Synodicon in Gallia reformata, or, The acts, decisions, decrees, and canons of those famous national councils of the reformed churches in France being I. a most faithful and impartial history of the rise, growth, perfection and decay of the reformation in that kingdom, with its fatal catastrophe upon the revocation of the Edict of Nants in the year 1685 : II. the confession of faith and discipline of those churches : III. a collection of speeches, letters, sacred politicks, cases of conscience, and controversies in divinity, determined and resolved by those grave assemblies : IV. many excellent expedients for preventing and healing schisms in the churches and for re-uniting the dismembred body of divided Protestants : V. the laws, government, and maintenance of their colleges, universities and ministers, together with their exercise of discipline upon delinquent ministers and church-members : VI. a record of very many illustrious events of divine providence relating to those churches : the whole collected and composed out of original manuscript acts of those renowned synods : a work never be extant in any language.

CHAP. II. The Kings Commissson to the Lord GALLAND.

AS soon as the Synodical Officers were chosen, the Lord Galland de∣clared that by vertue of, and in Obedience to his Majesties Letters Patents bearing Date the Seventeenth of April last, and verified in his Court of Parliament the Second of May following, by which His Majesty had ordained that in all Assemblies of his Subjects of the Reformed Religion whether Coloquies or Synods one of His Majesties Officers being of the same Religion should assist in Person, and see that nothing should be pro∣pounded or handled but only such Affairs as were permitted by his Edicts, and that he should make report thereof unto His Majesty, He came now and sate in this Assembly, for that His Majesty had Commissionated him as his Deputy unto this present Assembly, as was evident by the Letters Pattents of His said Majesty, subscribed by the Kings own Hand Lewis, and a little Lower, by His Majesties Order, De L' Omeny, and Sealed with the Great Seal in yellow Wax, and Dated the Twenty Ninth of July last, which were produced and read, The Tenour whereof is as followeth.

Lewis by the Grace of God King of France and Navarre, to our well-beloved and faithful Counsellor in our Council of State and Privy Council, our Attorney General in our Realm of Navarre, Monsieur Augustus Galland, Greeting. We having Willed and Ordained by our Letters Patents bearing Date in the Moneth of April last, that our Subjects of the P. Reformed Religion might hold their Synodical Assemblies as formerly, and meet and treat about Matters of their Discipline, and that we would Commissionate one of our Officers of the same Religion to be present in those Assemblies, and to see that none other Matter should be Debated in them but what is according to our Edicts: Now forasmuch as in the Moneth of September next, there will be conven'd at Charenton an Assembly of the Deputies of the said Religion from out of all the Provinces of this our Kingdom: For these Causes we being well assured of your good affection unto our Service, and to the Repose and Peace of our Estate, we have Commissio∣nated, and do by these presents Commissionate you to meet and be present with them in the said General Assembly, whether it sit at Charenton or be removed elsewhere by our permission, during the whole time of their Sessions, and carefully to take heed that nothing he Treated or Debated in it contrary to our Service, or prejudicial to the Publick Peace. And in case any other thing shall be proposed or Debated than what concerns the Order and Discipline of the said P. Reformed Religion, you shall oppose and suppress it, and make those Remonstrances against it as be in such cases needful, and give us full and timely notice of the whole and of all and singular passages transacted in it. And because of that confi∣dence we have of your Loyalty and Affection we have Commissiona∣ted and Deputed, and do Commissionate and Depute you for this very end and purpose to be present in all those Assemblies held by our Subjects of the

said P. Reformed Religion by our Licence at the said Town of Charenton, without your having need of any other powers than what are now given you by these present Letters Pattents, which you may communicate unto such Persons as you shall think fit, so that none of those our aforesaid Subjects may pretend ignorance, you having received full power from us. For such is our will and pleasure. Given at St. Germain in I aye, this Nine and Twentieth day of July, and in the Year of Grace One Thousand Six Hundred and Twenty Three, and in the Fourteenth Year of Our Reign. Signed Lewes, and a little lower, By His Majesties Order.

D' LOMENY.