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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49221	The French king's decree against Protestants, prohibiting them the exercise of their religion, &c. to which is added a brief and true account of the cruel persecution and inhumane oppressions of those of the reformed religion to make them abjure and apostatize : together with the form of abjuration the revolting Protestants are to subscribe and swear to, and a declaration of his Electoral Highness of Brandenburgh ... : also a letter from Father La Chese ... to Father Petre ... / newly translated from the French.; Edit de révocation de l'Edit de Nantes. English	France.; Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg, 1620-1688.; La Chaise, François d'Aix de, 1624-1709.; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.	1689 (1689)	Wing L3117; ESTC R2440	33,019	41

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 Halberstadt 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 Foreign 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 extraordinary with the States-General of the Vnited 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 Councellor and Resident for the Circle of the Lower Saxony Sieur Guerick shall furnish them with all conveniences 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 who shall come from the Parts of France about Sedan as from Champagne Lorain Burgundy or from any of the Southern Provinces of that Kingdom and who think it not convenient to pass through Holland may betake themselves to the City of Frankfort upon Maine and there address themselves to Sieur Merain our Councellor and Agent in the said City or in the City of Cologne to Sieur Lely our Agent to whom We have also given Command to furnish them with Money Pasports and Boats in order to the carrying them down the River Rhine to our Dutchy of Cleves and Mark or in case they shall desire to go further up in our Dominions our said Ministers and Officers shall furnish them with Address and Conveniences for to Arrive at those several respective places III. And forasmuch as the said our Provinces are stored with all sorts of Conveniences and Commodities not only for the necessity of Living but also for Manufactures Commerce and Trade by Sea and by Land those who are willing to Settle themselves in any of our said Provinces may choose such place as they please in the Country of Cleve Mark Ravensberg and Minde or in those of Magdeburg Halberstadt Brandenburg Pomerania and Prussia And forasmuch as We conceive that in our Electoral Marquisate the Cities of Stendel Werbe Rathenow Brandenburg and Frankfort and in the Country of Magdeburg the Cities of Magdeburg Halle and Calbe and in Prussia the City of Koningsberg will be most commodious as well for the great abundance of all necessaries of Life which may be had there at cheap Rates as for the convenience of Trade and Traffick We have given charge that as soon as any of the said French Protestants shall arrive in any of the said Cities they shall be kindly received and agreed with about all those things which shall be thought needful for their Settlement And for the rest leaving them at their full Liberty to dispose of themselves in whatsoever City or Province they shall judge most commodious and best suiting with their Occasions IV. All the Goods Houshold-stuff Merchandize and Commodities which they shall bring along with them shall not be liable to any Custom or Impost but shall be wholly exempt from all Charges and Impositions of what Name or Nature soever they may be V. And in case that in any of the Cities Towns or Villages where the said Persons of the Reformed Religion do intend to settle themselves there be found any Ruinous and decay'd Houses or such as stand empty and which the Proprietors are not in a condition to repair We will cause the same to be Assigned to them the said French Protestants as their Propriety and to their Heits for ever and shall content the present Proprietors according to the value of the said Houses and shall wholly free the same from all Charges to which the same might stand ingaged whether by Mortgage Debts or any other way whatsoever Furthermore Our will is That they be furnished with Timber Quick Lime Stones Bricks and other Materials they may stand in need of for the repairing of whatsoever is decay'd or ruinous in any of the said Houses which shall for six Years be exempt from all sorts of Impositions Free-Quarter and all other Charges whatsoever Neither shall the said French during the time of six Years be lyable to any Payments whatsoever but what are chatgeable upon things of daily Consumption VI. In Cities or elsewhere where convenient places shall be found for to build Houses those of the Reformed Religion who shall make their Retreat into our Dominions shall be fully Authorized and Impowered to take possession of the same for themselves and their Heirs after them together with all the Gardens Fields and Pasture-Grounds belonging to the same without being oblig'd to pay any of the dues and charges with which the said places or their dependances may be Incumbred Moreover for the facilitating their Building in any of the said places We will cause them to be furnished with all the materials they shall stand in need of and will over and above allow them Ten Years of Exemption during which they shall not be lyable to any other charges or payments besides the dues charged upon things of daily spending And furthermore forasmuch as Our intent is to make their Settlement in our Dominions the most easie and commodious for them that may be We have given command to our Magistrates and other Officers