November the 29.  
THE TRUE ORIGINAL EDICT OF NANTS, as it was enacted by Henry the third, and confirmed by the last French King Henry the fourth of famous memory.  
And reestablished by Lewis the thirteenth, for the better assurance of those of the Reformed Religion, as appeareth by the King's Edict of Peace, dated in the Camp at Mompellier the ninteenth of October 1622. and proclaimed throughout all his Dominions for a final ending of all civil troubles.  
Cum Privilegio.  
LONDON, Printed by R. F. for William Garret 1622.   

TO THE courteous READER.  
THe powerful God of Armies, who only gives true strength unto the arm, and courage unto the heart, to fight the battles of his holy name and truth, even in the midst of hopeless perils, hath in all ages stood for the miraculous deliverance of his afflicted Church, when preposterous and malevolent minds urged the final ruin and extirpation thereof. This cannot in any thing more evidently appear, then in the bloody and fearful agitations of the French Church, under the troublesome reigns of Henry the third and Henry the fourth, of indelible memory: when private massacres and open hostility had almost extinguished the chief Nobility and gentry of France, and yet in the very instant of despair, God with his mighty finger touched the King's heart the third Henry, and opened the eyes of his royal understanding, which produced this happy Edict of Nants now here published, for a fair pacification of all former troubles and combustions. Yet was not this fire so clear extinguished (omitting the devastations of arms, during the reign of the last renowned Henry) but that the opposite spirits of these times found out some unquenched sparks, whereof to kindle a new flame of cruel war and bloodshed, even in the young and ambitious years of this present Lewis the thirteenth, the which notwithstanding after some sensible feeling of his heavy hand and displeasure, it hath pleased God to moderate and qualify, by informing his Princely mind, that an external union and formality of Religion, cannot supplant the seeds of thirsty and insatiable ambitions, which do but attend civil and intestine dissensions, the better to propagate their haughty and imperious designs. As proceeding from one and the self same cause, these instant French troubles have been accorded with one and the like effect, the Articles of this present Peace being drawn and extracted from the model and frame of the former Edict of Nants in this Treatise diuulged, which being at least more large and copious, by diligent comparing the one with the other, the best understandings may more absolutely judge, both of the form and substance of the present conditions. And to this end only (courteous Reader) I have with some charge caused this original Edict of Nants to be translated and published, being desirous herein to gratify thee, as he that expects no other reward then thy acceptation and love, and that thou wilt join with me, and all those well affected to Religion, in hearty desire and prayer, that this happy accord may stand firm and permanent. And thus I recommend my travel and labours to thy love, and remain as I will ever persevere,  
Thy very loving and well affected: W. G.   

THE KING'S EDICT, AND A DECLARATION UPON THE PRECEDENT Edicts of Pacification.  
HEnrie by the grace of God, King of France and of Navarre, To all those present or hereafter to come, greeting. Amongst those infinite graces which it hath pleased God to impart unto us, this is one most notable and remarkable, that he hath given us the constancy and power, not to be shaken with those terrible confusions, troubles, and disorders, which were on foot at our coming to this kingdom, the same being divided into so many partialities and factions, that the same most lawful, was as it were the least in power: and yet nevertheless we bore up so stiffly in the midst of all this storm, as in the end we overcame it, and are now entered into the harbour of safety & repose within this State. The absolute and whole glory whereof were downd only to him, and the grace and bounden duty therefore to us, in that he was pleased to make use of our labour and travail, for the performance of this so good a work: wherein it hath been apparent to the whole world, whether we have not discharged therein, not only our duty and power, but further something more also, then in some other season had been correspondent to the dignity we hold; the which we have not been afraid to hazard and expose, seeing we have so mavy times so freely adventured, and endangered our own life. And in this great concurrence of so weighty and perilous affairs, not being able to compound them all at one time, we were tied to observe therein this order: first to undertake those differences which could not be determined otherwise then by force; and rather to defer, and hold in suspense the other for a certain time, which were or might be discussed by equity and justice: such as were the general differences between our good subjects, and the particular aggrievances of the more sound parts of our State, which we supposed might more easily be cured by removing the principal cause thereof, which was the continuance of the civil war. Wherein (by God's special grace) having had good and happy success; and hostility and arms being laid apart in all the interior parts of the kingdom, we hope it will succeed no worse also in other affairs which yet remain to be compounded: and that by this means we shall obtain the establishment of a good peace, and quiet repose, which was ever the butt and aim of all our vows and intentions, and the only prize and reward we look for after such wonderful travail and pains wherein we have passed the course of our life. Among the said affairs which required our patience, and one of the most principal, was the complaints we daily received from many of our Catholic Provinces & Towns, in that the exercise of the Catholic Religion was not generally reestablished, as the Edicts heretofore made for the Pacification of troubles through the occasion of Religion imported. As also the Supplications and Remonstrances exhibited unto us by our subjects of the pretended reformed Religion, both for the execution of that accorded unto them by the said Edicts, as further for that they desired there might be added for the practice of their said Religion, the the liberty of their consciences, and the security of their persons and goods: presuming they had just occasion of new and more fearful apprehensions, by reason of these last commotions and insults, the principal pretext and foundation whereof was for their ruin. Wherefore not to overcharge ourselves with too many businesses at one instant, and likewise that the fury of Arms might not interrupt the establishment of laws, how good or behooveful soever, we deferred from time to time the provision and care hereof. But now since it hath pleased God to give a beginning for our enjoyance of some better repose and quiet, we esteem that we cannot better employ it, then in prosecuting and intending that which concerneth the service and glory of his holy Name, procuring that it may be adored and prayed unto by all our subjects: and though it yet stand not with his pleasure, that this should be under one and the same form of Religion, notwithstanding that it might be at least with one intention and meaning, and with such government that no uproars or tumults might accrue between them: and that ourselves and this kingdom might always deserve and preserve the glorious title of Most Christian, which was purchased so long time since, and with so many worthy demerits: and so by the same means to supplant the cause of all molestations and troubles which might ensue hereafter upon the point of Religion, which hath ever been the most prevalent and penetrant of all others. For the same occasion, observing this affair to be of such high consequence, and worthy of deep and weighty consideration, after a revolving of all Registers of the complaints of our Catholic subjects, and having also permitted our said subjects of the said pretended reform Religion, to assemble by deputies for the exhibiting of their aggrievances, and for reducing together all their said Remonstrances: and having conferred with them diverse times upon this point, & reviewed the precedent Edicts; We have thought is convenient to enact at this time generally for all our subjects a Law universal, clear, plain, and absolute, by which they shall be limited & governed in all differences that have heretofore grown between them in these points, or that may hereafter happen, and wherein both the one and the other may remain satisfied, according as the quality of the present times doth permit: Ourselves being entered into this deliberation, for no other end but out of the zeal we bear to the service of God, and that from this time forward there may be ratified and confirmed between our said subjects a firm and perpetual Peace. Wherein we both invoke and attend from his divine Majesty, the same protection and favour which he hath ever most evidently conferred upon this Kingdom from the erection thereof, and during the many ages it hath continued: and that he will bestow the grace upon our said subjects, truly to apprehend, that in the observation of this our ordinance and Decree, (next to their immediate duties towards God and Ourselves) consisteth the main foundation of their union and concord, tranquillity, and repose, and the restauration of this whole Estate to her original splendour, opulency, and power. Even as We on our part promise to procure it most exactly to be performed, without permitting it in any sort to be disannulled or broken. For these reasons, having by the advice of the Princes of our blood, of other Princes and Officers of the Crown, and of other eminent and remarkable persons of our Counsel and Estate near about us, maturely and diligently weighed and considered this whole business: by this perpetual and irrevocable Edict we have denounced, declared, and ordained, and do denounce, declare, and ordain.  

I.  
First, that the memorial of all things passed, both of the one side and the other, from the begnning of the month of March 1585. till Our coming to the Crown, & during the other precedent troubles, or by means of them, shall remain extingushed and razed out, as matters that never had happened. And it shall not be permitted nor lawful for our Procurors general, neither for any other persons whosoever, public or private, at any time or upon any occasion whatsoever, to make mention thereof, or to commence any process or suit thereupon in any Courts or jurisdictions wheresoever.   

II.  
We forbid all our subjects, of what estate or quality soever they be, to renew any memory, to assail, urge, injury ', or provoke one another by way of reproach for what is past, upon any cause or pretext soever: to debate thereupon, to contest, quarrel, outrage, or offend either in word or deed: but to forbear and live peaceably together, as brethren, friends, and fellow citizens: upon penalty, for the delinquents to be punished as breakers of the peace, and disturbers of public quiet.   

III.  
We Enact, that the Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Religion, shall be reestablished and restored in all the places and parts of this our Kingdom and country under our obedience, where the exercise thereof hath been interrupted, there to be peaceably and freely put in practice, without any hindrance or disturbance. Forbidding expressly all persons, of what estate, quality, or condition soever they be, upon the penalty above mentioned, no ways to trouble, molest, or disturb Ecclesiastical persons in the celebration of divine Service, the enjoyance or taking of tithes, the fruits and revenues of their benefices, with all other rights and inmunit●●s to them appertaining; and that all they who during the troubles seized on the Churches, houses, goods, or revenues belonging to the said persons Ecclesiastical, or that detain & possess them, shall surtender unto the said Ecclesiastickes, the entire possession and peaceable enjoyance thereof, with such title, liberties, and security, as they had before they were disseized thereof. We also expressly forbid those of the said pretended reform Religion, to make any Sermons, or perform any other exercise of the said Religion in the Churches, houses, or habitations of the said Ecclesiastickes.   

FOUR  
It shall remain at the choice of the said Ecclesiastickes, either to buy such houses & buildings erected in places profane whereof they were disposessed during the troubles, or else to constrain the owners of the said buildings to purchase the ground, even conformable to the valuation made thereof by experienced men, which both the parties shall bring together: and in case they do not agree, the judges of the places shall give order herein: reserving ever unto the said possessors their peculiar remedy to whom soever it shall belong. And where the said Ecclesiastickes shall constrain the possessors to purchase the ground, the estimate money shall not be put into their hands, but the said possessors shall remain charged with it, to yield profit therefore after the twentieth penny while it hath been thus let out for the benefit of the Church: and this shall be in the compass of a year. And the same term being past, if the purchasor will no longer continue the said rend or profit, he shall be thereof discharged, by assigning over the money to the party to whom it is due by order and course of justice. And for sacred places course shall be taken by the Commissaries that are ordained for the execution of this present Edict, being by us constituted for the same end.   

V.  
Notwithstanding no ground nor places occupied for the reparation and fortification of towns, and places within our kingdom, nor the materials therein used, can be challenged or recovered by the said Ecclesiastickes, or any other public or private persons, but then only when the said reparations and fortifications shall be demolished by our Ordinances.   

VI  
And that there may remain no occasion of difference or contention betweeve our subjects, we have and do permit those of the said pretended reform Religion, to live and reside in all the towns and places of this our Kingdom & country under our obedience, without being urged, molested, troubled, or constrained to perform any thing in matter of Religion contrary to their conscience: neither by reason thereof to be searched or sought after in houses or places where they would inhabit, in all other things bearing themselves according as it is comprehended in this our present Edict.   

VII.  
We have also permitted all Lords, Gentlemen, and other persons, as well inhabiters within the Kingdom, as others making profession of the pretended reformed Religion, enjoying within our Kingdom and the country under our obedience, high Title (or full fee of the Halberd) as in Normandy, being in propriety, or Vse-fruict, in the whole, or in the moiety, or 
Like our tenor of knight's service.  for a third part, to have in any such of their houses or manors of high Title, or fee of the Halberd above specified, which they shall be bound to deliver before our Bailiffs and Stewards, every one within his limits for their principal habitation, the exercise of the said Religion, while they are there resident; and in their absence, their wives or their family, or any part of the same. And though the right of justice in this case, or the full fee of the Halbart be yet in controversy, yet the exercise of the said Religion may there be performed, provided that the abovenamed be then in actual possession of the said high justice or Title, though our Procuror general be departed. We permit them also to have the said exercise in their other houses of this high justice, or fees above mentioned of the Halbart, while they are there present and not otherwise; the whole, as well for themselves, their family and people, as also for others that would repair thither.   

VIII.  
In the houses of such enfeoffed or those of the said Religion, they shall not have the said high justice or fee of the Halbart, neither shall they perform the said exercise but only for their family. And yet we do not mean that if any other persons chance to come in, to the number of thirty above their proper family, whether it be by occasion of baptism, visitation of their friends, or otherwise; that they should be prosecuted or sought after: so in like manner; that the said houses be not within any Towns, boroughs, or villages, belonging to any Chatholicke Lords, high justicers, besides ourselves, wherein the said Lords Catholic have their mansions. In which case those of the said Religion shall not within the said Towns, boroughs, or villages perform the said exercise, except by permission and leave of the said high Lords, high justicers, and not otherwise.   

IX.  
We permit also those of the said Religion, to discharge and continue the exercise of the same in all the Towns and places under our obedience, where it was established and performed by them publicly sundry and diverse times, in the year a thousand five hundred fourscore and sixteen, and in the year a thousand five hundred fourscore and seventeen, till the end of the month of August; notwithstanding all Decrees and judgements to the contrary.   

X.  
The said exercise in like manner may be established and reestablished in all the Towns and places where it hath or might be established by the Edict of Pacification made in the year threescore and seventeen, the particular Articles & conferences of Ne●ac, and Flex: without that the same reestablishment shall be disturbed in the places within the Demaine granted by the said Edict, Articles and Conferences, for places of Bailiwicks, or that hereafter shall be, though they have been since alienated to Catholic persons, or hereafter shall be. And yet we intent not that the said exercise shall be reestablished in the parts and places of the said Demaine which have been heretofore possessed by those of the said pretended reform Religion, whither it shall have been brought in consideration of their present persons, or by reason of the privilege of their fees, if the said fees at the said present be possessed by people of the Catholic, Roman, Apostolic Religion.   

XI.  
Moreover in every one of the ancient Bailiwicks, Stewardships, and Governments holding the place of a bailiwick, having mere reference and without mediation to the Courts of Parliament: We ordain and constitute, that in the suburbs of a Town, besides those accorded unto them in the said Edict, particular Articles, & Conferences, and where there are no great Towns, in a borough or village, that the exercise of the said pretended reform Religion may publicly be performed for all such as will thither repair, though in the said Bailiwicks, Stewardships, and Governments there may be many places where the said exercise is at this present established: ever excepted for the said place of bailiwick newly granted by the present Edict, the Cities wherein reside any Archbishop, or Bishop: and yet those of the said pretended reform Religion shall not for all this be deprived of the mean to demand and nominate for the said place of the said exercise, the Borroughes or villages near to the same Cities: excepted also places and Seignories belonging to Ecclesiastical persons, where we do not intend, that the said second place of bailiwick may be established; we having by special grace and favour reserved and excepted them. We conceive and understand under the title of ancient Bailiwicks, those which were in the time of the late King Henry, our most honourable Lord, and father in law, held for Bailiwicks, Stewardships and Governments, having immediate reference to our said Courts.   

XII.  
We mean not by this present Edict to derogate from the Edicts and Accords heretofore made for the reducing of any Princes, Lords, Gentlemen, and Catholic towns under our obedience, in that which concerneth the exercise of the said Religion, the which Edict and Accords shall be entertained and observed for this respect, according as it shall stand with the instructions of such Commissaries as shallbe appointed for the execution of this present Edict.   

XIII.  
We expressly forbid all those of the said Religion to perform any exercise thereof, either in the behalf of the Ministry, Government, Discipline, or public instruction of children and others in this our Kingdom and country under our obedience, in that which concerneth Religion, in any other places, but those permitted and granted by this present Edict.   

XIIII.  
As also to perform any exercise of the said Religion in our Court or Attendance, nor likewise in our lands or countries which are beyond the mountains, neither in our City of Paris, nor within five miles of the said City: notwithstanding those of the said Relion remaining in the said lands and countries beyond the mountains, and in our said City, and five miles about the same, shall not be searched nor sought after in their houses, nor constrained to do any thing in respect of their Religion against their conscience: bearing themselves in other matters according as is comprehended in this present Edict.   

XV.  
Neither shall the public exercise of the said Religion be performed in Armies, but only in the quarters of such Chieftains as make profession thereof, nevertheless, not where our proper person shall be lodged.   

XVI.  
Conformable to the second Article of the Conference of Nerac, we permit those of the said Religion to build places for the exercise thereof, in towns and places accorded upon: and those shall be restored to them they have heretofore built, or the soil and ground of them in the same estate it is in at this present, that is to say, the places where the same exercise is not instantly permitted, except they have been converted into some other nature of edifices. In which case, there shall be given them by the possessors of the said edifices, places and buildings of the same price and value that they were of before they were built, or the just estimation of them, by the judgement of men expert in those things. Reserved always for the said proprietaries and possessors, their remedy against whomsoever it shall lie.   

XVII.  
We prohibit all Preachers, Lecturers, and others that teach publicly, to use any words, speech or discourse which may tend to excite the people to sedition: but chose we have and do enjoin them to contain and bear themselves modestly, and to utter nothing which shall not be for the instruction and edification of their auditors, and to the maintenance of that tranquillity and peace by us estableshed within our said Kingdom; upon the penalties enacted by our precedent Edicts: Most expressly enjoining our Procurors general and their substitutes, to inform out of their office against those who shall herein offend, upon penalty of answering for it in their proper and peculiar persons, and by the privation of their offices.   

XVIII.  
We also forbid all our subjects, of what quality or condition soever they be, to draw by force or any other manner of induction against the parent's consent, children of the said Religion, to cause them to be baptised or confirmed in the Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Church: as likewise the same prohibition is made to those of the said pretended reform Religion, and that under penalty of suffering exemplary punishment,   

XIX.  
Those of the said pretended reform Religion shall no ways be constrained, nor remain bound by reason of any abjuration, promise or oath formerly made, or cautions by them given, concerning the practice of the said Religion, neither shall they hereupon be molested or troubled in any sort whatsoever.   

XX.  
They shall also be bound to observe all festival days bidden and diuulged in the Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Church, neither shall they work on those days, sell no● retail in open shop, neither shall trade or handicrafts men work out of their shops, or in close chambers or houses on festival days and other prohibited days, in any profession or mystery, the noise whereof may be heard without by neighbours or those passing along: which nevertheless shall not be sought or looked into, but only by officers of justice.   

XXI.  
Neither shall the books touching the said pretended Religion be imprinted or publicly sold, but in Towns and places where the public exercise of the said Religion is permitted. And for other books which shall be printed in other places, they shall be viewed and perused, as well by our officers as by divines, as our Ordinances therein do import. We expressly forbid the impression, publication, and vent of all books, libels, and defamatory writings, upon the penalty set down in our Ordinances, enjoining all our judges and officers to have a special care therein.   

XXII.  
We enact, that there shall be no difference or distinction made in respect of the said Religion, to entertain scholars to be instructed in Universities, Colleges and schools, and the sick and poor in hospitals, guest-houses, and public alms houses.   

XXIII.  
They of the pretended reformed Religion shall be bound to observe the laws of the Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Church received in this our kingdom, in the point of marriages contracted and to be contracted, within the degrees of consanguinity and affinity.   

XXIIII.  
In like manner those of the said Religion shall pay the rights of entry, as hath been accustomed for the charges and offices appointed for their use, without being urged to be present at any ceremonies contrary to their said Religion: and being cited by oath, they shall be bound to do it no otherwise then by lifting up their hand, by swearing and promising unto God that they will speak the truth, neither shall they be constrained to dispense with the oath by them made in passing of contracts and obligations.   

XXV.  
We will and ordain, that all those of the pretended reformed Religion and others who have followed their party, of what estate or quality soever they be, shall be bound and obliged by all due and reasonable means, and under the penalties comprehended in the Edicts hereupon made, to pay and clear the tenths to Curates and other Ecclesiastical persons, and to all others to whom they appertain, according to the use and custom of the places.   

XXVI.  
All disinheriting and privations, whether by disposition of those living, or testamentaries, made only in hatred, or by reason of Religion, as well for the time past as that to come, shall take no place.   

XXVII.  
The better to reunite the wills of our subjects according to our intention, & to prevent all complaints hereafter to come, we denounce all those that do or shall make profession of the said pretended reform Religion, capable to hold & discharge all estates, dignities, offices, and public charges whatsoever, Royal, Lordly, or of the Cities, Lands, Countries, and Signories within our obedience, notwithstanding all oaths to the contrary, and to be indifferently admitted thereunto: and our Courts of Parliament and other judges shallbe pleased to inquire and take notice of the life, manners, Religion, and honest conversation, of those who are or shall be invested into offices, as well of the one as of the other Religion, without taking any other oath of them, than well and faithfully to serve the king in the discharge of their functions, and to observe the Ordinances as they have been observed in all times. And when any vacancy of the said estates, places, and offices shall happen, for those that lie in our disposition, we will indifferently furnish them, & without any distinction, with persons capable, as a thing that concerneth the union of our subjects. We intent also, that they of the pretended reformed Religion shall be admitted and received to all counsels, deliberations, & functions which depend on the above said matters; without that for cause of Religion they be rejected or hindered from enjoying this privilege.   

XXVIII.  
We ordain, for interring of the dead of those of the said Religion within all the Towns and places of this Kingdom, that in each place (by our Officers and Magistrates, or by the Commissaries whom we shall depute for the execution of this present Edict) there be as commodious a place allotted them for this purpose as may be. And such Churchyards as heretofore they had, and whereof they were deprived by reason of the troubles, shall be restored them, except they be at that present built upon, of what quality soever they be, in which case they shall be provided of others at free cost.   

XXIX.  
We most expressly enjoin our said officers to have a care, that at the said interments no scandal be committed: and they shall be bound within fifteen days after request made, to provide those of the said Religion of a commodious place for their said burials, without using any delay or protraction therein; under penalty of five hundred crowns, to be seissed on their proper names and persons. The said officers also as well as all others are prohibited to execute nothing for the conveyance of the said dead bodies, upon penalty of severe punishment.   

XXX.  
To the end that justice may be yielded and ministered to our subjects without any partiality, hatred, or favour, as being one of the principal means to maintain them in peace and concord: we have and do ordain that in our Court of Parliament of Paris shall be established a Chamber or Counsel of estate, consisting of one Precedent and sixteen Counselors of the said Parliament, which shall be called and entitled the Chamber of the Edict: and it shall examine not only the causes and processes of those of the said pretended reform Religion which shall be within the jurisdiction of the said Court, but also of those depending on our Courts of Normandy and Brettaine, according to the immunity conferted upon it by this present Edict; and this to go current until in each of the said Parliaments there be established a Chamber to minister justice in their proper precincts. We also ordain, that of the four offices of Counselors in our said Parliament of Paris, being of the last erection by us made, there shall be presently received and entertained into the said Parliament four of those of the said pretended reform Religion, sufficient and capable, who shall be thus distributed; the first received into the said Chamber of the Edict, and the other three in order as they have been received into three of the Chambers of Inquests: and moreover that of the two first offices of lay Counselors of the said Court which by the death of any one shall grow vacant, they shall be furnished with two of the said pretended reform Religion, and they thus received to be distributed into the two other Chambers of Inquests.   

XXXI.  
Besides the chamber heretofore established at Castres' for a reference to our Court of Tholouse, which shall continue in the estate it now stands, we have and for the same consideration do ordain, that in each of our Courts of Parliament both of Grenoble & Bourdeaux, there shall be likewise a Chamber consisting of two Precedents, the one a Catholic, and the other of the pretended reformed Religion, and of twelve Counselors, whereof six shall be Catholics, and the other six of the said Religion: which Precedents and Catholic Counselors shall be selected and chosen by us out of the body of our said Courts. And as for those of the said Religion, there shall a new creation be made of a Precedent and six Counselors for the Parliament of Bourdeaux, and of a Precedent & three Counselors for that of Grenoble: who with the three Counselors of the said Religion which are at that present in the said Parliament, shall be employed in the said Chamber of the Daulphiney. And the said offices of the new creation shall be liable to the same pensions, honours, authorities, and preeminences as the other of the said Courts. And the said Session of the said Chamber of Bourdeaux shall be in the said Bourdeaux or at Nerac, and that of Daulphiney at Grenoble   

XXXII.  
The said Chamber of Daulphiney shall determine the causes of those of the pretended reformed Religion with reference to our Parliament of Provence, without having need to take letters of summons or other citations then in our Chamber of Daulphiney: as also they of Normandy and Brettaine of the said Religion shall not be urged to take letters of summons or other citations, then in our Chancery at Paris.   

XXXIII.  
Our subjects of the Religion of the Parliament of Burgundy shall have the election and choice to plead in the Chamber erected in the Parliament of Paris or in that of Daulphiney. And they shall not also be tied to take letters of summons or any other citations, but in the said Chanceries of Paris or Daulphiney, according to their own opinion and liking.   

XXXIIII.  
All the said Chambers disposed as aforesaid, shall determine and judge in sovereignty and sentence definitive, by final decree before all other, of suits and differences moved and to be moved; in which they of the pretended reformed Religion shall be principal parties or warranties in cases of plaintiff or defendant, in all matters, as well civil as criminal, whether the said process be by writ or verbal appeals: and that if it so seem good to the parties, or that one of them requireth it, before any Plea in the cause, in respect of suit to be commenced: always excepted matters of benefices, and the possessors of tenths not enfeoffed, Ecclesiastical patronages, and causes wherein the rights & Demaine of the Church are questioned: all which shall be ended and judged in the Courts of Parliament; without that the said Chambers of the Edict shall have any thing to do to determine therein. As also our pleasure is, that to judge and reside criminal causes, which shall happen between the said Ecclesiastickes and those of the pretended reformed Religion, if the person Ecclesiastical be defendant in this case, the judgement of the criminal cause shall belong privatively to our Sovereign Courts of the said Chambers, and where the Ecclesiastic shall be plaintiff, & he of the said Religion defendant, the judgement and determination of the criminal cause shall belong, by appeal and in the last reference, to our said established Chambers. The said Chambers also in vacation times, shall determine of matters referred by the Edicts and Ordinances to the Chambers or Courts established in times of vacation, each one in his proper prerogative.   

XXXV.  
The Chamber of Grenoble shall from this present be united and incorporated to the body of the said Court of Parliament, and the Precedents and Counsellors of the said pretended reform Religion entitled Precedents and Counsellors of the said Court, and held in the rank and number of them; and for these ends they shall be first disposed of in the other Chambers, and then culled and drawn out from them, to be employed and to serve in that which we institute anew; with injunction notwithstanding, that they shall be present and have a voice and session in all deliberations made, and Counsels assembled; and shall enjoy the same pensions, privileges, and preeminences which the other Counselors and Precedents of the Court do.   

XXXVI.  
Our meaning and pleasure is, that the said Chambers of Castres' and Bourdeaux should be reunited and incorporated into those Parliaments in the same manner as the others, when need shall be, and that the causes which have moved us to make any establishment thereof, may cease and have no more place among our subjects: and the Precedents and Counsellors of the same for these ends, being of the said Religion, shall be held for Precedents and Counsellors of the said Courts.   

XXXVII.  
There shall be also newly created and chosen in the Chamber ordained for the Parliament of Bourdeaux, two Substitutes of our Procuror and Advocate General, whereof he in deputation to the Procuror shall be a Catholic, and the other of the said Religion: who shall discharge the said offices for competent pensions.   

XXXVIII.  
Neither shall the said Substitutes take upon them any other quality then of a Substitute, and when the Chambers ordained for the Parliament of Tholouse and Bourdeaux shall be united and incorporated into the said Parliaments, the said Substitutes shall be provided of Counsellors places in the same.   

XXXIX.  
The expeditions of the Chancery of the Chamber of Bourdeaux shall be performed in the presence of the two Counsellors of the same Chamber, whereof the one shall be a Catholic, and the other of the said pretended reform Religion, in the absence of one of the master of Requests of our hostel, and one of the Notaries and Secretaries of the said Court of Parliament of Bourdeaux, shall make residence in the place where the said Chamber shall be established, or else one of the ordinary Secretaries of the Chancery, to seal the expeditions of the said Chancery.   

XL.  
We will and command, that in the said Chamber of Bourdeaux there be two Committees of the Greffier of the said Parliament, the one civil the other criminal, which shall exercise their charges by our Commissions, and shall be called Committees of the Greffe Civil and Criminal, and therefore they cannot be revoked nor displaced by the said Griffiers of the Parliament: and yet they shall be tied to yield the emoluments of the said Griffiers to the said Griffiers, the which Committees shall be hired by the said Griffiers according as it shall be advised and arbitrated by the said Chamber. Besides there shall be ordained certain Catholic Deputies: which shall be appointed by the said Court or otherwhere according to our good pleasure: besides which there shall be newly erected two of the said Religion, and freely hired: and all the said deputies shall be governed by the said Chamber, both in the execution and discharge of their places, as in the profits they do receive. A Commission also shall be dispatched for a payer of pensions, and a receiver of fines for the said Chamber, to be provided therein as shall be pleasing to us, if the Chamber be established in any other place then in the said City. And the Commission heretofore agreed upon to the Payer of pensions of the Chamber of Castres', shall take full authority and commission: and the Commission for the receipt of fines in the said Chamber, shall be enjoined to the same charge.   

XLI.  
There shall be provided sufficient Assignments for the pensions of the Officers ordained by the said Edict.   

XLII.  
The Presidnts, Counsellors, and other Catholic Officers of the said Chambers, shall be continued as long as possibly may be, and as we shall find it most expedient for our service, and the good of our subjects: and in dismissing some, others shall be constituted in their places before their departure; and they shall not depart during the time of their service, nor absent themselves from the said Chamber, without their leave, which shall be judged by the proceedings of the Ordinance.   

XLIII.  
The said Chambers shall be established within six months, during which (if the establishment continue so long a settling) the sures moved or to be moved, wherein those of the said Religion shall be party, from the authority of our Courts of Parliaments of Paris, Rouen, Dion, and Rheims, they shall be called to the Chamber established presently at Paris by virtue of the Edict of the year a thousand five hundred three score & seventeen, or else to the grand Counsel at the election and choice of those of the said Religion, if they demand it: those that are of the Parliament of Bourdeaux, into the Chamber established at Castres', and into the said grand Counsel at their choice: and those that are of Provence into the Parliament of Grenoble. And if the said Chambers be not established within three months after presentation there made of this our present Edict, he of our Parliaments that maketh refusal, shall be prohibited to judge or determine of causes touching those of the said Religion.   

XLIIII.  
Suits not yet determined hanging in the said Courts of Parliament and grand Council of the quality above-mentioned, shall be returned, in what state soever they stand, into the said Chambers, each cause to his Court of reference, if one of the parties of the said Religion require it, within four months after the establishment thereof: and as for such as shall be discontinued and are not in state to be judged and determined, the above-mentioned of the Religion shall be bound to make a declaration to the first intimation and signification of the pursuit which shall be made unto them: and the said term being once past, they shall no more be admitted to demand the said Returns.   

XLV.  
The said Chambers of Grenoble and Bourdeaux, as also that of Castres', shall observe the form and style of Parliaments in the precincts where they shall be established, and they shall judge in equal number both of the one and other Religion, except the parties agree on the contrary.   

XLVI.  
All judges who are sought unto for the execution of judgements and commissions of the said Chambers, or letters obtained out of the Chanceries thereof: and also all Officers and Sergeants shall be bound to put them in execution, and the said Officers and Sergeants to perform all their executions in every part of our Kingdom, without demanding placet, visa, ne pareatis, upon penalty of suspension of their places, and paying the damages, charges, and interests of the parties: the censure whereof shall belong to our said Chambers.   

XLVII.  
No revocation of causes shall be agreed upon, the trial whereof is referred to the said Chambers, except in the case of Ordinances, the revocation whereof shall belong to the nearest Chamber established according to our Edict: and the issues of suits of the said Chambers shall be tried in the next Chamber, observing the proportion and form of the said Chambers from whence the process proceeds: except for the Chamber of the Edict in our Parliament of Paris, where the processes depending shall be disposed of in the same Chamber, by the judges which by us shall be nominated by our particular letters to this effect, except the parties had rather attend the renovation of the said Chamber or Court. And if it happen that the same process be commenced in all the Chambers separately, the issue thereof shall be returned to the said Chamber of Paris.   

XLVIII.  
Refusals brought in against the Precedents & Counselors of the Chambers distinctly, may be determined by the number of six, to which number the parties shall be restrained, otherwise it shall go forward without any regard had to the said Refusals.   

XLIX.  
The examination of Precedents and Counsellors newly chosen in the said Chambers by equal numbers, shall be made by our privy Counsel, or by the said Chambers, each one within its precinct, when they are met in sufficient number: and yet the accustomed oath shall by them be exhibited in the Courts where the said Chambers shall be established, and upon their refusal, in our privy Counsel; except those of the Chamber of Languedoc, who shall take their oath from the hands of our Chancellor, or in the said Chamber.   

L.  
We will and ordain, that the reception of our Officers of the said Religion, shall be judged in the same several Chambers by the plurality of voices, as is usual in other judgements, not being requisite that the voices should differ two thirds, according to the Ordinance, the which in this respect remains abrogated.   

LI.  
All propositions, deliberations, and resolutions, pertaining to public peace, and for the particular estate and policy of Towns, shall be made in the said several Chambers, and in the said Towns where the said Chambers reside.   

LII.  
The article of the jurisdiction of the said Chambers ordained by this present Edict, shall be followed and observed according to form and tenor thereof, especially in that which concerneth the execution, omission, or violation of our Edicts, when those of the said Religion shall be parties.   

LIII.  
The subalternate royal Officers or others, the reception of whom belongs to our Courts of Parliaments, if they be of the same pretended reformed Religion, may be examined & received in the said Chambers: that is to say, those of the dependant Courts of the Parliaments of Paris, Normandy, and Brettaine, in the said Chamber of Paris: those of Daulphiney and Provence, in the Chamber of Grenoble; those of Burgundy in the said Chamber of Paris or Daulphiney, at their choice: those of the Precincts of Tholouse, in the Chamber of Castres'; and those of the Parliament of Bourdeaux, in the Chamber of Guyenne; and no other to oppose their admissions or make parties, but our Procurors general and their Substitutes, and those placed in the said offices: yet nevertheless the accustomed oath shall by them be exhibited in the Courts of parliaments, which shall have no jurisdiction in their said receptions: and upon the refusal of the said Parliaments, the said Officers shall minister the oath in the said Chambers; which being so ministered, they shall be bound by some Clerk or Notary, to present the act of their receptions to the Greffiers or Registers of the said Courts of Parliaments, and to leave a compared copy thereof with the said Greffier or Register: who are enjoined to register the said acts upon penalty of paying all the charges, damages, and interests of the parties; and if the said Registers refuse to do it, it shall be sufficient for the said Officers to bring the act of the said reception drawn by the said Registers or Notary, and to cause the same to be registered in the grief or roll of their jurisdictions, there to be viewed when need shall require, upon penalty of annihilating their proceedings and judgements. And as for those Officers whose reception was not accustomed to be made in our said Parliaments, in case they whom it concerneth make refusal to proceed in the said examination and reception, the said Officers shall repair to the said Chambers, to be furnished as they ought.   

LIIII.  
The Officers of the said pretended reform Religion which shall hereafter be chosen to serve within the bodies of our said Courts of Parliaments, Grand Counsel, Chamber of Accounts, Court of Aids, Receivers for the Treasurer's general of France, and other Officers of the Exchequers, shall be axamined and received in the places where they use to be: and in case of refusal and denial of justice, they shall be constituted in our privy Council.   

LV.  
The reception of Officers made in the Chamber heretofore established at Castres' shall remain in force, notwithstanding all judgements or Ordinances to the contrary: the reception also of judges, Counselors, and other Officers of the said Religion made in our privy Counsel shall be validious, or those chosen by Commissaries by us ordained upon the refusal of our Courts of parliament, of the Aids, or Chambers of Accounts, even as if they had been made in the same Courts and Chambers, and by the other judges to whom such receptions appertain; and their pensions shall be allowed by the Chambers of Accounts without scruple: and if any have been dismissed, they shall be reestablished without any further command than this present Edict, and the said Officers shall not stand bound to present any other reception, notwithstanding all Decrees passed to the contrary, which shall remain invalidious and of no effect.   

LVI.  
Until means be procured to defray the expenses of the justice of our said Chamber out of the moneys of fines or confiscations, we will assign a valuable and sufficient proportion to discharge the said expenses, without levying monies out of the goods of those condemned.   

LVII.  
The Precedents and Counselors of the said pretended reform Religion heretofore received into our Court of Daulphiney, and into the Chamber of the Edict, incorporated into the same, shall continue, and hold their Sessions and places there, that is to say, the Precedents, as they have and do enjoy at this present, and the Counselors according to the judgements and Decrees which they have obtained in our privy Counsel.   

LVIII.  
We further declare, that all sentences, judgements, Decrees, Seizures, Vents, and Orders set down and established against those of the pretended reformed Religion, as well living as dead, since the departure of the late King Henry the second our most honourable Lord and Father in law, by reason of the said Religion, troubles, & tumults since happened, together with the execution of the same Decrees, from this present to be razed, revoked, and nullified. We ordain that they shall be razed and wiped out of our Registers of the Stewards of Courts, as well sovereign as inferior: as likewise our pleasure is, that all marks, footsteps, and monuments of the said executions, books, and Acts defamatory to their persons, memorial and posterity, shall be removed and defaced: and that the places whe●e upon these occasions, any ruins, or demolitions have been made, shall be restored in the same condition they were, to the proprietaries of the same, to enjoy and dispose of them at their pleasure. And generally we have revoked, cashiered, and annihilated all proceedings and informations made for any enterprises whatsoever, pretended crimes of treason, or others: notwithstanding the which proceedings, judgements, and Decrees, comprehending, reunion, incorporation, and confiscation, our meaning is, that those of the Religion, and others who have followed their party, and their heirs, shall reenter into the real and actual possession of all and each of their goods.   

LIX.  
All proceedings made, judgements an decrees given during the troubles against those of the said Religion that have borne arms, or withdrawn themselves out of our Realm, or within the same, into towns and countries by them held for some other occasion then that of Religion & the troubles, together with all exemptions of instances, prescriptions, as well legal & conventionall, as those usual and customary, and feodal seizures accrueing during the said troubles, or by lawful impediments arising thereof, and whereof the censure remaineth in our judges, shall be esteemed as not performed, happened, nor granted, and such we have and do declare them to be, and have and do annihilate, and the parties shall have no aid nor authority herefrom: but they shall be restored to the same estate wherein before they stood, notwithstanding the judgements and executions of them, and the possession shall be restored to them wherein they were, for this respect. That above mentioned shall likewise take place, in respect of others who have followed the party of those of the said Religion, or that have absented themselves out of the Kingdom by reason of the troubles. And for the younger children of those of the condition above mentioned, which died during the troubles, we restore the parties to the same estate wherein they were before, without paying charges, or being bound to bring in any forfaites: but yet we do not mean, that judgements denounced by Presidentall judgdes or other inferior judges, against those of the said Religion, or that have followed their party, should remain invalidious, if they have been denounced by judges keeping their Sessions in towns by them held, and whither they had free access.   

LX.  
The judgements denounced in our Courts of Parliament, in matters the decision whereof belongeth to the Chambers ordained by the Edict of the year 1577. and the Articles of Nerac and Flex, in which Courts the parties procecded not voluntarily, that is to say, they have alleged and propounded ends declinatorie, or which have been denounced through default or misprision, as well in matters civil as criminal, notwithstanding the which ends, the said parties have been constrained to go forward, shall likewise be annihilated and of no worth. And in respect of judgements given against those of the said Religion, who have proceeded voluntarily without propounding declinatorie ends, those judgements shall remain in force: and yet without prejudice to the execution of them, they may if they think good, take some course by way of civil request before the Chambers ordained by this present Edict, and the time run set down by the Ordinancies, shall be no prejudice to them: and until the said Chambers and their Chanceries be established, verbal Appeals, or those by writing, propounded by those of the said Religion, before the judges, Registers, or Committees, executors of Sentences and judgements, shall take the same effect as if they had been procured by letters patents.   

LXI.  
In all inquiries made upon what occasion soever, in civil causes, if the Inquisitor or Commissary be a Catholic, the parties shall be bound to appear with one consent: and if they appear not, one shall be taken by virtue of his Office by the said Inquisitor or Commissary, who is of the said pretended reform Religion: and the like course shall be taken, when the Commissary Inquisitor is of the said Religion, for the party which shall be Catholic.   

LXII.  
We will and ordain, that our judges shall determaine of the validity of Testaments, wherein those of the said Religion shall be interessed, if they demand it, and the Appeals of the said judgements may be taken out of the said Chambers, ordained for pocesses of those of the said Religion, notwithstanding all customs to the contrary, yea even those of Brettaine.   

LXIII.  
To prevent all differences which may happen between our Courts of Parliament and the Chambers of those Courts ordained by our present Edict, we will set down an ample and plain order between the said Courts and Chambers, and such as those of the pretended reformed Religion shall have entire benefit of by the said Edict, which order shall be ratified in our Courts of Parliament, and observed and kept, without having respect to those precedent.   

LXIIII  
We prohibit and forbid all our sovereign Courts and others within this Kingdom, to determine or judge the civil or criminal causes of those of the said Religion, the trial whereof by our Edict is referred to the said Chambers, so any return be demanded, as was expressed in the fourth Article above mentioned.   

LXV.  
Our will also is, by way of care and circumspection, and till we have otherwise ordained, that in all suits moved or to be commenced, wherein those of the said Religion shall stand as plaintiffs or defendants, parties principal, or warranties in civil causes wherein our Officers Presidentall tribunes have power to judge for a last trial, they be permitted to demand that two of the Chamber where the cause is to be tried, abstain from the judgement of them, who without alleging any cause, shall be bound in this case to abstain, notwithstanding the Ordinance by which the judges cannot be excepted against without just cause, there remaining unto them besides this, Refusals of right against the others: and in matters criminal wherein also the said Precedents and other royal judges subalternate, judge with peremptory trial, the convented being of the same Religion, may demand that three of the said judges abstain from judgement of their causes, without any expression of cause. And the Provosts of the Marshals of France, Vicebailifs, Vicemarshals, Lieutenants of the short Robe, and other Officers of such like quality, shall judge according to the Ordinances and Rules heretofore set down in respect of vagabonds: and as for householders charged and ceased with maintenance of Provosts, if they be of the said Religion, they may demand that three of the said judges abstain from judgement of their causes; and they shall be bound to abstain, without any expression of cause, except when in the company where the said causes shall be judged, there be to the number of two in matters civil, and three in matters criminal of the said Religion, in which case they shall not be permitted to refuse without allegation of cause: the which shall likewise be common and reciprocal to Catholics in manner and form above mentioned, in respect of the refusal of judges, where those of the said pretended reform Religion shall be in greater number. But yet we do not mean, that the said Presidentall Tribunals, Provosts of Marshals, Vicebailifs, Vicemarshals, or other which judge with absolute trial, should take upon them by virtue of that which hath been said, the judgement of tumults and troubles past: and as for crimes and insolences growing upon other occasions then about matters of the troubles, from the beginning of the month of March in the year a thousand five hundred fourscore and five, till the end of the year 1597. in case they do proceed in trial of them: Our pleasure is, that they may have an appeal from their judgements before the Chambers ordained by this present Edict, as shall in like manner be observed to Catholic complices, wherein those of the said pretended reform Religion shall be parties.   

LXVI.  
We also will and ordain, that from this time forward, in all instructions other then criminal processes in the Stewardships of Thoulouse, Carcassonne, Rovergue, Loragais, Beziers, Montpellier, and Nismes, the Magistrate or Commissary deputed for the said instruction, if he be a Catholic, shall be bound to take an Associate of the said pretended reform Religion, whereupon the parties shall meet; and if it so fall out that they cannot meet, one by authority shall be taken of the said Religion by the above named Magistrate or Commissary: as in like manner, if the said Magistrate or Commissary be of the said Religion, he shall be bound in the form above mentioned, to take a Catholic Assistant.   

LXVII.  
When any occasion of criminal trial groweth by the Provosts of the Marshals or any of the Lieutenants, against any one of the said Religion an householder, who shall be charged and accused of any public crime, the said Provosts or their Lieutenants, if they be Catholics, shall be bound to call to the proceeding of such a matter, an Assistant of the said Religion: the which Associate shall also judge in judgement of the offence, and in the judgement definitive of the matter: which offence shall not be tried in any other place but at the next Presidentall Tribunal, in open assembly, by the principal Officers of that circuit who are then in place, on pain of being put out of office, except the convented require to have the said offence tried in the Chamber or Courts ordained by this present Edict: in which case, for those inhabiting in the Provinces of Guyenne, Languedoc, Provence, & Daulphiney, the Substitutes of our Procurots' General in the said Chambers, at the request of those inhabitants, shall cause the inditements and informations made against them to be brought in, to discern and try whether the matters be liable to Provosts courts or not, that afterwards according to the quality of the crimes, they may be returned to the ordinary, or Provostall judges, as they ought to do by reason, in observing the contents of this present Edict. And the Presidentall judges, Provosts of Marshals, Vicebailifs, Vnderstewards, and others that have definitive authority to judge, to obey respectively, and observe the commandments imposed on them by the said Chambers: even as they used to do in the said Parliaments, upon pain of forfeit of their estates.   

LXVIII.  
The outcries, public sales by writing, and vendition 
A custom in France.  of inheritances by the Spear, shall be performed in the places and at the hours accustomed, if it may be, according to our Ordinances, or else in the open market places, if in the place where the same inheritances be seated there be a market place, and where there is none, they shall be made in the next market place within the precinct of that Session where the judgement should be passed: and the paper of notice shall be fastened on a post in the said market place, and at the entry of the Auditory of the same place: and so by this means the said public outcries shall be good and validious, and so to go forward to the interposition of a Decree, without depending on such nullities as may be alleged in this respect.   

LXIX.  
All titles, papers, instructions, and informations that have been taken, shall be rendered and restored of the one side and the other, to those to whom they appertain, although the said papers, or the Castles or houses wherein they have been reserved, were taken and seized upon, whether it were by special Commission from the late last King deceased, our most honourable Lord and father in law, or the commandments of the Gonernours and Lieutenants general of our Provinces, or by authority of the Heads of the other part, or under what pretext soever it were.   

LXX.  
The children of such as have retired themselves out of our Kingdom, since the death of the late King Henry the second, our most honourable Lord and father in law, by reason of Religion and the present troubles, though the said children were borne out of the Kingdom, shall be held for true French men, and subjects, and such we have and do declare them to be: and they shall not need to sue out letters of naturality, or other warranties from us then this present Edict; notwithstanding all constitutions to the contrary, the which we have and do abrogate, upon condition that the said children borne in foreign Countries, shall be bound within ten years after the publication of this Edict to come and reside within the Kingdom.   

LXXI.  
Those of the said pretended reform Religion, and others that have followed their party, who shall have farmed before the troubles, any Offices or other Demaines, customs, foreign impositions, or other prerogatives to us appertaining, the which they could not peaceably enjoy by reason of the same troubles, shall remain discharged, as we discharge them, of that which they have not received out of the said farms, or that without fraud they have paid otherwise then into the Receipts of our Exchequers, notwithstanding all obligations entered into by them in this respect to the contrary.   

LXXII.  
All places, Towns, and Provinces of our Realm, Countries, Lands and Seignories under our obedience, shall use and enjoy the same privileges, immunities, liberties, enfranchisements, fairs, markets, jurisdictions, and seats of justice, which they did before the troubles begun in the month of March in the year 1585. and others preceding; notwithstanding all letters to the contrary, and the removing of the said seats, so they were made only by reason of the troubles, which seats shallbe restored and reestablished in the Towns and places where before they were.   

LXXIII.  
If there be any prisoners yet detained by authority of justice or otherwise, yea even in the Galleys, by reason of the troubles, or of the said Religion, they shall be enlarged and set at free liberty.   

LXXIIII.  
Those of the said Religion shall not hereafter be surcharged nor oppressed with any charges ordinary or extraordinary more than the Catholics, and according to the proportion of their goods and substance: and the parties that pretend themselves to be surcharged, may have remedy before the judges to whom the ordering thereof belongs: and all our subjects, as well of the Catholic Religion, as of the pretended reform, shall be indefferently discharged of all charges that have been imposed on the one party and the other during the troubles, upon those that were of the contrary party, and not cohering together, of debts credited and not paid, and expenses disbursed without their consents: but so, not to recover those profits which have been employed in the payment of those charges.   

LXXV.  
Neither do we mean, that they of the said Religion, and others who have followed their parties, nor the Catholics who dwelled in the Towns and places by them occupied and detained, and who have contributed to them, shall be prosecuted for the payment of taxes, aids, grants, increase, sessments, wastes, reparations, or other impositions and subsidies, accrueing and imposed during the troubles happened before and since our coming to the Crown, whether it were by Edicts and commandments from the late Kings our Predecessors, or by the counsel and advice of the Governors and States of Provinces, Courts of Parliament and others, whereof we have and do discharge them, forbidding our Treasurer's general of France, and of our Exchequers, and Receivers general and particular, their Committees, Intermedlers, and other Overseers and Commissaries of our Exchequers, to seek after them, neither to molest or trouble them, directly or indirectly, in any sort whatsoever.   

LXXVI.  
All Commanders, Lords, Knights, Gentlemen, Officers, corporations of Towns and Commonalties, and all others who have aided & succoured them, their widows, heirs and successors, shall be quitted and discharged of all moneys which by them and their Ordinances have been levied and taken up, as well royal debts to what sum soever they amount, as of Towns and Commonalties, and the particulars of rents, revenues, plate, Vents of Ecclesiastical movable goods, and other woods of high growth, whether of Demaine or other forfeitures, booties, ransoms, or moneys of any other nature, by them raised by means of the troubles begun in the month of March, a thousand five hundred fourscore and five, and other precedent troubles, till our coming to the Crown: neither they, nor those by them authorized for the levy of the said moneys, or that have given and furnished them by their Ordinances, shall be any ways troubled for it, either now or hereafter: and both they and their Committees shall be discharged of all the managing and disbursements of the said moneys, bringing in for a full discharge within four months after the publication of this present Edict made in our Court of Parliament of Paris, acquittances duly taken from the Heads of those of the said reform Religion, or from those who by them shall be deputed to the heating and clearing of Accounts, or from the Commonalties of the Towns which had authority and power during the said troubles. They shall in like manner be quitted and discharged of all acts of hostility, levies and conducts of men of war, enhancing and raising of moneys, raised according to the Ordinance of the said Heads; the melting and taking of artilleries and munitions, making of powder, and saltpeeters, surprisals, fortifications, dismantellings and demolitions of Towns, Castles, boroughs, or villages; of any enterprise upon them, combustions, and ruining of Churches or houses, establishments of justice, judgements and executions by them, whether in matter civil or criminal, of any policy or government instituted amongst them, of voyages and intelligences, of negotiations, Treaties, or any Contracts made with all foreign Princes or Commonalties, and introduction of the said strangers into Towns or any other part of our Kingdom, and generally of whatsoever hath been done or negotiated during the said troubles, from the death of the late King Henry our most honourable Lord and father in law, for those of the said Religion, or others who have followed their party, though it be not particularly specified nor expressed.   

LXXVII.  
Those also of the said Religion shall be discharged from all general and Provincial assemblies by them called or held, as well at Mants as since elsewhere till this present; likewise of Counsels by them established, and ordained in the Provinces, of deliberations, Decrees, and Ordinances made in the said Assemblies, and Counsels, of the establishment or augmentation of garrisons, assemblies of armed men, levies and taking up of our moneys, whether in the hands of our Receiners general or particular, Collectors of Parishes, or otherwise in what manner soever, the custom of salt, the continuation or new erection of treaties, impositions, and receipts thereof: that is to say, at Rouen, and upon the rivers of Charante, Garonne, of Rosne & Dordone, fights and encounters by sea, and of all accidents and violences happening in procuring the payment of the said treaties, and taxes, and other moneys, of fortifications of Towns, Castles and places, of the impositions of moneys and tolles, receipts of the said moneys, of the supplantation of our Receivers, Farmers and other Officers, of the establishing of others in their places, and of all unions, negotiations and dispatches made, as well within as without the Realm: and generally of whatsoever hath been done, deliberated, written, & enacted by the said Assemblies and Counsel: and they who have given their advice, sealed, executed, or caused to be sealed and executed the said Ordinances, Orders and deliberations, shall not be questioned herein, nor their widows, heirs, nor successors, at this present nor hereafter, as well as if the particularities were here amply set down and declared. And perpetual silence shall be imposed every where upon our Procurors general, their Substitutes, and all those who may challenge any interest therein, in what manner and form soever it be, notwithstanding all Sentences, Decrees, judgements, Informations, and proceedings made to the contrary.   

LXXVIII.  
We further approve, allow, and authorize the accounts which have been taken, cleared and examined by the Deputies of the said Assembly. We will, that they together with acquittances & several discharges which have been brought in by the accomptants, be brought into the Chamber of the Accounts of Paris three months after the publication of this present Edict, and committed to the hands of our Procuror general, to be delivered to the custody of him that keepeth the books and Registers of our Chamber, there to be consulted with upon any necessity whatsoever: & the said accounts never to be reviewed, nor the accomptants bound in any appearance or rectifications, but in case of omission of receipt, or false acquittances; we imposing silence on our said Procuror general, for the surplusage which might be alleged as defective, or that formalities were not well observed: forbidding all men of our accounts, as well in Paris as in other provinces where they be established, to take any notice thereof, in what manner or form soever.   

LXXIX  
And as for those accounts which have not yet been broughtin, our pleasure is, they shall be heard, cleared, and examined, by the Commissaries which by us shall be thereunto deputed; who without difficulty shall pass and allow of the said parcels paid by the said accomptants, by authority of the Ordinances of the said Assembly, or others having power and force.   

LXXX.  
All Collectors, Receivers, Farmers, and all others well and duly discharged of all the sums of money which they have well and truly paid to the said Committees of the said Assembly, of what nature soever they be, until the last day of this month, we will have them all passed and allowed in our Accounts, which shall be given up in our Chamber of Accounts, simply and sincerely by virtue of the acquittance brought in and delivered, and if any were afterward dispatched or delivered, they shall remain void, and those who shall deliver or accept of them, shall be condemned in a penalty of false demeanour and chevisance. And if there be any accounts already brought in, by which there remaineth any reckonings or charges due in this respect, we have accquitted and cleared them, we have and do re-establish the same parties absolutely by virtue of these presents, they being no ways required for any thing above mentioned, to obtain particular letters, or any other testimony of discharge, than the copy of this present Article.   

LXXXI.  
The Governors, Captains, Consuls, and persons authorized for the gathering in of monies to pay the garrisons held by those of the said Religion, whom our Receivers and parochial Collectors shall have furnished by way of lone upon their bills and obligations, whether by constraint, or to obey the commandments imposed on them by the treasurers General, the necessary moneys for entertainment of the said garrisons till the publication of that which was inferred in the Proclamation, we caused to be dispatched in the beginning of the year 1596. and the addition thereunto by us granted, shall be held acquitted & discharged of that which was paid for the effect above mentioned, although in the said bills and obligations express mention be made thereof, which shall be returned to them as void. And to give satisfaction herein, the Treasurer's General in each generality, shall cause the said Collectors to have quittances from the particular Receivers of our taxes, and so from the Receivers General quittances to pass to the Receivers particular: for discharge of which Receivers General, the sums which they have to demand by way of account, as formerly was said, shall be endorsed upon the mandates presented by the petty Treasurer of the wars, under the names of the Treasurer's General extraordinary of our wars, for the payment of the said garrisons. And if the mandates amount not to so much as our Proclamation and addition of the year 1596. imported, We ordain that for the supplying of the same, new mandates shall be dispatched, to furnish what is wanting for the discharge of our accountant, and restitution of the said promises and obligations, so that nothing may hereafter be demanded of those that passed them, and that all letters of allowance requisite for the discharge of the accomptants be granted, by virtue of this present Article.   

LXXXII.  
They also of the said Religion shall desist and give over from this present, all practices, negotiations and intelligences, as well within as without our kingdom, and the said Assemblies & Counsels established in the Provinces shall presently dissolve, and all leagues and associations made or to be made under any pretext whatsoever, to the prejudice of this our present Edict, shall be void and annihilated, We expressly forbidding all our subjects to make hereafter any collections or levyings of money without our permission, any fortifications, enrolment of men, congregations or assemblies, other than such as are permitted them by our present Edict, and that without arms: the which we absolutely prohibit, and forbid them, upon pain of being severely punished, and as contemners and infringers of our commandments and Ordinances.   

LXXXIII.  
All prizes which have been taken during the troubles, by virtue of licences or letters of Mart, and those that have been taken by land from them of the contrary party, and which have been examined by judges and Commissaries of the Admiralty, or by the Heads of those of the said Religion or their Counsel, shall lie dead by the benefit of this present Edict, and no prosecution thereof to be made, neither the Captains and others that have taken the same reprisals, or boot, their pledges, and the said judges, their widows or heirs, shall not be troubled or molested in any sort whatsoever, notwithstanding all Decrees of our privy Counsel and the Parliaments, and all letters of rapine and seizures hanging in question, and not being decided, whereof we would have them to be fully and clearly discharged.   

LXXXIIII.  
Neither shall they of the said Religion be molested or troubled for oppositions or disturbances by them made heretofore, yea though since the troubles, upon the execution of sentences and Decrees diuulged for the reestablishment of the Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Religion.   

LXXXV.  
And as for that which hath been done or taken during the troubles, either with or beside the way of hostility, against the public or particular Orders of the Heads, or of the commonalties of Provinces who had authority, it may be prosecuted by course of justice.   

LXXXVI.  
But nevertheless, in respect that if the same which was performed against the Orders both of the one part and the other, be indifferently reserved and excepted out of the general abolition inferred by our present Edict, and is subject to be called in question, there is not a soldier which may not be brought within the compass of it, whereupon tumults and troubles may be renewed. For this cause, We will and ordain, that only execrable cases shall be excepted out of the said abolition: as ravishing and enforcing of women and maids, combustions, murders, and thefts feloniously acted by lying in privy waits, besides the courses of open hostility, and to compass particular revenges, contrary to the proceedings of war, breaking up of Passports and safe conducts, with murders and pillages, without any injunction or command, in respect of those of the Religion and others who have followed the party of the Heads, who had authority over them, grounded upon particular occasions, which moved them to command and ordain such things.   

LXXXVII.  
We also ordain, that punishment be inflicted for crimes and delicts, committed between persons of the same party, except it be in actions commanded by the Heads of the one part and of the other, according to the necessity, laws, and orders of war. And as for levies and exactions of moneys, bearing of arms, and other exploits of war, performed out of private authority, and without avouchment, it shall be prosecuted by way of justice.   

LXXXVIII.  
In towns dismanteled during the troubles, the same ruins and dismantelings may by our permission, be re-edified and repaired by the inhabitants at their expense and charge, and the provisions heretofore set down in this respect shall hold and take place.   

LXXXIX.  
We will, ordain, and are pleased, that all the Knights, Gentlemen, and others, of what condition or quality soever, being of the pretended reformed Religion, and others who have followed their party, may reenter and really enjoy all and each of their goods, rights, titles, claims, and actions, notwithstanding the judgements denounced during the said troubles, and by reason of them: the which sentences, seizures and judgements, and all that ensued thereof, we have to this end declared and do declare void and of no effect nor value.   

XC.  
The purchases which they of the pretended reformed Religion have made, and others upholding their party, under the prerogative of any other then of the late Kings our predecessors for stable possessions belonging to the Church, shall take no place nor effect: but we both will and ordain, and are well pleased, that the said ecclesiastics reenter incontinently and without delay, and that they shall be maintained in the actual possession and enyoiance of the said goods so alienated, without being bound to restore the price of such sales; and this notwithstanding the contracts of vendition and sale, the which for this effect we have abrogated and made void: and that the said purchasers shall have no remedy against the Heads by whose authority the said goods have been sold. And yet nevertheless for the disbursement of moneys by them truly and without fold laid out, letter's patents of permission shall be granted to those of the said Religion, to sesse, and equally lay the said sums upon them, whereunto the said sales shall amount: and the said purchasers shall not pretend any action for their damages and interests for default of enjoyance, but they shall be contented for the disbursement of those moneys by them furnished for the price of the said acquisitions or purchases: making good upon the same price the fruits and benefits by them received, in case that the same vent and sale was made at too mean and unequal a price   

XCI.  
And to the end that as well our justices and Officers, as other our subjects, may be clearly and with all certainty advertised of our will and intention, and to remove all ambiguities and doubts which may be cast by means of the precedent Edicts, by reason of the diversity of them, we have and do clear all precedent Edicts, secret articles, declarations, moderations, restrictions, interpretations, judgements, Registers, as well secret as other deliberations, heretofore by us or the Kings our predecessors made in Courts of Parliaments or otherwhere, touching the matter of the said Religion, and troubles happened within our said Realm, to be of no effect and validity: the which, and all abrogations therein contained, we do by this our present Edict annihilate and abrogate, and and from this present, as then, we do revoke, cashier, and annihilate, declaring expressly how our pleasure is, that this our Edict shall remain firm and inviolable, to be observed and held not only by our said justices and Officers, but also by other subjects, without depending or having respect to whatsoever may be derogant or contrary to the same.   

XCII.  
And for the greater assurance of the observation and keeping thereof, which we aim at, we will and ordain, and it stands with our pleasure, that all the Governors and Lieutenants of our Provinces, Bailiffs, Stewards, and ordinary judges of the Towns within our said Realm, incontinently after the receiving of this Edict, shall swear every one within their peculiar jurisdictions to observe and keep it: as also Mayors, Shiriffeses, Deputies and Consuls, and jurours of the Towns, whether annual or perpetual. We further enjoin our said Bailiffs, Stewards, or their Lieutenants and other judges, to cause the inhabitants of the same Towns both of the one and other Religion, to be sworn to the embracing of this present Edict, presently after the publication thereof; taking all those of the said Towns into our protection and safeguard, and one to the protection and safeguard of another: charging them mutally, and by public acts, to answer in comely manner to all oppositions that shall be made within the said Towns to this our said Edict, by any of the inhabitants of them, or else to commit into the hands of justice the said opposites.  
We command our faithful and beloved, those that keep Courts of Parliament, Chambers of Accounts, and Courts of Aides, that presently after this Edict received all things cease; and upon pain of annihilating the acts they shall otherwise perform, to minister the like oaths as above mentioned, and to cause our said Edict to be published and enrolled in our said Courts, according to the form and tenor of it, plainly and sincerely, without using any qualifications, restrictions, declarations, or secret Registers, nor attending any other injunction or command from us: and so we will our Procurors general presently and without delay to require and prosecute the said publication.  
In like manner we impose our command upon the said people keeping our Courts of Parliament, Chambers of our accomtps, Courts of aids, Bailiffs Stewards, Provosts, and other our justices and Officers to whom it shall appertain, and their Lieutenants, that they cause to be read, published, & enregistered this our present Edict and Ordinance, in their several Courts and jurisdictions, and the same to embrace, observe & keep, from point to point, and to cause all such whom it any ways concerns, fully and peaceably to enjoy the benefit of the contents thereof, ceasing and causing to cease, all lets and hindrances to the contrary. For so our pleasure is. In witness whereof, we have sealed these presents with our own hand: and to the end it may ever continue for a firm and stable Act, we have set and put to our Seal. Given at Nantes, in the month of April, the year of our Lord a thousand five hundred fourscore and eighteen. And of our reign the ninth.  
Signed, HENRY. And underneath, By the King sitting in Counsel. FORGET. And on the side. VISA. And sealed with the great Seal, in green wa●●, upon labels of red and green silk.