The history of the famous Edict of Nantes containing an account of all the persecutions that have been in France from its first publication to this present time : faithfully extracted from all the publick and private memoirs, that could possibly be procured / printed first in French, by the authority of the states of Holland and West-Friezland, and now translated into English.

A Paper presented to the King by the General Deputies with the Answers.

TO THE KING.

SIR, your most Humble and O∣bedient Servants of the Reli∣gion, being fully inform'd of your Majesties Royal inclinations, for restoring the Ruins of his poor People, have laden the Deputies which your Majesty has been pleas'd to appoint 'em, with infi∣nite Acclamations, Vows and good Wishes, for the Establishment and sacred Benedictions of this Peace that is so much desir'd, to the end, that forasmuch as they find them∣selves pierc'd with this Coelestial Benefit, they may seek the Con∣tinuance of it, by the constancy of their submission, and render those Eminent Testimonies by their on∣ly Recourse to your Clemency and Justice, that they aspire to no Security or Refuge which they value more highly, against the Vi∣olence of those that trouble 'em, and withstand the Power of your Laws, then that of challenging by their humble Petitions and Supplications the steadfastness of your Inviolable word, and the Ob∣servance of your so authentick Briefs. For seeing that the wrongs which are done 'em, directly dash against the Reverence of your Pro∣tection

and divide that which the Peace and their Obedience ought to rejoin under the Felicity of your Commands, they most humbly be∣seech your Majesty to weigh their most humble Remonstrances in that Ballance of Equity, which renders your Scepter Just and For∣midable, and that it would please you to cut off the Violent Breaches of your favourable Concessions with the Sword that God has put into your Hands; to the end that in true Confidence and Assurance of Preservation, reposing upon the Wisdom and Goodness of your Sa∣cred Administration, they may be always retain'd in their Fidelity and real Obligations to your pure and entire Service.