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 the Edict having any cognizance thereof. It is also our will, that in deciding suits which may arise between the said Clergy and those of the said pretended Reformed religion, if the clergyman be defendant, the cognizance and judgment of the criminal suit shall belong to our Sovereign Courts, to the exclusion of said Chambers; and if the clergyman be plaintiff, and he of said religion defendant, the cognizance and judgment of the criminal suit shall belong to the said Chambers established, which shall give final decision, without appeal. During vacation, the said Chambers shall also have cognizance of matters referred, by the Edicts and Ordinances, to the Chambers established for the time of vacation, each within its district.

35th.—The said Chamber of Grenoble shall from this time forward be united and incorporated with the body of the said Court of Parliament, and the President and Councillors of the said pretended Reformed religion shall be nominated Presidents and Councillors of the said Court, and considered as of their number and of equal rank. And for these ends they shall first be distributed in the other Chambers; then selected and drawn from them to be employed and to serve in that which we shall order anew; always with the understanding that they shall attend, have a seat and vote in all the deliberations of the assembled Chambers, and shall enjoy the same emoluments, authority and dignities as the other Presidents and Councillors of said Court. 36th.—It is our will, and it must be understood, that the said Chambers of Castres and Bourdeaux shall be re-united and incorporated with those Parliaments, in the same way as the others, when required, and when the cause which has induced us to establish them shall cease and no longer be known amongst our subjects; and for these ends the Presidents and Councillors of those of the said religion, shall be named and appointed Presidents and Councillors of said Courts.

37th.—There shall also be newly appointed, in the Chamber ordered for the Parliament of Bourdeaux, two Substitutes for our Attorney and our Solicitor-General, one of whom shall be Catholic and the other of the said religion, for whom shall be provided ready money salaries from said offices.

38th.—The said substitutes shall be considered as substitutes only, and when the Chambers ordered for the Parliaments of Toulouse and Bourdeaux shall be united and incorporated with the said