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 43d.—The said Chambers shall be established within six months, during which time (if it be so long before the establishment be made) the suits commenced and intended to be commenced, in which those of the said religion shall be parties, within the jurisdiction of our Parliaments of Paris, Rouen, Dijon and Rennes, shall be brought forward in the Chamber established for the present in Paris, in virtue of the Edict of the year 1577, or else in the Great Council, at the choice and option of those of the said religion if they require it: those who shall be of the Parliament of Bourdeaux, at their option, either in the Chamber established at Castres or at the said Great Council; and those who shall be of Provence in the Parliament of Grénoble. And if the said Chambers are not established within three months after our present Edict shall have been presented to them, those of our Parliaments which have refused, shall be deprived of all cognizance over and all right of judging the causes of those of the said religion.

44th.—The suits not yet tried of the above mentioned description, pending in the said Courts of Parliament and Great Council, shall be referred, in whatsoever state they may be, to the said Chambers, each in its proper district, if one of the parties of the said religion demand it within four months after the establishment thereof; and as for those which are suspended and not in a state for trial, the said persons of said religion shall be obliged to make their declaration on the first intimation and notice they shall have of the taking up of the suits; and the said time passed, it shall no longer be open to them to demand the reference.

45th.—The said Chambers of Grénoble and Bourdeaux, and the Chamber of Castres shall retain the forms and style of Parliaments, within the jurisdiction in which they shall be established, and those who sit in judgment shall be of equal numbers of each religion, unless the parties agree to the contrary.

46th.—All the judges to whom application shall be made for the execution of writs and orders from the said Chambers, and of Chancery letters, together with all constables and sergeants, shall be obliged to execute them; and the said constables and sergeants shall serve all subpoenas throughout the kingdom without asking Placet visa ne Pareatis, under pain of suspension from their offices, and the risk of all costs and injuries to the parties, the cognizance of which shall belong to the said parties.

47th.—There shall be no removing of suits, the cognizance of