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A02964	Instructions giuen by the princes of Nauarre and of Conde, the Counte of Colligny admyrall of Fraunce, and other lords & gentlemen of their counsell, and others chosen by the nobilitie of the prouinces of this realme, to the deputies of their parte, vpon the conferences holden vvith the sieurs of Biron & Malassize; tvvo of the kings priuie counsell, and deputed by his Maiestie, for the negociation of the peace, most humbly beseeching his Maiestie to graunt vnto them the most iust and necessary demaundes vvhich follovv, for the health of their soules, and preseruation of their honors, lyues, and goodes.		1570 (1570)	STC 13104; ESTC S108567	8,229	28

all that therevnto belongeth and also in other lands Lordships and iurisdictions which they haue in his realme and obeysance Of which principaltie one parte of the places haue bene taken by the Sieur of Suse Knight of the order and some other places haue bene seazed by the kings letters patents for his seruice And that the sayd Prince and Counte his brother may from henceforth enioye the same as they did before the troubles and as it is expressed in the treaties of peace made betwéene the late king Henry of Fraunce and the king of Spaine and other prouisions and declarations sithence graunted for the behoofe of the saide Prince Notwithstanding all procéedings sentences and orders made and giuen during the troubles which shall be as nothing and of none effect or force 15 He shall also cause to be restored effectually to the sayd noble mē all the writings titles and documents rents fruits and reuenues appertayning to them taken in the time of the present troubles aswell in the sayd principalitie as in the landes of his maiestie the same to be executed by the Commissioners at the tyme of the execution of the Edict of pacification or by such other of the kings officers as the sayde noble men will choose 16 And his Maiestie meaning to repaire all things happened in the tyme of these warres as much as he can his maiestie will giue order that al prisoners and such as haue bene stayed by iustice and otherwise sent to the Galleys vpon occasion of these troubles shall be set at lybertie on eyther part without paying any raūsome And as for the Raunsoms alreadie payde there shall nothing thereof be recouered 17 And whereas variaunce may happen to aryse vppon occasion of sales of landes and other immouable goods and engaygings made vpon occasion of raunsoms before the Duke of Aniou the kings brother calling vnto him the Mareschals of Fraunce to be by him decyded and ended It may be ordered that all persons aswell of the one Religion as of thother reciprokely and whome it toucheth shal enter agayne into all their immouable goodes which they did possesse before the sayde troubles and that haue fallen vnto them during the same And as for their mouable goodes which shall be founde to remayne the same shall be restored vnto them purely simply so shall also such as haue bene taken betwéene neighbours and neighbours and deliuered in trust to be kept And as for suche as haue béene solde by order of Iustice they shall haue them agayne paying the same price that they were solde for And yet neuerthelesse such as haue béene taken by way of hostilitie shall remaine as good prise and not to be brought againe in question 18 All they also of the said religion shall recouer all offices of iustice of reuenues and other togither with the benifices wherevnto they haue any interest to enioy them wholy and peaceably and also al offices of dignities gouernements captainships charges or pensiōs which they had before the sayde troubles except it be that they were constrayned to resigne thē by the kinges Edict made in that behalfe In which case they shall restore the profite which they shall haue thereof in déede receyued as likewise they of the sayde religion do offer of their part to be a meanes for the whole restitution of their sayde offices and benifices to reuoke and recouer from them to whom through the necessity of the warres they haue solde the temporall reuenue of the Cleargie the king graunting vnto them suche letters and commissions as shall be requisite for that purpose 19 That all procéedinges sentences iudgements and definitiue or interlocutory decrées giuen against anye of them of the religion of what sorte or condicion so euer they be as well deade as liuing whether they haue borne armes or not at the beginning since and during the troubles and by occasion of the same till the day of the sayde Edict shall be broken reuoked and made voyde and so also all executions if there haue béene any and all markes tokens and monuments of the said slaunderous executions against their persons and the remembraunce of them taken away with such solemnitie as is requisite for the full reparation and recouerie of their honor And the places where the sayd executions haue bene made to be established in their first state and restored to the owners of the same And as for ciuill procéedings and processes the parties to be put in their first state as they were before the troubles 20 All prescriptions happened during the sayd troubles shall be voide and taken as though they had not happened and no meanes left whereby any of eyther religion may helpe themselues therewith agaynst other 21 And for the better establishing of the peace for the tyme to come and to take away all inequalities and a like good vsage to be shewed equally to all the kings subiectes all those townes that be or haue béene kept by those of the sayde religion shall be vsed with like equalitie as the others be and not to be grieued and ouercharged with lones garrisons or anye other burthens and the inhabitauntes of them and of others of this realme being of the religion or that shal be thereof hereafter shall be indifferently admitted to all offices dignities charges and publike functions and called also to all counsels and determinations in towne houses or in generall offices of Prouinces 22 That all places townes and Prouinces shall remaine and enioy the same priuileges exemptions lyberties and franchises which they did before the saide troubles 23 That the king shall extend the benifite of his Edict of pacification in such sort as he doth to all his owne subiects and to those that be vnder his obedience and protection to those that be of the countie of Venisse and of the Archbishopricke of Auignon as being within his realme and within the compasse or circuite of hys crowne at the least for the restitution and enioying of their goodes the libertie of their consciences their sure habitation and frée accesse and trading within hys realme and within the sayd Countie●●ed Archbishoprike as the kings own and naturall subiects doe and may doe And this for the reasons that haue béene more at large set forth to the Sieurs de Biron and de Malassize specially for the preseruation of the kings right and authority in the sayd Countie and Archbishoprike 24 That althoughe the Reyters who haue béene called to the succor of those of the religion at their great néede and who be yet with them ought to bée payde by such as haue béene the first and principall authors of this warre and that haue coūselled and in maner constrayned the king therevnto and since also to continue therin notwithstanding the earnest and continuall instance made by them of the religion for the peace and namely since the ioyning with them of the sayd late Duke of Deuxponts Yet neuerthelesse for auoyding of these contentions and not

INSTRVCTIons giuen by the Princes of Nauarre and of Conde the Counte of Colligny Admyrall of Fraunce and other Lords Gentlemen of their counsell and others chosen by the Nobilitie of the Prouinces of this Realme to the Deputies of their parte vpon the conferences holden with the Sieurs of Biron Malassize two of the kings priuie Counsell and deputed by his Maiestie for the negociation of the peace most humbly beseeching his Maiestie to graunt vnto them the most iust and necessary demaundes which follow for the health of their soules and preseruation of their honors lyues and goodes 1. THat all persōs of what qualitie and condition soeuer they be and in whatsoeuer townes and places of thys realme and countries of the obeysance and protection of hys Maiestie they doe dwell or abyde maye lyue in the same in full libertie of conscience nowe and hereafter wythout impechement or gainsaying or to be compelled to doe any thing in matter of Religion against their will. 2 That all Gentlemen and other persons inhabitants of the realme or straungers hauing high Iustice in all or in part of their owne in propertie or during their liues or else such as doe fully possesse royalties in Normandy may in the same places where they haue the saide Iustice and royalties and in such places as they shall thinke most conuenient as well absent as present haue and cause to be vsed the said exercise of their religion as wel for themselues their householde and tenaunts as for all other that will resort thither 3 As for other Gentlemen hauing no such highe Iustice that they may vse the same exercise of the religion in their houses for themselues and their houshold So as they doe not dwell in the townes boroughes or paryshes of the sayde Lordes that haue high Iustice sauing such as be his Maiesties or else with the sufferaunce or lycence of the sayde Lordes of highe Iustice Which it may please his Maiestie to order that by his example the same licence may not be refused And shall not suffer them to be reproched or blamed as breakers of his Edict if there resort to the sayd exercise of religion any other persōs than of their owne housholde or that if there happen any christning that requireth hast 4 That in all townes and places where the exercise of the sayde religion is nowe vsed the same may so continue And to accommodate the reast of the Prouinces of this realme with the same exercise of the religion that in thrée townes of the same Prouinces and gouernments to be named in the sayde Edict the exercise of the religion shall be vsed for all persons that will resort thyther 5 That the Quéene of Nauarre the Princes and Princesses of the bloud and the principal officers of the crowne being at the Court may vse the sayde exercise of the religiō in the lodgings of their traines 6 That vnder the name of the exercise of the religion may be comprised all actes appertayning as well to the ministery ordring and discipline as also to the publike and priuate teaching of children others 7 As for Churchyardes for the buriall of the deade that the Lordes of high Iustice Maiors Aldermen and officers of the places where the sayde exercise of the religion shall be permitted may thereof consider and take order And in other places they shall get some place to burie the deade and therein to haue the assistance of the kings officers 8 That in all Vniuersities and schooles all persons may be indifferently receiued whether it be to teach or to study and not to be questioned withall or forced for the matter of religion 9 That al pore and sick folkes shal also be receyued into the Hospitals other like houses and haue part of all publike almeses and be vsed with lyke indifferencye being of the one religion or the other 10 That those of the sayde religion shall not be chalenged for their mariages being in the degrées not forbidden by the lawes receyued in this realme 11 That the lymits of .x. leagues mentioned in the article touching the exercysing of the religion forbidden at Paris as vncertaine may at the least be chaunged into the Prouostie and Viscontie In the which if it so please his Maiestie to commaunde it absolutely he shall not néede to be further pressed to haue the exercise of the religion there But if that shall not please his Maiesty yet that it may please him to moderate somewhat the straightnesse of this commaundement and not to take awaye from all Lordes of highe Iustice the generall licence giuen vnto them to vse the exercise of the sayde religion some of them hauing chiefe Lordships within the sayde Prouostie and Vicontie which shall be named vnto him by the sayde Deputies This to be done as well on the behalfe and fauour of the said Lordes as of a great number of people that otherwise shal be without heauenly spiritual foode or else shal be to much troubled in going farre to haue it farre of but chiefly for the christning of their children 12 And as touching that which next vnto the conscience is most déere vnto all persons that is the honor and goodes and to lay a sure foundation in that which shal be for this cause ordred to the ende there be no doubt made of the sinceritie of the Quéene of Nauarre of the Princes of Nauarre and of Conde the father and the sonne according to the assurance giuen to his Maiestie of their part that all that which hath bene done in these warres was done for a good meaning and for the zeale of their religion his sayde Maiestie shal declare that he doth take thē for his good Cosins faythfull subiects and seruauntes as in lyke case he doth take and estéeme the Lordes Knightes Gentlemen Captaines officers and other inhabitants of the townes and Boroughs of this realme and countries of his obeysance who haue folowed succoured and holpen them in the saide warres in what place or sort soeuer the same hath bene to be his good and faithfull subiects and seruaunts And for like good and reasonable occasion his Maiestie shall declare that he doth take the heyres of the late Duke of Deuxpontes the Princes of Orange Counte Ludouic of Nassau his brother and Volrode Counte of Mansfeld to be his good Cousins neighbors and friends 13 And to shew himselfe to be so in déede towards the sayde persons he shall order that the sayde Princes of Nauarre and Conde shall enioy those lands belonging to them which haue bene taken from them and are in the handes of the king of Spaine Or else for lack of satisfaction to be made by the sayde king of Spaine the King shall giue them letters of Mart. 14 Also his Maiestie shall effectuallye cause the sayde Prince of Orange and Countie Ludouic of Nassau his brother to be restored and put in possession in the principaltie of Orange rightes landes and iurisdictions of the same and

to omit one onely poynt of all meanes possible for them they of the sayde religion offer to contribute towards the sayd payment the summe that the king shall vnderstand by hys said Commissioners And for the doing of the same they offer the first part of the reuenue of all those that be of the religion and that they maye be after that rate taxed and coated according to their vocations and liuing as it is accustomed vntill the summe which shall be declared shall be perfourmed deducting onely from the same reuenues the ordinarie charges and forbearing the execution till the next yeare bicause the fruites of this present yeare shall scarcely suffice for the entertainment of the said Reyters And the said taxation or coting to be made vpon them that be of this realme onely 25 That all letters of pardon and of abholishments graunted by the king eyther generall or particular for matter happened before and during the troubles for the cause of religion shall haue theyr full force and effect and shall be executed by the Commissioners for this Edict of Pacification 26 That the Quéene of Nauarre the Princes of Nauarre and Conde the father and the sonne the Lords gentlemen officers and others that haue ayded and succoured them in their warres shall remaine quit and discharged of all money that hath béene by them or by their order taken leuied of the receipts reuenues of the king to what summe soeuer the same doth amoūt vnto as also of townes commonalties and of rents reuenues treasories of the sale of moueable goodes as well of the Church as of others that are come of the sale of the kings timber woodes alienation of the temporaltie and reuenues of the Church of forfeytures bootyes raunsoms of prisoners of any other summes of money of what nature soeuer by them or by their knowledge and consent taken vpō occasion of these wars without any daunger to them and their heyres or to those that haue bene by them appointed to leuie the sayde money or that haue furnished and giuen the same to be touched eyther for the present time or the time to come And as well themselues as their sayde Deputies shall remaine discharged of the handling dealing and imploying of the same bringing for full discharge an acquittance of the saide Quéene or of the sayde Princes or of them before whome they were to giue account The establishment also of officers of Iustice made by them of iudgements and executions of the same authorised and confirmed in time past shall so remayne And also such as haue bene appointed Deputies or Commissioners of what sort soeuer shall remayne discharged of all treaties and contracts by them made with all Princes Potentates and foraine commonalties of all negotiation with them of bringing in of the sayde straungers of casting of Ordinaunce making of powder and Saltpeter taking of Ordinaunce and munitions in the kings Storehouses and of particular fortifications and rasing of townes spoyling and burning of houses of Churches of leuying and conducting of men of warre and of all actes of hostilitie and generally of all that hath bene done and treated before and since the present warre and the warres past as though it were particularly expressed and specified And to this ende that all things done by the knowledge and consent of the sayde late Prince of Conde or of the said Quéene of Nauarre and the other Princes shall be sufficient for all warrant and discharge 27 And for as much as in the distributing of Iustice whereof doth chiefly depend the suretie of this Edict of pacification diuers abuses haue bene commytted which procéeded of the passion and partialitie of the most part of the Iudges against those of the religion therefore to preuent the lyke dealing and that from one warre there be not an entry made to an other more intollerable for them vnder colour of Iustice the proces of those of the religion both ciuill and criminall as well on the behalfe of the plaintife as of the defendant shall be treated heard at the first before the ordinary Iudges and after vpon appeale before certaine others to be taken of all the bodyes of the saide Courts of Parliaments as the parties shall accorde and agrée vpon to a certaine number by which according to these particuler orders of the sayde Courtes of Parliament iudgement may be giuen sauing where the parties cannot agrée within one onely and that a short delaye then the sayde processe shall be iudge in the high councell being called therevnto foure maysters of the requestes of the number of those that the king shall appoynt for the matter that shall be deliuered by those of the religion 28 As for the assuraunces that it hath pleased the king of himselfe voluntarily to graunt vnto them of the religion not in respect of it but for the conseruation of himselfe vntil the sharpnesse of the warre might be qualified with the time and hath for that ende for certaine yeares commaunded them to haue the kéeping of the townes of Rochel Montauban and Sancerre and that they may there during and after the sayde terme vse the exercise of the sayde religion They desire and most humbly beséeche that it maye please the king for the reasons that they haue more at large declared vnto the Sieurs de Biron Malassize to graunt vnto them la Charite in stéede of the towne of Sancerre for the sayde assurance and to adde to the number of the thrée townes the towne of Angoulesme in respect of the situation of the sayde Rochell and for better health sake and other commodities 29 Beside these things and touching others besides the King as is aforesayde there haue bene diuers other thinges propounded contayned in the Articles presented vnto the King of which there can nor ought to be cut off scarcely one seing they serue all to this ende that the peace maye be the surer and stronger True it is that the principallest and most important of them are that all straungers men of warre maye withdrawe themselues the spéediest that maye be out of this Realme the Kings subiectes to their houses or other places that they shal choose for their abode without being impeached 30 And to take away all mistrusting and not to giue libertie to the gouernors of Countries to execute their reuenge against townes and specially against those that haue bene or are kept by those of the Religiō or to cause them to redéeme their yll handling by force of exactions vpon the inhabitantes of the same Townes It maye please the King to discharge all those townes that be not vpon the Frontires and wherein there haue béene no Garrisons vsed to be put 31 That all the Mareschals of Fraunce in ryding their circuites according to the distribution of their prouince shall be onely accompanied with Gentlemen and other men of learning of both the Religions in lyke number at the least of the lesse partiall and most louers of peace and common tranquilitie Which shall bée lykewise put in vre at the choyse and election of the Commissioners for the execution of the Edict of pacification 32 That the sayde Mareschalles of Fraunce and Commissioners shall cause the inhabitantes of the townes of both the Religions to sweare the obseruing and performing of the said Edict in all points And shall giue the charge of the one vnto the others and shall charge them respectiuely and by publike act to aunswere for the breach of the said Edict made by them of their sayde Religion within the towne or village where they shall dwell at the least wise orderly or otherwyse to present them to the Iustice 33 That no person shall taxe or reproch any other for any thing past during the troubles and that which toucheth them eyther by worde or by writing openly or pryuately and least of all in Sermons or in any publike actes sauing in iudgement in the deducing of their rightes 34 The trade of merchandize shall be restored and established in the same libertie and suretie as it was wont to be betwéene the subiectes of his maiestie and others and change of habitation permitted to all And the Princes straungers and forreine potentates shall be required of his Maiesties parte to suffer lykewise the saide trafficke in their countries and landes without exception of any person or religion 35 It may please his Maiestie to cause the exact obseruation of the sayde Edict to be sworne by the Quéene his mother the Dukes of Aniou and Alencon his brothers all the princes of the bloud Mareschalles of Fraunce and by those of the Kings priuie Counsell and officers of his Crowne And that they may gyue Acte of the sayde othe vnder their signes and Seales to those of the sayde Religion 36 That the gouernors of Prouinces Mayors Aldermen heade Officers and Counsellers of townes maye make the lyke othe and renewe it euerie yere 37 That all sentences and declarations that shall happen to the preiudice of the saide Edict shall be voyde and of none effect Which Edict shall be firme stable and irreuocable and these words shal be mentioned In the Preface of the saide Edict shall be mentioned all derogations and notwithstanding that and namelye those in the saide ordinaunces made vpon the alienatiō of reuenue and vnitings to the Crowne and also the saide derogations of Edicts declarations sentences retentions and secret Registers made or to be made to submissions voluntarie or constrayned publike or particular 18 That there shall be a place and daye of publication which may not be refused or deferred for any occasion whatsoeuer Vpon payne that those that make delay shall make aunswere in their owne name And that shal be without alteration kéeping backe or secret Register Gyuen at Bussy the. 21. of Iune Anno. 1570.