The true originall 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 Kings Edict of peace, dated in the campe at Mompellier the nineteenth of October 1622. and proclaimed throughout all his dominions for a finall ending of all ciuill troubles. Cum priuilegio.

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The true originall 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 Kings Edict of peace, dated in the campe at Mompellier the nineteenth of October 1622. and proclaimed throughout all his dominions for a finall ending of all ciuill troubles. Cum priuilegio.
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London :: Printed by R. F[ield] for William Garrat,
1622.
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Huguenots -- France -- Law and legislation -- Early works to 1800.
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"The true originall 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 Kings Edict of peace, dated in the campe at Mompellier the nineteenth of October 1622. and proclaimed throughout all his dominions for a finall ending of all ciuill troubles. Cum priuilegio." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06372.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.

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XVII.

We prohibite all Preachers, Lecturers, and others that teach publickely, to vse any words, speech or dis∣course which may tend to excite the people to seditiō: but contrariwise we haue and do enioyne them to containe and beare themselues modestly, and to vt∣ter nothing which shall not be for the instruction and edification of their auditors, and to the maintenance of that tranquillitie and peace by vs estableshed with∣in our said Kingdome; vpon the penalties enacted by our precedent Edicts: Most expresly enioyning our Procurors general and their substitutes, to enforme out of their office against those who shall herein offend, vp∣on penaltie of answering for it in their proper and

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peculiar persons, and by the priuation of their offices.

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