News from France.  
OR A relation of a marvelous and fearful accident of a disaster, which happened at PARIS the seventh day of March, this present year 1618. where by means of a terrible fire, all the Palace was burnt and consumed.  
Together with a narration of the loss and ruin of many Tradesmen, who had all their goods consumed by the said fire.  
As also an Injunction of the Court of Parliament concerning the restoring back and delivering of all bags of papers, Processes, pieces and Records which were taken up being cast out of the Palace during the said fire.  
Truly translated according to the French Copy: and set forth by authority.  
LONDON, Printed by William jones, for Nathaniel Browne, and are to be sold, at the next shop to the great North door of saint Paul's Church. 1618.   

NEWS FROM France. Or a Relation of the marvelous and fearfeull accident of a disaster, which happened at Paris the seventh day of March this present year. 1618. Where by means of a terrible fire all the Palace was burnt and consumed. TOGETHER WITH A NARRAtion of the loss and ruin of many tradesmen who had all their goods consumed by the said fire. AS ALSO AN INJUNCTION OF THE Court of Parliament concerning the restoring and deleviring back of all bags of papers etc.  
Worthy Reader, the Author being curious to give you to understand a matter prodigious and feaerfull, which is altogether worthy of memory, and remarked of many men of quality as well spiritual as temporal seeing an accident to happen in the best piece of the famous City of Paris, being a place where true and upright justice ought without delay to be done, named the Palace of the Kings of France and the most renowned in the world by Reason of a Chapel named the Holy, the which Almighty God hath preserved from the gulf of an horrible & unquenchable fire, which descended from Heaven, about midnight in the form and fashion of a terrible great flaming star, being for the bigness one cubit in length and of one foot in breadth, the which consuming fire did burn and waste the full space of a day and an a half within the great Hall of the Palace of Paris, without being able to be stayed or quenched by any means, as shewing that this fire would demonstrate the justice of God and the anger and wrath of the most holy Trinity declaring unto sinners that they should be converted and have God alwaias before their eyes without musing and troubling themselves in heaping up worldly good; and transitory riches, and leaving the means to come to the kingdom of God unsought for. In such sort began the fire the seventh day of March, about an hour after midnight that with the force thereof it burned and consumed all the ancient Antiquities and Records of this Realm of France having made in one night a greater deluge and destruction, than a hundred men are able to restore and build up in a year.  
But God hath preserved the Chapel called the Holy showing to his people that he desires to be honoured and glorified.  
We may well know that this fire signifieth unto us a beginning of the wrath of God and that he is angry against us, for this fire puts us in mind of the end of the world, and should stir us up to the firm belief which we ought to have in the spiritual merrcy of God, and to hold ourselves alwaéyes ready to fight against the enemy of our souls, and to embrace the true God and Saviour. And namely in this holy time of Lent we ought to reconcile ourselves unto God and to demand pardon and mercy of him for all our fins, that thereby we may come to the hiretage which he hath purchased by his death and passion, beseeching him to have pity upon us, and to preserve us henceforth from such accidents.   

The Arrest or Decree of the Court of Parliament of PARIS touching the restoring of the papers and registers which were cast by during the said fire.  
THe Court upon the complaint made thereunto, by the Attorney general of the King touching the diverting and casting aside of the bags, process, papers, parchments and registers made in the Palace during the time of the fire hath enjoined and doth enjoin, all persons of what quality estate and condition soever they be, which have taken or carried away found by accident or by what means soever there be come into their hands, any of the said bags process, pieces, titles, Register minutes and other papers, that they do speedily, and readily carry and put them into the hands of Master john Du Tillet Register or Greffier of the said Court, or into the hands of his Deputy in his house situate in the street Debu●si in this City of Paris, without retaining or keeping back any of them by guile fraud or otherwise, upon pain of exemplary punishment. Of which bags, Registers papers, and letters, the said Greffier or his Deputy shall keep a Register of the names, surnames and dwelling places of those which shall so bring them, for which he shall give them a full discharge, that afterwards the said bags and writings may be restored to the Pronotares Civil and Criminill, to whom the same shall belong.  
Inhibiting and forbidding upon the same pains all Tradesmen, apothecary's, sellers of paper, Lardmakers, Mercers, Grocers and any others to buy directly or inderectly either by themselves or means of any other persons any Parchments, Papers, writ●en in minute, or in bundles, nor to employ them about their packetts and trade: but if any shall be brought and offered unto them they are enjoined to betaine them, and show them to the justices & to the end none may pretend cause of ignorance this present Arrest and Decree shall be read and publishe● as well by the sound of the Trumpet and the public cry, as also by the Priests of the Churches of the Parishes in the time of service, and it is ordained that the Attorney general of the King shall have a Commission to inform hunselfe of the retention and concealment, and permitt●h him to give monition and warning that notice and revelation may be the better had. Given in the Parliament the eight day of March 1618.  
Signed Voysin.  
IN DOMINO CONFIDO