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 within Cities, Towns, or Villages, belonging to Catholic Noblemen, and where they have houses. In the latter case, the permission of said Noblemen must be given before religious worship can be had. 9th.—"We also permit those of the said religion to continue the exercise of it in all cities and places under our government, where it was established and publicly practised at different times in the year 1596, and before the end of August 1597, notwithstanding any decrees or decisions to the contrary.

10th.—The said exercise shall likewise be established and restored in all cities and places where it was established, or had the right to be so, by the Edict of Pacification, passed in the year 1577, or by the secret articles and conferences of Nerac and Fleix, without the said establishment being prevented in places of the domain given in the said Edict, though they may since have been made over to Catholic persons. Let it then be understood that the said exercise may be always re-established in places of the said domain which have formerly been in the possession of those who professed the pretended Reformed Religion, in which it would have been placed in consideration of their persons, or because of their feudal rights, even if the said fiefs should now be possessed by persons of the said Apostolical Roman Catholic Religion.

11th.—Moreover, in each of the ancient Bailiwicks, Seneschal's jurisdictions, and governments taking the place of Bailiwicks and having jurisdiction independent of the Courts of Parliament, we ordain that in the faubourgs of a city besides those which have been granted to them by the said Edict, Articles, and Conferences, and where there are no cities, the exercise of the said religion may be publicly performed in any town or village, by all those who wish; though in the said Bailiwicks, Seneschal's jurisdictions and governments, there may be several places where the said exercise is now established, saving and excepting the towns in which there is an Archbishopric or Bishopric newly granted by present Edict; without for that reason depriving those of said pretended Reformed Religion of the privilege of demanding and naming as places for the said exercise, small towns and villages near to the said cities; except also the places and manors belonging to the Clergy, where we only mean that the said second place in the Bailiwick may be established, having them by special favor excepted and reserved. It is our intention, under the name of ancient Bailiwicks to