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 and fully observed according to its form and tenor; notwithstanding edicts and grants formerly made for the reduction of any Princes, Nobles, or Catholic cities to obedience, which grants shall have no prejudicial bearing upon those of said religion, except in the matter of the public exercise thereof, which shall be regulated by the following articles; from which, instructions shall be drawn up for the Commissioners, whom His Majesty will appoint to put in execution the provisions of his Edict.

11th.—According to the Edict given by His Majesty, for the reduction of the Duke of Guise, the exercise of the said pretended Reformed religion, shall not be allowed within the cities or faubourgs of Rheims, Rocroy, Saint Disier, Guise, Joinville, Fimes, and Moncornet in the Ardennes.

12th.—It shall not be allowed in the environs of the said cities, and places in which it was forbidden by the Edict of the year 1577.

13th.—And in order to take away all ambiguity that might possibly attach to the word environs. His Majesty declares that it is understood to apply to all places within the liberties, or the jurisdiction of the said cities, in which places the said religion shall not be established, except it should have been permitted by the Edict of 1577.

14th.—And inasmuch as by that, the said exercise was granted generally in the Fiefs belonging to those of the said religion, without excepting the said environs: His Majesty declares the same privilege shall still be possessed by those of the said religion holding such Fiefs, as is declared in the Edict given at Nantes.

15th.—According to the Edict given for the reduction of the Marshal de la Châtre, there shall be only one place granted for the exercise of the said religion, in each of the Bailiwicks of Orleans and Bourges, nevertheless the exercise may be continued where it is permitted by the Edict of Nantes.

16th.—The privilege of preaching in the Fiefs, shall be extended to the said Bailiwicks, in the way directed by the Edict of Nantes.

17th.—The Edict given for the reduction of the Marshal de Bois Dauphin shall be observed; and the said exercise shall not be permitted within any towns, faubourgs, or places brought by him into subjection to His Majesty. As for the environs of such, the Edict of 1577 shall be observed, even in the houses of the Fiefs, as directed by the Edict of Nantes.

18th.—There shall be no exercise of the said religion within the