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A56905	Synodicon in Gallia reformata, or, The acts, decisions, decrees, and canons of those famous national councils of the reformed churches in France being I. a most faithful and impartial history of the rise, growth, perfection and decay of the reformation in that kingdom, with its fatal catastrophe upon the revocation of the Edict of Nants in the year 1685 : II. the confession of faith and discipline of those churches : III. a collection of speeches, letters, sacred politicks, cases of conscience, and controversies in divinity, determined and resolved by those grave assemblies : IV. many excellent expedients for preventing and healing schisms in the churches and for re-uniting the dismembred body of divided Protestants : V. the laws, government, and maintenance of their colleges, universities and ministers, together with their exercise of discipline upon delinquent ministers and church-members : VI. a record of very many illustrious events of divine providence relating to those churches : the whole collected and composed out of original manuscript acts of those renowned synods : a work never be extant in any language.	Quick, John, 1636-1706.; Eglises réformées de France.	1692 (1692)	Wing Q209; ESTC R10251	1,424,843	1,304

may then be published as if there had been no Impediment at all That so all Frauds which might otherwise be committed in this Matter may be prevented and avoided Article IV. Let no Stranger coming from a Foreign Land be admitted unto Marriage unless he bring with him good and vallid Certificates or undoubted Letters of Credit or that he have a Testimony from Godly Persons here upon the Place who will attest for him that he hath not a Wife elsewhere The Fifth DECREE THE next Query is about Bonds of Marriage and their Dependencies ANSWER Article I. Let the Banes be published on three several Sundays in the the Church before that the Marriage be Solemnized and let the first Syndick give it under his hand that he knoweth both the Parties so that immediately after the third Publication the Marriage may be then celebrated If one of the Parties belong to another Parish let him bring his Certificate from that Parish with him Article II. Let not the betrothed Persons cohabit together as Man and Wife till such time as they be solemnly married in the Church in that manner which is constantly practiced among Christians If any shall have done otherwise let them be imprisoned for three days and fed only with Bread and Water and be called into the Consistory and convinced of their Sin that they may be ashamed and humbled before God The Sixth DECREE THE next Query is about the Celebration of Marriage ANSWER Article I. Let the Parties to be married come upon their Wedding-day modestly unto the Church without Drums or Minstrels demeaning themselves orderly and gravely as becometh Christians and let them come before the Bell hath done Tolling that so the Marriage may be solemnly blessed before Sermon And if they be negligent and should come too late let them be turned away unmarried Article II. Let it be lawful to celebrate Marriages on any day yea upon any Working-day which shall seem good unto the Parties themselves provided there be a Sermon or upon the Lord's-day by Nine in the Morning or on any other day of the Week at the same hour when as the Word of God is Preached excepting only that day when the Lord's Supper shall be Administred that so there may be no distraction in the Worship of God and that all may be the better prepared for Communion with Christ at his holy Table The Seventh DECREE About the Man's dwelling with his Wife ARTICLE LET the Man and his Wife cohabit together in one and the same House having all things in common between them And if either of them separate from the other to live apart let them be called into the Consistory and convinced of their Sin and in case of differences betwixt them let them be made up and return home reconciled each with the other The Eighth DECREE IT is Queried What are the Degrees of Consanguinity which hinder Marriage ANSWER Article I. No Marriage may be contracted in the direct Line between the Father and his Daughter or the Mother and her Son and so consequentially between none other of their Descendants because this is destructive of natural Modesty and Piety and is expresly forbidden by the Law of God and the Civil Laws Article II. In like manner no Uncle can marry his Neice or Grand-niece nor the Aunt her Nephews or Grand-nephews because an Uncle represents a Father and an Aunt the Mother Article III. Nor may a Brother marry his Sister either of the whole or half Blood As for those other Degrees tho they be not forbidden neither by the Law of God nor by the Civil Law of the Romans yet nevertheless because such Marriages have not for many years been practiced and that we may shun all Scandals and that ignorant Persons may not blaspheme God and his Word Let not Cousin Germans contract Marriage together till that time h●th gotten a better Opinion of such Marriages among us As for Intermarriages in other degrees let them not be hindered The Ninth DECREE IT is Queried What are those Degrees of Affinity which hinder Marriage ANSWER Article I. Let no Father marry his Son's Widow nor let any Woman marry her deceased Daughter's Husband so consequently in those degrees which descends in a direct Line Article II. Let no Man marry his Wife's Daughter nor her Grand-child nor any in this Line downward Article III. Let not the Woman marry her Husband's Son nor Grand-son nor any in this Line downward Article IV. In like manner let none marry the Widow of his Nephew or of his great Nephew Article V. Let no Man marry his Brother's Widow nor any Woman him who was her Sister's Husband Article VI. A Man having committed Adultery with his Neighbour's Wife if it be afterward discovered he shall not marry the Adulteress because of the Scandals and Dangers that will ensue upon such a Marriage The Tenth DECREE THE next Query is about the Discords Variance and Contentions between married Persons ANSWER Article I. In case a Man doth not live peaceably with his Wife but that there be Strifes and Quarrels betwixt them let them be called into the Consistory and be admonished to live in Godly Concord and Union and Love together and let each of them be reproved for their Faults according as the Exigency of their case shall require Article II. If a Man shall evil intreat his Wife abusing beating and tormenting her or if he threaten outragious Mischief to her and it be known that he is a very disorderly and cholerick Fellow he shall be turned over to the Council who are humbly intreated by their Authority expresly to require him not to beat his Wife and that under some certain Penalty The Eleventh DECREE IT is Queried For what Causes may and ought a Marriage to be declared null ANSWER Article I. In case a Woman should complain that her Husband is bewitcht and naturally impotent for any Congress with his Wife and this shall by Confession or Visitation be found true let the Marriage be then declared null and the Woman also set at liberty from her Husband and the Man strictly forbidden not to abuse any other Woman in this manner Article II. If a Man should make the same Complaint of his Wife that he cannot have carnal Knowledge of her because of some defect in her Body and that she will not suffer it to be remedied and the Truth hereof being well known let the Marriage be declared null The Twelfth DECREE IT is Queried For what Causes may and ought a Marriage to be dissolved ANSWER Article I. In case a Man accuse his Wife of Adultery and prove it by Witnesses and clear Evidence and demand hereupon to be separated from her let him be divorced and also have leave to marry again with whom he best pleaseth Yet may he be exhorted to forgive his said Wife but he may not be urged importunately nor compelled against his will to keep her Article II. Altho in ancient times the Wifes priviledge was

made them consent to become Catholicks Some they stripped stark naked and after they had offered them a thousand Indignities they stuck them with Pins from Head to Foot They cut them with Penknifes tear them by the Noses with red hot Pincers and dragged them about the Rooms 'till they promised to become Roman Catholicks or that the doleful outcries of these poor tormented Creatures calling upon God for Mercy constrained them to let them go They beat them with Staves and dragged them all bruised to the Popish Churches where their enforced presence is reputed for an Abjuration They keep them waking seven or eight days together relieving one another by turns that they might not get a wink of sleep or rest In case they began to nod they threw Buckets of Water in their Faces or holding Kettles over their Heads they beat on them with such a continual noise that those poor Wretches lost their Senses If they found any sick who kept their Beds Men or Women be it of Feavers or other Diseases they were so cruel as to beat up an alarm with twelve Drums about their Beds for a whole Week together without Intermission till they had promised to change In some places they tied Fathers and Husbands to the Bed-Posts and ravished their Wives and Daughters before their Eyes And in another place Rapes were publickly and generally permitted for many hours together From others they pluck off the Nails of their Hands and Toes which must needs cause an intolerable pain They burnt the Feet of others They blew up Men and Women with Bellows 'till they were ready to burst in pieces If these horrid usages could not prevail upon them to violate their Consciences and abandon their Religion they did then Imprison them in close and noisome Dungeons in which they exercised all kind of Inhumanities upon them They demolish their Houses desolate their Hereditary Lands cut down their Woods seize upon their Wives and Children and mew them up in Monasteries When the Souldiers had devoured all the goods of a House then the Farmers and Tenants of these poor persecuted Wretches must supply them with new Fewels for their Lusts and bring in more subsistence to them and that they might be reimbursed they did by Authority of Justice sell unto them the Fee-simple Estate of their Landlords and put them into possession of it If any to secure their Consciences and to escape the Tyranny of these enraged Cannibals endeavour'd to flee away they were pursued and hunted in the Fields and Woods and shot at as so many wild Beasts The Provosts with their Archers course it up and down the high ways after these poor Fugitives and Magistrates in all places have strict Orders to stop and detain them without exception and being taken they are brought back like Prisoners of War unto those places from whence they fled SECT XLIV But this Storm did not fall only upon the Commons but Noblemen and Gentlemen of the best Quality are exposed to it They also have Souldiers Quartered upon them who do rage and spoil them every way as much as the Citizens and Peasants Their Houses are pillaged and plundered their Goods dissipated and wasted their Castles rased their Woods felled and their very Persons affronted with the Insolencies and Barbarity of the Dragoons They spare neither Sex nor Age nor Quality They practise their Violences upon all Persons who are non-compliant with their Commands of changing their Religion Several Officers and Members of Parliament underwent the very self-same Fate For they were first deprived of their Offices and then the Military Officers who were actually in service are ordered to quit their Posts and to come and Quarter upon them that they may by these new Apostles be necessitated to turn Catholicks Many Gentlemen and Persons of great Quality and many aged Ladies of ancient and noble Families seeing all these Outrages retired unto Paris and hoped that in that Forest of Houses and so near the Court they might find a safe retreat But this hope soon vanisheth For a Decree of Council is Published Commanding them to leave Paris in fifteen days and to return back again without tarrying unto their own homes And whereas some presumed to Petition his Majesty to stop the current of this violent Storm and Injustice they were immediately sent Prisoners to the Bastile The French King about the 6th of October 1685. was heard to say That he hoped by that time his Grandson the Duke of Burgundy came to years of Vnderstanding he should never know what an Hugonot was in France but by History In Sedan a Principality by the Kings Edict annexed but of late unto the Crown the Desolation by the Dragoons is unspeakable The Families of Protestants being inforced to pay unto these Guests Quartered upon them from ten to fifty and sixty Crowns a day till they were totally beggar'd There have been rare and great Examples of Patience and Constancy among these Suffering Protestants I shall produce a few Instances In Guyenne Monsieur de Bergues Lord of Feus ever since the Dragoons came into the Province hath had seventy of them continually lodged upon him at Free Quarters where they made a total Consumption devouring all that he had even to the very Stones and Walls and not content with ruining him they compelled his poor Tenants to contribute also to their Livelyhoods After they had by main force dragged his Lady and Children to the Popish Church they Imprisoned them in several Nunneries and as for that Pious Lord having by their Cruelties and ill usages confined him to his Bed yet they continued their Torments of him in his Sickness four Souldiers guarding him night and day as if he had been some Notorious Traytor and those brutal Wretches treating him with excessive Indignities However they could not shake the Constancy of this Noble and Religious Gentleman Five Citizens of Sedan after these Missionaries had tryed their skill upon them by destroying and eating up all their Substance and Estate and other Hellish ill usage in Prison to induce them to renounce their Religion and not prevailing they at last Condemn'd them to the Gallies Unto which they went most Couragiously Rejoycing at their great Afflictions for the Gospel Two ancient Gentlewomen of Sedan one being the Widow of Monsieur Dreall Seneschal of the City and the other the Relict of Monsieur de Beaulieu who in his Life time had been Pastor and Professor in that Church and Academy they both yielding up their Houses and Estates which were very considerable to be spoiled and plundered by these Dragoons did for some weeks hide themselves from their Violence by climbing from the Tops of Houses from one House unto another and indured those hardships which would have been the bane of others younger and stronger than themselves but hereby being worn out and quite spent with the labours and fatigues of their frequent removes they fell sick and were both seized on by their Persecutors who