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<HEAD>The French King's New Declaration</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">An EDICT of the King, Declaring that the next of Kin and lawful Heirs of &s;uch Per&s;ons as are fled for their Religion, &s;hall enter into Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the E&s;tates and Goods which they have left behind in the Kingdom, yet without any Power to Sell or Alienate them, till after the Expiration of Five Years.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>Given at <HI>Ver&s;ailles,</HI>
<DATE>in the Month of <HI>December</HI> 1689. Regi&s;ter'd in Parliament, <HI>Decemb.</HI> 9. 1689.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
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<P>LICENS'D <DATE>December 7. 1689.</DATE> J. F.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>LEWIS by the Grace of God, King of <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Navarr,</HI> to all both Pre&s;ent and to Come, Greeting.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>After we had taken a Re&s;olution to extirpate in our Kingdom the Exerci&s;e of the pretended Reformed Religion, which the Kings our Predece&s;&s;ors, and our &s;elves had only tollerated, we thought it our Duty to Con&s;ecrate to God, and to pious U&s;es, the Goods which belong'd to the Con&s;i&s;tory, and tho&s;e which were appointed for the maintenance of the Mini&s;ters and Poor of the Pretended Reformed Religion; and afterwards we found our &s;elves oblig'd for the Cau&s;es contain'd in our Edict in the Month of <HI>January</HI> 1682. to di&s;po&s;e of the Goods and E&s;tates left behind by tho&s;e of our Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion, who are departed out of our Kingdom, contrary to our Edicts of <HI>July</HI> 1681. <HI>July</HI> 1682. and <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1685. and are not yet return'd according to the Acts of Grace which we granted in their behalf by our Edicts of <HI>October</HI> 1681. and <HI>July</HI> 1686. To that purpo&s;e by our &s;aid Edict of <HI>January</HI> 1688, We did Unite the&s;e Goods and E&s;tates &s;o left behind to our Demeans, not to augment our Revenues, but to the end they might be Regi&s;ter'd and Pre&s;erv'd by our Officers, with the &s;ame care as our own, and that the Revenues thereby accrewing might be employ'd according as we had intended, but being inform'd of the great difficulties which oppo&s;e the Execution of our De&s;ign in regard of the differe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> preten&s;ions and claims which &s;everal of our Subjects lay to the &s;aid E&s;tates, and be&s;ides having a Regard to the Supplications and Petitions which have been made to Us, to pre&s;erve the &s;aid Goods and E&s;tates to the lawful Heirs of tho&s;e, who by their de|parture have left them behind, and being able by other means to provide for the &s;ettlement of what &s;hall be judged nece&s;&s;ary for the Advantage of the Religion in our Kingdom, without reducing the&s;e E&s;tates into <HI>Mortmain,</HI> or depriving of the u&s;e thereof, tho&s;e that help to &s;upport the Charges of our Kingdom. For tho&s;e Rea&s;ons, with the Advice of our Privy-Council, and having &s;een the &s;aid Edicts and Declarations, and the Decree thereupon, both this Month, and the Month of <HI>March</HI> 1688. We have of Our certain knowledge, full Power, and Royal Authority by this pre&s;ent Edict, Perpetual, and Irrevocable, Said, Decreed, De|clar'd and Ordain'd, and do Say, Decree, Declare, Ordain, Will and Plea&s;e.</P>
<P N="1">1. That according to Our Edict of the Month of <HI>Jan.</HI> 1688. the Goods and E&s;tates of the Con&s;i&s;tories of the Pretended Reformed Religion, and tho&s;e that were appointed for the maintenance of the Mini&s;ters and Poor of the &s;aid Religion, &s;hall be employ'd to Pious U&s;es, or given to the Ho&s;pitals, and Regu|lar &s;ecular Communities, which we &s;hall make choice of next to the places where the &s;aid E&s;tates lye, to have the Admini&s;tration, and to employ one part of the Revenues as we &s;hall direct for the benefit of the Religion, according to the Information that &s;hall be given us to that purpo&s;e within Three Months by the Arch-Bi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, Intendants and Commi&s;&s;aries, depu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ed in the Provinces for the Execution of our Order, at the Expence of paying the Duties of Indemnity if any are due; the real incumbrances, and all the lawful Debts to which they are liable, to the Value only of the Stock and Revenues of the &s;aid E&s;tates; and provided that the re&s;t of the Goods that belong to the &s;aid Communities, &s;hall not be charg'd, nor lyable to the &s;aid Rights, Charges and Debts, we Will and Require that the Donations here before made by Us, of the Goods of the Con&s;i&s;tories, and of tho&s;e &s;et a part for the maintenance of the Mini&s;ters and Poor of the pretended Reformed Religion, to th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> day of this pre&s;ent Edict, to be employ'd in pious U&s;es, or upon the Ho&s;pitals, or regular or &s;ecular Communities, &s;hall be Executed according to their Form and Tenour, We having given them all nece&s;&s;ary confirmation.</P>
<P N="2">2. Our Will and Plea&s;ure is, That the E&s;tates left behind by our Subjects that are departed, or may depart out of our Kingdom, contrary to the Prohibitions made by our Decrees, &s;hall belong to tho&s;e of their Paternal, or Maternal Kindred, to whom according to the Cu&s;toms and Laws of the Provinces of the King|dom they ought to have de&s;cended after the Natural Death of tho&s;e who have &s;o left the Kingdom, and that they &s;hall &s;hare and enjoy them after the &s;ame man|ner, as if they had fallen to them by Succe&s;&s;ion; and with the &s;ame Charges of Debts, Dowries, Pen&s;ions for Life, or other Conditions, whether of A&s;&s;ignment Warranted or otherwi&s;e; revoking to that effect, all Gifts made by Writing, Decree or Letters Patents, till the date of our pre&s;ent Decree. Provided that the Donee's &s;hall not be oblig'd to re&s;tore the Rents by them re&s;erv'd in pur&s;uance of the &s;aid Gifts, upon which they &s;hall be only bound to pay the real Char|ges, proportionably to the time of their Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P N="3">3. We ordain that the Heirs by vertue of the Orders decreed &s;hall be put into po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the &s;aid E&s;tates, by the Lieutenants of our Baylywicks Sene&s;chals, or other our Judges, within who&s;e Juri&s;diction the &s;aid E&s;tates &s;hall lye, upon Petitions concerning the degrees of their Kindred, which &s;hall be communicat|ed to our Procurators. In pur&s;uance of which Orders our Will and Plea&s;ure is, that they &s;hall enter into po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of their E&s;tates, the fir&s;t day of <HI>Jan.</HI> next. To this effect declaring Null and Void upon the &s;ame day, all the Relea&s;es both General and Particular, that have been made of the &s;aid E&s;tates by our Or|ders. Our further plea&s;ure is, that they who have enjoy'd any E&s;tates by Lea&s;e, or otherwi&s;e, &s;hall be bound by the fir&s;t of <HI>March</HI> next to give an accompt be|fore our Intendants and Commi&s;&s;ary's in our Provinces of the Receipts and disbur&s;ments which have been made out of the Lands, and what mony remains in the hands of the Farmers and others who have had the looking after the &s;aid Land, by verbal an&s;wer with the Information of the Intendants and Commi&s;&s;aries, to be &s;ent to our well beloved and Tru&s;ty Chancelour, for us to order thereupon what &s;hall be proper.</P>
<P N="4">4. Our Judges &s;hall take Cognizance of all &s;uits commenced or to be commenced by rea&s;on of the Propriety of the &s;aid Lands, either for Debts, A&s;&s;ignements, Rent-Charges, or other Incumbrances, which the Lands &s;hall be pre ended to be charg'd with, being willing that &s;uch &s;uits may go on by In&s;truction and judgement upon the &s;aid &s;uits, according to the U&s;ual Manner, as they might have done, before the Donations, and Grants which we had made of any of the &s;aid Lands, and the decree made in our Council of State the 31 of <HI>March.</HI> 1638.</P>
<P N="5">5. We grant to our Subjects full power before the Judges, in who&s;e Juri&s;diction the &s;aid Lands lye to make Returns of the Condition wherein they found them before their taking po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of them, and in Ca&s;e of Wa&s;ts Committed by tho&s;e that had the over&s;ight of the Lands before po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion given, they &s;hall exhibit their complaints to the &s;aid Judges again&s;t tho&s;e that had Committed the &s;aid Wa&s;ts, even again&s;t the Donee's them&s;elves, if they have Committed any Wa&s;t.</P>
<P N="6">6. Our plea&s;ure is, that &s;uch as are Creditors of any of our Subjects who are departed our Kingdom may bring their &s;uits for the payment of their debts again&s;t tho&s;e who have declar'd them&s;elves the next of Kin and lawful Heirs, and may &s;ue out executions upon the &s;aid Lands before the Judges to whom the Cognizance of tho&s;e things belongs. And as to the Lands which tho&s;e Heirs &s;hall peaceably enjoy, we ordain that they &s;hall neither Sell nor Mortgage them, till after five years en|joyment, to begin from the fir&s;t day of <HI>January</HI> next en&s;uing; Provided neverthele&s;s that this &s;hall be no ob&s;truction during the term of five years afore&s;aid, of the di&s;charge of &s;uch payments as they are oblig'd to make of the Debts and incumbrances afore&s;aid, as they &s;hall be judg'd lawful by the Judges afor&s;aid.</P>
<P N="7">7. We ordain, that the Lands and E&s;tates of our Subjects of the Pretended Reformed Religion departed out of our Kingdom, by our permi&s;&s;ion may be pre&s;erv'd for their elder Children if they have any left behind within our Kingdom, or for the Guardians of the younger; and in ca&s;e they have no Children left behind within our Kingdom, for the per&s;ons who &s;hall be commi&s;&s;ion'd and entru&s;ted by us with the Admini&s;tration of the E&s;tates, which the Creditors may cau&s;e to be &s;eiz'd, and enter proce&s;s before our Judges, pro&s;ecuting all the nece&s;&s;ary and formal ways of proceedings, by the validity of the decrees imported by our Ordi|nances, again&s;t the &s;aid Elder Children, Tutours or Guardians of the younger, or again&s;t tho&s;e who are by us entru&s;ted in ca&s;e there be no Children.</P>
<P N="8">8. Our Plea&s;ure is that the Revenues of the &s;aid E&s;tates &s;hall be di&s;tributed during the Lives of our Subjects, as &s;hall be directed by us, and that the proprie|ty and profits of the E&s;tates &s;hall belong after their Deaths to the lawful Heirs which &s;hall be within our Kingdom according to the di&s;po&s;al of the Second Article of this our pre&s;ent Edict.</P>
<P>So we give Command to our Friends and Faithful Coun&s;ellours, holding our Courts of Parliament, Chamber of Accompts, and Court of Ardes at <HI>Paris,</HI> that they cau&s;e this pre&s;ent Edict to be Read, Publi&s;hed, and Regi&s;ter'd, and Executed point by point; according to its Form and Tenour. For &s;uch is our Will and Plea&s;ure, and to the End that this may be a Thing firm and &s;table to perpetuity, We have caus'd our Seal to be affix'd to the&s;e Pre&s;ents.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at <HI>Ver&s;ailles,</HI> <DATE>in the Month of <HI>December,</HI> in the year of Grace 1689. and of our Reign the 47th.</DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED>Sign'd <HI>LEWIS,</HI> and a little Lower By the King, COLBERT.</SIGNED>
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<P>REGISTER'D: And requiring the Kings Procurators General, that it be put in Execution, according to the Form and Tenour of it.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>At <HI>Paris</HI> in the Parliament
<DATE>the 9. of <HI>December</HI> 1689.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Sign'd <HI>TILLET.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Ben. Griffin,</HI> at the Sign of the <HI>Griffin</HI> in the <HI>Old-Bayly.</HI> 1689.</P>
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