A DECREE OF THE Court of Parliament at Paris, the second day of januarie, 1615.  
Touching the Sovereignty of the King in temporal matters, and against the pernicious Doctrine of Attempting against the sacred persons of Kings.  
TRANSLATED OUT OF THE FRENCH Copy, Printed at Paris by F. morel, and P. Mettayer, Printers to the King.  LUX POST TENEBRAS 
Printed at London for Nicholas Bourne, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the entrance into the Royal Exchange, 1615.   

AN Abstract out of the Records of the Court of Parliament.  
WHEREAS the King's Aturney general hath shown unto this Court (all the Chambers of the same being Assembled) that notwithstanding by many Orders heretofore given with great and mature deliberation, the Court hath confirmed the Maxims and general rules time out of mind holden in France, and borne together with the Crown: That is, That the King doth acknowledge no superior in matters temporal within his Realm, but GOD only. And that no Power hath any right or authority to dispense with or discharge his Subjects from the Oath of Fidelity and Obedience which they own unto him, neither to suspend, deprive or depose him from his said Kingdom, much less to attempt or cause to be attempted by authority either public or private, any thing against the sacred persons of Kings. Nevertheless the said Attorney General hath been advertised, That by divers Discourses as well in private as in public, many persons have given themselves Liberty to call in question such Maxims and General rules to dispute the sane, and to hold them for Questionable, whereby may arise great inconveniences, against which it is necessary, and that with Speed to provide Remedy. The said Attorney requiring, That considering the Court is assembled, It may please the same (all other affairs set apart) to ordain that the said Orders and Decrees be renewed and published again in all Courts of justice appertaining to the same jurisdiction, while the Court is sitting, To the end that the minds of all the King's Subjects, of what quality or condition soever they be, may remain confirmed & assured of the said Maxims & Rules: and for the better security of the kings life, peace, and public tranquillity. Forbidding all persons to contradict the same, upon the penalties declared in the said orders. And that it be enjoined to all the Deputies of the said Attorney, to cause publication thereof to be made, and thereof to certify this Court within the month, upon pain to be deprived of their Offices.  
The Court, all the Chambers being assembled hath ordained and doth ordain, that the Decrees made the 2. of December An. Dom. 1561. the nine and twentieth of December, An. Dom. 1594. the seventh of january, and the nineteenth of july, Anno Dom. 1595. the seven and twentieth of May, the eight of june, and the six and twentieth of November. An Dom. 1614 shall be kept and observed according to the form and Contents thereof: the said Court prohibiting all persons of what quality and condition soever to contradict the same upon the penalties therein contained. And to that intent the said Orders and Decrees shall be published within the precinct of the Bailiffs and sheriffs Government, Bailliages, Seneschalses, and other places of justice of this jurisdiction, by the diligence and procurement of the Deputies of the said Attorney general, who shall certitifie this Court of their proceed therein within the Month, upon penalty to answer the same in their own persons.  
Given in Parliament the second of january, Anno Dom. 1615.  
Signed Voysin Secretary, etc.  
FINIS.