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<DIV1 TYPE="declaration">
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<HEAD>THE DECLARATION <HI>OF</HI> The mo&s;t Chri&s;tian KING, LEVVIS the XIV. Of <HI>France</HI> &amp; <HI>Navarre.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To all His loving Subjects, concerning the Ce&s;&s;ation of the late Troubles, and re&s;toring them to their former peace and tranquility.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Faithfully Tran&s;lated out of the French Copie.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_LEWIS,</HI> By the grace of God, KING of <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Navarre;</HI></SIGNED> <SALUTE>To all pre&s;ent, and to come, greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Experience doth clearly manife&s;t, that the Kingdome of <HI>France</HI> is both invincible and dreadfull to its Enemies, &s;o long as it doth re|maine united within it &s;elf: And we may truly &s;ay, that this compleat harmonie hath been the maine cau&s;e whereby it is come to that height, as We doe &s;ee it at pre&s;ent, by many Conque&s;ts made upon <HI>Germany</HI> and <HI>Spaine;</HI> which doth cau&s;e us to look narrowly for the prevention of any thing which may alter the &s;ame, &s;eeing it is &s;o nece&s;&s;ary to maintaine Our owne again&s;t Our Enemies, which are &s;o &s;trong and numerous, that the yeares of Our Reigne may be well reckoned by the ma|ny Victories that We have obtained upon them: Therefore fearing le&s;t the Divi&s;ion which hath lately &s;prung up &s;hould come to &s;ome head, and &s;o to cau&s;e a Civil Warre; whereby We might be hindered from oppo&s;ing Our Enemies, and &s;o di&s;able Us from
<PB N="2" REF="2">obtaining the Peace &s;o long wi&s;hed for, which is the greate&s;t re|ward, and as a Crowne by Us aimed at in all our labours; and doe wi&s;h it &s;o pa&s;&s;ionately, that for the obtaining thereof, no meanes have been left unattempted, &s;o farre as it was con&s;i&s;tent with Our Royall Dignity, being urgent even with the Spani&s;h Partie to name a place upon Our Frontier where Commi&s;&s;ioners of both Kingdomes might be &s;ent with a full power to Treat: And being now re&s;olved to name one of Our Officers of the Parliament of <HI>Paris</HI> to be a Commi&s;&s;ioner for that Treaty.</P>
<P>We have therefore thought fit to u&s;e all meanes that can be expected from the goodne&s;&s;e and wi&s;dome of a PRINCE for &s;topping the current of &s;o great an evil, even in its very birth, that &s;o Our Subjects may in peace and quietne&s;&s;e enjoy tho&s;e many favours and benefits they have received from Our grace and goodne&s;&s;e, as it is at large expre&s;&s;ed in the Declarations by Us made in <HI>October</HI> la&s;t; as al&s;o tho&s;e before made in <HI>May</HI> &amp; <HI>July,</HI> before which, We will have to be executed in every point and clau&s;e thereof according to the true meaning, &s;ave onely for the Loanes which we &s;hall be forced to make for the pre&s;ent nece&s;|&s;ities of the State, as it will be &s;pecified hereafter.</P>
<P>For the&s;e Cau&s;es (after that Our Court of Parliament, with the Inhabitants of Our good City of <HI>Paris,</HI> have done tho&s;e &s;ub|mi&s;&s;ions and tokens of obedience as We could de&s;ire from them, with their prote&s;tations of fidelity to Our &s;ervice:) Know you that by the advice of the <HI>Queen Regent</HI> Our (mo&s;t honoured Lady) Mother; of Our mo&s;t deare and welbeloved Uncle the Duke <HI>d'Orleans;</HI> of Our mo&s;t deare and welbeloved Co&s;en the Prince of <HI>Cond&eacute;;</HI> and of Our certaine knoweldge, full power, and Royall authority:</P>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>Article I.</HEAD>
<P>We have &s;aid and declared, doe &s;ay and declare, by the&s;e pre|&s;ents &s;igned by Us: We will, and Our plea&s;ure is, That all De|crees, Orders, Ordinances, Commi&s;&s;ions granted, or any thing el&s;e Acted by Our &s;aid Court of Parliament, the Court of Alder|men, or any other what&s;oever done &s;ince the 6^t. of <HI>January</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, are declared void and null; as al&s;o the Acts, Treaties, Letters, Deeds, or any thing el&s;e what&s;oever done concerning
<PB N="3" REF="2">the&s;e pre&s;ent Troubles, untill the date of this pre&s;ent Declara|tion; &s;o that for any thing &s;o acted, or done, none &s;hall be troubled or mole&s;ted, neither to make any u&s;e thereof again&s;t any Per&s;on what&s;oever thereby to doe Us any prejudice, or to the di&s;turbance of the State: Neverthele&s;&s;e, it is agreed, that all &s;uch Judgments made, or given betwixt Partie and Partie, they being pre&s;ent, whether it be Civill or Criminall, or el&s;e, with Our At|tourney Generall touching particular Cau&s;es: Likewi&s;e all the adjudicatories and admi&s;&s;ion of Officers, as al&s;o that concerning Officers created in the yeare, 1635. &s;hall remaine in force.</P>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>Article II.</HEAD>
<P>Likewi&s;e, &s;hall remaine null and of none effect, all Decrees made in Our Coun&s;ell Table, as al&s;o any Declarations publi&s;hed by authority of the &s;ame, al&s;o Letters of the Signet granted a|bout the&s;e pre&s;ent Troubles &s;ince the 6. of <HI>Jan:</HI> la&s;t unto the date of this pre&s;ent: And con&s;equently We Ordain, that all Uniting, entring into League and A&s;&s;ociation, or what&s;oever el&s;e may be done or negotiated touching the premi&s;es as well within as with|out Our Kingdome, whether tho&s;e that are entred in &s;uch Confe|deracy have had any corre&s;pondency with Strangers, have given them any help or a&s;&s;i&s;tance, whether they have taken up Armes with them, or &s;ided in any wi&s;e; al&s;o have made Our Townes and Burroughs to take up Armes, and to receive them, and counte|nance them; yea, tho&s;e that have furni&s;hed them with provi&s;i|ons: and generally any manner of Per&s;on or Per&s;ons what&s;o|ever that have had any hand, or participated to this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, whether they have Acted by the &s;peciall Orders of Our mo&s;t deare and welbeloved, Co&s;en the Prince of <HI>Conty,</HI> or any other Princes, Dukes, Peeres, Officers of the Crowne, Prelats, Lords, Gentlemen, Cities, Townes, and Country; that neither Our a|fore&s;aid Co&s;en the Prince of <HI>Conty,</HI> or any other Prince, Duke, &amp;c. or tho&s;e by them employed in the &s;aid negotiations of what qua|lity and condition what&s;oever, &s;hall not, and may not for time to come be mole&s;ted or troubled in any wi&s;e; but all things &s;o acted and done to remaine void and of none effect, even as if it had never been done: al&s;o for any thing acted concerning Ar|mies, rai&s;ing of Men, taking up of Money, either of private Per|&s;ons, or publique Trea&s;ury, the carrying away of moveable goods
<PB N="4" REF="3">&amp; &s;elling them afterwards; the like for Plate, Ordnance, Arms, Ammunition and Provi&s;ion, no re&s;titution to be made or &s;ought for, but onely of &s;uch things as will be found in being and not yet &s;old: A&s;&s;emblies and Private meetings as well within the Townes as in the Country, taking up Armes. Arre&s;ting and Im|pri&s;oning &s;everall Per&s;ons, taking of Townes, Ca&s;tles, Strong|holds, whether it was by a &s;peciall Order or otherwi&s;e; and this to be till the day that Our Declaration be publi&s;hed in <HI>Paris,</HI> and for tho&s;e that are more remote three daies after it is publi&s;hed in their re&s;pective places of abode. Furthermore, Our will and plea&s;ure is, That Our afore&s;aid Co&s;en the Prince of <HI>Conty,</HI> and all other Princes, Dukes, Peeres, &amp;c. without any exception what|&s;oever, who have in any waies Acted or Agitated in the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e afore&s;aid, &s;hall be re&s;tored into all their goods, honours, digni|ties, preheminencies, prerogatives, Places of tru&s;t, Governours of Townes, Offices, and Benefices, even in the &s;ame manner as they were the 6. of <HI>January</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t: Likewi&s;e, that the Marque&s;&s;e of <HI>Noirmon&s;tier,</HI> Earle of <HI>Fie&s;que, de Laigne, Saint Ibar, la Sauvetat,</HI> and <HI>la Boulaye;</HI> al&s;o that any one that hath taken up Arms by rea|&s;on of the&s;e pre&s;ent Troubles &s;hall be paid by us of any debts ju&s;tly due to them, provided that the Prince of <HI>Conty,</HI> or any other what&s;oever &s;hall upon the publication thereof lay downe their Armes, as likewi&s;e renounce unto all Treaties, A&s;&s;ociations, Confederacies made in or about the&s;e pre&s;ent Troubles, as well within as without our Kingdome.</P>
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<HEAD>Article III.</HEAD>
<P>All Soldiers rai&s;ed by Order of Our &s;aid Co&s;en the Prince of <HI>Conty,</HI> &s;hall forthwith be Disbanded immediately after the pub|lication hereof, onely tho&s;e excepted that &s;hall be kept for Our &s;ervice, who &s;hall receive our Commi&s;&s;ions to that purpo&s;e.</P>
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<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>Article IV.</HEAD>
<P>All Pri&s;oners (whether they be of Warre, or otherwi&s;e) &s;hall be &s;et at Liberty, and in particular Mon&s;i ur <HI>Mangot</HI> Coun&s;ellour of State and Ma&s;ter of Reque&s;ts in Ordinary of Our Hou&s;hold, as al&s;o Mon&s;ieur <HI>Tracy,</HI> and <HI>Brequigni,</HI> and generally all others that have been Arre&s;ted and Impri&s;oned &s;ince the 6. of <HI>Jan:</HI> la&s;t, by rea&s;on of this pre&s;ent Ri&s;ing, in what&s;oever Pri&s;on they are detained, &s;hall without delay be &s;et at liberty upon the publica|tion hereof.</P>
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<PB N="5" REF="3">
<HEAD>Article V.</HEAD>
<P>And by rea&s;on that the fir&s;t payments made of the Taxes and Farmes is not made unto Us, or paid into Our Exchequer; but after four or five Months are expired of each yeare that is begun, and that Our pre&s;ent nece&s;&s;ity forceth Us to &s;eek &s;ome cour&s;e for having pre&s;ent Monies, Therefore We Ordaine, that during the yeares 1649. &amp; 1650. onely, there may be taken by way of Loane the &s;umme of twelve Millions of Livers <HI>per annum,</HI> in ca&s;e the pre&s;ent occa&s;ion and exigencie of our affaires doth &s;o require it; yet that none of Our Subjects &s;hall be compelled thereunto, neither &s;hall tho&s;e Monies &s;o taken up be turned to any other u&s;e then for the pre&s;ent occa&s;ion, none being put for the pay|ment of tho&s;e debts by Us formerly contracted: And for the rai&s;ing of the Monies, that it &s;hall be fir&s;t upon the Cities and great Townes with the Country adjacent, there being good and &s;ufficient &s;ecurity given by the Parties that pay the &s;aid Monies, to pay it into Our Exchequer, and a con&s;ideration of 8 <HI>percent.</HI> for the U&s;e of their Monies, and to be punctually paid at the time agreed upon, they being appointed upon the generall re|ceipt of the Taxes, which from henceforth &s;hall not be put in the way of a Monopolie, neither &s;hall any other receive it but &s;uch as are the KING's ordinary Officers.</P>
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<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>Article VI.</HEAD>
<P>We Ordaine, that the Towns &amp; Counties of <HI>S^t John d' Angely, Xaintes,</HI> and <HI>Coignac,</HI> formerly depending of our Court of Ex|chequer at <HI>Paris,</HI> but &s;ince alienated &amp; joyned to that of <HI>Guyenne,</HI> &s;hall againe be re-united as they were formerly as before Our Proclamation to that effect.</P>
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<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="article">
<HEAD>Article VII.</HEAD>
<P>Having well con&s;idered the exce&s;&s;ive co&s;t and charge that Our Subjects have been at, in, and about the City of <HI>Paris,</HI> by Billeting and Quartering of Soldiers: We are therefore re&s;olved to give &s;ome remedy to it with all &s;peed, and to ea&s;e each of them in matter of payments according as it &s;hall be &s;een requi&s;ite after the Forces are Disbanded, and full notice is given us of their pre&s;ent condition, the &s;ame al&s;o to be for the other places farther off that depend from <HI>Paris</HI> every one re&s;pectively as it &s;hall be thought fit.</P>
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<PB N="6" REF="4">
<HEAD>Article VIII.</HEAD>
<P>We will and declare,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Same&s;tre being a creati|on of more Officers in that Court, and &s;o make them that were before change every &s;ix Months.</NOTE> that Our Proclamation formerly made concerning the &s;uppre&s;&s;ion or abolition of the Seme&s;tre in the Court of Parliament of <HI>Provence,</HI> &s;hall be executed in every part and clau&s;e thereof, according to the conditions agreed upon betwixt us and them.</P>
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<HEAD>Article IX.</HEAD>
<P>And having duely con&s;idered the many Remon&s;trances which have been made unto Us from time to time by our Parliament of <HI>Roan</HI> touching the abolition of the Seme&s;tre e&s;tabli&s;hed there|in, We have therefore by the&s;e pre&s;ents, annulled, &s;uppre&s;&s;ed, and aboli&s;hed the &s;aid Seme&s;tre by Us e&s;tabli&s;hed according to Our Proclamation to that effect heretofore publi&s;hed, and con|&s;equently all Offices of Pre&s;idents or Coun&s;ellours &s;o made for|merly by our &s;aid Declaration to be void, and tho&s;e fir&s;t made to remaine onely, &s;o that neither now, nor in time to come the &s;aid Offices &s;hall againe be e&s;tabli&s;hed or &s;etled &s;ave onely one Pre&s;ident and thirteen Coun&s;ellours, with two for the Court of Reque&s;ts, that &s;hall be united and incorporated to the body of Our &s;aid Court; which Places &s;hall be executed by tho&s;e whom the Court &s;hall name and make choice for that purpo&s;e, with all honours, dignities, priviledges, to them appertaining, as when they were fir&s;t in&s;tituted, and the &s;ame pen&s;ions al&s;o to be paid unto them as is u&s;uall. And Our &s;aid Court of Parliament of <HI>Roan</HI> is al&s;o hereby required to name and make choice of tho&s;e Per&s;ons that are to be continued within the &s;pace of one Month after the publi&s;hing hereof; and in ca&s;e of default, and the time being ex|pired, the &s;aid Officers &s;hall and may enjoy, and execute their &s;everall places, every one according to the cour&s;e and order of their creation according to the number before &s;pecified, provi|ded that tho&s;e &s;o named and cho&s;en by Our &s;aid Court &s;hall pay into Our private Trea&s;ury, that is to &s;ay, the Pre&s;ident &s;eventy thou&s;and pounds, the thirteene Coun&s;ellours thirty thou&s;and pounds; each of them, and tho&s;e two for the Court of Reque&s;ts twenty thou&s;and pounds, each one to be paid and di&s;tributed un|to tho&s;e Officers who&s;e Places are aboli&s;hed, and for overplus, in ca&s;e tho&s;e Monies doe not &s;uffice to &s;atisfie every one that is &s;o put out, there &s;hall be &s;ome &s;peedy cour&s;e by Us taken for the
<PB N="7" REF="4">payment thereof, and Our &s;aid Court is hereby declared free and quit from any &s;uch payments; neither &s;hall they that &s;old the &s;aid Offices be troubled or mole&s;ted under any colour or pretext what&s;oever. We will and Ordaine, that all, and every &s;uch Officer &s;o &s;uppre&s;&s;ed &s;hall enjoy all priviledges, immunities, prerogatives, or any other benefit which they may have obtained during the time they have enjoyed the &s;aid Places, and that they &s;hall be capable of enjoying other Places and employments as they &s;hall be able to attaine thereunto without any further exa|mination or &s;earch made at the time of their reception, and &s;hall moreover enjoy their &s;allarie untill &s;uch time as they have recei|ved the full payment of &s;uch &s;ummes as was by them paid at the time of their creation, their bare Aquittance being a &s;ufficient di&s;|charge for the &s;ame.</P>
<P>And We will and require, that Our Courts of Parliament of <HI>Paris</HI> and <HI>Roan</HI> cau&s;e this Declaration to be read, publi&s;hed, and Regi&s;tred, and the Contents thereof to be kept and ob&s;erved in every clau&s;e and branch thereof, all and every one in their Places re&s;pectively according to its true intent and meaning; for &s;uch is Our plea&s;ure: And that this may be a firme &amp; con&s;tant thing, We have therefore &s;ealed the&s;e pre&s;ents with Our owne Seale.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>&para; Given at S^t</HI> Germain in Laye, <DATE><HI>in the yeare of Our Lord,</HI> 1649. <HI>and of Our Reigne the</HI> 6.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Signed</HI> LEWIS. <HI>And lower,</HI> By the KING, <HI>the</HI> QUEEN REGENT <HI>His Mother being pre&s;ent,</HI> De Guenegand, <HI>Secret:</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>REgi&s;tred, heard and read at the reque&s;t of the</HI> KING's <HI>Attourny-Generall, to be executed according to its tenour, and that Copies thereof &s;hall be &s;ent into all the Bailywicks and other inferiour Courts depending on this Parliament, that there the &s;ame may be read, pub|li&s;hed, and regi&s;tred, and the Deputies of the</HI> KING's <HI>Attourny-Generall are required not to faile therein, but to u&s;e all care and dili|gence requi&s;ite for this &s;ame; and thereof to certifie the Court within a Month accordingly.</HI></DATELINE>
<DATELINE>&para; Done at <HI>Paris</HI> in the Parliament <DATE> the 1. of <HI>April,</HI> 1649.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>Signed</HI> DU. TILLET.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="8" REF="5">
<HEAD>Ab&s;tract of the Regi&s;ters of Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>THis day the Court, and all the Chambers being met, After they had &s;een His Maje&s;ties Letters Patents in forme of a DECLARATION, given at S. <HI>Germain in Laye,</HI> in <HI>March</HI> la&s;t, Signed <HI>LEWIS, &amp;c.</HI> which are granted concerning the&s;e la&s;t Rai&s;ings and Troubles, concerning the Ce&s;&s;ation and ending of them; and are directed to this Court: And thereupon having heard the conclu&s;ions of the Attourny Generall, The Court hath Ordained, that the &s;ame &s;hall be read, publi&s;hed, and regi&s;tred in all places that are depending of this Court, &s;everall Copies there|of being &s;ent, and the KING's <HI>Attourny-Generall</HI> to Order His Sub&s;titutes to &s;ee it performed, and to certifie the Court within one Month. Done in Parliament &amp;c.</P>
<P>It is moreover ordered, that a Thank&s;giving day &s;hall be ap|pointed, and thanks likewi&s;e returned to their Maje&s;ties for that they were plea&s;ed to re&s;tore Their People to peace and quiet|ne&s;&s;e, that to this end Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;hall be &s;ent from this Court to doe the &s;ame: And furthermore, that they &s;hall mo&s;t humbly be&s;eech Their Maje&s;ties that they vouch&s;afe to honour this City with their Per&s;onall pre&s;ence, and &s;o to returne hither; as al&s;o they &s;hall move concerning the &s;everall intere&s;ts of their Generalls, and others herein concerned: And furthermore it is agreed, that the Forces lately rai&s;ed &s;hall be forthwith Di&s;|banded.</P>
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<P>Printed for <HI>R. Roy&s;ton,</HI> at the <HI>Angel</HI> in <HI>Ivie-lane, April</HI> 9. 1649.</P>
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