I.

VVHerfore to enioy a full effect of your justice, they most humbly beseech your Maiestie would be pleased to send into your Provinces, per­sonages both of the one and the other Religion, en­dued with that affection which is requisite for the Peace, to the end they may the more profitably put your Edicts and Declarations in execution there, and take order in all places for the supplications, and necessities of your people of the Religion.

II.

ANd imparting your compassion and clemencie to those of your Townes, which haue rendered you such obedience, that thereby you were pleased to grant vs the Peace, your Maiestie is most humbly brought to ordaine, that the garrison which for ma­ny months hath beene with so much oppression at Montpellier, may be withdrawne from thence, accor­ding to your Royall promises, and in regard of the misery and mortalitie which is in the Towne.

III.

ANd that conformably to the particular Briefe, w ^ch it hath pleased your Maiesty to accord vn­to, nothing may be innovated in your said towne of Montpellier, and expresly in that which concerneth their Consullships; and that also the innovation made concerning the Consullship, called de Mer, may be repaired, considering the obedience which is rendered vnto you there, in the demolishment of the fortifications, in which labour the inhabitants continue with great charge, care, and diligence.

IIII.

YOur Subiects of the Religion also for to take a­way all occasion of distrust and feare, having gi­ven satisfaction to your Maiesties pleasure, concer­ning the razing downe of the Forts of the Iles of Olleron and de Re; may it please your Maiestie in like manner to ordaine, that the Fort erected before your Towne of Rochell may be demolished, as it pleased your said Maiestie to promise.

V.

ANd as God is all mercy, so like vnto him, whose image you beare, may it please your Maiestie to grant vnto a great number of persons, of all ages, detained for being in the last Warre, or for Religion, in your Galleyes, with nakednesse, ri­gor, and insupportable vsage, their pardon and libertie; and the same libertie to all others that are prisoners for accusations, depending vpon [Page 5] the times and affaires of the said troubles, whether they be found iudged or no; which fauor, pardon and liberty, is accorded vnto them by the 73 Arti­cle of the Edict which it hath pleased you to con­firme.

6

Your Maiesty, by your Letters of declaration of the 24 of April, 1621, hath willed that your Sub­iects, which remaine in your obedience, shall enioy the grace and concessions granted vnto them, aswell by your Maiesty, as by the late King, Henry the Great, of glorious memorie: Neuerthelesse, the last yeere 1622, they haue beene wholly depriued of the money which your Maiesty was accustomed yeerely to cause to be distributed to them, by Monsiur du Candal the Commissioner for it, wherby their poore Churches are in particular so disaccomodated, that they are constrained to haue recourse vnto your Ma­iesty, and beseech you (as most humbly they doe) to appoint a stock of money vnto the said du Candal for the said yeere, at leastwise for the entertainment of the Pastors of the Prouinces which remained in your obedience, and which were faine to borrow for to buy themselues meate, and to supply their other necessities.

7

Likewise, they most humbly beseech your Maie­stie, [Page 6] that according to the Grant you were pleased not long since to make vnto your said Subiects, you would be pleased to ordaine, that the said du Candal may be furnished with good and valuable assignati­ons, for the entertainment and releefe of their Mi­nisters during the present yeare: and for the pensions of the parties of the petit Estate, which it shal please you to erect; as also for the entertainment of the places which it pleased you to leaue in their guard; And that all these assignations may bee paid in such manner as it hath pleased your said Maiesty, and the said late King to grant vnto them by the Briefes which they haue had heretofore.

8

And forasmuch as there resteth great and nota­ble summes vnpaid of the assignations wherewithall the said du Candal was furnished in the yeares 1620. and 1621, which the Receiuers and Farmers vpon whom the said assignations were laid, keepe still in their hands, they most humbly beseech your Maiesty to ordaine that all delayes set apart, he may be satis­fied the said remainders.

9

The Churches of the Prouince of Gex hauing en­ioyed entertainment for their Pastors out of the Ec­clesiasticall reuennues of the said Prouince, vntill the yeare 1601, and for many yeares after, vnder the late King Henry the great, and till such time as it pleased your Maiesty by an Arrest of your Councell of the 5 of December 1612, to take away the said Ecclesi­asticall lands, and in exchange thereof to ordaine that 3600 liuers should be paid them yearly, the said summe of 3600 liuers to bee leuyed vpon the 45000 liuers of augmentation, granted to those of the Re­ligion, which money was paid them by the said du Candal vntill the moneth of October, 1621: May it please your Maiestie to command they may enioy the effect of the said Grant and Exchange, and to that end cause necessary assignations to be giuen to the said du Candal, as well for payment of the arre­rages, as of that which is to come

10

May it please your Maiestie also, to extend your liberalitie so farre forth as to furnish your subiects of the Religion in your city of Paris with a stock suffici­ent for re-edifying & reestablishment of their church and other buildings for the place of their exercise, [Page 8] which were burnt, demolished, and the most part of the materials carried away in the popular tumult that hapned in the yeere 1621, notwithstanding that your said Subiects kept themselues within the terms of obedience, and thereby vnder your Maiesties safe-guard and protection.

11

And after the same manner entreating your sub­iects of the said profession in your Citie of Tours, may it please you Sir to furnish them with the summes which your Maiesty, of your grace granted vnto them for the re-edifying of their Church; the Site and place whereof, may it please your Maiesty to continue vnto them, as that which was adiudged them by the Commissioners, after hearing of the whole Clergy, the Courts of Iustice and the Citie, and also was bought, built, and peaceably enioyed by them, vntill the troubles of the yeere 1621, in the possession whereof, they were not onely maintained by the Edict of 98; but also by those of the yeeres 1610 and 1612, and more especially by your Maie­sties last declaration.

12

The same request is made vnto your Maiesty, for the re-edifying of the Church of Bourg, in the place which they of the Religion were possessed of, by the iudgement & ordinance of the Commissioners, but now are kept from enioying it.

13

Pleaseth your Maiestie to bee informed, that the inhabitants, professing the reformed Religion, in your Towne of Villemur, are molested in the liberty of their Consciences; depriued of all exercise of pi­etie; excluded from publike office, and greatly ouer­charged by the Garison there. They also of Fonte­nay le Comte, are chased away and interdicted from Preaching and Prayer, neither can they haue their Church againe, which is euen quite ruined, nor is their Pastor suffered so much as to enter into it, nor are they permitted to burie their dead, but contrari­wise endure all excesse of charge and taxations, and vpon their complaints are sent away to your Coun­cell: Whereupon may it please you, Sir, to deli­uer them from such oppressions, and letting them enioy the fruite of the Peace, ordaine the re-esta­blishment of their Religion, their Churches, their [Page 10] Pastors, the suretie of their Sepultures, and whatso­euer else appertaineth vnto your Iustice in other their grieuances.

14

May it please your Maiesty in like manner to or­daine the said re-establishment of the Exercise at Lusson, where it is denied vnto them of the Religion, contrary to the publication of your Declaration, al­though they carried themselues in all obedience, and that the said Exercise hath beene continued there for 55 yeeres together, euen during all the time of the last warres, and gouernment of Monsieur Roches Baritault.

15

They of the Religion also are disturbed in the said Exercise at Talmont, the Cannon hauing beene planted against them, vpon their assembly to heare a Sermon. Likewise at Surgers, the Lady of the place hath forbidden to Preach there, although it was permitted them all the time of these last trou­bles: So in like sort at Baignols, at S. Gilles in Lan­guedoc, at Figeac in Quercy, and at Vic in Armaig­nac, from whence Monsieur Testas the Minister was expelled, and dares not returne thither, nor can be therewith any safety: wherein your Declaration being violated, may it please your Maiesty to com­mand the re-establishment of the said Churches, and of the said Testas; as also that of the Church of Quilleboeuf and the Pastor thereof, who a long time hath sued to be restored.

16

And whereas the Catholiques of your Towne of Poictiers haue imposed the summe of 1200 liuers vp­on those of the Religion, for the entertainment of a guard which they vsed in these troubles, and where­into they would not admit any of the aforesaid Reli­gion, may it please your Maiesty to discharge them of it, as of an imposition that is not reasonable.

17

Further they beseech your Maiesty to ordaine, that the Edict of Exchange touching the Churches of your Soueraignty of Bearne, may in all points be effected, as it pleased you to accord, by the Briefe giuen at Montpellier. And that the Exercise of hte Religion, and the Ministerie may bee restored in your Towne of Nauarrins. That in consideration of the Cession of other Churches, they of the Reli­gion may be maintained in the possession of the Churches, bells and Church-yards, which was gran­ted them by the Commissioners, or by the Parlia­ment vpon their report. That the Colledges and A­cademies may be re-established there, with payment of the stipends which were formerly allowed.

18

And because Iustice is that which most imports your Authority, and the conseruation of the Peace; May it please your Maiesty to ordaine the speedy re-establishment of the Courts of Iustice equally com­pounded of Catholikes, and those of the reformed Religion, in places and Townes where they were wont to be. And that during the time of attending the effect of the said re-establishment, the Courts of Parliament may be interdicted from taking notice and iudging of causes appertaining to them of the Religion: And that all appeales, either verball or written, interiected by them before Iudges, or Com­missioners, that are to giue Arrests and iudgements, may haue the like effect, as if they were relieued by Royall Letters, according to the 45 Article of the Edict, and the 6 of the Conference at Nerac.

19

By the 6 Article of the Edict, and the 2 of the par­ticulars, and other answers made to the Requests, they of the Religion finde themselues to be iustly dis­charged [Page 13] from contributing to the constructions & reparations of the Church & the dependances ther­of, as a thing contrary to their consciences. Not­withstanding which, the Catholike inhabitants of Arnay le Duc sue to your Councell for leaue, to im­pose generally on the Commonalty, as well vpon those of the Religion, as vpon themselues, the summ of 6000 liuers, to build a Church for the Capuchins, which would be neyther reasonable, nor conforma­ble to your Edicts: Wherefore, may it please your Maiestie, to declare all your subiects of the Religion to be quit, and exempted from payments, and con­tributions of the like nature, and that the said second Article of the Particulars may be executed.

20

It is well knowne, that during these last troubles, they of the said Religion haue suffered much vio­lence from their contraries: As in the towne of Ro­merantin, where the place of their Exercise in the suburbs of the said towne was twice burnt. But that which is yet more strange is this, that since the Peace which it pleased your Maiestie to grant vnto your said Subiects, the Church which had been built long agoe in your towne of Iergeau was quite pulled downe, and the demolishments carried cleane away, by meanes whereof they of the Religion are depri­ued of their Exercise: Wherefore they most hum­bly beseech your Maiesty, that in reparation of so no­table an infraction of your Edicts and Declarations, you wil be pleased to ordaine, that the said churches [Page 14] may be re-edified, and the Exercise re-established in the said townes of Iergeau and Romerantin.

21

Your townes of Saint Foy and Bergerac, most hum­bly beseech you, Sir, that you will be pleased out of your singular bountie to discharge them of the op­pressions, which with so much excesse they haue suf­fered a long time, letting your said towne of Berge­rac fully enioy the benefit of your inuiolable promi­ses, by hindring so many innouations, and the buil­ding of the Cittadell there, which is now erecting no withstanding that your Subiects of the Religion haue maintained themselues in the firmnes of a most humble subiection and obedience towards your Ma­iestie, therby labouring to deserue the effect of the said Roiall promises, their libertie, and the peace­able exercise of their Religion.

22

And lastly, for the easing of your people of the [Page 15] Religion, for the setling of them in a sure confidence and further confirmation of the Peace, which you haue vouchfased to grant them: may it please your Maiesty to raze out all the market of diffidence that are yet remaining, and for that one to discharge the many Garisons that still continue in the lower Lan­guedoc, and other Prouinces, vnder the command of such as are not very well affected to your said subiects of the religion: that so there may be no re­tardment of the effects of that obedience, which both they will and ought to render you, as well in the demolishments you haue ordained, as in all other things which it shall please you to command them.

Answer.

The King will take order herein, as he shall see it to be best for his seruice.