Cruelties were acted at Negreplisse a City near to Montauban where these Bloody Emissaries committed unparallel'd Outrages Isaac Favin a Citizen of that Place was hung up by his Arm-pits and tormented a whole Night by pinching and tearing off his Flesh with Pincers tho by all this they were not able to shake his Constancy in the least The Wife of one Rouffion a Joyner being violently dragg'd by the Souldiers along the Streets for to force her to hear Mass dyed of this cruel and inhumane Treatment as soon as she reach'd the Church Porch Amongst other their Devilish Inventions this was one They made a great Fire round about a Boy of about Ten Years of Age who continually with Hands and Eyes lifted up to Heaven cryed My God help me and when they saw the Lad resolved to Dye so rather than Renounce his Religion they snatch'd him from the Fire when he was at the very point of being Burnt The Cities of Caussade Realville St. Anthonin and other Towns and Places in the Upper Guienne met with the same Entertainment as well as Bergerac and many other Places of Perigord and of the Lower Guienne which had a like share of these cruel and inhumane Usages The forementioned Troops marched at last to Castres to commit the same Insolencies and Barbarities there also And it is not to be doubted but that they will continue and carry on the same course of Cruelties where ever they go if God in Pity and Compassion to his People do not restrain them It is to be feared for it seems but too probable that this dreadful Persecution in conjunction with those Artifices the Papists make use of to disguise their Religion and to perswade Protestants that they shall be suffered to Worship God as formerly will make many to comply with them or at least make their Mouths give their Hearts the Lye in hopes of being by this means put into a condition to make their escapes and returning to that Profession which their weakness hath made them deny But Alas this is not all for those Poor Wretches whom by these Devilish ways of theirs they have made to Blaspheme and Abjure their Religion as if this were not enough must now become the Persecutors and Tormentors of their own Wives and Children for to oblige and force them to Renounce also for they are threatned that if within three days time they do not make their whole Family Recant in like manner those rough Apostles the Dragoons shall be fain to take further pains with them in order to the perfecting of their Conversion And who after all this can have the least doubt but that these unhappy Dragoons are the very Emissaries of Hell whose very last Efforts and Death struglings these seem to be This Relation hath given a short view of some of those Sufferings the Reformed have undergone but not of all It is certain that in divers places they have tryed to wear out their Patience and overcome their Constancy by applying Red hot Irons to the Hands and Feet of Men and to the Breasts of Women At Nantes they hung up several Women and Maids by their Feet and others by their Arm-pits and that Stark-Naked thus exposing them to Publick View which assuredly is the most cruel and exquisite Suffering can befall that Sex because in this case their Shamefac'dness and Modesty is most sensibly touched which is the most tender part of their Soul They have bound Mothers that gave Suck unto Posts and let their little Infants lye Languishing in their sight without being suffered to Suckle them for several days and all this while left them crying moaning and gasping for Life and even Dying for Hunger and Thirst that by this means they might Vanquish the Constancy of their Tender-hearted Mothers Swearing to them they would never permit they should give them Suck till they promised to Renounce their Profession of the Gospel They have taken Children of Four or Five Years of Age and kept them from Meat and Drink for some time and when they have been ready to faint away and give the Ghost they have brought them before their Parents and horribly Asseverated that except they would Turn they must prepare themselves to see their Children Languish and Dye in their presence Some they have bound before a great Fire and being half Roasted have after let them go They beat Men and Women outragiously they drag them along the Streets and Torment them day and Night The ordinary way they took was to give them no●est for the Souldiers do continually Relieve one another for to Drag Beat Torment and Toss up and down these Miserable Wretches without Intermission If it happen that any by their Patience and Constancy do stand it out and Triumph over all the Rage and Fury of those Dragoons they go to their Commander and acquaint him they have done all they could but yet without the desired success who in a Barbarous and Surly Tone answers them You must return upon them and do worse than you have done the King Commands it either they must Turn or I must Burst and Perish in the Attempt These are the Pleasant Flowry Paths by which the Papists allure Protestants to return to the Bosome of their Church But some it may be will object You make a great noise about a small matter all Protestants have not been exposed to these Cruelties but only some few obstinate Persons Well I will suppose so but yet the Horror of those Torments Inflicted on some hath so fill'd the Imagination of these Miserable Wretches that the very thoughts of them hath made them comply it is indeed a Weakness of which we are ashamed for their sakes and from whence we hope God will raise them again in his due time yet thus much we may alledge for their excuse that never was any Persecution upon pretence