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 Bailiff of Perche or Ms Lieutenant at Mortaigne. And the repayment made or offered, though the said Barbier may refuse or delay to receive it, it is His Majesty's will and pleasure that the said Barbier and the said Bernard shall not intermeddle any more with the duties of the said offices, under pain of the punishment for perjury; the said Grimoult shall be placed in full possession of these offices, with the rights and privileges appertaining to them ; and, by this article, the suit pending before the Privy Council, between the said Grimoult, Barbier and Bernard shall be terminated. His Majesty forbids his Parliament to take any further cognizance, and also forbids the parties themselves to agitate it again. Besides, His said Majesty has taken upon himself to repay the said Bernard a thousand crowns escheated for his office, and sixty crowns for the marc d'or and expenses; having for this purpose now ordered good and sufficient appropriations to be made, the collecting of which is intrusted to the diligence of the said Grimoult.

53d.—His Majesty will write to his Ambassadors to solicit for all his subjects, even for those of the said pretended Reformed religion, that they may not be forced to do any thing against conscience, nor be subject to the Inquisition, going, coming, travelling and trading in foreign countries, the allies and confederates of this Crown, provided, always, that they do not offend against the laws of the country in which they may be.

54th.—It is the will and pleasure of His Majesty, that no inquiries be made about the collection of the taxes levied at Royan, in virtue of the contract made with the Sieur de Candelay, and others made in continuation of it. The said contract is declared valid in all its items, until the eighteenth day of next May.

55th.—The outrages committed on the person of Armand Courtines, in the town of Millaut, in the year 1587, and of John Reines and Peter Seigneuret, together with the prosecutions of the suits in consequence, by the Magistrates of the said Millaut, shall be quashed and consigned to oblivion, in virtue of the Edict, without its being lawful for their widows or heirs, the Attorneys-General of His Majesty, or their Substitutes, or any other person whatever, to bring forward the case; notwithstanding, and without paying attention to the Decree made in the Chamber of Castres on the tenth of last March, which shall be null and void, together with all proceedings begun on either side.