Crudelitas Gallica

they pursue, it is more just that judgment be made from their doctrine and behavior, than from the slanders of anyone.

† Again, those are condemned for high treason who wish to render to the King the things that are the King’s, as they do with Christ, provided that they first render to God the things that are God’s.

deprives them of faith and public security, and having stripped and laid them bare for any subject of the King, he permits them to be seized, and abducted alive, or killed if they defend themselves with a weapon. So that once they have been handed over to the Magistrate of the nearest jurisdiction, proceedings may be brought against them by the local Judges as if against public enemies, and they may be subjected to the same punishments. Likewise, he forbids all subjects of the King, of whatever order and kind they may be, from providing help or counsel to the aforementioned Preachers, Ministers, Deacons, and Observers, or receiving them under their roof, or aiding them with water and fire, or exercising any office of humanity toward them. On the contrary, he decrees that force be used against them as against public enemies: and that whoever pursues them with any aid or favor, or has received them under their roof, shall be punished with the loss of life and all goods, as † traitors to the fatherland and harborers of public enemies. He also forbids anyone from attending their sermons, either in public or in private, under penalty of confiscation of body, goods, and all fortunes. He also decrees that houses and private buildings, where it has been established that such sermons were held, are to be burned and razed to the ground: and their plots of land are to be acquired by the King and confiscated, provided that their owners and proprietors were privy to and participants in that act. He also decrees and orders that all Bailiffs (that is, municipal Magistrates), Prefects of their general...