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, as well as all Secret and other Resolutions formerly issued by us, or the Kings our predecessors, registered in our Courts of Parliament or elsewhere, upon subjects connected with the said religion, and the troubles arising therefrom in our Kingdom. To the abrogation herein contained, we add our declaration that by this our Edict we have broken, revoked, and cancelled all others; and we declare expressly, that we wish this our Edict to be steadfastly and inviolably kept and observed, by all Magistrates and Officers, as well as all our other subjects, eschewing every thing contrary to its provisions.

92d.—And for still further assurance, that this Edict be observed and carried out as we wish, it is our Royal will and pleasure that, immediately upon its reception, all Governors, and Lieutenant-Governors of our Provinces, all Bailiffs, Seneschals, and other Magistrates in our cities, shall swear to have it kept and observed, each within his District; as also the Mayors, Sheriffs, Capitouls, Consuls and Aldermen, annual or permanent, in our cities and towns. "We also enjoin upon our said Bailiffs, Seneschals, or their Lieutenants, and other judges, that they call upon the principal inhabitants, indifferently of either religion, to swear to the maintenance of the present Edict immediately after its publication. We take all alike under our protection and safe-keeping, and desire all mutually to protect each other; and we make our officers liable to answer themselves in Court for any infraction of the present Edict by the inhabitants of the said cities, if they do not lodge a complaint against such offenders, and hand them over to the law.

We command our right entirely and well-beloved people, comprising our Courts of Parliament, our Courts of Exchequer, and Courts of Aids, under the penalty for causing Acts, that would otherwise pass, to be null and void, to let nothing intervene, but, immediately after receiving the present Edict, take the above oath and have the Edict published and registered in our said Courts, purely and simply according to the form and tenor of its contents, without modification, restriction, protest, or secret record, not waiting for any further order or command from us; and we require our Attorneys-General to exact and enforce the publication immediately without delay.

Therefore we lay our commands upon the members of our said Courts of Parliament, Court of Exchequer, Courts of Aids, our Bailiffs, Seneschals, Provosts, and all other Magistrates, whose duty it