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 290 Readings in European History Protestant schools forbidden. Children of Protestants to be baptized by Catholic priests. Huguenots who have emigrated may return within four months. Huguenots may not leave France. preaching, exhortation, or any other function, on pain of being sent to the galleys. 1 . . . VII.' We forbid private schools for the instruction of children of the said R.P.R., and in general all things what- ever which can be regarded as a concession of any kind in favor of the said religion. VIII. As for children who may be born of persons of the said R.P.R., we desire that from henceforth they be baptized by the parish priests. We enjoin parents to send them to the churches for that purpose, under penalty of five hundred livres fine, to be increased as circumstances may demand ; and thereafter the children shall be brought up in the Catho- lic, apostolic, and Roman religion, which we expressly enjoin the local magistrates to see done. IX. And in the exercise of our clemency towards our sub- jects of the said R.P.R. who have emigrated from our king- dom, lands, and territories subject to us, previous to the publication of our present edict, it is our will and pleasure that in case of their returning within the period of four months from the day of the said publication, they may, and it shall be lawful for them to, again take possession of their property, and to enjoy the same as if they had all along remained there : on the contrary, the property abandoned by those who, during the specified period of four months, shall not have returned into our kingdom, lands, and territories subject to us, shall remain and be confis- cated in consequence of our declaration of the 20th of August last. X. We repeat our most express prohibition to all our subjects of the said R.P.R., together with their wives and children, against leaving our kingdom, lands, and territories subject to us, or transporting their goods and effects there- from under penalty, as respects the men, of being sent to the galleys, and as respects the women, of imprisonment and confiscation. 1 Articles V and VI hold out advantages — exemptions, pensions, and promotion — to Protestant ministers who consent to turn Catholics.