the said Coquement and Fouace on three different days, having the rope round the neck: and the said Vincent and Grongnet once at the cross-roads of the said Meaulx: and again the said Grongnet to be flogged at the village of Sacy once at the crossroads of the said place, the rope round the neck. And the said Chamber has banished and does banish them from out this realm for five years, on pain of the halter. Before which execution (108) has condemned and does condemn them together: the said Pierre Coquement, Jehan Delaborde, Pierre Petitpain, Michel Dumont, Jehan Roussel, Pierre Javelle, Nicolas Fleury, Jehan Fournier, Georges Desprez, Nicolas de Moucy, Leonard LeRoy, Pasquette widow of the late Guillaume Picquery, Jehan Lemoyne, Jehan Attignan, Jehanne Cheron wife of Loys Coquement, Guillemecte wife of Jehan Saillart, Martine wife of the said Pierre LeClerc, and Marguerite wife of the said Estienne Mengin, for the offences and crimes by them committed, to attend at the execution of death of the said fourteen condemned; the men to have their heads bare: the said women being near to them, and separately, in such manner that people be able to distinguish them among the others: and that done, to make amende honnorable: the men to have their feet and heads bare and to be in shirts: and the women to have their feet bare : before the principal gate of the cathedral church of the said Meaulx having each of them in their hands a torch of wax lighted, of the weight of two pounds: and to say and declare each of them in a loud voice, that with folly temerity and indiscretion they had been present at the said conventicles held in the house of the said Estienne Mengin, to hear the readings (108) in French of the said Pierre LeClerc, for which they request mercy and pardon of God the King and Justice. Furthermore after the said amendes honnorables the above named shall attend all having the said torches, at a general procession which shall be made at the the said Meaulx for a grand solemn Mass which shall be said and celebrated in the said church, and at the discourse which shall be made there by a doctor in theology, exhorting the people singularly and chiefly of the reverence and adoration of the precious body of our Lord Jhesus Christ, and veneration for the blessed and glorious Virgin Mary mother of God, and for the male and female Saints of Paradise: also (108b) of the observance of the commandments of our mother holy Church, reverence for her doctrine, detestation and reprobation of the said conventicles and private assemblies, reading and interpretation by laymen and mechanics from books in French that

are reprobated and condemned, and dogmatizings, and erroneous discourses (108) made by the said laymen upon the holy Gospels. Likewise the said Chamber has condemned and does condemn the said Pierre Darabye, Jaques LeVeau, Yvon Coignart, Jehan de Laurencerie the elder, Jehan de Laurencerye, Guillaume de Laurencerie, Denis Guillot, Pierre Chevallet, Phelippes Turpin, Julianne wife of Pasquier Fouace, for the said offences by them committed, to attend and be present, having each of them a taper of a quarteron of wax in their hands, at the said procession, Mass, and discourse; also to attend without taper at the execution of death upon the said fourteen condemned: the men alone to have their heads bare: and the women apart from the assembly, in such manner that they can be distinguished from among the others. And the said Jehanne Guilleminot, Bastienne wife of Thomas Honoré, to attend throughout at the discourse and Mass; and after the said discourse made, and the exhortations which are to be made (as) above named, to request and ask pardon of God, for the faults heretofore committed by them fully comprehended in the said process. And as to the said Marguerite wife of Jean Delestre, Marguerite Rossignol, (1) daughter of Jehan Ricourt, Guillemecte wife of Leonard LeRoy, and Jehanne Gameuse the said Chamber has ordered and does order that for them the prisons shall be thrown open and nevertheless (10sd) has made and does make injunctions and prohibitions against being present hereafter at the discourses and readings of the said laymen, (at the) conventicles and illicit assemblies, on pain of the halter. And over and above the said Chamber has delivered and does deliver fully from the said prisons the said Jehanne widow of the late Macé Rougebec, Jehanne wife of Nicolas Codet, Pauline widow of the late Adam Leconte, Marguerite widow of the late Jehan Vollant, Perrecte and Marion Mengins. And in order that the said offences and crimes above named which have been committed in the house of the said Mengin, may be in perpetual detestation to all posterity, and that the memory of their punishment may remain for example, to furnish and induce, in the wicked, fear of committing like offences and crimes, and to invite and impel the good along the straight line of the catholic faith (110) and doctrine of our mother holy Church :(110) has ordered and does order that the said house of the said Estienne Mengin, in which have been performed the said conventicles and forbidden readings of the holy scripture by the said Pierre LeClerc, presumptuously

and with temerity interpreting and expounding it, and also the said blasphemous and scandalous Supper, mentioned in the said process, bearing appearance of idolatry,(110b) shall be thrown down and demolished wholly and entirely, and on the said spot shall be built and constructed a chapel which shall be dedicated and consecrated in honour of the holy sacrament of the altar: Wherein shall be celebrated a grand Mass of the said holy sacrament every Thursday, at the hour of seven : And to found this, the said Chamber has ordered and does order that such sum of money shall be taken as shall be advised by the Bailly of Meaulx or his Lieutenants General and Particular, [having] called with them the Advocate and Attorney of the King to the tribunal, upon the confiscated property of the said prisoners. And the said Chamber, being duly informed, that from day to day that unhappy and damnable Lutheran sect, and others like [it] heretical, increase greatly in the said town and diocese of Meaulx, and that there are a great number of them who are secretly and hiddenly tainted and infected therewith: has ordered and does order that both in the said town of Meaulx, after the execution of the aforesaid, and at those other towns of that jurisdiction (1) at which there is a royal tribunal having direct dependency on the Court, (111) shall be published with sound of trumpet and by public crier, (112) provisionally and until otherwise provided by the king or his Court of Parlement in session, that it has forbidden and forbids all the subjects of the said Seigneur living within the said jurisdiction to say and maintain in public or in secret any erroneous or scandalous talk and blasphemy against the honour of God, of the holy sacrament of the altar, and of the very holy Virgin mother of God, of the male and female Saints of Paradise, and other sacraments commandments and doctrines of our mother holy catholic Church and that on pain of being consumed by fire or otherwise grievously punished according as the nature and gravity of the said crimes require, without any hope of mitigation of penalty afterwards. And furthermore, considering the great suspicion that one may have both by the said process and by several other experiences which have been known in the said Court of Parlement, that there are still many Lutherans and heretics at the said Meaulx and in very great number; and that it is enjoined on the Bishops by the holy Council of Lateran(113) to use diligence in making enquiries or causing enquiries to be made against all those who are suspected of heresy or who are found dissidents from the usual manner of living of the true catholic

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christians; and that of the said Council of Lateran and other holy Councils the very christian King is conservator and his Court of Parlement: The said Chamber provisionally and until by the King or the said Court in session shall be otherwise ordered, has enjoined and does enjoin the said Bishop of Meaulx to execute or cause to be executed the content of the said Council of Lateran, both in the said town of Meaulx and other places of his diocese, and cause inquest diligently and secretly to be made by good and sufficient persons against all those who are tainted with that unhappy and pernicious sect and heresy; and to proceed against those who are subject to his cognizance and power, as are persons ecclesiastic who are in holy orders and as far as degradation, if it comes to that and the case requires it: and as to the lay and clerical persons not having holy orders, of whom the cognizance belongs to the lay judges by the King's edict, to warn thereof the judges of the said Seigneur, and to send to them the charges and informations, or the duplicate of them, which shall have been made by his judges and officers, so that those informations considered by the said lay judges may be there carried on with the greatest diligence possible, as it shall reasonably befit. And meanwhile has the said Chamber charged all the residents in the said town of Meaulx and within the diocese of the said Meaulx, to bring or cause to be brought within eight days after the publication of this present judgment, all the books which they have in French of the holy Scripture, or concerning the christian doctrine, to the registry of the bailliage of Meaulx, and this on pain of forfeiture of body and property: to be there kept and set apart, to the end that by the said Chamber or the said Court in session may be ordered concerning them that which shall reasonably befit. And charges the said Bailly and Lieutenants General and Particular of the said Meaulx, to prosecute diligently those who shall not have obeyed the said order: and the King's Advocate and Attorney at the said tribunal to do the duties of solicitor and prosecutor therein, and to cause the informations to be sent lightly (114) closed and sealed to the registry of the said Court in order that when they are considered (114) orders and proceedings may be taken against the disobedient so as it shall reasonably befit. Beyond this, the said chamber exhorts the said Bishop of Meaulx, in order to prevent the said pestilent sect from the power of further progress, to assign some good and notable persons, doctors in theology, learned and expert in discourses and instructions of the people, for the purpose that, in the Cathedral and parochial

churches of the said Meaulx and in all the other parochial churches of the said diocese, they may carefully exhort and admonish the inhabitants and residents in all the said diocese, to keep observe and revere the holy catholic faith, prevent oppose and contradict the unhappy heretics, who wish to impugn it, and disclose them to justice so as to attain their chastisement. And also to take pains by good and holy remonstrances and admonitions, to restore (114b) those who are tainted with them to the light of the holy catholic faith, and to leave the shades of the unhappy Lutheran sect, and other heresies which have been scattered heretofore in the said town and diocese of Meaulx against the honour of the blessed Saviour, faith and doctrine of the catholic Church. And to put the present judgment into execution according to the form and tenour, the Chamber has sent and does send the prisoners back before the said Bailly of Meaulx or his said Lieutenants. At which execution shall attend also the King's Advocate and Attorney. DEZASSES. (116)

P. LIZET. (116)

And nevertheless is reserved in the mind of the Court (116a) that if the said Loys Picquery show hereafter by token of word or deed that he is obstinate or pertinacious in the said errors, in that case the Chamber has condemned him to be consumed alive by fire, as the others.

And nevertheless is reserved in the mind of the court (116) that if the said prisoners condemned to death persist in their errors, and do not turn again and accept conversion, (117) as is required, to God and to his holy catholic faith, declaring that they have greatly trespassed, and would go on and say any scandalous talk, the tongue of him or of those among them who remain obstinate and pertinacious shall be cut off, upon leaving the prison or at the place where they begin to blaspheme and to speak against the holy catholic faith.

And also is reserved in the mind of the court (116a) that where the goods of the said condemned to death, which have been confiscated by this present judgment, did not suffice (117) for the construction and endowment of the chapel, the Attorney General of the King and the Bishop of Meaulx having been heard, if it is found that there has been notable negligence in the Bishop, and that (he) has not had such diligence as he is responsible for (118) by the holy decrees, he shall be bound to make good what remains for the construction, erection, and endowment of the said chapel.