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. IX. The Roll of MINISTERS provided for, and disposed by this present SYNOD.

• I. MOnsieur Christian is sent unto the Town of Sancerre, in the Vis∣county of Turenne.
• 2. Monsieur Quesnel unto Lectoure.
• 3. Mon∣sieur Chaffepied to St, Foy, yet his Church may recall him at the Years end.
• 4. Monsieur de la Valle at Abbeville, in Agenois.
• 5. Monsieur Giraud to the Town of Mas, in Agenois.
• 6. Monsieur Du Puy to Le Laigne, and Bas de Fon, with their Annexes.
• 7. Monsieur Anisse to St. Aulaye.

¶ This present National Synod was finished the fourteenth Day of February, in the Year of our Lord, 1578.

Thus Signed in the Original,

• Peter Merlin, Moderator.
• Francis L'Oyseau, Scribe.
• William de la Jaille, Scribe.

Mr. Merlin the Moderator of this Synod, was Minister in the Family of that famous Nobleman the Lord De Coligni, High Admiral of France, who miraculously escaped with his Life in that horrible Massacre at Paris, on St. Bartholomew's Day, 1572. He leapt out of a Window, and hid him∣self in an Haylofft, where an Hen came and lay an Egg by him three days successively, with which he was sustained, till the Lord opened a Door for him to get out of this bloody City. He was afterward Mini∣ster of the Church of Vitre. He was dim-sighted, a very pious and pru∣dent Man. He hath commented upon Job and Esther in Latine. He was a very dear Friend of Mr. Snape and Mr. Cartwright, two Eminent English N. C. Ministers, and who read his Exposition on Job, and made some Animadversions on it, in the Isle of Jersey. He presided also in the Na∣tional Synod of Vitre, 1583.