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A49222	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 : together with a brief and true account of the persecution carried on against those of the foresaid religion for to make them abjure and apostatize : to which is added to form of abjuration the revolting protestants are to subscribe and swear to : with a declaration of his Electoral Highness of Brandenburg, in favour of those of the reformed religion, who shall think fit to settle themselves in any of his dominions / 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 L3119; ESTC R14911	28,599	40

France are to Subscribe and Swear to IN the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen I Believe and Confess with a firm Faith all and every thing and things contained in the Creed which is used by the Holy Church of Rome viz. I receive and embrace most sincerely the Apostolick and Ecclesiastical Traditions and other observances of the said Church In like manner I receive the Scriptures but in the same sense as the said Mother Church hath and doth now understand and Expound the same for whom and to whom it only doth belong to judge of the Interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures and I will never take them nor understand them otherwise than according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers I profess that there be truly and properly seven Sacraments of the New Law instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ and necessary for the Salvation of Mankind altho not equally needful for every one viz. Baptism Confirmation the Eucharist Penance Extream Vnction Orders and Marriage and that they do confer Grace and that Baptism and Orders may not be reiterated without Sacriledge I receive and admit also the Ceremonies received and approved by the Catholick Church in the solemn administration of the forementioned Sacraments I receive and embrace all and every thing and things which have been determined concerning Original Sin and Justification by the holy Council of Trent I likewise profess that in the Mass there is offered up to God a true proper and propitiatory Sacrifice for the Living and Dead and that in the holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly really and substantially the Body and Blood together with the Soul and Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ and that in it there is made a change of the whole substance of the Bread into his Body and of the whole substance of the Wine into his Blood which change the Catholick Church calls Transubstantiation I confess also that under one only of these two Elements whole Christ and the true Sacrament is received I constantly believe and affirm that there is a Purgatory and that the Souls there detained are relieved by the Suffrages of the Faithful In like manner I believe that the Saints reigning in Glory with Jesus Christ are to be Worshipped and Invocated by us and that they offer up Prayers to God for us and that their Reliques ought to be honoured Moreover I do most stedfastly avow that the Images of Jesus Christ of the Blessed Virgin the Mother of God and of other Saints ought to be kept and retained and that due Honour and Veneration must be yielded unto them Also I do affirm that the power of Indulgence was left to the Church by Christ Jesus and that the use thereof is very beneficial to Christians I do acknowledge the holy Catholick Apostolick and Roman Church to be the Mother and Mistress of all other Churches and I profess and swear true obedience to the Pope of Rome Successor of the Blessed St. Peter Prince of the Apostles and Vicar of Jesus Christ In like manner Iown and profess without doubting all other things left defined and declared by the holy Canons and General Councils especially by the most holy Council of Trent and withal I do condemn reject and hold for accursed all things that are contrary thereto and all those Heresies which have been condemned rejected and accursed by the Church And then swearing upon the Book of the Gospel the party recanting must say I Promise Vow and Swear and most constantly Profess by Gods assistance to keep entirely and inviolably unto Death this self same Catholick and Apostolick Faith out of which no person can be Saved and this I do most truly and willingly profess and that I will to the utmost of my Power endeavour that it may be maintain'd and upheld as far as any ways belong to my charge so help me God and the holy Virgin The Certificate which the party Recanting is to leave with the Priest before whom he makes his Abjuration I N. N. of the Parish of N. do Certifie all whom it way Concern That having acknowledged the Falsness of the pretended Reformed and the Truth of the Catholick Religion of my own Free-will without any Compulsion I have accordingly made Profession of the said Catholick and Roman Religion in the Church of N. in the hands of N. N. In testimony of the Truth whereof I have Signed this Act in the presence of the Witnesses whose Names are under Written this day of the Month of the year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord the King and of our Redemption A Declaration of the Elector of Brandenburg in Favour of the French Protestants who shall settle themselves in any of His Dominions We Frederick William by the Grace of God Marquess of Brandenburg Arch-Chamberlain and Prince Elector of the Holy Empire Duke of Prussia Magdeburg Juilliers Cleves Bergen Stettin Pomerania of the Cassubes Vandals and Silesia of Crosne and Jagerndorff Burg-grave of Noremberg Prince of Halberstads Minde and Camin Earl of Hohenzollern of the Mark and Ravensberg Lord of Ravenstein Lawneburg and Butow do declare and make known to all to whom these Presents shall come THat whereas the Persecutions and Rigorous proceedings which have been carried on for some time in France against those of the Reformed Religion have forced many Families to leave that Kingdom and to seek for a Settlement elsewhere in strange and Forreign Countries We have been willing being touched with that just Compassion we are bound to have for those who suffer for the Gospel and the Purity of that Faith We profess together with them by this present Declaration Signed with our own hand to offer to the said Protestants a sure and free Retreat in all the Countries and Provinces under Our Dominion and withal to declare the several Rights Immunities and Priviledges which we are willing they shall enjoy there in order to the Relieving and easing them in some measure of the burthen of those Calamities wherewith it hath pleased the Divine Providence to afflict so considerable a part of his Church I. To the end that all those who shall resolve to settle themselves in any of our Dominions may with the more ease and convenience Transport themselves thither we have given Order to our Envoy extradinary with the States General of the United Provinces Sieur Diest and to our Commissary in the City of Amsterdam Sieur Romswinkel at our charge to furnish all those of the said Religion who shall address themselves unto them with what Vessels and Provisions they shall stand in need of for the Transportation of themselves their Goods and Families from Holland to the City of Hamburg where then our Counsellor and Resident for the Circle of the Lower Saxony Sieur Guerick shall furnish them with all conveniencies they may stand in need of to convey them further to whatsoever City or Province they shall think fit to pitch upon for the place of their Abode II. Those

striving to outvie each other in Inventing New Methods of Pain and Torment not to be appeased with Money or good chear Foaming and Roaring like Ravenous Raging Lyons and presenting Death at every Moment and that which is worse than all this driving People to Distraction and set seless Stupidity by those Devilish Inventions we have given you an Instance of in the Relation of Montauban Moreover this Persecution hath one Characteristical note more which without any Exaggeration will give it the Precedence in History for Cruelty above all those which the Church of God ever suffered under Nero Maximinus or Dioclesian which is the severe Prohibition of departing the Kingdom upon pain of Confiscation of Goods of the Gally of the Lash and perpetual Imprisonment All the Sea Ports are kept with that exactness as if it were to hinder the escape of Traytors and common Enemies All the Prisons of Sea Port Towns are cram'd with these miserable Fugitives Men Women Boys and Girls who there are Condemn'd to the worst of Punishments for having had a desire to save themselves from this dreadful Persecution and deluging Calamity this is the thing which is unparallel'd and of which we find no Instance This is that Superlative excess of Cruelty which we shall not find in the List of all the violent and Bloody Proceedings of the Duke of Alva he Massacred he Beheaded he Butchered but at least he did not Prohibit those that could to make their Escape In the last Hungarian Persecution nothing was required of the Protestants but only that their Ministers should Banish themselves and Abandon and Renounce the conduct of their Flocks and because they were unwilling to obey these orders therefore it is they have groaned under so long and so terrible a Persecution as they have done But this Hungarian Persecution is not to be compared with that we are Speaking of for the Fury of that Tempest discharged it self upon the Ministers only no Armies were Imploy'd to force the People to change their Religion by a thousand several ways of Torment much less did it ever enter the thoughts of the Emperours Council to shut up all the Protestants in Hungary in order to the destroying of all those who would not abjure their Religion which yet is the very condition of so many wretched Persons in France who beg it as the highest favour at the hands of their merciless Enemies to have leave to go and beg their Bread in a Forreign Country being willing to leave their Goods and all other outward conveniencies behind them for to lead a poor Miserable Languishing Life in any place where only they may be suffered to Dye in their Religion And is it not from all this most apparent that those Monsters who have Inspired the King with these designs have resin'd the Mystery of Persecuting to the utmost and advanc'd it to its highest pitch of perfection O Great God! who from thy Heavenly Throne dost behold all the outrages done to thy People hast thee to help us Great God whose compassions are Infinite suffer thy self to be touched with our extream desolution If Men be Insensible of the calamities we suffer if they be deaf to our cries not regarding our Groans and Supplications yet let thy Bowels O Lord be moved and affect thee in our behalf Glorious God for whose Names sake we suffer all these things who knowest our Innocence and Weakness as well as the Fury and Rage of our Adversaries the small support and help we find in the World behold we Perish if thy pity doth not rouze thee up for our Relief It is thou art our Rock our God our Father our Deliverer we do not place our confidence in any but thee alone let us not be confounded because we put our Trust in thee Hast thee to our help make no long tarrying O Lord our God and our Redeemer A Letter sent from Bordeaux giving an Account of the Persecution of those of the Protestant Religion in France SIR WHatsoever you have heard concerning the Persecution of those that are of our Religion in the Land of Bearn Guienne and Perigort is but too true and I can assure you that they who have given you that account have been so far fromamplifying the matter that they have only acquainted you with some few particulars yet am I not much surprised at the difficulty you find to perswade your self that the things of which your Friends Inform you are true in cases of this Nature so amazingly unexpected we are apt often to distrust our own Eyes and I profess to you that though all places round about us Eccho the Report of our Ruine and Destruction yet I can scarcely perswade my self it is so indeed because I cannot comprehend it It is no matter of surprise or amazement to see the Church of Christ afflicted upon Earth forasmuch as she is a stranger here as well as her Captain Lord and Husband the Holy and Ever-blessed Jesus was and must like him by the same way of Cross and Suffering return to her own Country which is above It is no matter of Astonishment to find her from time to time suffering the worst of usage and most cruel Persecutions all Ages have seen her exposed to such Tryals as these which are so necessary for the Testing of her Faith and so fit a matter of her Future Glory Neither is it any great wonder if amidst these sore Tryals vast numbers of those who made Profession of the Gospel do now renounce and forsake it We know that all have not Faith and it is more than probable that they who do not follow Christ but because they Thrive by it and for the Loaves will cease to be of his Retinue when he is about to oblige them to bear his Cross and deny themselves But that which seems Inconceivable to me is that our Enemies should pitch upon such strange ways and methods to destroy us as they have done and that in so doing they should meet with a success so Prodigious and doleful I shall as briefly as I can endeavour to give you an account of so much as I have understood of it All those thundring Declarations and destructive Arrests which continually were Sued for and obtain'd against us and which were Executed with the extremity of Rigour were scarce able to move any one of us The forbidding of our Publick Exercises the demolishing of our Churches and the severe Injunction that not so much as two or three of us should dare to Assemble in order to any thing of Divine Worship had no other effect upon the far greater part of us than to Inflame our Zeal instead of abating it obliging us to Pray to God with greater fervor and Devotion in our Closets and to Meditate of his Word with greater Application and Attention And neither the great wants to which we were reduced by being depriv'd of our Offices and Imploys and all other means of Living and by those insupportable charges

with which they strove to over-whelm us as well by Taxes as the Quartering of Souldiers both which were as heavy as could be laid upon us nor the continual trouble we were put to by Criminal or other matters of Law which at the Suit of one or other were still laid to our charge tho upon the most frivolous and unjust pretences imaginable I say all these were not able to wear out our Patience which was hardned against all Calamities insomuch as the design of forcing us to abandon the Truth of the Gospel would Infallibly have been Ship-wrack'd if no other means had been taken in hand for this purpose But alas our Enemies were too Ingenious to be bauk'd so and had taken our Ruine too much to Heart not to Study for means effectual and proper to bring about their desires They call'd to mind what Prodigious success a new kind of Persecution had had of late Years in Poictou Aunix and Xaintonge which the Intendants of those places had bethought themselves of and they made no difficulty to have Recourse to the same as to a means Infallible and not to be doubted of I must tell you Sir That we had not the least thought that ever such violent Methods as these would have been pitched upon as the means of our Conversion We were always of Opinion that none but Dennuieux's and Marillacs could be fit Instruments for such like Enterprises neither could we ever have Imagin'd that Generals of Armies who account it a Shame and Reproach to Attack and take some paultry Town or Village should ever debase themselves to Besiege Old Men Women and Children in their own Houses or that ever Souldiers who think themselves ennobled by their Swords should degrade themselves so far to take up the Trade of Butchers and Hangmen by Tormenting poor Innocents and Inflicting all sorts of Punishments upon them Moreover we were the less in expectation of any such thing because at the self same time they Treated us in this manner they would needs perswade us That the Kings Council had disapproved the Design And indeed it seem'd very probable to us that all Reasons whether taken from Humanity Piety or Interest would have made them Disavow and Condemn a Project so Inhumane and Barbarous Yet now by experience we find it but too true that our Enemies are so far from rejecting the said Design that they carry it on with an unparallel'd Zeal and Application without giving themselves any further trouble to effectuate their desires than that of doing these two things The first of which was to Lull us asleep and to take away from us all matter of Suspition of the mischief they were hatching against us which they did by permiting some of our Publick Exercises of Religion by giving way to our Building of some Churches by setling Ministers in divers places to Baptize our Children and by publishing several Arrests and Declarations which did intimate to us that we had reason to hope we should yet Subsist for some Years Such was that Declaration by which all Ministers were ordered to change their Churches every three years The other was to secure all the Sea-Ports of the Kingdom so as none might make their escape which was done by renewing the Antient Prohibitions of departing the Kingdom without leave but with the addition of far more severe Penalties After these precautions thus taken they thought themselves no longer oblig'd to keep any measures but immediately lift up the hand to give the last blow for our Ruine The Intendants had order to represent to us That the King was resolved to suffer no other Religion in his Kingdom besides his own and to Command us all in his Name readily to Embrace the same without allowing us any longer respite to consider what we had to do than a few days nay hours threatning us That if we continued obstinate they would force us to it by the extremity of Rigour and presently Executing these their Menaces by filling our Houses with Souldiers to whom we were to be left for a Prey and who not content with entirely Ruining of us should besides exercise upon our Persons all the Violence and Cruelty they could possibly devise And all this to overcome our Constancy and Perseverance Four Months are now past and gone since that began to make use of this strange and horrible way of Converting People worthy of and well becoming its Inventors The Country of Bearn was first set upon as being one of the most considerable Out-parts of the Kingdom to the end that this mischievous enterprise gaining strength in its passage might soon after over-whelm and as it were deluge all the other Provinces in the same Sea of the uttermost calamity Monsieur Foucaut the Intendant went himself in Person to all the places where we were in any numbers and commanded all the Inhabitants that were of the Protestant Religion under the Penalty of great amercements to Assemble themselves in those places he appointed to them where being accordingly met together he charged them in the Kings Name to change their Religion allowing them only a day or two to dispose themselves for it he told them That great numbers of Souldiers were at hand to compel those that should refuse to yield a ready Obedience and this threatning of his being immediately followed by the Effect as the Lightning is by Thunder he fill'd the Houses of all those who abode constant in their resolution to Live and Dye Faithful to their Lord and Master Jesus Christ with Souldiers and Commands those Insolent Troops flesh'd with Blood and Slaughter to give them the worst Treatment they could possibly devise I shall not undertake Sir to give you a particular account of those Excesses and Outrages these enraged Brutals committed in Executing the Orders they were charged with The Relation would prove too tedious and doleful it shall suffice me to tell you that they did not forget any thing that was Inhumane Barbarous or Cruel without having regard to any Condition Sex or Age they pull'd down and demolished their Houses they spoil'd dash'd to pieces and burnt their best Moveables and Houshold-stuff they bruised and beat to Death Venerable Old Men they dragg'd Honourable Matrons to Mass without the least pitty or respect they bound and Fetter'd Innocent Persons as if they had been the most Infamous and Profligate Villains they hung them up by their Feet till they saw them ready to give up the Ghost they took Red-hot Fire-shovels and held them close to their bare Heads and actually apply'd them to other parts of their Bodies they Immur'd them within four Walls where they let them Perish for Hunger and Thirst and the constancy wherewith they suffer'd all these Torments having had no other effect but that of augmenting the Rage of these Furies they never ceased Inventing new ways of pain and Torture till their Inhumanity at length had got the Victory and Triumphed over the Patience and Faith of these