Prince of Grenoble, to the Curates of his Diocess, touching
the methods they ought to take, and in what manner they
should behave themselves towards their new converts.

4to 1687

Cardinal Camus was opposed to the method of conversion by dragooning. He was not of the society of Jesuits.

A Pastoral Letter from the four Catholic Bishops to the Lay Ca-
tholics of England, touching the methods they ought to take
and in what manner they should behave themselves towards
their new converts.
4to 1688

The answer of the New Converts of France to a Pastoral Letter
from a Protestant Minister.
pp. 31, 4to Lond. 1686

Acts of the General Assembly of the French Clergy in the year C. L. 1685, concerning Religion, together with the Complaint of the said General Assembly against the calumnies, injuries and falsities which the Pretended Reformed have and do every day publish in their books and sermons against the doctrines of the Church. Presented to the King by the Clergy in Body, July the 14th, 1685. pp. 43, 4to Lond. 1685

This tract contains a Petition to the King. The King's Edict forbidding all Ministers and other persons whatever of the Pretended Reformed Religion to preach or compose any books against the Faith and Doctrine of the Church; or to use injurious terms or such as tend to calumnie, by imputing to Catholicks those tenets which they condemn or to speak directly or indiretly against the Catholick Religion. The Doctrine of the Church, contained in our Profession of Faith, and in the Decrees of the Council of Trent. Opposed to the calumnies, etc. pp. 43, 4to. Lond. 1685.

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Another edition, entitled, The Proceedings of the General Assembly C. L. of the Clergie of France Assembled in the year 1682 at Paris and in the year 1685 at S. Germains in Laye, concerning Religion. Translated out of French into English by N. N., 4to Lille 1686. Containing also A Pastorall Advertisement by the Church of France Assembled at

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Paris by authority of the King; to Those of the Pretended Reformed
Religion for their Conversion, and Reconciliation to, the Catholick
Church. And, A Speech made to the Most Christian King, at
Versailles the 21 of July 1685. By the most Illustrious and most
Reverend Lord James Nicholas Colbert, Archbishop and Primate of
Carthage, etc.

In Euvres de Bossuet, à Paris 1747, is inserted (vol. iii. p. xxvij) Extrait des Notes de l'Assemblée Générale du Clergé de France de MCLXXXII, concernant la Religion, Monseigneur l'Archevesque de Paris President. Imprimés en la même année chez Leonard, Imprimeur du Clergé. Titre: Mémoire contenant les différentes Méthodes dont on peut se servir très-utilement pour la conversion de ceux qui font profession de la Religion Prétendue-Réformée, dressé dans cette Assemblée, et envoyé par toutes les Provinces avec l'Avertissement Pastoral de l'Eglise Gallicane. In this will be found "The Approbation of the Right Reverend the Archbishops and Bishops," which is prefixed to Bossuet's Exposition (No. 73.)

C. L. An Edict of the French King, prohibiting all publick exercise of the pretended reformed religion in his kingdom; wherein he recalls and totally annuls the perpetual and irrevocable edict of K. Henry IV. his grandfather, full of most gracious concessions to Protestants: to which is added the French King's letter to the Elector of Brandenburg, containing several passages relating to the foregoing Edict; as also a brief and true account of the persecution carried on against those of the foresaid religion for to make them abjure and apostatize; together with the form of abjuration the revolting Protestants are to subscribe and swear to: and a declaration of his Electoral Highness of Brandenburg, in favour of those of the reformed religion, who shall think fit to settle themselves in any of his dominions. 4to 1686

An Account of the Persecutions and Oppressions of the Pro4to s.1. 1686

testants in France.

Complaints of the cruel treatment of the Protestants in France,
By John Claude.
8vo Lond. 1686

"This day was burnt in the old Exchange, by the common hang-
man, a translation of a booke written by y° famous Mons Claude,
relating onely matters of fact concerning the horrid massacres and
barbarous proceedings of ye French King against his Protestant sub-
jects, without any refutation of any facts therein; so mighty a power
and ascendant here had the French Ambass' who was doubtlesse in
greate indignation at the pious and truly generous charity of all the
nation, for ye reliefe of those miserable sufferers who came over for
shelter. About this time also the Duke of Savoy, instigated by ye
French King to extirpate the Protestants of Piedmont, slew many
thousands of those innocent people, so that there seem'd to be an
universal designe to destroy all that would not go to masse, through-
out Europe. Quod avertat D.O.M! No faith in Princes!" Evelyn's
Memoirs, 1819, vol. i. p. 627. "Unheard of cruelties to ye persecuted
Protestants of France, such as hardly any age has seene the like, even
among the Pagans." Ibid. p. 623.

Triomphe de la Religion sous Louis le Grand, répresentée par des
Inscriptions et des Devises, avec une Explication, par Père Le
Jay, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Plates.
Paris 1687

An Account of the late Persecution of the Protestants in the C. L.
Vallys of Piemont; by the Duke of Savoy and the French
King, in the year 1686.

4to Oxford 1688

Histoire Apologétique, ou Défense des Libertés des Eglises Ré- C.L. formées de France. Par M. Gautier.

Amsterdam 1688

The Life and Death of John Claude, done out of French, by G. P.

4to 1688

Histoire de l'Edit de Nantes, contenant les choses les plus re- C. L. marquables qui se sont passées en France avant et après sa

C. L.

publication, à l'occasion de la diversité des Religions, jusq'au l'Edit de Révocation. Par Elias Benoit. Oct. 1685.

5 vols. 4to Delft 1693

Of the first two volumes of the translation, all that was printed, the publisher, John Dunton, in his "Life and Errors," observes: "It was a wonderful pleasure to Queen Mary to see this history made English, and it was the only book to which she gave her Royal License."

Origine progressi e ruina del Calvinismo nella Francia, raggu-
aglio istorico, dedicato all' emin. Cardinale Corsi, da D.
Casimir Freschot.
4to Parma 1693

An ultramontane history of the Reformed Church of France, composed in the form of Annals from 1517 to 1686. The author relates that "to second the zeal of Louis XIV. in his endeavours to complete the conversion of the Huguenots, the various Religious Orders of France offered the assistance of New Preachers. The Oratory supplied one hundred and fifty; the Jesuits two hundred; the Capuchins above one hundred, and other Religious Societies to the extent of their ability." Page 346. Quoted in "The Witnesses in Sackcloth; or a Description of the Attack made upon the Reformed Churches of France in the Seventeenth Century; with a Bibliographical and Literary Appendix, including Notices of the subsequent history of the French Protestants." Lond. 1852, 12mo.

A Specimen of Papal and French Persecution, exhibited in the
Sufferings of eminent Confessors and Martyrs who have sig-
nalized their faith and patience within the long and dismal
reign of Louis XIV.: particularly of Louis de Marolles, etc.
By Thomas Bray, D.D.
Fol. Lond. 1712

Arcana Gallica; or, The Secret History of France for the last Century, shewing by what steps the French Ministers destroyed the Liberties of that Nation in general, and Protestant Religion in particular. By [David Jones] the Author of the Secret History of Europe.

1714

Compendious History of the Reformation in France and of the Reformed Churches, in that Kingdom, from the first beginning of the Reformation to the Repealing of the Edict of Nantes. By Stephen Abel Laval. 3 vols. 8vo 1737-41

An enumeration of Authorities giving a descriptive account of the persecutions of the French Protestants would be imperfect, if reference were not made to Burnet's Memoirs of his Own Times, and his Letters during his travels in the years 1685-6; to Quick's Synodicon in Gallia Reformata; or the Acts, Decisions, Decrees and Canons of the National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France, 2 vols. fol. 1692; and Voltaire's Siècle de Louis XIV. ch. 36. The Roman Catholics must not indiscriminately be charged with this crusade: it was through the instrumentality of the Jesuits, Louis became the "Scourge of God,” of whom it has been said: "It will be difficult to select from the whole course of history a single mortal whose follies have been so injurious, and whose faults have been so fatal to his fellow creatures as were those of Louis XIV."-Lectures on the French Revolution by Professor Smyth. See the Pref. and Append. to Burnet's Hist. of the Rights of Princes. In the disgraceful reign of Louis XV. the "dragonnades" were again exercised. The benevolent projects of Louis XVI. were denied opportunity for development. "The work of Rulhière, Eclaircissemens sur les causes de la Révocation de l'Edit de Nantes (Euvres v.) is no other than a perpetual commentary on a State-Paper sufficiently evincing the profound attention which Louis XVI. would have devoted to Ecclesiastical peace, if the hurricane of the Revolution had not swept away all Ordinances Divine and Civil."- Smedley's Hist. of the Reformed Religion in France, vol. iii. p. 321.