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A28934	The Negotiations of the embassadors sent to the Duke of Savoy by the Protestant Swiss-Cantons, in favour of the distressed Vaudois wherein there are many things very curious, and some letters never before published / translated out of French.	Boyer, P. (Pierre), 1619-ca. 1700.	1691 (1691)	Wing B3919B; ESTC R43065	46,787	171

Religion under the aforesaid Penalties and that of incurring our displeasure to keep for the future any School Publick or Private that their Children may henceforth be instructed by Catholick Schoolmasters As concerning those Ministers who during the said term shall embrace the Catholick Religion our Will is that during their lives and after their death their Widows shall during their Widowhood enjoy the same Exemptions and Immunities which they before had during the Exercise of their Charge And our further Pleasure is That to those Ecclesiasticks who shall in this manner be converted there be paid during their life a Pension which shall be a third part greater than the Wages which they had as Ministers of the said Religion and that after their death their Widows shall receive the Moiety of that Pension so long as they continue sole For what concerns the Children that shall be born of Parents of the said pretended Reformed Religion our Pleasure is That after the publication of this present Edict they be baptis'd by the Priests of the Parishes which are already established in the said Vallies or which shall be established hereafter We therefore Command their Fathers and Mothers that they either send or bring their Children to the Churches under the Penalty of the Father's serving Five years in the Gallies and the Mothers being publickly whipp'd and the said Children shall henceforward be brought up in the Roman Catholick Apostolick Religion We expresly Command all Judges Provosts Chatelains and other Officers to see that these Presents be duly executed We also confirm the Edict which we caused to be Publish'd the 4th of November last past concerning the Subjects of his Most Christian Majesty who profess the pretended Reformed Religion who are now in our Dominions or who have left in them any Merchandise Money or other Effects and for what concerns other Strangers of the said Religion who contrary to the tenour of our Predecessors Edicts have settled themselves in the Vallies without their consent shew'd in writing comprehending also their Descendants who have been born in it We Command that in case they do not within Fifteen days after the Publication of this Edict declare they will embrace the Roman Catholick Apostolick Religion they shall be obliged that term being expired to depart out of our Territories under pain of Death and Confiscation of their Goods And tho' by virtue of our Predecessors Edicts the Goods which such Strangers have gotten in our Dominions ought of right to be applyed to our Publick Treasury nevertheless intending in this case to shew our wonted Clemency we permit them to sell their Goods within the said term and to dispose of them as they please yet always with this condition that there shall be no sale of their Lands but to Roman Catholicks and if no such Buyers can be found the Goods shall be prized sold and annexed to our Demeans at a reasonable price Lastly we command all Magistrates establish'd by us all Ministers of State Officers Counsellors of Justice and War and all others who are concern'd to see that this Edict be inviolably observed and cause the Council of Piemont to Register it and give their entire approbation to every thing therein contain'd· And moreover our Will is That the Publication which shall be made of this Edict in all Places according to the usual form shall have the same force and virtue as if it had been notified to every particular Person and that as much credit be given to the Copy Printed by Sinibal our Printer as to the Original it self for such is our Will and Pleasure Given at Turin the 31 th of January 1686. Victor Amadeo V. Simione de St. Thomas By the Command of his Royal Highness The Evangelique Cantons having heard of this Edict a while after also knew that the Vaudois had in vain sought relief against it for they had presented Two Petitions to their Prince which were never answer'd By the First they desir'd a Revocation of this Edict and by the Second leave to depart out of his Dominions within such a term as might be necessary to find a settlement elsewhere The Cantons seeing that the ordinary means which had been used to stop the execution of this Edict had not been effectual they thought some extraordinary course was to be tryed They therefore at first wrote to the Duke of Savoy Praying that he would make good to his Subjects of the Vallies those Concessions which had been granted to them by his Predecessors But when they saw the Duke delay'd to give them any answer and that they knew he prepar'd to execute his Edict by force they resolv'd in a Diet held at Baden in the Month of February 1686 to dispatch two Ambassadours to him to endeavour the obtaining by their Representations that which they could not procure by their Letters The Persons pitched upon for this Embassie were Gaspard de Muralt and Bernard de Muralt both Councellours of State the First of the Republick of Zurich the other of Berne who had all qualities necessary to fit them for such an Employ either in respect of their Virtue and Piety or of their Prudence and Personal Abilities These Ambassadours were charged to use their best endeavours to oblige the Duke of Savoy to revoke the Edict which he had published against the Valley Churches And because they had reason to fear that his Royal Highness would continue firm in his Resolution of causing it to be executed in all points the Protestant Cantons after having maturely considered the state of the People that compos'd the Churches and the Alliances and Forces of the Prince who resolv'd totally to extirpate them if they refus'd to submit to his Will they thought in case their Ambassadours could not obtain a Revocation of the Edict that then it would be expedient for them to endeavour the procuring of liberty for those miserable People to retire into some other Country to sell their Goods and to carry with them all that they could get together of their shipwrack'd Fortune The Lords who were present in this Diet were too prudent and judicious to take any other course but this they saw on the one hand how few they were who could bear Arms in the Vallies for they were at most but Two Thousand Five Hundred Men the greatest part of them ill armed and had neither Commanders Provision or Ammunition and could not from any place expect Succours that they likewise who had Commanded in the Wars of 1655 and 1664 were now all dead But on the other hand when they considered the Prince's Forces who had resolved to abolish their Religion they saw that they infinitely exceeded those of his Subjects who were of a Religion contrary to his for the Duke had enjoy'd a long Peace he had a great many good Troops brave Captains and experienc'd Generals he had nothing to fear either from his Neighbours or any Prince in Europe More than all this the Duke of Savoy's

Troops were joyn'd with those of the King of France who was then so dreaded that his very Name made all the Potentates of Europe tremble whereas heretofore though the Subjects of France fought together with the Vaudois to assist and guard them from the oppression of their Sovereign yet notwithstanding their being so aided they were driven out of their Vallies and could not defend themselves against the single Forces of their Prince They farfarther considered that if by some unexpected chance the Vaudois should at first have the good luck to get some advantage over their Enemies yet in the end they must needs be overpower'd by the great number of those that attack'd them whose losses could be repaired by being recruited with new Troops but the Vaudois could make no new Levies to fill the places of those that must be flain in several Combats More than all this the Vaudois having to do with the King of France who was the proudest Prince in the World and who at that time had no Enemy upon his hands he would have armed all the People of his Kingdom against them rather than have fail'd to bring his design to pass wherein he thought consisted his chiefest Glory and by which he believ'd he should merit the highest Place among the greatest Saints in Paradise The Cantons had before their eyes the French Protestants whom they had receiv'd into their Territories and comparing their condition with that of their Brethren of Piemont they found that even in that miserable state to which they were reduced the Vaudois being still able to obtain free leave to go out of their Country were in that respect much happier than the French Protestants who were not only obliged to quit their Houses and their Country when all their Goods were taken from them but yet could not buy their Banishment without hazarding their Lives and their Liberty All things thus considered the Cantons at last concluded they could do nothing of more advantage for the Piemontois than to obtain for them that which they themselves had now and heretofore desired when they were persecuted concerning the exercise of their Religion for in former times they most humbly petition'd their Prince that they might seek a retreat in Foreign parts The Ambassadours furnished with these Instructions went into Piemont and being arrived at Turin and admitted to Audience by his Royal Highness they declar'd That seeing the mediation of their Masters the Evangelique Cantons with his Royal Highness in favour of his Protestant Subjects had been always acceptable and effectual their Sovereign Lords having with extreme grief heard that his Royal Highness had resolved to deprive his Protestant Subjects of the liberty of their Consciences and the exercise of their Religion which they had enjoy'd for many Ages their Sovereigns moved by Christian Charity by the strict union with those of their Communion and by the confidence they had in his Royal Highness's Clemency and Justice had presumed to intercede by their Letters of Recommendation in favour of their Brethren of the Vallies But having received no answer to those Letters their Masters had charged them with this Embassie to testifie the consideration they had for his Royal Highness and likewise to shew how much they were touched with the late Edict which had been published against his Highness's poor Subjects and had commanded them to assure his Highness how sincerely they regarded his Interests and with all possible instance to pray him to suffer the Inhabitants of the Vallies quietly and perpetually to enjoy the exercise of their Religion and that liberty of Conscience his Predecessors had granted to them upon the pressing Intercessions and Recommendations of many Princes and Protestant States and particularly upon the Interposition and Mediation of their Sovereigns And that which made them hope to obtain what they desired was that his Highness's Subjects had done nothing to render themselves unworthy of the continuance of the Favour and Affection of their Prince or that ought to deprive them of the right which they had acquired by his own concessions which ought to be inviolable because they were not bare and simple Tolerations but Authentick Treaties made with the Inhabitants of the Vallies and therefore ought to be perpetual and irrevocable as may be seen in the Twentieth Article of the Grant pass'd in the year 1655 and the Fourth Article of the Patent in 1664 which declares That they should be perpetually and irrevocably observed and that in effect they have been Ratify'd and Register'd by the Senate of Chambery to be Bona fide executed according to their Form and Tenour That their Lords were verily persuaded that his Highness in his own Reign full of Glory and Felicity would not suffer those Grants follow'd with many Declarations and solemn Promises to be made void and all the fruit of their Mediation Pains and Care come to nothing They hoped that his Highness would not have the World believe he had not the same esteem and regard for the Evangelique Cantons which his Predecessors had or that the perfect Amity and sincere Correspondence which hath always been between his Royal Highness and their Lords as good Neighbours and Friends was in any wise alter'd that his State would be expos'd to troubles and calamities that the Consciences of his Subjects which ought not to depend upon any but God alone would be forced by the fear of Death and Torments In a word the Inhabitants of the Vallies would be overwhelm'd with Misery and reduc'd to Despair They also earnestly pray'd his Royal Highness to receive favourably their Sovereign's Intercession in the behalf of his Subjects made their Brethren by Communion in one and the same Religion and that he would suffer himself to be moved by the Cries Tears and Groans of so many innocent Souls who did beseech him to suspend the Execution of his Edict and not to turn his Arms against his People who in rendering to God the Religious homage due to him desired with the loss of their Blood to seal the fidelity which they had vow'd to his Royal Highness That if their Mediation did produce the effect which their Superiours desired it would be the most convincing evidence his Royal Highness could give them that he no less valu'd their Mediation than his Predecessors of Glorious Memory had done and that on their part they would endeavour by all manner of ways to testifie their thanks and to render his Highness reciprocal Services upon all occasions and because in the Conference which the Ambassadours had with his Royal Highness's Ministers of State some of those Reasons had been declared which his Royal Highness had to publish the Edict whereof they desir'd the Revocation the Ambassadours judg'd it necessary to answer those Reasons to give others to back their own Demands contain'd in the following Memoir His Royal Highness's Ministers of State having declar'd to us when we discoursed privately with them that the Engagement into which by the