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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63446	A true and perfect relation of the new invented way of persecuting the Protestants in France together with the manner, time and place, when and where it first begun to act : as also an exact account after what manner it is pursued contrary to the priviledges granted to them by King Henry the 4th, Lewis the 13th, and this King now reigning, viz.		1682 (1682)	Wing T2563; ESTC R6238	6,606	6

the same thing some changed others absented themselves At the same time they went to a place called Eschiré the Lord of that place is a Protestant Monsieur De La Tailléé They did proceed as in the places aforesaid the people did submit as long as they had moneys in hopes it would not last long But being no more able to entertain them at such Rates some did forsake their houses others did turn then they took to Ride up and down in every Village thereabouts in several Protestant houses acting the same The Lord of Baisragen gave a visit to the Intendant making complaints of the Souldiers misbehaviours his Answer was to him That his Burrough should have a share the said Lord told him none should Lodge there without the King 's special order the Intendant obtained the same and withall to take him Prisoner which was Executed and he was carried to Bourdeaux in Charteau Trumpette where he is still and the Souldiers did utterly ruine the Place then they went to Cherneux and St. Gallais the Lords of them places are Papists and there acted as before in Protestant houses only They went also to St. Maxire to Villiers to Mursay and to a place called Bennet six miles distant from Niort drawing towards Low Poicton there the People after great sufferings fled into the Fields and hid themselves night and day the Souldiers having notice of it by some Papist hunted them poor People with Dogs misused them and brought them to their houses again some did turn others resisted In July they went to St. Elemoy to Panpron to Sansay to Bagneau and Chenay there acting the same things They were also at a considerable Town called Lusignan there dealing as wickedly as in other places then they came round about St. Maixant in all the Burroughs joyning the Gates acting the same Cruelties but went not into the Town They went also at Aigonnay and Chefboutowne and other places which I name not here Several Gentlemen were appointed to go to Paris to acquaint the King of those wicked proceedings the Marquis of Venours and his Son who have been great sufferers for speaking the truth to the King the rest of the Deputies were sent to the Marquis of Rivigny not being admitted to speak to the King The Governour of Poicton called the Duke La Vien Villes was ordered to go in his Government and there to hear the Complaints of all them that were molested upon that the said Protestants did rejoyce at the Governours Arrival Several Complaints made to him his Answer was he could not believe there was so much mischief done and that in few daies he would see Mon. Marilac Intendant when they had spoken together the Intendant did send eight Souldiers where there was but four before and so jested and asked if they had not good Justice of the Governour In July the Bishop of Lucon gave the Governour a Visit after that the Governour did send his Guards seven or eight at a time in a house dealing as wickedly with the People in the Low Poicton as the Dragoons had done in other places this lasted about a month then the Bishop of Lucon had a Jubile he imployed himself to draw the People to him After that the Souldiers did return again to Bennet they finding neither Mony nor Victuals in the Houses of the People that was returned they thinking the business over the Souldiers misused them and caused many to turn the Souldier finding nothing to feed themselves at the Houses of them that persisted did repair to the Chief Commanders to acquaint them of the same desiring other Quarters their answer was That as long as there was any Moveables in their Houses they should have no other quarters but should sell it all fo● their subsistence At a place called Champdenie a Market-town many Families did forsake their houses and carried away the best goods they had having notice the Souldiers were to come there whereupon the Intendant did proclaim That all the Inhabitants of that Province that had absented themselves for fear of lodging Souldiers should forthwith return to their houses upon the Penalty of five hundred Livres but very few did obey In August the Souldiers had Liberty to go where they pleased except in the Cities and had no other Orders but a Bill from the Priests of every Parish in which was written such a man is an Huguenot and so there lodged at discretion that did occasion many Labouring men to fly and several did forsake their Corn in the Fields which never was cut down but destroyed They did take some Peazants and burnt their wooden Shooes their feet being therein James Panon did suffer this and did not change his Religion The Officers that are committed for the Taxes called Elus went about in every Parish to take a Lift of what Protestants remained also an account of what means they had to the end and purpose as I shall tell hereafter in the New Way of Persecuting In September the Souldiers went to Partenay and the neighbouring Places and because the People began to run away at their coming they went no more in the day but in the night and so did Catch the People in their houses and keep them in torments until they Changed or made their Escape In the same month went a Company to a place called La Motte the Lord of it is called Count Parabelle a Papist they surprized the Protestants in their houses that place was thought full of Religious people and that would sooner have lost their Estates than their Religion but it proved otherwise they stood but three daies except twenty that absented themselves They did also great Cruelties at Coulonge then the Souldiers took their March where they had been before to see if any were returned and so continued their wickedness which occasioned many to turn and them that would not did forsake the Kingdom The Priests all the Kingdom over did forbid the People to buy any Goods of the Protestants so that if any was sold it was by stealth laying upon the Buyers a great Charge saying These People have no Religion their Means are their Gods to save them they will turn to us and the want of Money will keep them here but if they have Money they will return into the Hereticks Country and you that buy such Goods must needs be damned and suffer double pains because you are a help or instrument to convey those People from the true Faith upon that all manner of Goods were cheap but several of them did buy secretly such Goods as they did forbid others to buy The Magistrates of every place did also forbid to buy any thing of the Protestants upon great penalties From Niort a great Town in the said Province several Gentlemen Women and Children shipped themselves upon the River of Maran the Magistrates of that place having notice of the same Commanded some Souldiers to follow them and they were taken at a place called LaRouseille