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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

to relent towards us That he would Convert those who in their Blindness think they do Him Service by putting us to Death That He would cause his Voice to be heard by them from Heaven as to St. Paul Saul Saul Why Persecutest thou me And make the rest the Examples of his Exemplary Justice Finally That He would grant That all those who have denied Him being touched with a True Repentance may with St. Peter Go out and Weep bitterly I am SIR Yours c. An Extract of a Letter containing some more Instances of the Cruel and Barbarous Vsage of the Protestants in France BUt this Sir is not the thing which troubles me most at this time there 's another cause of my Grief which is but too just and even pierceth my Heart with Sorrow and that is The Cruel Persecution which the Poor Protestants of France do suffer amongst whom I have so many near and dear Relations The Torments they are put to are almost Incredible and the Heavenly Courage wherewith some of them are strengthned by their Great Captain and Leader to undergo them is no less amazing and wonderful I shall give for Instance one or two of these Champions that by them you may judge of the rest A Young Woman was brought before the Council in order to oblige her to abjure the Truth of the Gospel which she boldly and manfully refusing was commanded back again to Prison where they shaved her Head and sing'd off the Hair of her Privities and having stript her Stark-Naked in this manner led her through the Streets of the City where many a blow was given her and Stones flung at her After this they set her up to the Neck in a Tub full of Water where after she had been for a while they took her out and put upon her a Shift dipt in Wine which as it dry'd and fluck to her Sore and Bruised Body they snatch'd off again and then had another ready dipt in Wine to clap upon her This they repeated six several times and when by this Inhumane usage her Body was become very Raw and Tender they demanded of her Whether she did not now find her self disposed to Embrace the Catholick Faith for so they are pleased to term their Religion But she being strengthned by the Spirit and Love of Him for whose Names sake she suffered all these Extremities undauntedly answer'd That she had before declared her Resolution to them which she would never alter and that though they had her Body in their Power she was resolved not to yield her Soul to them but keep it pure and undefiled for her Heavenly Lover as knowing that a little while would put an end to all her Sufferings and give a Beginning to her Enjoyment of Everlasting Bliss Which Words of hers adding Fuel of their Rage who now despaired of making her a Convert they took and fastned her by her Feet to something that served the turn of a Gibbet and there let her hang in that Ignominious Posture with her head downwards till she expired The other Person I would instance in and whom I pity the more because for ought I know he may yet survive and still continue under the Tormentor's Hands is an Old Man who having for a great while been kept close Prisoner upon the same account as the former in a deep Dungeon where his Companions were Darkness and Horror and filthy Creeping things was brought before his Judges with Vermin and Snails crawling upon his Mouldred Garment who seeing him in that loathsom condition said to him How now Old Man does not your Heart begin to Relent and are not you willing to Abjure your Heresie To which he answer'd As for Heresie I profess none but if by that Word you mean my Religion you may assure your selves that as I have thus long Lived so I hope and am resolved by the Grace of God to Die in it With which answer they being little pleased but furiously incensed bespoke him in a rougher Tone Dost thou not see that the Worms are about to devour thee Well since thou art so resolved we will send thee back again to the loathsom Place from whence thou camest that they may make an end of thee and consume thy obdurate Heart To which he reply'd with the words of the holy patient Job Novi postquam vermes confoderint Corpus istud in carne mea me vissurum esse Deum I know that after Worms have eaten this Body that in my Flesh I shall see God. And having so said he was sent back to his loathsom dark Abode where if he be still I pray God to give him patience and strength to hold out to the End that so he may obtain the Crown of Life I should be too tedious in giving you all the particulars of their Cruelty and of the Sufferings of the Protestants yet I cannot well forbear acquainting you with what lately I am most credibly inform'd of which take as follows Some Dragoons who were Quartered with a Person who they could by no means oblige to Renounce his Religion upon a time when they had well fill'd themselves with Wine and broke their Glasses at every Health they drank and so fill'd the Floor where they were with the Fragments and by often walking over and treading upon them reduced them to lesser Pieces and Fractions And being now in a merry Humour they must needs go to Dance and told their Host That he must be One of the Company but withal that he must first pull off his Stockins and Shooes that the might move the more nimbly In a word they forc'd him to Dance with them bare-footed upon the sharp Points of Glass which when they had continued so long as they were able to keep him on his Legs they laid him down on a Bed and a while after stript him stark naked and rolled his Body from one end of the Room to the other upon the sharp Glass as beforementioned which having done till his Skin was stuck full of the said little Fragments they returned him again to his Bed and sent for a Chyturgeon to take out all the said pieces of Glass out of his Body which you may easily conceive could not be done without frequent Incisions and horrible and most extream pain Another Person being likewise troubled with the unwelcom Company of these Dragoons and having suffered extreamly at their hands without the expected success of his Conversion one of them on a time looking earnestly upon him told him That he disfigured himself with letting his Beard grow so long But he answering That they were the cause of it who would not let him stir out of door for to go to the Barber The Dragoon reply'd I can do that for you as well as the Barber And with that told him He must needs try his Skill upon him And so fell to work but instead of shaving him flea'd all the Skin off his Face One of his Companions coming in at