The Acts of Famous National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France

CHAP. XXII. Discipline Exercised upon a Delinquent Minister.

44 THE Acts and Memoirs producit against Monsieur Peyroll, as also his Declinatory Letters written unto this Assembly on design to elude his citation and appearance being all read; and the Sieurs Astier, Carlincas, and the Provincial Deputies of Lower Languedoc being heard, it was judged that the Provincial Synod and Consistory of Montpellier had been too indulgent to the said Peyroll, and borne with him too long considering that the suspension threatened bore no proportion to the greatness of his Crime, and that the Consistory should not have paid any respect unto his Appeal, when it was done on purpose to obstruct the Execution of the Synodical Decree, nor should they have connived at those Defaults observed in his Sermons, which have occasioned so many Persons to complain of him. Moreover it was ordained, that the said Peyroll for his Contentiousness at Law, and frequent failures in his promises, should be suspended from the Sacred Ministry until the next Synod of Lower Languedoc, during which time the Colloquy shall take care that the Church be provided of another Pastor; and the Synod being informed by the Consistory of Montpellier of the verity and reality of these Offences taken at his Sermons, and of the other defaults whereof he is accused shall aggravate his censure even unto a Deposition from the Ministry, in case the said Peyroll refuse to testify his Repentance by informing his promises, and by giving plenary satisfaction unto the Church, which he hath so grievously scandalized through his violations of them.

45. The Sieurs Taby and Longuett Commissioners appointed by this Council to pass over unto the City of Usez, and to cite Monsieur Noguier Pastor of that Church before them, having heard him, and the Witnesses brought forth unto them, returned, and made Report of all the Acts produced both for and against Monsieur Astier. After which the said Astier, and the Sieurs Noguier, and Espagnac, and the Provincial Deputies of Lower Languedoc were all suffered to speak in order; whereupon the Council Confirmed the Judgment of the said Province in all its Articles, and immediately absolved the said Monsieur Espagnac of the Crimes brought in against him by the said Astier, and censuring the said Astier for his animosity and passion, ordaineth that he be reconciled with his adverse Party, and that the Papers produced in this cause shall be suppressed; which being done, and the said Monsieur Astier having entreated Monsieur Aspagnac to forget what is past, The Council consents that the Censures denouncit against him by the Synod of Lower Languedoc be repealed, and taken off the File.

46. The Synod heard the Sieur Mercurin Pastor of the Church of Grace declare his particular grievances of which he complained in his Appeal from the Provincial Synod of Provence; and judging that the said Province ought not to refuse their assistance to him against the Persecution suffered by him from the Adversaries of the Gospel, it decreed that Monsieur Cuper shall immediately pay him out of the Common Stock of Moneys belonging to the Churches of Provence the Summ of an Hundred and Fifty Livres, for which the Receiver of that Province shall be accountable, and that henceforward an half Portion shall be settled upon him for his encouragement over and above what the Church of Grace hath hitherto enjoyed.

47. The Council doing right unto Monsieur Berauld upon his Appeals, and disannulling all former proceedings against him, except those of the Committees, which it had particularly ordained and constituted about his Affair, and having examined all those Accusations, Depositions of Witnesses, Denyals and Defences relating to it, did unauimously and without the least disagreement declare, as it now declareth the said Monsieur Berauld absolved and justified from all crimes imposed on him, and that there may be a real and hearty reconciliation of the said Monsieur Berauld with those who were transported against him; and that the peace and edifying of the Church of Montauban may be settled and promoted, the Reverend Mr. Charles and Delon Pastors of the said Church were commanded to come into this Assembly, and presenting themselves before it, they were acquainted with its Holy Desires and Intentions, and were all of them jointly and severally exhorted unto Concord, Union, and Brotherly Love, that so the Church in which they officiate may be edified and comforted by their Ministry, and that all sense of injuries and bitter animosities may be forever buried in the Grave of Oblivion.

48. Those Acts brought into the Colloquy of Albigeois by the Commissioners Nominated in the Synod of Realmont to make inquiry into the crime imposed on Monsieur Fabry Pastor of the Church de la Caune were all examined: And the said Fabry was heard as to those grievances of which he complained in his Appeal, as also was the Sieur de Maroule Pastor of the Church of Pont de Larq one of the Commissioners, and the Provincial Deputies of Higher Languedoc. Whereupon the Council condemned the supine connivency of the said Province, which for many years together had never called their Pastors to an account for sundry Accusations laid unto their charge; and passing by the reasons inducing that Colloquy to give Judgment as it did, it ratifieth the Sentence of suspension denouncit against the said Fabry, and having sharply reproved him according as the Nature of his Offence required, it did farther decree, that when the time of his suspension should expire, he should be restored unto his Office, and to the Exercise thereof, but in another Church, and not in that of La Caune; from which the Colloquy hath already determined that he should be discharged.

49. That Appeal brought by the Elder of the Church of Vic-fezensac from a Decree of the Synod of Lower Guyenne in favor of Monsieur Bragerac its Pastor, that the Churches of Montreal and Vic-fezansac should pay him his Salary, was declared null.

50. Monsieur Gravier neither appearing in Person, nor sending any Memoirs to defend his Appeal formed by him against a Decree of the Province of Lower Guyenne, the Contents of which was a Declaration that Monsieur Potet a Minister having past his word unto Mrs. Gravier to acquit her of a certain Summ of Money, Mr. Gravier demanded its performance; but this Appeal was declared null and void.

CHAP. XXIII. A Scandalous Minister Deposed.

51 STephen Girault heretofore Minister of the Gospel in the Church of Barbezieux, having not defended the Appeal brought by him from the Sentence of the Synod of Saintonge, which Deposed him for many and grievous Crimes, and in particular for Adultery: The Council declared his Appeal null and ratifying the Deposition of the said Girault, doth aggravate his Sentence by cutting him off from all hopes of ever being restored unto the Sacred Ministry, either to the Office or Exercise thereof.

52. The Inhabitants of St. Lawrence in Aigouze appealed from the Judgment of the Synod of Lower Languedoc which had restored Monsieur Tuffan unto the Ministry in the Colloquy of Nismes; but their Appeal was turned over to the cognizance of the approaching Synod of Cévennes, which is ordered to proceed against the said Tuffan in case the Matters whereof he is accused be averred, and proved upon him by deposing him from the Holy Ministry, and Monsieur Aymar is charged, to be present at the next Colloquy of Nismes, and there to receive all proceedings old and new against this unworthy Fellow.

CHAP. XXIV. Discipline Exercised upon a Vitious Minister.

53. WHereas James Jolly sometimes Pastor of the Church of Milhaud appealed from a Sentence past against him by the Synod of Higher Languedoc, which had deposed him from the Holy Ministry: Upon hearing the Deputies of that Province, and the said Jolly himself, who having been divers times summoned to clear himself of the Crimes laid unto his charge, though to no purpose, for he could never do it: The Synod ratified the Sentence past against him in every article and particular; and because the qualities of his Crimes proved upon him are very heinous and atrocious, as tempting and soliciting of Women to Adultery, abominable and profane Speeches, professed resolves and purposes to Apostatize from the True Religion, and Blessed Gospel of our Lord Jesus, persuading and enticing, like the Devils, other Ministers of Christ to join with him in his Revolt and Apostasy, from all which horrible and scandalous Accusations he was bound in Honor and Conscience to purge himself, and had he been innocent, or had he but the least spark of Grace, or one grain of the fear of God been lest in him, he would have done it: Moreover the said Jolly having discoursed with a great deal of impudence, hardness and ungodliness in the very presence of the Synod, and betook himself unto business utterly inconsistent with the Sacred Calling of a Minister, for which, had he none other guilt upon him, he would have merited a Deposal from that Honorable Office, The Synod seized with a just horror at his impenitency, and aggravating the Sentence of his Provincial Synod, denounceth the said Jolly utterly unworthy, and altogether uncapable of any employment in the Sacred Ministry of the Gospel, deposeth him, and doth now from this Instant declare him to be deposed from the Ministerial Function, and forever uncapable of being restored to it, and depriveth him of all Communion in the Sacraments, unto which he shall not be admitted, 'till we have had a very long proof, and some years Trial and Experience of his Repentance and Reformation, and that he have publicly and penitently acknowledged those great and heinous scandals he hath given unto the Church of God; and in case he persist in his Rebellions, then the Consistories and Colloquies being assembled together shall deliver him over unto the Devil by that dreadful Sentence of Excommunication.

54. The Overseers of the Poor in the Church of Anduze appealed from a Decree of the Synod of Higher Languedoc, and the Lord Aldebert Judge of Sauve complained against the Sieur John Bony Pastor of the Church of St. John of Cardonengue. Master Cailou was heard speak in behalf of the Church of Anduze, and Mr. Aldebert the younger opened the reasons of their Appeal, and Mr. Bony together with the Provincial Deputies Apologized for themselves against thorn. The Council having accurately considered all the Accusations and Matters of Offence included in those proceedings, judgeth that Mr. Bony deserveth a very heavy Censure for notorious Avarice and dishonest Gain, the guilt of which is apparent and visible upon him, for that he disposed of the Goods of Pernette Andouyne to his own and his Children's profit, contrary to the Will and Testament she had once made in favor of the poor Members of the Church of Anduze. Moreover the Council declareth that the said Master Bony cannot with a good Conscience detain and appropriate unto his own use the Goods aforesaid, but ought immediately to restore them; and to this purpose he was exhorted to choose Arbitrators as the said Overseers of the Poor would also to compose the differences between them, and to agree upon the terms of restitution: And it was farther intimated to him, that in case the Execution of this Decree were in the least hindered or delayed by him the said Bony, that the next Colloquy of Nismes was Authorized to proceed against him, and to Depose him from the Ministry. And forasmuch as he hath expressed his Repentance with grief, and shame for his Sin, and promised the Synod to give full satisfaction as before, and for that he hath patiently and penitently borne the Suspension from his Office inflicted on him some Moneths ago, The Synod doth restore him to the Exercise of his Ministry. And whereas Monsieur Aldebert before-mentioned had been suspended from the Lord's Table, that Censure, together with his being taxed for a Calumniator, are both ordered to be taken off from him, but he shall be first publicly reproved in the Person of his Son for that excessive Passion manifested by him in his Accusations, Prosecutions, and bitter Expressions in his Letters, all which exasperated the Province of Higher Languedoc against him, and were the true meritorious causes why he was so severely judged by them. And both of those Gentlemen Bony and Aldebert are exhorted to a mutual reconciliation, and forgetfulness of what is past, and particularly the said Aldebert is advised to demean himself for the future with more Candor and Charity towards the said Bony: And in case there should happen any new matter of Accusation against him, that he do prosecute him according to the Forms and Canons of our Church Discipline. Moreover Master Melucis and Berle Pastors, and Witnesses to the aforesaid Testament shall be examined by their next Provincial Synod about their hand in this matter, that so they may be dealt withal according to their demerits. And whereas Monsieur de Surville another Minister could have given in a material Evidence against the said Bony, but was sworn to Secrecy, he also shall be called to an account, and Justice shall be done upon him.

CHAP. XXV. GENERAL MATTERS.

1 WHereas all Pastors, and Heads of Families, and Members of our Churches ought daily to implore the Throne of Grace for all Spiritual and Temporal Benedictions to be poured down upon the Person of His Majesty Our Dread Sovereign, and for the Glory of His Crown, the Peace and Prosperity of His Kingdom and Government, they be all Exhorted in their Public and Private Prayers importunately to beg of God, that he would be graciously pleased to bless the Kings Majesty with Children of his own Body, and to this purpose all the faithful shall with one accord join together in Common Prayers and Supplications, that the Lord would hear and Answer the Requests of his poor Children who live under the Sh dow of his Anointed, that the Scepter may be strengthened in his hand, his House established from Generation to Generation, and that over and above those Divine Graces and Favors which he hath already vouchsafed to him, he may after a long and happy Life be honored in succeeding Ages with the Glorious Title of Father of Kings, as he is now with that of Father of his People.

2. The Synod considering that through the Sovereign Mercy of God, inclining His Majesty's heart by his Holy Spirit thereunto, the Churches of this Kingdom do enjoy that great Blessing of Peace; and yet nevertheless there remain in the hearts of many Persons very deep resentments of their past Sufferings, which may prove hereafter the Seeds of new Broils and Dissensions, whereby the Honor of God, and of our King, and the Public Tranquillity of the Nation may be exceedingly prejudiced and endamaged, It exhorteth in the Name and Authority of God Almighty all the faithful to suppress and stifle those bitter Animosities, which the unhappyness of our late Civil Wars, may have enkindled in them, and that none of Our Members do trouble their Neighbors for Matters done during those Troubles, since the Remembrance of them is abolished by His Majesty's Edicts and Declarations of Peace, and that they would embrace each other with a Cordial Love and Affection, and live for the future as Members of one and the same Body, contending mutually and mostly who shall do His Majesty the best and greatest Service, and repair the woeful breaches in the House of God. And in particular the Inhabitants of this populous City ate Exhorted to render all Reverence a •• Obedience unto their Magistrates and Superiors, as being established over them by the Authority of God; and the Magistrates also are to exert their Duties towards them who be subjected to their Government with all due and becoming Moderation, and Fatherly Affection; That so all sorts of Persons both Superiors and Inferiors may aim and level in all their Actions at the Glory of God, the Service of the King, and the Peace and Safety of the Commonwealth

3. The Synod confirming the Canons of former Synods about an exhibition unto Monks, decreeth, that in case a Monk cannot be maintained by that Province in which he was born, and that the said Province will not contribute anything towards his subsistence, then the Province which is charged with him shall make application to the Lord of Kandel, and take his allowance out of the Moneys belonging to that Province, where he first lived, and quitted his Frock and Idolatrous Religion.

4. Hereafter in the breaking up of these National Synods the Deputies shall carry home with them the Accompts rendered by the Lord of Kandel for Moneys distributed by him unto every Province, that so all suspicions of partiality in the Dividends of His Majesty's Bounty may be suppressed.

5. All the Provinces are expressly enjoined by this Synod, that they do not prefer our Proposans before Ancient Pastors unto vacant Churches, and in case any Moderators of Colloquies or Synods shall suffer this Canon to be violated, they shall be suspended from their Charges.

6. That no Pastor discharged by Colloquies or Synods may hereafter assume unto himself a liberty of wandering from one Province unto another and so intrude himself into a particular Church without the consent of Colloquies and Synods, a matter which redounds exceedingly to the dishonor of the Ministry, and is become a most Notorious Scandal: The Synod ordaineth, that when as a Pastor shall be taken off the Service of his Church and cannot be presently settled in another, yet shall he be obliged to live within the bounds of that Province, either as a Pastor discharged, or else as one employed in such a manner as the Province shall judge convenient, until such time as he meet with a Call unto some other Church, whether within or without the Province, desiring him to be their fixed Pastor.

7. The Pastors of the Church of Paris are ordered to revise the Marginal Texts in our Confession of Faith, and to inform the Churches which have Printers to take special notice of their Remarks, and to see that it be printed according to their corrected Copy without any difference.

8. Such Churches as have Printing-Houses belonging to them shall advise our Printers to be careful that they insert no Historical Remarks into the Calendars, which may occasion trouble unto the Churches, and irritate the rage and malice of our Adversaries.

9. There shall not be inserted into the Lett •• s of Deputation unto Colloquies and Provincial Synods from particular Churches those selfsame clauses of absolute submission which are used in the Provincial Letters unto the National Synod.

10. 'It is left wholly to the Discretion of Consistories what censures they shall inflict on such who assist in Person at Baptisms, Marriages, or Funerals solemnized by the Church of Rome.

11. That Canon of the National Synod of Gap about Burying in Temples and Church-yards shall be most exactly observed by all the Churches.

CHAP. XXVI. An Act to preserve the Churches Writings, Deeds, &c.

12 DIvers Papers of very great Importance to our Churches, being lost to their unspeakable prejudice, and all occasioned through their neglect of choosing someone particular Church in each Province, wherein the Originals of all proceedings by our General Deputies might be deposited, This Synod desirous to prevent so great a disorder for the future, Decreeth, That all Writings remaining in their hands, who have been employed in the General Deputation shall be redemanded of them by the Consistories of those Churches in which they make their Residence, that so they may be more carefully preserved than heretofore. And the Originals of all Declarations, Writts, Answers unto Cahiers, and such other Papers concerning the General Body of our Churches shall be carried unto Rochell, and lodged up in the Archives there. And as for other Papers, and Acts of Proceedings relating to particular Churches, there shall be one Church in every Province which shall have the keeping of them, that so upon all occasions we may tell where to find them. And to this purpose there was named for the Province of Higher Languedoc the Church of Montauban, for the Lower Languedoc the Church of Nismes, for Cévennes Anduze, for Anjou Loudun, for Burgundy Gex, for Vivaretz Privas, for the Lower Guyenne Ste Foy, for Poitou Niort, for Saintonge Rochell, for the Isle of France Paris, for Normandy Alencon, for Britain Belin, for Dauphiné Die, for Berry Chastillion on the Loir, and for Provence Aignieres.

14. Whereas divers Provinces have been charged with the Memoirs of very many Churches, groaning under the cruel Oppressions of our Adversaries, who do daily deprive them of their Liberty of Conscience in the Service of God, and of those Rights and Privileges granted us by the King; and Necessity requiring us to seck out some Remedy against such growing Mischiefs, from his Majesty's Justice and Protection, Monsieur le Haucher was ordered to collect into one Body all those Grievances aforesaid, and all others which have been averred and signed by two Pastors or Elders; shall immediately upon the Departure of this Council, be sent unto him, that all may be gathered into one general Bill, and laid at his Majesty's Feet, with our most humble Petitions unto his Majesty, that he would be pleased to extend his Royal Protection unto his most faithful Subjects of the Reformed Religion, who have no greater Ambition in the World, than to yield all due Obedience and Service unto his Majesty.

15. The Province of Dauphiné craved Advice, what should be done with those who violated that Canon of Tonneins, which had obliged Pastors to administer Baptism only at such Church-Meetings in which the Word of God was preached, either immediately before or after Sermon, because that divers Churches do it, when as only they come together unto their accustomed Morning, common, public Prayers, without any Sermons at all. After a long and smart Debate about this Matter, the Council owning that the formal necessary Words for Consecration and Celebration of that Sacrament, were fully comprised in the Liturgy of our Churches, and judging it for the present utterly unfit to urge the Observation of that Canon of Tonneins, decreeth, that the Provinces having examined the Reasons alleged by both Parties pro and con, shall give unto their Deputies, commissionated unto the next National Synod, the strongest Arguments to this purpose, that so that Council may proceed to a final Resolution in the Case.

CHAP. XXVI. An Act for a public National Fast.

16. THE Wrath of God having been kindled against his People, and broken out upon them in divers Places, for many Years last past, so that he hath visited their Iniquities with sundry and very terrible Judgments, such as the Plague, unseasonable Weather, the devouring Sword, the Desolations of War, all which have brought upon us and upon the Provinces deep Poverty, woeful Miseries and Calamities, which should have quickened us and them unto a most serious Repentance and Reformation of Life: Yet notwithstanding the Generality of Men do persist in their Sins, and abound in their Transgressions, so that the great Lawgiver, who alone can save and destroy, hath not called in his Wrath, but his Hand is stretched out still, and a Multitude of our poor Churches in divers Places are sorely afflicted by the Enemies of the Gospel, who turn every Stone, and use all sort of means, be they never so unjust and violent, to deprive us of his Majesty's Protection, and the Benefits of that Peace, which his Majesty was graciously pleased to grant equally and indifferently unto all his Subjects: And forasmuch as the common sense of the most stupid Persons might have learned them, that those many dreadful Judgments, with which the Lord hath scourged his Churches, have been drawn down upon them by their great Impenitency, Stubbornness; and Hardness of Heart, and that God hath called upon them to lie low at to his Footstool in deep Abasement, Humiliation and Contrition of Spirit, and by their Patience and Christian Moderation, to have used and improved these Chastisements as divine Remedies against those dismal and eternal Torments he had threatened them, and which they have most justly deserved; and that in their deplorable Condition they should with Tears and Prayers, with a most sincere Conversion and thorough Reformation have fled for Sanctuary unto the Arms of Sovereign Mercy; that so that great God who createth Good, and formeth Evil, who giveth Peace, and sendeth Adversity at his sole Will and Pleasure, might have found them seeking those Blessings at his Hands only, and not depended, as they have done too frequently, rashly and inconsiderately, upon an Arm of Flesh: Wherefore this National Synod, representing the Reformed Churches of this Kingdom, injoineth all Pastors to press home vigorously and zealously upon the Consciences of their People, true Piety and Devotion towards God, due Obedience unto the higher Powers, sound and perpetual Repentance from dead Works; the Want and Neglect of which have caused ignorant Persons to blaspheme the holy and fearful Name of God, and to despise and vilify the good Ways of his Truth and Reformation. And it doth further decree, that a solemn Day of Fasting and Supplications shall be kept and observed in all the Churches of this Kingdom, the first Thursday in March next coming; because the Necessity of humbling ourselves before God, is absolute and indispensable; there being none other way left us to turn away his Wrath from us, and to hasten the time of our Deliverance, than by a Reformation of our former Sinfulness, and a better and exacter ordering of our Actions and Conversations for the future.

17. The Council exhorteth all the Provinces, and the richer Churches in them to erect public Libraries for the Ease and Benefit of their Pastors; and the Deputies of Burgundy, as they return home-ward through the Lower Languedoc, are charged to give particular Notice hereof unto the Consistory of Montpellier; and the Church of Paris, and Universities of Montauban and Nismes, shall be acquainted also with this our Request.

18. The Council enjoined all Persons who may hereafter audit their Accompts in the National Synods, to bring with them their last Account; and all Commissioners deputed to examine and close up such Accompts, shall not proceed about the said Audit, till such time as they have duly and accurately perused the Acts of the last Synod, concerning both these and their last tendered Accompts, because there be Remarks in them, which look forward and backward, both to the Years by-gone and past, and those that are to come.

19. His Majesty having graciously permitted a general Collection to be made throughout all the Churches of this Kingdom, for the impoverished Cities of Rochelle, Montauban, and Castres, their Deputies came into the Council, and petitioned that there might be a Dividend made of the said collected Charities, protesting withal that they would cheerfully acquiesce in its judicious Assignation of them. Whereupon the Council decreed, that one quarter of those Moneys should be given unto this Town of Castres, and the three other Parts should be equally divided between the Cities of Rochelle and Montauban.

CHAP. XXVII. Differences between the Cities of Rochelle, Montauban and Castres, composed.

20. THE Council composing the Differences which had fallen out between the Cities and Communalties of Rochelle, Montauban and Castres, in dividing the Collection-Money before-mentioned, they being at Variance among themselves about it: And having heard the Reasons and Pretensions of the said Cities and Communalties, both from the Mouth of their Deputies, and the Report of the Commissioners appointed for the managing of this Affair; and having maturely Considered the whole, decreed, That the fourth Part of those Moneys so collected, shall be delivered into the City of Castres, and the other three Parts shall be equally divided betwixt the Cities of Rochelle and Montauban. And that the said Cities and Communalties may reap and enjoy the Benefit and Comfort of the said collected Charities, their Deputies here present are enjoined to nominate one certain Person from among them, to receive those Moneys, who is a Person of sufficient Honesty and Ability to be responsible for them; together with three or four other Persons of known Integrity and Fidelity, who may be present, and actually employed in the Distribution of them, which shall be made by the Command and Authority of the Mayors and Consuls of the said Cities; and those Commands and Orders shall be signed and copied out by those now-mentioned Overseers for the Poor: And both they and the said Receiver shall be obliged to send the Certificate unto the next National Synod, of the faithful Employment of those Moneys unto the common Uses and Necessities of their Poor, and that they were not in the least diverted from the Intention of the charitable Donors, nor of his Majesty, unto the Benefit and private Profit of some few particular Persons, either for defraying their Expences in Travel, or Deputations, or any other occasion whatsoever: And the Council shall agree and pitch upon those aforesaid Receivers and Overseers. And to facilitate the receiving of those Sums collected, and to prevent all Delays, Confusions, Inequalities in receiving, and other Inconveniences which may fall out, in case the said Cities should send abroad unto the Provinces and particular Churches to gather in what had been granted them, and above all to ease them of those great Charges which they must of Necessity be at in this Case, it was thought best to order the Consistories of Paris and Lions to choose a Person from among them to be the General Receiver of those Moneys. And all the Provinces are enjoined to send speedily, and, if possible they can, within a Month's space after the Return of their Deputies, the Moneys collected by them, viz. the Provinces of the Isle of France, Normandy, Britain, Anjou, Berry, Poitou, and Saintonge, to those who are ordained to receive them in the City of Paris; and those of Burgundy, Dauphiné, Provence, Vivaretz, Cévennes, Higher and Lower Languedoc, and Guyenne, to them who shall be appointed in the City of Lions; that so these Moneys being received by them, may be transmitted to the particular Commissioners of the said Cities, either by Bills of Exchange, or any other way, together with their Acquittances, according to the Dividend before ordained.

2. In Pursuance of this last-named Article, the Lord of Angoulins was nominated to be Receiver for the Town of Rochelle; and for Overseers Monsieur de L' Hommeau, and Monsieur Colomiez Pastors, together with Mr. Paul Mervant and Nicholas Chesnell, Peers and tree Burgesses, and Elders of the City of Rochelle: And for the City of Montauban, the Lord Roques, first Consul, was declared Receiver, and the R. R. Mr. Ollier and Charles, Pastors; together with the Lord's d' Assier, Barrampere, and du Bois, Elders, for Overseers. And for the City of Castres, Mr. Thomas was nominated Receiver, and the Lord's de la Gasquerie, de Servoles, de Lissac, de Bernard the Elder, de Legonier, and Rony the Auditor, for Overseers. And all and everyone of these now-mentioned Persons, were agreed upon and approved by this Council; which also enjoined them, who received these Collections and Charities, to deliver them unto these Receivers.

22. In every Province there shall be reserved a Cahier of the particular Complaints and Grievances of particular Churches, oppressed upon the score and account of Religion, that so those Cahiers may be all transmitted to the Church of Paris, which shall compile out of them one general Cahier to be left in the hands of our General Deputies.

CHAP. XXVIII. Particular Matters.

1. SOME having very cunningly and maliciously robbed the Deputies of Lower Languedoc, of certain Papers quoted in an Inventory, which they had brought to this Council, giving an account of the Grounds and Reasons of that Judgment passed by the Provincial Synod on George Arbault: the Council being well fatisfied of their Integrity and Fidelity, and particularly of Monsieur Petit 's, with whom all those Writings were deposited, did think it needful to give them this Attestation, and fully to discharge them of all those Papers which were delivered unto Monsieur Aymard, one of the Provincial Deputies for Cévennes, who will exhibit them upon all Occasions, excepting those relating to the Sieur Arbaut before-mentioned, which he received from the hands of the Sieurs Mestrezat and du Puy, (who were commissionated by the Synod to peruse them) he having given them a Receipt under his own Hand, which was delivered by him unto the aforesaid Monsieur Aymard, together with those Papers, and two Inventories subscribed by the Sieurs du Cros and Petit.

2. In reading the Accusation of the Sieur Arbaut, and some other Acts brought against him, the Colloquy of Anduze was ordered to inform themselves of the Deportments of the Sieurs du Cros Pastor of the Church at Blansac, and of Raly Pastor in the Church of St. John de Maruejoly, and to proceed against them: And the Commissioners deputed by the Province of Lower Languedoc, were ordered to deliver unto the said Colloquy, the whole Relation of their Proceedings. And the said Colloquy should judge of those Differences which are risen up between the said Arbaut, formerly a Minister, and the Colloquies of Montpellier and Usez, all which shall be notified to them by their Scribe.

3. Monsieur Tourtelon, a Pastor Emeritus, came unto the Synod, bitterly complaining of his great Poverty and Misery, and petitioned for some Relief. Mr. Cooper was entreated to advance an hundred Franks beforehand unto this aged Gentleman, payable out of that Portion assigned to him; and which will become due out of the Dividend for the Province of Lower Languedoc, to whose Charity we do in an especial manner recommend him.

4. There was again read the Petition of John le Febure, a Bookseller in Geneva, reiterating his former Complaints unto divers of our National Synods, against Monsieur Manueill a Minister, somewhere serving in the Province of Béarn. After hearing the Allegations of the Deputies of that Province, on behalf of Manueill, the Synod not admitting their Excuses, nor being able any longer to suffer that the Advice and Orders of our preceding Synods, and the Complaints of the said Febure, and of the Church of Geneva, should be so wretchedly slighted and despised; and that a Fellow, blasted in his Reputation for an infamous Crime, from which he hath not acquitted, nor careth to acquit and clear himself, should be continued in the Ministry in that Province; and that Provincial Synod to have no regard at all unto the Proceedings had against him by that famous City of Geneva, nor to take the least care that the said Manueill should purge and justify himself from the Crime imposed on him, that so the Scandal might be repaired, either by his complete Absolution and Discharge, or by an exemplary Punishment inflicted upon him for his said Offence: A Decree past, That in case the Synod of the said Province of Béarn did not give full Satisfaction unto the Requests of this, and of the former National Synods of our Churches, and produce undoubted Evidence thereof unto the next National Synod by valid Acts of their Duty and Obedience thereunto, that then their Deputies should be utterly excluded these Synods; nor should they have either admission or session, consultive or decisive Votes in them.

5. The Deputies of Béarn complaining, that the Parliament of their Province did, directly and openly, set themselves against the Observation, of that Canon of our Discipline, which enjoined Consistories to censure those Parents, who sent their Children unto Colleges governed by Popish Priests and Jesuits. The Synod ordered that his Majesty should be most humbly petitioned by the Lord Mont-Martyn our General Deputy, That he would be pleased to leave unto the Churches, the free use and exercise of our Discipline, which hath been granted us by his Majesty's Edicts. And the Pastors of Béarn should be exhorted to exercise the Discipline more strictly and carefully than ever, because it is founded upon the Word of God, and the Canons and Practice of God's ancient Church.

6. The Sieur Pontier, formerly Pastor of the Church of St. Giles in the Province of Poitou, reported the many and great Damages he had sustained since he was discharged the Service of that Church; and that he was totally deprived of his Portion, which would have otherwise accrued to him from the Monies of his Majesty's Liberality. The Synod 〈◊〉 That out of the Arrears due unto the Province of Poitou, the sa •• •• eur Pontier shall receive what would have appertained to him of the Monies settled on the Church of St. Giles, until such time as they be provided of another Pastor. And some further care shall be taken for him in the Dividend of our Monies.

7. The Synod taking notice, that the Defects in the Call of Monsieur de Rie, proceeded not from himself, but from the Synod of Provence; and having severely censured that Synod for their Contempt of the Canons of our Discipline in the Election and Ordination of Ministers, decreed, That the said Monsieur de Rie shall be recommended unto that Synod to provide a Church for him; and that a free Portion shall be allotted him out of the Dividend of the Churches of Provence; and that thirty Livers shall be paid him in ready Money by Monsieur Cooper, out of the Mass of Monies belonging unto the Churches of that Province, and the Receiver of that Province shall allow it on accompt unto the Lord of Kandel.

8. Whereas the Acts and Memoirs produced by Monsieur Courroy, Pastor of the Church of St. Ambroise, and by his adverse Party, have been, by the Committee that reported them, brought into the Synod, and are all tackt and bundled together; and that through incogitancy the said Papers were delivered by Monsieur Blondell, one of our Scribes, unto the Deputies of the Town of St. Ambroise. The Synod ordaineth, That the Provincial Deputies of Burgundy, when-as they execute the Commission given them, shall take cave that the Papers belonging unto the said Monsieur Courroy, be faithfully restored to him; and in case those who now possess them shall refuse so to do, they shall be enforced to it by the rigor of Church-Censures.

9. Whereas the Parties are now agreed, that Clause in the Censure pronounced against the Province of Vivaretz, by the Colloquy of Valentinois, shall be razed out of the Act of the said Colloquy.

10. Upon that Complaint of Monsieur de la Garie, Pastor of the Church of Barbezieux, the Synod decreed, That the Province of Higher Languedoc should pay him, out of their best and clearest Monies they shall receive from the Lord Candall, an hundred Livers, whereunto the Charges of his Journey were limited, upon condition that he do accompt, in the first place, for what he hath already received from the said Province.

11. The Synod inclining to grant the Church of Rochelle their Request, who demanded, That Monsieur Vincent, Pastor of the Church de L'Isle Bouchard, might be settled among them, decreed, That notwithstanding the Remonstrances of the Provincial Deputies of Anjou, and their insisting on their and that Church's Interest in him, the said Monsieur Vincent shall, from this present day, be reputed and owned as the peculiar Pastor of Rochelle; but with this Condition, that he shall continue the exercise of his Ministry for six Months longer in the Isle of Bouchard: During which time the Province of Anjou shall do their best endeavor to get them supplied; and on the other hand, the said Church shall compound with that of Rochelle to reimburse them of their Expence and Damages, by removal of their Minister from them.

12. The Provincial Deputies of Saintonge petitioning, That the Church of Saveilles might he joined unto that of Villefaignan, and incorporated with the Colloquy of Augoulmois, because of the present and pressing Necessities of that Church. The Council remanded them back unto the Province of Poitou, which is entreated, out of Charity, to comply with this Request of the Province of Saintonge, that so by that conjunction, the Subsistence of the Church of Villefaignan may be the better strengthened.

13. Monsieur d' Anglade, Pastor of the Churches of Mouzie and Pomport, having writ Letters unto this Synod, in which he prayed payment of some certain Charges due unto him, as he pretends, from the University of Nismes; his Request was rejected.

14. The Church of Auvergne do express their Approbation and Consent unto the next Synod of the Higher Languedoc; that the said Synod may reunite all those Churches into one Colloquy, and conjoin with them some of the nearest Churches of St. Germain; in which case the Colloquy of Anvergne shall be annexed unto the Synod of Cévennes.

15. The Sieur d' Huyisseau requesting, both for himself and the Sieur Guydon, who was commissionated, together with him, by the Synod of Vitre, to prosecute the Sieur Palot, that the Synod would be pleased to take some care about the payment of their Expences, and of the Sum of two thousand Livers, which were granted them by the Synod of Alez. The Synod having not as yet been able to recover one Penny from the said Palot, of those vast Sums he owes the Churches; and there being not a Farthing paid of the twenty four thousand Livers, out of which their two thousand Livers were to have been given them, those two Gentlemen, Mr. d' Huysseau and Guydon were desired to have a little patience, and to rest satisfied with this, that they were in the same Condition with all the Churches; and that if it should please God at any time hereafter, as we trust he will, to give us some Fruits of their Prosecutions, we would then make good our Promises: And they were farther assured, that in case, before the sitting of the next National Synod, nothing was recovered of our Debts from the aforesaid Palot, that yet notwithstanding the said Gentlemen should have full Contentment given them out of the first Monies which the Lord of Candall payeth in unto the Churches: And whereas there is only two thousand Livers demanded by them, this Council doth, for their patient Forbearance, engage to pay them the said Sum, and Five hundred Livers more. Which the said Sieur d' Huysseau did very kindly accept, both for himself and his absent Colleague, Monsieur Guydon: And he also promised to yield up that Account, cleared and framed by him, of the Monies accounted for by the said Palot, and not delivered into the Hands of the Lord's Commissioners, that so we may have recourse unto it, when need requires, in out prosecution of the said Palot.

16. The Lord of Angoulin 's requesting, on behalf of the City of Rochelle, that the Synod would be pleased to reimburse the said City the Sum of Two thousand five hundred Livers, which were lent unto certain Deputies of the Provinces, assembled in the said City, in the Year Sixteen hundred and seventeen. This Demand was dismissed over to the next Politick Assembly, which his Majesty shall be pleased to grant unto his Subjects of the Reformed Religion, that so the said Assembly may take care about it, to whom it doth belong, because the Monies of his Majesty's Liberality, and which are at the disposal of our National Synods, ought not to be diverted from that particular Use and Service, whereunto his Majesty hath devoted them.

17. The Deputies of the Isle of France, declaring how very useful unto the Churches, the worthy Labors of Monsieur Blondel, Pastor of the Church of Howdan, might be; and the Synod being further informed of his rare Dexterity and Diligence in the Employment of those excellent Talents which the Lord hath concredited to him for the Edification of his Church, it decreed, That he should be publicly commended and encouraged, and that the Lord of Candall should pay him in presently, as a Token of our great Esteem and Value for him, a Thousand Livers, to buy him Books; and that as soon as his Works shall be ready for the Press, the Synod will defray the Charges of their Impression. And because his great Excellency lieth in Church-History and Antiquity, he is earnestly desired to follow his Genius, and to combat and refute the Adversaries with that Weapon.

18. The Demand of Quentin Mareschall, a Printer dwelling at Chastelheraut, is dismissed over to the Province of Poitou, who shall take care of it, according to the Rules of Christian Charity: And the said Mareschall is forbidden the troubling our National Synod anymore with his little Businesses.

19. The Synod, not abridging the Rights and Privileges of any Province, doth permit that of Higher Languedoc to recall Monsieur Casaux, a Pastor lent unto the Church of Montagnac in the Lower Guyenne; and the Lower Guyenne may recall Monsieur Testard, at present Minister of the Church of Realmont, in the Province of Higher Languedoc, whenever the Necessity and Edification of the Church shall so require.

20. Monsieur Mestrezat presented Letters from the Lord de Launay, and requested, by word of Mouth, both for himself and his said Colleague, that the Synod would be pleased to discharge them from that Commission, which the National Synod of Charenton had entrusted them with. But this Synod not being in a capacity to alter the Decree of that Synod, did earnestly entreat them both to continue in that Employment for the general good of the Churches.

21. Monsieur Tolozany, Pastor of the Church of St. Antonine, relating the great Poverty of his Church and Family, and the extreme Necessity whereunto he is reduced in his old Age. The Synod not being at present in a capacity to alter anything in former Constitutions, for the Relief of our indigent Ministers, doth ordain, that immediately three hundred Livers be given him to the easing of his Church, of which, in the Dividend that shall be made of the Monies granted us by his Majesty, there shall be a particular care taken.

22. Letters from my Lady Marchioness of Bouille, and from Monsieur du Mont, formerly Pastor in the Church of Mimbre in the Territory of Maine, were read in open Synod: And Information being made of the notorious Crimes committed by the said du Mont, the Province is ordered to proceed forthwith against him, and to depose him from his Office. And the said Lady shall be advised of it by Letters from this Synod.

23. The Complaint of Monsieur Toussain, a Pastor Emeritus, in the Province of Dauphiné, was given unto the Province of Cévennes, who should procure, by their best Skill and Power, the payment of those Arrears of Wages due unto the said Toussain by the Church of Marvejoils.

24. Monsieur Brucet a Proposan, being demanded by the Church of La Verdac to be their Pastor, the Colloquy of Condommois is authorized to examine and ordain him.

CHAP. XXIX. Care taken for a poor persecuted Church.

25. THere were Letters from the Church of La Mote Mauravel, in the Province of Lower Guienne, sent unto this Synod; and being read, together with their Memoirs, we were informed of a cruel Persecution raised against the said Church by the Lord's Cardinal of Sourdis, and Bishop of Maillezais. Whereupon, the Lord Commissioner was humbly desired to write unto his Majesty, and the Ministers of State, on the behalf of that poor distressed Church. And Letters were also ordered to be written, out of hand, unto the Lord Duke of Esperon, earnestly to entreat his Grace, that by his Authority, his Majesty's Edicts, and the Public Peace might be preserved. And our general Deputies at Court shall address themselves unto his Majesty, that, according to his usual Clemency, and Royal Goodness, he would be pleased to stop the Torrent of this Persecution, and to exert his Justice, and punish the Infractors and Violators of his Royal Ordinances, and to curb and restrain their Fury, who dare, in a time of open Peace, to deprive his Majesty's Subjects of the Benefit and Protection of his Edicts, of the Exercise of their Religion, and of the Safety of their Lives. And the said Church of La Mote shall be immediately advised to keep and secure the possession of their Temple, and Religious Worship, and to seek and get into their Possession, all necessary Titles, Evidences and Proofs of their Right unto their Temple; and to bring those Evidences, and Acts of Prohibitions that have been served upon them by the Officers of the said Lord Cardinal, and all other Proofs of their Excesses and actual Outrages against their Members unto this City, that so they may, with all diligence, be dispatched unto the Lord des Loges, Advocate in his Majesty's Council, who will use all needful Means, on behalf of our Churches, that their Adversaries may be prosecuted and punished.

26. Mousieur de la Motte, Pastor of the Church du Gua in Vivaretz, did, both by word of Mouth, and written Acts which he produced, declare and prove his great Losses and Persecutions sustained during the last Troubles. The Council gave him good assurance, that in the Dividend of our Churches Moneys, there should be a particular care taken for his Relief and Comfort.

27. The Synod compassionating the sad Estate of Monsieur du Bois, a Public Notary, living in the City of Pouzin, ordered that three hundred Livers should be paid him out of the Mass of Moneys, which will be allotted unto the Province of Vivaretz. And whereas the Church of Paris lent him already, in his great Necessities, one hundred Livers, they be desired, out of pure Christian Charity, freely to forgive him that Sum.

28. The Synod taking into consideration the Complaint of the Widow of Monsieur Rossel deceased, and the great Losses suffered by the Church of Bedarioux, decreed, that the Province of Lower Languedoc, should pay her in the Stipend allowed her for the Year of her Widowhood, and discharge that poor Church from the payment thereof, and take special care that this Widow have some settled Maintenance for the future. Moreover, an Order was granted, that because her Necessities at present were very sore and pressing, she should receive fifty Livers, which the Lord of Candall is entreated to advance beforehand, out of the Moneys accruing unto the aforesaid Province, whose Receiver shall be obliged to allow it him on his Account.

29. The Synod accepting his Offers, promised its best Assistance unto the Reverend Monsieur le Faucheur, Pastor of the Church in Monpellier, and prayed him to take heart unto himself, and courageously to employ those excellent Talents and Graces (the Lord had blessed him with) in the Refutation of those Heaps of Sophism's piled up by the Cardinal of Perron, in his huge Volume of the Eucharist, that so the Church of God may be edified by so laudable and profitable a Work, and the sorry sophistical Wranglings of the Enemies of God's Truth may be checked and represt.

30. There was granted threescore and twelve Livers unto the Sieurs Maurice, de Bloy, de Matrimont, and Collan, to defray the Charges of their Journey unto Montauban, which is eighteen Livers apiece.

31. Monsier Caper was ordered to pay unto Mr. Moynier, Pastor of the Church of Bourniquett, immediately, seven-score Livers in consideration of his great Losses: and this is not intended as a diminution of that Relief which the Synod hath reserved for him, when it comes to divide the Monies destinated to the support and maintenance of our Churches in the Higher Languedoc. And the Synod of that Province is charged to communicate unto his necessitous Family, as they are bound by the Laws of Christian Charity, for its Subsistence.

32. An hundred Livers were assigned unto Monsieur Baylin, Pastor of the Church of Villemur, and to be paid him out of the clearest Monies which belong unto the Churches: And farther it was voted, that when the Dividend should be made of those Monies, there shall be a special regard had unto the Necessities both of the said Church and Pastor.

33. The Sieurs Crubel and Montanier, Pastors of the Churches at Bias and La Corbaride, declared and proved before the Synod, by authentic Evidences and Memoirs, the utter impossibility of their Residence on their Churches, because of the dismal and deplorable Condition to which they be reduced. Whereupon License was given them to reside at Montauban, until such time as it should please God to bless those distressed Churches with Ability for their Resettlement among them; and the next Provincial Synod shall take special care that it may be effected.

34. The Churches of Souls and La Bour, being at a vast distance from the other Churches of this Kingdom, whereby our National Synods have had little knowledge of their Estate and Wants, and of that Relief which hath by this and former National Synods been ministered to them. The Sieurs Mizaubin and Grenouilleau, are ordered to travel thither immediately upon the breaking up of this Assembly, and as Visitors appointed by this Synod, to inspect their Condition, and to inquire into those Differences between the Sieurs Busthonoby and Guillemin, and to compose them, and to make report of the Necessities of those Churches, they being now incorporated with the Synod of Lower Guienne, unto it; and they shall take care that those Churches do, by their Deputies, appear at their Synodical Meetings, and bring in an Account of their disposal of those Monies which have been formerly, and may hereafter be allotted them. And that Synod is charged to concern itself for the well-being of those Churches.

35. The Province of Cévennes having advanced a thousand Livers beforehand for the Churches of Auvergne, did request this Assembly, that they might be reimbursed. A Decree past, that the said Province proving those Disbursments, they should be repaid accordingly out of the Monies granted by the last National Synod unto those Churches.

36. Monsieur Paulet informing this Synod with how great Violence he was forced, and driven away from his Church of Vezenobre, it was immediately voted, that his Cause should be particularly recommended unto the Lord's our General Deputies; and that when the distribution of Monies shall be made in the close of this Sessions, all care and respect should be had unto his Necessities.

37. The Lord and Lady of Dangeau, complaining that the Synod of the Isle of France, had forbidden the particular recommending of them unto God, in the Public Prayers made by the Church of Chartres, meeting at the Bridge of Tranchefetus, although they had been formerly made for the Lord and Lady of that Place. And the Deputies of the Isle of France having declared the Reasons of that Prohibition, and justified it by the Acts of two several Synods; though they had also condemned the omission of those aforesaid Prayers, and that they would have ordained their re-usage, were it not for those many Oppositions they had encountered in it. The Synod decreed, That the Pastor of the Church of Chartres, shall mention in his Prayers, and pray particularly by Name for the said Lord and Lady, according to the Intention of the Synods of that Province.

38. The Sieur Codur writ Letters of Excuse, which were read in this Synod; as also the Acts of the last National and Provincial Synods of Lower Languedoc, concerning the removal of his Ministry out of the Province of Cévennes. Whereupon it was decreed, that the Province should be censured for their over-much Indulgence to the said Codur, and judged, that the Gloss put upon the Canon of the Synod of Charenton by one of its Deputies, was not in any wise to be admitted, because it directly contradicted the Intention of that Synod. And it doth now forbid the said Codur to exercise his Ministry, either in the Provinces of Lower Languedoc or Cévennes; and interdicts the Synods of those Provinces, the granting him any License for so doing, on pain of censuring the Moderators of those Synods in their private Capacities. Moreover, the said Codur is once again commanded to obey the Canon of the National Synod of Charenton, and to retire himself into the Province of Dauphiné, that there he may be provided of a Church: And in case he refuse Obedience unto this Order, the Synod of that Province is now empowered with full Authority to proceed against him, according to the utmost rigor and severity of our Discipline.

39. There were six-score Livers ordered to the Lord of La Beguadiere, for defraying the Charges of his Journey; which he took at the command of this Synod.

40. There were sixty Livers paid the Lord's Taby and Languett, who were ordered to cite Monsieur Noguier unto this Synod, and to hear and examine Witnesses.

41. This Synod honoring the Memory of Monsieur Daneau, heretofore a very famous Minister of Christ, Pastor and Professor of Divinity in the Church and University of Béarn; and desiring to preserve his Works from the Grave of Oblivion, entreateth his worthy Son to gather them into one Volume, and to publish them, and the Charges of their Impression shall be born by this Synod. They be in one Volume in Folio.

42. Sixty Livers were ordered to be paid unto the Sieurs Mizaubin and Grenouilleau, (Commissioners appointed by this Synod to visit the Churches of Souls and Labor ) to defray the Expences of their Journey, of which they shall give an Account unto the Province of Lower Guyenne: And in case this Sum be not sufficient for the clearing their necessary Charges in that their Journey, then the Province shall supply the rest, and bring it in upon Account unto the next National Synod.

43. This Synod approved, that the Lord of Eragny, Deputy for the Province of Normandy, should use all necessary means for getting a place ascertained, where the Professors of the Reformed Religion may worship God in the Bailywick of Chaumont, in the Territory of Vexin; and the said Place being obtained and named, the Church of that Bailywick shall be incorporated with the Isle of France, provided that the Quarter of Gisors do yield their Consent, and be the lesser Part of the Church of Sancourt; and in case the two Provinces of Normandy, and the Isle of France, cannot agree about it, they shall submit unto the Judgment of the Neighbor Synod.

CHAP. XXX. A Donative to Monsieur Chamier.

44. MOnsieur Chamier Pastor of Montlimard, presenting unto this Council the very learned Works of his most Reverend Father, which he published at the desire of several former National Synods. The Council judging it equitable to testify that great respect and honor they ever had for his Father, of blessed Memory, and to give some acknowledgment of the Churches Debt and Thankfulness for the many and eminent Services he had once rendered them, and these his incomparable Labors now dedicated to it, do offer the Sum of three hundred Livers presently to be given him by Mr. Cooper, out of the general Stock of the Churches: And further, there shall two free Portions more be distributed to him out of the Dividend, which will befall the Province of Dauphiné, and shall be paid in unto the said Monsieur Chamier, betwixt this and the next National Synod.

45. This Synod considering the long-continued Sufferings of the Sieur Constant, during his Imprisonment in the Clink of the Common Goal of Bourdeaux, and the great Expences he must needs have been at for the getting his Enlargement, voted and decreed, That out of the general Stock of Monies belonging to all our Churches, there shall be drawn out three free Portions, and delivered to him, betwixt this and the next National Synod, by the Lord of Candall.

46. Monsieur Belliot petitioning the Synod to have compassion on him, because of his many and great Necessities, sore Afflictions, and Losses which he hath sustained, during his long Imprisonment in Bourdeaux; There was a Portion and half free of all Charges and Taxes whatsoever, ordered to be paid him by the Lord of Candall, until the next National Synod.

47. The Sieurs Petit and Duranty, Deputies from the Church of Nismes, made their Addresses unto this Synod, That it would be pleased to grant them Monsieur Baux, Pastor of the Church of Mazamet, to be their Minister. After hearing the Provincial Deputies of Lower Languedoc on the one hand, who joined with the said Gentlemen in their Demand; and on the other hand the Deputies of Mazamet aforesaid, Monsieur Baux himself, and other Deputies of the Higher Languedoc who opposed their Petition; A Vote past, that this Business should be carried back unto the next Synod of Higher Languedoc, which is ordered to provide for the Church of Mazawet, and to grant the Church of Nismes effectually their Request.

48. The said Sieurs, Petit and Duranty, did farther petition this National Synod, That by their Authority Monsieur Chambrun, who was removed unto the City of Orange by the National Synod of Alez, might be restored back again unto the Church of Nismes. But the Synod answered, That the said Deputies should apply themselves unto the Church of Orange; and in case of their refusal, then unto the Colloquy of Baronniers in Dauphiné, and so to get their Petition answered according to their Hearts desire.

49. The Church of Usez deputed the Sieur L' Exque with Letters unto this Council, petitioning that Monsieur Buez, Pastor in the Church of Cournon-Terrail, might be confer'd upon them for their Pastor. The said Church was ordered to apply itself unto the next Synod of Lower Languedoc, which is enjoined to dispose the said Buez to comply with the Desire of the Church of Usez, because of its great Importance, and for that there is very great and good Reason the said Synod should yield unto their Requests.

50. The Synod being informed by the Deputies of Burgundy, that the Church of Paillac was at present unprovided, and considering its great Importance, ordereth that Monsieur Repasseau, a Pastor now at Liberty, shall be sent unto that Church, to serve them as their own Pastor; and notice hereof shall be given them, by Letters signed by the Officers of this National Synod.

51. The Lord of Quelus presenting Letters from the Church of Anduze, petitioning, that Monsieur Vinay, Pastor of the Church of Annonay, might be given them for their Pastor. After that the said Vinay, and the Deputies of the Province of Vivaretz and Cévennes had been heard, their Petition was remanded back unto the next Synod of Vivaretz, who were entreated to have a particular respect, both to the Person of the said Monsieur Vinay, and his Preservation, and the great Importance of the said Church; that so, as the Welfare of that Church on the one hand, and Christian Charity on the other required, that worthy Minister might be treated with all possible Respect and Kindness.

52. The next Synod of Lower Languedoc, which is charged to call Monsieur Ressent to account for his Actings, shall be informed, that the Sieur Mercurin declared in this Council, that the said Ressent sent him, against his will, unto the Commissioners, Crubellier and Chambrun; and abusing of his easiness and good Nature, never declared to him the Contents of the Letter of Credit he sent by him; insomuch that when he came unto Vouert and Orange, he was constrained to make up his Errand from what he could recollect of Discourses past betwixt him and the said Ressent.

53. The Colloquy of Ambrun is ordered to judge finally in that Difference betwixt the Church of Cisteron, and the Sieur Mercurin, and that by Authority from this Council.

54. There is given an hundred Livers unto Mr. Repasseau, for the Supply of his present Wants, and to help transport his Household-Goods unto Paillac, and the said Sum shall be paid him out of the common Mass of Moneys belonging to all our Churches.

55. Whereas Monsieur Barre, Doctor of Civil Law, and Advocate at Montlimard, hath composed a Treatise concerning Antichrist, and which hath been perused by several Divines commissionated thereunto, and they giving a very laudable and good Account thereof, it was approved also by this Synod.

56. Monsieur Sarazin, Pastor of the Church of Campagne, had leave given him to quit the Province of Higher Languedoc, and to accept of a Call from any Church in the Province of Burgundy, but always upon this Condition, That he do not leave the Church of Campagne before the Sessions of the Colloquy of Lower Quercy, who are impowered fully to discharge the said Sarazin, and to take care that that Church be not left destitute.

57. The Lord Commissioner Galland was humbly entreated to write unto the Lord President of the Parliament of Toulouse, on behalf of divers Inhabitants of Briteste, because Warrants were issued out to apprehend them, and make them Prisoners, although the Matter for which they are in Trouble, hath been pardoned by his Majesty's Act of Grace and Indemnity.

58. The Memoirs of Monsieur Rennoy, Pastor of the Church of Coluisson, were presented unto this Assembly by Monsieur Petit, and were delivered unto the Deputies of Lower Languedoc, who were to carry them unto their next Provincial Synod, which was charged in an especial manner to consider of them.

59. Thirty Livers were ordered unto Nicolas Severin, out of the common stock of our Churches, but on this Condition, that he never trouble us with his Petitions more; and the Provinces shall take care to detain their Poor at home, that these National Synods may be no more urged with their Importunities.

60. There was given as a Gratuity out of the best Moneys belonging to the Churches, four hundred and fifty Livers unto Monsieur Cooper, Deputy to the Lord of Candall.

61. An hundred Livers were ordered unto Sir Augustus Galland, his Majesty's Commissioner in this Council, out of the clearest Moneys of our Churches, to defray the Charges he was at in the Business of the Church of Froqualquier.

62. Out of its supernumerary Portions, the Province of Lower Languedoc shall pay the Sum of thirty Livers unto Monsieur Noguier, at which the Charges of his Journey hither, have been assessed by the Council.

63. Over and besides what he may else need to get off the Writ of Imprisonment, issued forth against him by the Privy Council, and which had turned over his Cause to be heard in the Court of Beziers, there was granted the Sum of one hundred Livers unto Monsieur Pontel, which he shall receive out of the common Stock of the Churches Moneys.

64. Twenty Livers out of the same Fund was given unto the common Crier of the City of Castres.

65. Sixty Livers were given to the Door-keeper of the Council, out of the same Stock; and he is recommended unto the Lord's, Consuls and Magistrates of this City of Castres, that they would be pleased to restore him unto his Office of Regent, which he hath formerly exercised in their College.

66. The Lord of Candall is entreated to advance out of the half Portion granted unto Monsieur Mercurin, Pastor of the Church of Grass, as much as will be requisite to take off the Writ of Arrest against him in the King's Privy Council, that so the Parliament of Provence may be deprived of the Knowledge of those Matters, for which he is in Trouble, and do so very much hinder him in the Discharge of his ministerial Duties and Calling.

67. The next Synod of Higher Languedoc, are charged to present Monsieur Grasset, Pastor of the Church in the Isle of Jourdain, unto the Ministry and pastoral Care of the Church of Mazamet, and to provide the Church in the aforesaid Island of another Minister.

68. The Matters concerning the Church of Sarverettes, were particularly recommended unto the Lord of Montmartyn our General Deputy.

69. The Province of Higher Languedoc is entreated to consider the Losses sustained by Monsieur Daneau, Pastor of the Church of Castres, in the former and latter Wars, that so out of their Charity he may receive some Relief and Comfort.

70. Seven hundred Livers were given unto the Children of Monsieur Cameron deceased, as a Testimony of that Honor we have for his Name and Memory, and they shall also receive a yearly Portion from the Lord of Candall, until the next National Synod. Moreover, Monsieur Olier, who pleaded for the Church of Montauban, was told by the Council, that in case the said Church did not pay the eight hundred Livers in unto his Children, which they owed unto Monsieur Cameron their Father, and who was sometime Pastor and Professor in their City and University, the like Sum should be detained from them by the Lord of Candall, out of the Moneys settled upon their University, that so their just Debts might that way be paid unto these poor Orphans; and the Moneys now given them, and those others due from Montauban, shall be deposited with their Guardian for their Use.

71. An hundred Livers were ordered to be paid unto Monsieur Bansillon, a worthy Minister, in Consideration of the many Damages he hath sustained, and they shall be paid him out of the general Stock of our Churches; nor shall this occasion the lessening of his Relief from the Province, who shall assist and help him in the Prosecution of his Suit; the Account whereof shall be brought in to the next National Synod, to be perused and considered by them.

72. The Church of Vezenobre is recommended to the Charity of the Province of Cévennes.

73. Monsieur Mercat petitioning the Council to consider the Charges the Church of Pons have been at in getting the Inlargement of their Pastor Monsieur Constance, their Petition was remanded back unto the next Provincial Synod of Saintonge, which is exhorted to assist that poor Church out of the supernumerary Portions couched in their Dividend.

74. In like manner the poor Churches of Masedazill, le's Bordes, Savarat, and Camarades, are recommended to the Charity of the same Province, as is also Monsieur Marsillon, who hath been a very great Sufferer, that they would consider him more than ordinary.

75. Monsieur Baux informed this Synod, that if he should go to Nismes, and exercise his Ministry there, he had no certain Stipend promised him; and the Lord's Petit and Duranty their Deputies, did tell him as much, that they had no Order from that Church, to make any Agreement with him about it, and the said Petit did confirm the same in open Council. Whereupon the Church of Nismes was exhorted fully to content and satisfy the said Mr. Baux; and in case any Difference should arise about this matter, then it should be referred unto the Consistory of Montpellier, who were impowered by this present National Synod to decide it finally.

76. Monsieur Bardon, Receiver of the Moneys appertaining to the Province of Higher Languedoc, is entreated to advance unto the Family of Monsieur Voisin, out of the first Moneys he shall receive, that free Portion, which was granted by this National Synod unto the said Family.

77. The Petition of the Church of Vielle Vigne, requesting that an hundred Livers might be granted them for the keeping up of their School, was remanded back unto the Province of Britain, who were charitably to consider of it.

78. A Petition from the Church of Tressans was presented unto this Council by the Sieur Razes, who ordered the Province of Lower Languedoc to give the belt Assistance to it; and an Account of their Condition is to be brought in unto the next National Synod.

79. The Reverend Mr. Constance and Erondelle, gave in their Judgment about a Book writ by the Sieur Bufon, and perused by them: whereupon a Vote passed; that it should not be printed; and the Reasons moving the Council thereunto, shall be reported unto the said Buson by Monsieur Fort, one of the Deputies of the Lower Guyenne.

80. For as much as three free Portions had been allotted by the last National Synod of Charenton, unto the Churches of Souls, in case they were provided of a second Pastor: This Assembly authorizeth the Colloquy of Condonnois to examine that Proposan, who was said to be fit for the Ministry; and the Province of Lower Guyenne is charged to advance such a Sum as they shall judge needful for the Maintenance of a second Pastor, and to make Report thereof unto the next National Synod, which shall reimburse them those their Moneys.

81. This Council decreed, that out of the first Moneys which should be received, the Sum of two hundred Livers should be presented to each of our Professors in the University of Montauban and Saumur, for the Years one thousand six hundred twenty one, and twenty two, in which they receieved nothing.

82. The Province of Higher Languedoc understanding that there was a Dividend of Moneys made by this Council, demanded the Reimbursement of four hundred Livers, which in Obedience to a Decree of the last Synod at Charenton, they had paid in to Monsieur Berauld Professor of Divinity in the University of Montauban. But this their Demand was ordered to be brought into the next National Synod, who will take Care to see them have Restitution made of that aforesaid Sum disbursed by them.

83. The Account rendered by the Isle of France, for its College, was accepted; and the Council voted, that the Censure pronounced against the said Province, should be razed out of the Acts of the last National Synod.

84. This Assembly not judging it convenient unto Reason to repeal its own Ordinance about Mr. Percy, did deposit that Act concerning several Heads of Families in the Church of Montflanquin, and those Acts of the Church of Bourdeaux, and of Monsieur Ferrand, in the Hands of the Deputies of Lower Guyenne, who should make Report of them unto the next National Synod, to whom the final Judgment of this Affair is dismissed.

85. The Deputies of Dauphiné presented Letters from Monsieur de Piotet, Pastor of the Church of Molines, together with the Canons of our National Synods and Church-Discipline, compiled by him into a just Volume. Whereupon Commissioners were nominated to peruse this his Collection, and they bringing in a very favorable Report concerning it, Thanks were voted unto the said Monsieur Piotet, and that he should by Letters from this Assembly be advised of the Defects noted by the Commissioners in this his Work, that so he might complete it, and render it more useful and serviceable to the Churches.

86. The Lord of Montmartyn, Deputy-General for our Churches, reporting unto this Assembly, that there were divers Orders which greatly imported the common Good of all our Churches, and which he had obtained some Years ago from the Privy Council, and of which it is very needful he should have the keeping, that he may produce them upon all Occasions and Occurrences, for the better Service of our Churches. And whereas several Deputies of the Provinces have remonstrated, that for the Information of their Provinces, and the better enabling them to pursue and execute those Orders of Council, there is a Necessity that they should be possessed of the said Originals, or at least of Copies most exactly transcribed from, and faithfully compared with them. This Assembly taking into Consideration the many Copies of those Orders necessary for the Provinces, all of which cannot possibly have the said Originals, but with a great deal of Time and Expence of Moneys, did entreat the Lord Galland, his Majesty's Commissioner to us, that he would be pleased to give himself the Trouble of collationing the Copies with the Originals, that so they may be of better Use and Service to the Deputies and Provinces which have sent them, according as the Necessity of their Affairs may require.

87. The Magistrates of Castres having past a Judgment against Peter Peris, at the Request of Monsieur Constance, now that the Charges may be defrayed of that Process, an Order was given that the said Sieur Constance should presently receive four and twenty Livers.

88. Forty Livers were ordered unto the Transcriber of the Copies of that Cahier brought by the Magistrates of this City unto the Lord Montmartyn, and of the Accompts given us by the Lord of Candall.

89. As soon as the time of the Sieur Fabre 's Suspension is expired, the Colloquy of Albigeois shall immediately assemble, and provide the Church of La Caune another Pastor.

90. Monsieur Combalasse, Pastor of the Church of Venez, prayed this Assembly to assist him, and the Widow of Monsieur Raffin deceased, with some Moneys, that they might bring their Law-suit to an End, about the Settlement of their Temple in the Town of Venez: But their Demand, as had been before in the like Case practiced by the National Synod of Alez, was dismissed over to the next Provincial Synod of Higher Languedoc: And in the mean while this Council assured him, that they would improve all their Power and Interest to procure the said Settlement.

91. The Provincial Deputies of Burgundy, and the Lord of Beaufort, Deputy for the Province of Cévennes, shall in their Return homeward pass through the Towns of Sauve and Anduze, and acquaint the Consistories there with the Intention of this Council, and shall do their best Indeavours to reconcile the Sieurs Bony and Aldebert, and put to their helping Hand, that the Overseer of the Poor in the Town of Anduze, and the said Mr. Bony do agree upon Arbitrators, who may put a Period to their Differences.

92. The Proceedings formed against the Sieurs Peris and Jolly, were delivered unto the Provincial Deputies of Saintonge and Higher Languedoc, in which Provinces they both lived before their Deposal: And the Proceedings against the Sieur Beraut was put into the Hands of Monsieur Baux.

93. The Council being informed of those excellent Gifts which the Lord hath liberally bestowed on Monsieur Godefrey, Doctor of the Civil Laws, and Professor of that Faculty in the University of Geneva, ordered Letters should be written to entreat him, because of his singular Knowledge in Antiquity, that he would discover and publish to the World those Artifices and Disguises used by Cardinal Baronius, and other Doctors of the Church of Rome, to corrupt and alter the true History of the Ancient Church.

94. The Lord Commissioner was entreated to write unto the Lord President of Toulouse, in Behalf of Monsieur Bidac, imprisoned at Sommieres, for abjuring the Errors and Idolatry of the Romish Church; and Mr. Petit was charged to carry unto that Parliament his Majesty's Letters and Command, and to join themselves with the young Mr. Galland, the Lord Commissioner's Son, who will be sent thither for this very End by his Father.

95. The Lord of Candall is desired to pay unto Monsieur Mercurin the Sum of sixty Livers, which were given him by the National Synod of Vitre, and it shall be allowed him in his Account for the Moneys appertaining to our Churches.

96. Mr. Mestrezat and d'Huysseau presented Letters from the Church of Paris, most humbly petitioning that Monsieur Chauve, whom they had so often and earnestly requested for their Minister, might now at length be bestowed upon them: The Deputies also of the Isle of France joined with them in their Petition: But Mr. Chauve as earnestly entreated the Council that he might be continued in his Ministry unto the Church of Sommieres, because of its great Afflictions and present Necessities: And the Provincial Deputies of Lower Languedoc did with as much Importunity request that the Rights of that Church, and of the Province might be preserved, and he in no wise removed from his Pastoral Charge. This weighty Affair having been maturely deliberated, the Council considering the Desire of the Reverend Mr. Chauve, and the singular Importance of the Church of Paris, and the present Condition of that of Sommieres, decreed, That the Church of Paris should carry their Demand unto the next Synod of Lower Languedoc, which is enjoined to pay all just Deference unto this Request of the Church of Paris, and to gratify them fully in it, provided that it be not a Case of Conscience with that Reverend Minister, and determined by him positively, that 'tis his Duty to live and die with his said Church of Sommieres.

97. A Letter was read from the Church of Vigan, and the Lord of Villencufve their Messenger, and the Deputies of the Province of Cévennes were heard speak as to its Contents. After which the Council gave leave unto that Church to seek a Pastor for itself without the Province of Cévennes, and injoineth the Colloquy of Sauve to assist the said Church, until such time as they be provided of a Minister to their Contentment.

98. Mr. Constance and Mr. Belot represented unto the Council the great and pressing Necessities they labor under, through their Inability of paying those Moneys they borrowed during their Imprisonment at Bourdeaux. Whereupon the Receiver of the Province of Saintonge was ordered to pay them thirteen Portions and an half (which were given them for the Years 1627, 1628, and 1629.) out of the Arrears due in the Year 1621. And that the said Receiver may come to no Trouble about it, he shall join the said thirteen Portions and an half unto those other Portions which were given them, that so they may divide them equally between them, as has been accustomed.

99. If any Church in the Colloquy of Nismes should desire Monsieur Baux for their Minister, who is at present Pastor of the Church in Cucque; This Assembly decreed, That he might have his Liberty, and accept of such a Call, without any Obstruction or Molestation.

100. The Deputies of Cévennes are charged, as they return homeward, to pass through the City of Beziers, and to recommend to the Judges and Counselors of that Court the Affairs of the Church of Alez, and of those Reverend Ministers Mr. Paulet and Banzillon.

101. For as much as in the Dividend to the Province of Higher Languedoc, there were two Portions couched for two Professors of Divinity in the University of Montauban, although it had been before determined by this Synod, that the said Professors should receive but an half Portion, and give Acquittance unto their Church for it; now the Lord of Candall is ordered to detain in his Hands one of those Portions, and to accompt for it unto the next National Synod.

102. The Relation of Mr. Banzillon 's Troubles was read, as also Letters written by the Lord Marquess of Varennes, Governor of Aguemortes, unto his Lordship his Majesty's Commissioner in this Assembly. Whereupon the Lord Commissioner was most importunately entreated to intercede for Mr. Banzillon, with the Lord's Judges in the Court of Bezieres, and with the said Lord of Varennes; and it was unanimously voted, that a most humble Petition should be presented unto his Majesty, that his Majesty would be graciously pleased to permit our Churches, and Ministers officiating in them, their enjoyment of that Peace and Liberty, and their comfortable Effects, which by his Edicts are accorded to us; and that his Majesty would order the said Lord Marquess, and all other Governors of Places, to follow and imitate his Majesty in his favorable Inclinations and Disposition towards us, and to cause his Subjects of the Reformed Religion, both Ministers and People, who live within their Governments and Jurisdiction, to reap the refreshing Fruits of his Majesty's most gracious Favor and Protection. Moreover, this Council ordained, that till such time as Mr. Banzillon may be restored unto the Exercise of his Ministry in the Church of Aiguesmortes, that Church shall be supplied by the Neighbor Pastors, to whose Christian Charity the said Church is in a most special manner recommended; and that they would, upon all Occasions, assist it in its great and pressing Necessities.

103. Mr. Petit made report of what had been done by him and Mr. Galland junior, in their Conference with the Lord President in the Parliament of Toulouse, and they presented his Lordship's Letters unto this Synod: And they received the Thanks of this Synod for the Pains taken by them: And an Answer was voted unto the Letters of the said Lord President; and the Consuls of Montauban and Castres were desired to pass over to Toulouse immediately after Martin-mass, and to solicit the Enrollment of his Majesty's Letters of Command unto that Court of Parliament, and to see that the Restrictions opposed by that Court unto his Majesty's Declaration be removed.

104. The Deputies of Dauphiné giving an honorable Character of Monsieur Agard, who had lately quitted the Convent of the Jacobins at Avignon, a Vote passed in the Council, That Report hereof should be made in the next National Synod, and what Relief the said Agard hath, and shall receive from that Province, that so there may be some care taken to reimburse them.

105. That Monsieur de la Vallade may be maintained in his Sickness; and whilst the Hand of God is heavy upon him, he being now visited in this City, The Council ordered, that out of the Sum of Ten thousand Livers given by his Majesty to defray the Charges of this Assembly, a fourth part of that Portion of it, which would have accrued unto the Province of Anjou, should be presently taken out and bestowed upon the said Sieur de la Vallade, and he shall not be obliged to be accountable for it. And Mr. Cooper is requested to pay in this Money beforehand unto him.

106. This Synod ordained, that all Papers brought by Mr. Bony and the Lord Aldebert, should be deposited by Mr. de Puy and de Grenouilleau, into the hands of the Provincial Deputies of Higher Languedoc; which was done accordingly.

107. Mr. Busthonoby, Pastor of the Churches in Souls, informed the Council, That however the last National Synod of Charenton had ordered a Maintenance for him in those Churches, yet there remained due, October Quarter, in the Year 1624, and the full Years 1625, and 1626. And he humbly prayed the Council to compassionate him, under his pressing Wants and Necessities. The truth of this his Information being undoubted and unquestionable, the Lord of Candall was entreated to pay in unto him all those his Arrears; and if the said Lord would, of his Christian Charity and Generosity, advance it beforehand, we assure him he shall reimburse himself out of the first Monies he receiveth for the Service of our Churches.

108. The Synod observing, that by the Dividend made in the National Synod of Charenton, there was granted unto the University of Montauban, over and above its accustomed Allowance, the Sum of Eight hundred and fifty Livers, which were to be paid them till the sitting of this Assembly; and through inadvertency, that self-same Sum was again employed in a late Dividend, as if it were now due, and to be paid unto the said University. The Synod therefore ordaineth, that out of the said Eight hundred and fifty Livers, there shall be One hundred Livers only given in lieu of the Principal unto the said University, and Sixty Livers to their Beadle and Porter; and that the remaining Overplus, amounting to Six hundred and ninety Livers, and also Ninescore and nine Livers and eight Sous, for a Portion cut off from the Province of Higher Languedoc and Higher Guyenne, of those which were employed in the said Dividend, shall be detained yearly by the Lord of Candall from the said University and Province, and he shall bring his Receipt and Account for all this unto the next National Synod.

109. The Lord of Candall is entreated to pay unto the Province of Berry, over and above the Portions which were allotted it, one Portion omitted in the Account of the said Dividend.

110. The Portion of Monsieur Dacier, a Pastor Emeritus, having been omitted by the Synod of Charenton, through forgetfulness, when they made a Dividend of Monies belonging to the said Province of Higher Languedoc, shall be now restored him, and paid into his Hands out of the very first Monies that shall be received for the Churches.

111. Whereas the Sum of Four hundred Livers was settled upon another College besides that of Nerac, out of the Dividend for the Province of Lower Guyenne, the laid Sum shall be detained by the Lord Candall, because there was a particular Article of Four hundred Livers past for the College of Bergerac.

112. In case Monsieur Constance should be molested by the Apostate Peris, the Council resolves to stand by him, and to make his their common Cause, and to maintain his Innocency, and to defray all necessary Charges that he may be put to in the Suit.

113. The Lord Chintrier, formerly Receiver of the Monies (given us by his Majesty's Bounty) for the Province of Saintonge, shall deliver unto the Lord of Angoulins, an Acquittance of the Lord du Candall, for the Arrears due unto the said Province for the Year 1621, and for which the said Chintrier shall be discharged by the Lord of Angoulins, and shall himself draw up, in due Form of Law, the Discharge and Acquittance, which is to be subscribed by him.

114. The deep Poverty of the Church of Varis being reported by the Deputies of Dauphiné, who also presented their Letters unto the Council, a free Portion was voted for them out of the Dividend for the Province of Dauphiné, to be delivered unto the said Church of Varis, between this and the next National Synod.

115. The Deputies of Dauphiné presented Letters from Monsieur le Veilleux a Pastor; which being read, the Council commending his Zeal and Piety, and approving his Retreat from the City of Nismes, doth charge that Province of Dauphiné to provide a Church for him, in which he may employ those excellent Gifts, which the God of all Grace hath so plentifully showered down upon him, for its edification.

116. The Council exhorted the Province of Anjou to get the last Tome of Mr. Cameron 's Theological Works printed, and promiseth that the next National Synod shall take care to see them reimbursed the Charges they must of necessity be at in that Impression.

CHAP. XXXI. Of Universities and Colleges.

1. THE Sieurs Roques and Huglas, first and second Consuls of Montauban, Monsieur Weemes Principal of their College, and the Deputies of the Province of Higher Languedoc, petitioned, That Mr. Charles, formerly Professor of Divinity in the University of Ortez, and Principality of Béarn, might be removed thence, and prefer'd to the Church and University of Montauban. But there was great Opposition made unto it, because of the present and pressing Wants of the Churches of Béarn; and their mighty strugglings to preserve their University, for which they had most humbly petitioned his Majesty, and the Agreement past between them and the said Mr. Charles. After the whole had been debated, the Synod judged, that they could not, by any Authority of their own, compel; nor in Reason or Conscience ought they, by their Exhortations, to oblige those Churches to discharge the aforesaid Mr. Charles, and to bestow him on the Church and University of Montauban. Yet notwithstanding they acquainted the Deputies of those Churches, that in case their Hopes and Endeavors should be frustrated, they might then resign up the said Charles unto the University of Montauban, and oblige, both that City, and the Province of Higher Languedoc, by complying with their Desires.

2. The Synod not judging it convenient to lessen the number of our Universities, and wanting Means at present to provide for their Subsistence, being utterly disabled from adding anything unto them more than formerly, they decreed, That the Professors of Montauban and Saumur should receive out of the first Monies to be distributed among the Churches, the Arrears of the Years 1625, and 1626, without any diminution; and for the Years One thousand six hundred and twenty one, and twenty two, a certain Sum out of that Stock and Fund which is in the disposal of the Synod; and that such of them as are Pastors, and have no Sallery from their Churches, shall be paid that Portion which was allotted and settled on them, as upon the other Pastors, but with this difference, that there shall be nothing deducted for Costs or Taxes out of it.

3. This Synod having maturely considered the Reasons inducing the last National Synod of Charenton to supress the Profession of the Greek Tongue, in those Universities which are maintained by our Churches; hath thought good once again to restore It, but with this Condition, that the Professors shall explain unto their Scholars the most elegant Treatises of the Fathers. And whereas Mr. Weems, Principal at Montauban, hath craved leave, that at the same time he teacheth the Greek Tongue, he may also teach the Mathematics and Metaphysics unto the College; his Petition was dismissed over to the Council of that University, who should do therein as their Prudence should direct them.

4. As for those Demands made by Monsieur Petit, Professor of Divinity at Nismes, on behalf of that University, the Synod ordains; 1. That for the Years 1621, and 1622, the Professors there must rest satisfied with what they have already received, and patiently bear their part in the common Incommodities suffered by the Churches. And for the Years 1625, and 1626, they shall receive their full Sallaries out of the first and clearest Monies of his Majesty's Liberality. 2. That those of the aforesaid Professors, who have the grant of a free Portion, as the Sieurs Petit and Codour, shall receive it from the Hands of the Lord of Candall 's Deputy in the Province of Lower Languedoc. 3. That the Sieur Codour, Professor of the Hebrew Tongue, shall come down unto the same Terms with the Professors of the said Language in our other Universities; and he may not demand a greater Salary than hath been granted and paid them until now.

5. All the Provinces are exhorted to examine in their Synods, Whether our Universities may not be removed from one place unto another? or, whether they may not be reduced to a lesser Number than they are at present, that so the next National Synod may decree therein what will be most expedient for the whole Body of our Churches?

6. Such Pastors as are employed in the Profession of the Hebrew Tongue, shall, over and above their ordinary Stipend as Pastors, receive also their Wages as Professors. And as for Professors of Divinity, who serve the Churches of our Universities, and receive some kind of Maintenance from them, because of their ordinary Ministry among them, there shall be an half Portion granted to them, which they shall receive also, but with deduction of their Pension promised them by their respective Churches.

7. Two hundred and ten Livers shall be the yearly Salary of the Regents in the fifth and sixth Glasses of the College of Saumur.

8. The Synod gave leave unto the Province of Cévennes, to settle their College in that Corporation, which would contribute most towards its Maintenance.

9. That the Right of our Churches may be preserved, and our Universities in this Kingdom may be provided for; Letters were ordered to be written unto Dr. Andrew Rivet, to dispose and persuade him to serve as Professor in one of our Universities; and the like Letters shall be written to the Lord's Curators of the University of Leyden, to acquaint their Lordships with the Desires of this Council, and entreat them to set Dr. Rivet at liberty: And the Church of Paris is charged to see those Letters delivered into their Hands to whom they be directed, and to receive their Answer, and make Replies unto them as they judge meet.

10. That the College in this City of Castres may be preserved, the Council ordained, that the said College shall, until the next National Synod, enjoy the Sum of four hundred Livers yearly; which Monies were detained in the Hands of the Lord of Candall, out of the Monies given unto the College of Bergeras, without any the least prejudice unto the Grant formerly made unto the Province of Lower Guyenne, in favor of the Towns of Bergerac and Nerac.

11. The University of Nismes having not brought in their Account of the Monies they had received and employed since the last National Synod, shall carry it unto the next Synod of Cévennes, which is ordered to audit and finish it up, by the Authority of this Assembly.

12. The Province of Higher Languedoc brought in their Accompts by the Hands of Monsieur Bardon, who was constituted Receiver for the said Province, and Paymaster of the University of Montauban, for the Years 1619, 1620, 1623, and 1624, but gave no Account for the Years 1621, and 1622, nor of the Years 1625, and 1626, because he had not received anything in those Years, by reason of the Troubles and Wars that were then in being: and it appears upon the closing up of his Account, that there is due unto him the Sum of two thousand one hundred and fifty nine Livers, nineteen Sous and eight Deniers, proceeding in part from eight hundred and eleven Livers, paid by him unto the Professors for their Wages in the Year 1621, and for another Disbursement paid unto the said Professors for their Wages in the Year 1625, and for seven hundred Livers paid in to Madamoyselle Chamier for the Year of her Widowhood, for which Sum of two thousand one hundred and fifty nine Livers, nineteen Sous, eight Deniers, there was a Fund ordered for his Reimbursment, viz. the very first Moneys that are to be distributed among the Churches: And the said Accomptant, and all others also were enjoined for the future not to make the Expences in their Accompts greater than their Receipt appointed them by the National Synods, on pain of Radiation.

13. The Province of Anjou having, in Obedience to the Decree of the Synod of Charenton, given in unto the Colloquy of Higher Poitou the Accompts of Moneys received for the Maintenance of their University at Saumur, three quarters of the Year 1620, and for the complete Years 1621, 1623, and 1624, and for the first quarter of the Year 1625, it appeared by that Account, that they had paid five and twenty Livers, four Sous, and six Deniers more than they had received, and it appeared by the said Account that they had received nothing for the whole Year 1622, and yet nevertheless they had disbursed for three quarters of the said Year, as the Acquittances of that Disbursment did evidently prove, there being also no Moneys received for the Profession of Divinity, which was then vacant. Wherefore the said Account was allowed and approved, and the Censure against them in the Acts of the Synod of Charenton taken off, and the Sums detained from them by the Decree of that Synod were now again rendered to them.

14. The Province of Dauphiné having exhibited three Accompts of the Receipt and Disbursment for the University of Die, for three Years, beginning at the first Day of July, one thousand six hundred and twenty three, and ending the first of July, 1626, the said Account was allowed and approved.

15. The Province of the Isle of France having brought in the Account tendered by them unto the Colloquy of Roven, for their College-Moneys for ten Years, beginning at the Year 1613, and ending in the Year 1622, the Receipt amounted to four thousand Livers, and their Disbursment to four thousand seven hundred and four Livers, so that their Expence exceeded their Income full seven hundred and four Livers. This Synod could not give way that the said over-plus Sum should be placed to the Account, whereunto also the Deputies of the Provinces related their Consent, and they were advised for the future not to let their Expence exceed the Funds ordained for the Maintenance of their College, on pain of Radiation.

16. The Province of Saintonge in Obedience to the National Synod of Charenton, having brought in an Account of their Disbursments for the College of Rochefoucauld, in the Years 1621, 1622, 1623, and 1624; the said Expence was found to amount unto one thousand nine hundred fourscore and nineteen Livers, ten Sous, without ever receiving so much as one Denier towards its Maintenance.

17. The Province of Orleans and Berry, having rendered the Account of their College unto the Provincial Synod held at Chastillon upon Loir, for three quarters of the Year 1623. and the full Years 1624, 1625. and for three quarters of the Year 1626. their Disbursements amounted to three thousand four hundred thirty and three Livers, nine Sous, and five Deniers; and their Receipt to two thousand eight hundred Livers; so that there was due to them, six hundred and thirty three Livers, nine Sous. The said Province was in joined for the future to look to it, that their Disbursments do not exceed the Funds allowed them by our National Synods, for the Maintenance of their College.

18. The Province of Poitou having rendered their Account for their College, which was heretofore at Niort, it appeared that their Receipt amounted to three hundred Livers, according to the Act of the National Synod of Charenton. And forasmuch as their Deputies reported that his Majesty had utterly suppressed their College at Niort, and would not suffer it anywhere in that Province; it was decreed, That the said Province should be accountable not only for the said three hundred Livers, but also for what other Moneys they have received since the last National Synod.

19. The Province of Vivaretz having not been able to render an Account (as they were enjoined by the last National Synod) of the Receipt and Disbursment for their College at Privas, because of the late Wars, by reason of which they never had so much as one Denier for fifteen Months; the said Province was admonished not to fail their bringing of it in unto the next National Synod.

20. The Province of Cévennes presented their Account for the College of Anduze, whose Expence amounted to three thousand two hundred and two Livers, fifteen Sous, for its Maintenance in the Years 1621, 1622, 1623, 1624, 1625, and 1626. And the Deputies of the said Province declared, That they had not received for all those Years more than one hundred Livers.

21. The Province of Normandy brought in their Account, and it appears that from the first of July 1620, unto this Day, they had received for the Maintenance of their College the Sum of one thousand three hundred Livers, and that they have disbursed thirteen hundred twenty four Livers, six Sous, and six Deniers; and that therefore there is owing to them four and twenty Livers, six Sous, and six Deniers, which they declared they would not demand.

22. The Province of Burgundy not having brought in any Account nor Acquittances, notwithstanding that Injunction laid upon them by the National Synod of Charenton, because the Church of Pont du Vellay, in which their Colloquy doth assemble, neglected to yield Obedience unto two Provincial Synods, who treading in the Steps of the National Synod, had ordered that Church to do it, as was evident from the Acts of those Synods. Besides, the Deputies were so straitened for want of time to come unto this Council, that they could not possibly inquire into this Omission. Whereupon the said Province was charged to bring in their said Accompts shut up, and completely finished, unto the next National Synod.

23. The Province of Britain having not been able to set up again their College in the Town of Vitre, until January last, nor to get one Penny of Moneys, besides the four hundred Livers destinated at f •• st for its Maintenance; they were ordered to bring in their Account unto the next National Synod, as also of what Moneys they may between this and that time receive towards its Subsistence.

24. The Province of Dauphiné brought in divers Acquittances for the College settled at Ambrun, by which it doth appear, that they had disbursed more than received: And therefore the Council approving their Account, exhorted the Church of Ambrun for the future to bring in their Account in due form unto their Provincial Synod, that they may tender it unto the National.

25. The Province of Lower Guyenne shall render an Account of the Moneys received and employed for the College of Bergerac, unto the next Provincial Synod of Saintonge, which is ordered to audit, examine and finish it, and to make Report thereof unto the next National Synod.

26. The Deputies of the Province of Provence excusing themselves, that they had not brought in what was commanded them by the last National Synod, and grounding their Excuses on the precise Command laid upon them by the Duke of Guise, to break up and be gone before they could dispatch any Business. The Council did once more renew and ratify the former Decree of the Synod of Charenton, and enjoineth that Province of Provence to yield Obedience to it, on pain of forfeiting their Right unto a College.

27. The Province of Lower Languedoc declared that they had no Accompts to bring in, because they had only received fifty Livers; and yet notwithstanding their want of his Majesty's Bounty, they had given their accustomed Sallaries unto the Regents in the College of Beziers.

28. The Sieurs Roques and la Cresse, first and second Consuls for the City of Montauban, petitioned the Council, that Monsieur Garissoles Pastor of Puy-Laurens, might be Conferred upon the University, to serve them in the Quality of a second Professor of Theology; and the Deputies of that Province joined with them in their Petition: yet the Deputies of Puy-Laurens opposed themselves against the Consuls, and Mr. Garissoles desired leave to continue in his present Station and Ministry. But the Council considering the Necessities of that University, granted the Petitioners their Request, and ordered Mr. Garissoles to go unto that University, and to take upon him the Profession of Divinity, immediately after the sitting of the Provincial Synod of Higher Languedoc, who shall provide his Church of Puy-Laurens with an able Minister to their full Content; and the said Mr. Garissoles shall from this Instant receive the Wages of a Professor; and the Church of Puy-Laurens is entreated to ease him of his Labors in constant preaching to them, and to contribute as much as in them lieth unto his comfortable Subsistence.

CHAP. XXXII. The Accompts of the Lord of Candall.

1. THE Sieurs Constance and Bollenat, Pastors; d'Angoulins, Ranchin, du Puy, and d'Hysseau, Elders, being commissionated by the Council to audit the Lord of Candall 's Accompts, which were presented by his Deputy Mr. Cooper, they made Report that in examining and hearing of them, they found the said Lord of Candall to charge himself Debtor on Account brought in to the National Synod of Charenton, by Acquittances for October -Quarter, in the Year 1619, and for the Years 1620, and 1624, the Sum of six thousand five hundred and seventy eight Livers, one Sous, four Deniers, which said Acquittances he produced in good and due Form; for which he was acquitted and discharged.

2. The said Lord of Candall stands charged on the said Account, with the Sum of one hundred sixty nine thousand, eight hundred forty and two Livers, two Sous, and two Deniers; of which he hath made reprisal in ready Monies, and Monies not received for the October -Quarter of the Years 1619, and of the complete Years 1620, and 1621, above-mentioned: Which Sum should have past in his Account, upon condition that he were more diligent to reckon with the present Synod; and therefore to give us satisfaction, he tendered an Account, whose Receipt amounted to an hundred sixty and nine thousand, eight hundred forty and two Livers, two Sous, and two Deniers. Moreover, there was one Article of eight hundred twenty and five Livers, for the complete payment of October -Quarter, in the Year 1619, there having been, through inadvertency, no Receipt made for the aforesaid Account, when it was brought into the last Synod of Charenton. And those Sums altogether, amounted to an hundred and seventy thousand, six hundred sixty and seven Livers, two Sous, and two Deniers: And the disbursment on the said Account, amounted to an hundred seventy and one thousand, one hundred and sixty Livers, two Sous, and five Deniers: Wherefore there remains due unto this Accomptant, the Sum of four hundred fourscore and thirteen Livers, and three Deniers. Of which Sum, he shall reimburse himself on the Reprisals of the said Account, or from the first Monies of the Years ensuing. And the Accomptant is charged to continue his Care and Diligence in the recovery of one hundred ten thousand, eight hundred and thirteen Livers, six Sous, eight Deniers, employed in reprisal on the aforesaid Disbursment, that so he may give account thereof unto the next National Synod: and there passed also in the Disbursment, thirteen thousand nine hundred Livers, under the Names of the Receivers of Saintonge and Vivaretz; whose Acquittances he is ordered to produce in the next National Synod.

3. Mr. Cooper presented an Account for the Lord of Candall, for the Years 1623, and 1624, whose Receipt amounted to four hundred and forty three thousand four hundred Livers, three Sous, and three Deniers; and the Disbursment to four hundred fifty seven thousand four hundred seventy four Livers, three Sous, and three Deniers; so that there is due unto this Accomptant, fourteen thousand seventy and four Livers, three Sous, and three Deniers: of which Debt he shall be reimbursed on the first and clearest Monies of his Reprisal. Moreover, the said Accomptant is charged to use all possible diligence for recovering the Sum of one hundred and fourscore thousand five hundred thirty and six Livers, seven Sous, included in the said Reprisals, and shall give an accompt thereof unto the next National Synod. And he is again charged by the same Account to bring the Acquittances for two thousand six hundred and sixteen Livers, which are in three Parties defective, under the Names of the Sieurs de la Coste, and of the Syndicks, Administrators of the College of Bergerac.

4. Mr. Cooper having remonstrated, that by his Account brought in for the Lord of Candall to this Assembly, for the Years 1623, and 1624, he hath made received for the Year 1624, one part of fifty thousand six hundred and thirty nine Livers, fourteen Sous, and six Deniers, there having been an Assignment of them under the Hand of the Lord Phillippeaux Treasurer of the Exchequer, upon the Monies coming in from the Offices of Lieutenants and Comptrollers of the Measures of Salt in Burgundy; of which Sum he hath made Reprisal in ready Monies, and Monies not as yet received, the Sum of fifty thousand threescore and nine Livers, fourteen Sous, six Deniers: And not being able to recover anything, and yet desirous to secure the payment of the rest with the Creditors of Mr. Payen deceased, who had a Share in those Offices, and upon which he was assigned, he took up from those Offices, as if they had been ready Money for the Churches, of Profit, even to the like Sum, because of the eminent danger of losing that part which he proved by an authentic Act passed before a Public Notary at Paris, the third of July, One thousand six hundred and twenty six; of which Offices now belonging to the Churches, and which lie in composition betwixt Debtor and Creditor, he cannot make any disposal, nor of himself sell it, though the Synod desired him to get a Purchaser for them. The Council very much approving and applauding the Prudence, Faithfulness, and Diligence of the Lord of Candall, doth give Orders to him and the Sieur d' Huysseau, deputed to this purpose to act conjointly together, and to treat or compound for the whole, or part of those Offices, either with one or more Persons, at such a Price and Terms, as they shall judge best for the common Profit of the Churches; promising and engaging our Words, that we will approve and accept whatever shall be done by them in this Affair, provided the said Lord of Candall do yield Account of the said Composition unto the next National Synod.

5. The Council having heard the Report of the Sieurs Bouterove and de Baleines, whom they had deputed unto his Majesty, that there were two hundred thousand Livers given by his Majesty, unto his Subjects of the Reformed Religion, towards the maintenance of their Pastors. Which said Sum of 200000 Livers, his Majesty, and the Lord's of his Council, promised should be paid very speedily. Thereupon a Decree past, That if the said Sum, or any part of it were received, the Lord of Candall should pay it in unto the Churches and Universities for the Years 1625, and 1626, according as it came in, and according to the Portions given, and the Dividend made in the last National Synod held at Charenton in the Year 1623, deducting only out of it those particular Sums which have been employed on the Service of this present Synod, and which he was desired to advance beforehand out of such Monies as might be lying by him, by virtue of his Office as Treasurer of our Churches.

6. Mr. Cooper representing that some Receivers of the Provinces might scruple the taking, as ready Money, the Promises of the Deputies unto this Synod, for those Sums he had paid in unto them. This Synod being very well satisfied that the said Monies were paid in by way of Advance by the said Mr. Cooper for the Lord of Candall, decreed, That every Receiver of the Provinces should be accountable unto the said Mr. Cooper, of all and every particular Sum and Sums which have been furnished and given unto the said Deputies for the Charges of their Journey, and to give him all necessary Acquittances and Discharges, without making any the least Difficulty or Scruple, upon any account, score, or reason whatsoever.

7. There were chosen, by plurality of Suffrages, the Sieurs Blondell and Banterne, to tender unto his Majesty the Names of those Persons whom the Synod had pitched upon to be their General Deputies, that so out of their Number his Majesty might choose whom in his great Wisdom he best approved: And these two-mentioned Pastors had Letters also from the Synod unto the King's most excellent Majesty, and to the Right Honorable the Lord Keeper, and to the Lord of Herbaut.

CHAP. XXXIII. The Copy of that written Letter by the Synod unto the King, concerning the Nomination of our General Deputies.

N.B. IN all the Councils and Synods, their Letters and Acts are written and drawn up by their Officers, either the Moderators or Scribes: but in my best Copy, out of which I have this ensuing Letter, it is said to be writ by Monsieur le Faucheur, Pastor of Montpellier. 'It is true, he was Con-deputy for the Province of Lower Languedoc, with the Moderator in this Council.

CHAP. XXXIV. A Dividend made between the Provinces, of the Sum of two hundred five and twenty thousand Livers, granted by his Majesty to the Reformed Churches of France, for the Year 1627, and the following Years until the next National Synod. According to which Dividend, the Lord of Candall shall make payment of the said Sum of 225000. l. in pursuance of that Agreement tranasacted betwixt him and the National Synod of Gap.

OUT of the three first Quarters of the said Sum, amounting to one hundred sixty eight thousand seven hundred and fifty Livers, these Sums following, in their respective order, are thus to be distributed.

• First, To Universities and Colleges.
• Secondly, To the Lord's General-Deputies, completing their Pension.
• Thirdly, To our Pastors and Churches in the fifteen Provinces.
• Fourthly, To the Pastors extraordinarily assisting in this Synod.

First, To Universities and Colleges there shall be paid,
	l.	s.	d.
1. To the University of Sedan	4000	00	00
To the Colloquies of Gex for their College, including the 3600. l. ordered them by the King, and an hundred Livers for the College, in all	4400	00	00
To the Inhabitants of Bergerac for their College	0400	00	00
The total Sum is	8800	00	00

	l.	s.	d.
2. To the University of Montauban, for two Professors in Divinity, one of Hebrew, another of Greek, and two of Philosophy,	3000	00	00
More 850 Livers to them, until the next National Synod,	0850	00	00
The total Sum is	3850	00	00

3. To the Universities of Nismes, for two Professors in Theology, one in Greek, another in Hebrew,	2200	00	00
4. To the University of Saumur, for two Professors in Theology, one in Hebrew, another in Greek, and two in Philosophy	3000	00	00
To the Principal of the College, an hundred Livers	0100	00	00
To the first Regent, four hundred Livers,	0400	00	00
To the second three hundred Livers	0300	00	00
To the third two hundred and fifty Livers	0250	00	00
To the fourth two hundred and ten Livers	0210	00	00
And to him of the fifth and sixth Classes, two hundred and ten Livers	0210	00	00
For the Door-keeper and Beadle, sixty Livers	0060	00	00
The total Sum for the University of Saumur, is	4530	00	00

5. To the University of Die, six hundred Livers	0600	00	00
Secondly, To make up the Pension of the Lord's General-Deputies, three thousand three hundred Livers	3300	00	00
The total Sum of these six Particulars, is	23280	00	00
Thirdly, To the Pastors and Churches in the fifteen Provinces of this Kingdom, and to those in the Principality of Béarn.
1. To the Province of Saintonge, for fourscore and six Portions, and one half Portion, viz. for fifty nine Pastors in actual Service, taking in Monsieur Ferrand 's half Portion, four Churches to be supplied, five Proposaus, three Pastors Emeriti, i. e. discharged, fifteen supernumerary Portions; more, 400 l. for a College. In all, the Sum of twelve thousand two hundred sixty and seven Livers, two Sous, and three Deniers.	2267	02	03
2. To the Province of Normandy, for 59 Portions, to wit, two and forty Pastors in actual Service, three Pastors Emeriti discharged, six Proposans, five vacant Churches to be supplied, two supernumerary Portions. A free Portion for Quillebaeuf, and four hundred for the College. In all, the Sum of	88351	18	00
3. To the Province of Higher Languedoc, for 132 Portions, to wit, for sixty five Pastors in actual Service; two Professors in Theology, each of them an half Portion free; for the ease of their Churches, five Pastors discharged, among whom Monsieur Bicheteau is counted as a Professor; seven Proposans, seventeen vacant Churches to be supplied; six and thirty supernumerary Portions, which shall be distributed among the desolated Churches, and impoverished Pastors; of whom in particular these four, Mr. Moynier, Tolosain, Cuhusac, and Baulx the younger, shall each of them receive a free Portion, the Church of Minerbois another free Portion, and four hundred Livers for the College of Castres; is in all the Sum of eighteen thousand three hundred and thirty six Livers, six Sous, eleven Deniers.	18336	06	11
4. To the Province of Cévennes, for 77 Portions, to wit, fifty seven Pastors in actual Service, among whom Monsieur Rossell shall be reckoned till the next National Synod; one Pastor discharged, three Proposans, two vacant Churches to be provided for; fourteen supernumerary Portions, five of which shall be free of all Charges; for the Churches of Auvergne, to Mr. Paulett one, to the Church of Courban one, to Nuega one, to St. Andrew's one, to the Church of Serverette one, to the Church of Quissac one, to Lantrize one, and four hundred Livers for the College. The whole Sum is, ten thousand seven hundred fourscore and four Livers, nine Sous, six Deniers.	10784	04	06
5. To the Province of Dauphiné, for 110 Portions; to wit, for threescore and fifteen Pastors in actual Service, four Pastors discharged, eight Proposans, seven vacant Churches to be supplied; sixteen supernumerary Portions, of which these following shall be delivered free of all Charges, to the Church of Ambrun one, to Barraux one, to Vares one, to Romans one, to Guillestre one, to Loriol one, to Tullette an half Portion; two to Monsieur Chámier, one to Monsieur Piotay, and four hundred for the College. The whole Sum is, fifteen thousand two hundred thirty five Livers, and three Sous.	15235	03	00
6. To the Province of Berry, for 42 Portions; to wit, for eight and twenty Pastors in actual Service, two Pastors discharged, three Proposans, four vacant Churches to be provided for; five supernumerary Portions, whereof two shall be paid in, free of all Charges, unto Mr. Guerryn, and four hundred Livers for the College; is in all, six thousand sixty and four Livers, ten Sous, and four Deniers.	6064	10	04
7. To the Province of Anjou for 36 Portions; to wit, for two and twenty Pastors in actual Service, three Pastors discharged, three Proposans, four Churches to be provided for, four Portions supernumery; is in all, four thousand five hundred fifty and five Livers, one Sous.	4555	10	00
8. To the Province of Vivaretz, for 51 Portions; to wit, for four and twenty Pastors in actual Service, three Pastors discharged, among whom is Monsieur Desmaretz, three Proposans, four vacant Churches to be provided for, seventeen Portions supernumerary, whereof these following shall be paid in free, one to Monsieur de la Motte, one to Monsieur de Vinay, one to the Church of St. Stephen, one to that of Cheilas, one to Velleneufve in Berg. There shall be also taken out of the aforesaid Portions three hundred Livers, which were granted unto the Sieur du Bois, and four hundred Livers for the College; which amount in all, to the Sum of seven thousand two hundred seventy and seven Livers, nineteen Sous, and three Deniers,	7277	19	07
9. To the Province of Burgundy, for 41 Portions, viz. two and twenty Pastors in actual Service, two Pastors discharged, four Proposans, three vacant Churches to be provided for; and ten Portions supernumerary, two of which shall be given unto Bourg free of all Charges, two to Paillac, two to Maringues, one to Moulins, and four hundred to their College. In all, five thousand nine hundred twenty and nine Livers, six Sous, and five Deniers.	5929	06	05
10. To the Province of the Isle of France for sixty two Portions, to wit, three and forty Pastors in actual Service, three Pastors discharged, four Proposans, twelve Portions supernumerary, and four hundred for the College: The whole makes up the Sum of eight thousand seven hundred sixty and one Livers, fourteen Sous, and three Deniers.	8761	14	03
11. To the Province of Poitou for sixty three Portions, to wit, seven and forty Pastors in actual Service, two Pastors out of Employment, two more discharged, two vacant Churches to be supplied, three Proposans, seven Portions supernumerary, upon condition that they satisfy Demand of Quentin Marshall, according to what had been decreed before in the eighteenth Article of Particular Matters, and to pay in to Monsieur Ferrand one half Portion, and four hundred for the College. The whole amounts to the Sum of eight thousand nine hundred sixty and three Livers, sixteen Sous, and eleven Deniers.	8963	16	11
12. To the Province of Lower Guyenne for 115 Portions, to wit, sixty and five Pastors in actual Service, one Pastor discharged, five Proposans, ten Churches to be provided for, two Portions free to the Church of Souls, twenty two Portions supernumerary, and four hundred Livers for the College of Nerac, make up in all the Sum of sixteen thousand three hundred and twelve Livers, seven Sous, and ten Deniers.	16312	07	10
13. To the Province of Provence for four and twenty Portions and an half, viz. fifteen Pastors in actual Service, one Pastor discharged, three vacant Churches to be supplied, three Portions and an half supernumerary, whereof one shall be given to the Church of Forcalquier, an half-one to Monsieur Mercurin, and four hundred Livers for the College, do amount in the whole to the Sum of three thousand six hundred thirty and six Livers, eighteen Sous.	3636	18	00
14. To the Province of Britain for two and twenty Portions, to wit, eleven Pastors in actual Service, two Proposans, two vacant Churches to be supplied, seven Portions supernumerary, and four hundred Livers for the College: In all, three thousand three, hundred sixty and seven Livers.	3367	00	00
15. To the Province of Lower Languedoc for 104 Portions, viz. two and forty Pastors in actual Service, five Pastors discharged, two Professors, three Proposans, nine vacant Churches to be provided for, one and thirty Portions supernumerary, of which these following shall be paid out free, to he Church of Aiguemortes one, to that of Sommieres two, to that of Aymargues one, but on this condition, that their Pastor do help the Church of Sommieres when and as often as he shall be desired, two to Gignac, one to Pignan, one to Bazinargues, one to Peremalt, one to St. Giles, one to Monsieur Banzillon, and four hundred for the College of Bezieres: which amounts in all to fourteen thousand four hundred and twenty four Livers, eleven Sous, and six Deniers.	14424	11	06
Fourthly, To Pastors extraordinarily assisting in this Synod.
1. To Mr. Constance Pastor of Pons, according to the forty second Article of Particular Matters, for three Portions, four hundred and four Livers, twelve Sous, six Deniers.	404	12	06
2. To Monsieur Bellott, Pastor of the Churches of Chalais and la Roche, according to the forty third Article of Particular Matters, for one Portion and an half,	202	06	03
3. To Monsieur du Bois a public Notary, according to the twenty seventh Article of Particular Matters, for one Portion,	134	17	06
4. To Mr. Guillemin, Pastor of the Church of Labor, for that Church and a young Scholar, three hundred sixty Livers, according to an Article in that Chapter of Particular Matters before mentioned.	360	00	00
The total Sum of the Portions for Pastors and Churches in the fifteen Provinces, and of these four last Articles, is,	145470	00	00
The total Sum of the three first Quarters of the Year 1627, out of the two hundred and twenty five thousand Livers given by the King, is,	168750	00	00

A Dividend of October -Quarter, being the last Quarter for the said Year, out of the Sum of six and fifty thousand two hundred and fifty Livers.

	l.	d.	s.
To the Province of Saintonge,	4718	06	02
To Higher Languedoc,	7253	09	00
To Cévennes,	4198	17	02
To Berry,	2290	02	04
To Normandy,	3217	04	00
To Dauphiné,	5997	14	06
To Anjou,	1963	02	00
To Vivaretz,	2781	04	00
To Burgundy,	2235	l6	00
To the Isle of France,	3380	16	06
To Poitou,	3462	11	00
To the Lower Guyenne,	6273	07	00
To Provence,	1307	15	00
To Britain,	1199	14	06
To Lower Languedoc,	5670	08	00
More To Mr. John Constance Pastor of Pons,	0160	12	03
To Mr. David Bellot a Pastor,	0081	16	02
To Mr. Du Bois a public Notary,	0054	04	03
The total Sum is	56250	00	00
The total Sum of the four Quarters before mentioned, is	225000	00	00

A Divided made unto the Churches of the Sum of ten thousand Livers, given by his Majesty for defraying the Expences of this present National Council, and for the Ease and Discharge of all the Provinces.

	l.	s.	d.
To the Province of the Isle of France for four Deputies,	769	04	04
To Normandy for four Deputies,	769	04	04
To Anjou for two Deputies,	384	12	03
To Berry for four Deputies,	769	04	04
To Burgundy for four Deputies,	769	04	04
To Dauphiné for four Deputies,	769	04	04
To Vivaretz for four Deputies,	769	04	04
To Lower Languedoc for four Deputies,	769	04	04
To Cévennes for four Deputies,	769	00	00
To Provence for two Deputies,	384	12	03
To Higher Languedoc for two Deputies,	384	12	03
To Lower Guyenne for four Deputies,	769	04	04
To Saintonge for four Deputies,	769	04	04
To Poitou for four Deputies,	769	04	04
To Britain for two Deputies,	384	12	03
The total Sum is	10000	00	00

CHAP. XXXV. The Roll of deposed Ministers, cast out of their Office and Churches by this present Council, for Apostasy, Vagrancy and other Crimes and Misdemeanours.

1. STephen Giraud, formerly Minister of the Gospel in the Church of Barbezieux in the Province of Saintonge, tall of stature and slender, black Hair, Eyes deep sunk in, bold and ready of Speech, knitting his Eye-brows whenever he speaks of any Matters of importance; of a smiling Countenance whenas he discourseth of slight Matters, between thirty five and forty Years old; deposed for divers horrid Crimes, particularly for Adultery.

2. P •• er Peris, formerly Minister of the Church of Estree near Rochelle in Aunix, by Birth a Provencal, middle-statur'd, and well formed, about sixty Years old, his Hair waxing gray, a little bald, of a smiling Countenance, both Eyes alike, high-eagle-nos'd; deposed by this Council for desertion of his Ministry, haunting and keeping company with the most invenom'd Enemies of our Churches, a profane vain-glorious Boaster, proud and insolent, inventing Calumnies against the Churches and their Members.

3. Noel Gautier, formerly Minister of the Gospel in the Church of Chastillon upon the Seine in the Province of Burgundy; he is short of stature, his Eyes sunk into his Head, and looking downward; a sour illlook'd Fellow, gray-headed, about fifty two Years old; deposed by the Synod of the said Province, for Schism and Rebellion against the Order and Discipline of the Church.

4. Hugh Babinet, formerly Pastor of the Church of Bezu in the Province of the Isle of France; a dwarfish brown Fellow, chesnut-color'd Hair, great Eyes and great Lips, short Neck, somewhat crook-backed, about twenty eight Years of Age; deserted his Ministerial Calling, and is since turned Apostate.

5. Nicolas Jacornais, formerly Pastor of the Church of Cheilary in the Province of Lower Languedoc; a little brown Fellow, chesnut-color'd Hair, high-eagle-nos'd, short Neck, somewhat crook-backed, deserted his Ministerial Calling, about thirty five Years old.

6. John Garsin, Pastor of the Church of Grave in the Province of Dauphiné, but a deserter of it, and now an Apostate, about forty Years of Age, of a middle Stature, red-favor'd and frowning, holding his Head a little side-ways, red Hair, his Eyes deep sunk into their Holes, very rude in his Discourse and Carriage, quarrelsome, conceited hugely of himself, and totally incorrigible; he was deposed by the same Province.

7. Paul Puy, formerly Pastor in the Church of Chastean Queyras; having been two Years suspended, he was at last finally deposed from the Sacred Ministry by the Province of Dauphiné, for Adultery proved upon him, and Perjury, lying Calumnies, and divers other atrociou he is now an Apostate, a • middle-statur'd black and dead-looked Fellow, high Eye-brows, wide open Nostrils, flat Nose, sharp-picked Heard, very proud and stately in his Gate, aged about thirty six Years.

8. George Arbaud, formerly Pastor of the Church of Boicoiran in the Province of Lower Languedoc, deposed by the Synod of his Province for Usury, Theft, contempt of his Calling, writing of disfamatory Libels and Batteries: he is a short thick Fellow, brown-favor'd, bald-headed, cagle-nos'd, meagre Face, and black Beard, about fifty Years old.

9. James Joly, formerly Pastor in the Church of Millaud; deposed by the Province of Higher Languedoc, for attempting to commit Adultery, for impious and profane Discourses, and designing to revolt from the true Religion, for soliciting (like the Devil) other Pastors to apostatize with him, for Rebellion against the Order and Discipline of our Churches: he is tall of Stature, a little small Head and bald, red weeping Eyes, about fifty five Years old, his Beard beginning to turn gray.

10. Cousins, who was born in Haynault, heretofore Regent at St. Lo, a middle-statur'd meagre-faced Fellow, his Hair and Complexion black, little Eyes and sunk into his Head, about thirty five Years old; a Vagrant.

11. Beauvillier, wandering from one Church unto another, intruding himself into the Ministry of the Gospel where-ever he hath opportunity: he says he was born at Negrepelisse, and Son-in-Law to Monsieur Reynault deceased, who was late Minister of Bourdeaux; by Profession an Advocate, a short Fellow, chesnut-color'd Hair, meagre Face, his Eyes deep sunk into his Head, lame of his left Arm, about thirty six Years old; a Wanderer.

12. Bonitons, heretofore Pastor of St. Afric; a red-hair'd Fellow half gray, his Face and Hands spotted all over with black Morphew, a big out-bending Belly, low of Stature; having been by the Consistory and Neighbor-Pastors of St. Afric, deposed from his Ministry, he afterwards turned Apostate, and is about fifty five Years old.

CHAP. XXXVI. An Act for calling of the next National Synod in Normandy.

THE Provinces of Normandy and Burgundy craving they might obtain the Priviledg of calling the next National Synod, it was, by plurality of Suffrages, granted unto the Province of Normandy, with Order to issue out Letters of Summons unto the Provinces in May, 1629.

All these Acts and Canons were done and decreed in the National Council of the Reformed Churches of France, assembled at Castres, the 15th day of September, and which continued till the 5th of November, 1626. and signed thus in the Original:

• Chauve, Moderator. O. Blondell & Petit Scribes.
• Bouterove, Assessor. O. Blondell & Petit Scribes.

And by all the other Deputies, both Pastors and Elders, who were sent unto the Council.

CHAP. XXXVII. A Catalogue of all the Churches Reformed in France, and Principality of Béarn; together with the Names and Sir-names of their Pastors, regularly disposed according to the Order of the sixteen Provinces, making up so many distinct Provincial Synods, and brought by the Deputies of their respective Provinces unto this present National Council held at Castres.

First, The Province of Burgundy.

THE Province of Burgundy is divided into four Colloquies, having thirty two Churches, and thirty four Pastors.

1. The Colloquy of Chaalons.

1. The Church of Chaalons hath for its Pastor Theophilus Cassegrini 2. The Pastor of Bourbon is Bartholomew Garnier. 3. Bussy hath Heliodorus du Noyer. 4. At Coursac is Jeffery Bruy. 5. At Paras is John Veridet. 6. At Maringues is Louis Romph. 7. At Cheirac is Paul Canett. 8. At Mouleas is Noel Leslege.

2. The Second Colloquy of Burgundy is Lions.

9. Esajah Baille and Alexander Romph are Pastors of the Church of Lions. 10. The Church of Mascon hath Peter Belior. 11. Pont de Velle, Jacob Textor. 12. Belleville, Peter Tannol. 13. Bourg, Peter Pelet.

3. The Third Colloquy is at Dijon.

14. At St. John Delesme is David Roy. 15. Cinallin hath Peter Balenat. 16. Dijon hath Stephen Gautier. 17. Issurtille enjoyeth John Durand. 18. At Beaune is Francis Renaud. 19. At Chastillon upon the Seine is Samuel Rondot. 20. At Rene le Duc is Francis Manget. 21. At Noyers is John Compere.

4. The Fourth Colloquy is at Gex.

22. At Chalais is John Japes. 23. At Versoy is Francis Perreau. 24. At Crassett is Peter de Preau. 25. At Lesly is James Clerk. 26. At Gex is James Goutier and Daniel Sauret. 27. At Toiry is John Vauralongue. 28. At Farnex is Joseph Prevost. 29. At Saconey is Francis Borsat. 30. At Farges is Amand de Bore. 31. At Colonges is Joseph Aubery. 32. At Divonne is Paul Bacuett.

The Second Province and Provincial Synod is the Isle of France, divided into four Colloquies, having thirty six Churches, and forty one Pastors.

1. The First Colloquy is that of the Isle of France.

33. Wherein is the Church of Paris, and its Pastors are Peter du Moulin, John Mestrezat, and Charles Drelincourt. 34. Chasteauthierry hath Mr. Noyensel. 35. At Claye is Mr. Jacobe. 36. At Fountainbeleau is Depresse. 37. At Senlis is Mr. le Blanc. 38. At Meaux is Carre. 39. At Touguin is Migneau. 40. At Lisy and La-Ferte and Spenay, is Danois.

2. The Second Colloquy is of Champagne.

41. At Chaalons is Massin. 42. At Vitry is Courselles. 43. At Sesannechaltazay is Boucher. 44. At Velmora is Beaune Becud. 45. At Bar on the Seine is Bilet. 46. At Espinet is Rasquett. 47. At Netancour is Campdemer. 48. At Vassy is Juigne. 49. At St. Mars is Alpez. 50. At Falaise and Royencour is Richard. 51. At Passavant is Rouuel.

3. The Third Colloquy is of Picardy.

52. At Clermont and its Annexes, viz. Compiegne, Mondisier, and Omecrcour, is Mr. Maillard. 53. At Chanvierassy is Tricottell. 54. At Lain is Icoriges. 55. Le Balgensy hath Rambours. 56. At St. Quentin is Mestayer. 57. At Oysemond is Blanchard. 58. At Amiens is Delacloche. 59. At Establet is Blondel. 60. At Calais are Buguet, Laulier and Berard.

4. The Fourth Colloquy is of Beausse.

61. At Beneville is Peloguin. 62. At Baillolet and Oux is Braud. 63. At Houdan is David Blondell. 64. At La-Ferte and Laons is •• anett. 65. At Plessis Norville is Delevereau. 66. At Chartres Favieras is Aubertin. 67. At Mante Averne is Chorin. 68. At Auson is Couronne.

The Third Province and Provincial Synod is the Province of Britain, having but one Colloquy, ten Churches, and eleven Pastors.

69. Vielle Vigne, wherein is Pastor Mr. Ferguson. 70. At Zion is de la Plate the Elder. 71. At Rennes is de Souvigny. 72. At Plouer, Richelieu. 73. At Blain is Andrew le Noir. 74. At Roche Bernard is Guido le Noir, Lord of Crain, and Brother of Andrew, Pastor at Blain. 75. At Trignier is Lowis Prichel, Lord of la Haye. 76. At la Moussaye is de la Place the Second 77. At Vitre are Depestre and Peter Ortin a Rocheller. 78. At Nantes is de la Place the Younger.

The Fourth Province and Provincial Synod is the Province of Touraine, Anjou, le Maine, Vaudomois, and Great Perche; and is divided into three Colloquies, having one and twenty Churches, and twenty five Pastors.

1. The Colloquy of Touraine.

79. Tours, in which officiates Matthew Cottier. 80. At Chas • illon upon Eindre, and at Lorsat and Busanois, is Peter de la Comb. 81. At Preuilly is John Rogier. 82. At L'Isle Bouchard is Philip Vincent. 83. At Montoire is eter de la Comb. 81. At Preuilly is John Rogier. 82. At L'Isle Bouchard is Philip Vincent. 83. At Montoire is Paul Salomear. 84. At Vandosme is Isaac le Pelletier.

2. The Colloquy of Anjou.

85. At Mirebeau is John Gourdry. 86. At Lowdun is Daniel Conpe, Lord of Desloges. 87. At Saumur are Samuel Bouchereau, Moses Amyrand, and Lewis Cappel Hebrew Professor. 88. At Angiers, Stephen le Bloy the Youngest. 89. At Chasteau Gontier, Cracu, and les Landelles, is Stephen Besnard. 90. At Bauge is John Pyneau. 91. At Bourgueil is Francis de la Galere.

3. The Colloquy of Moine.

92. At La Barre is Daniel Petit. 93. At Laval is Stephen L • bloy the Younger. 94. At Lassay is Rene Conscil. 95. At Bel • sme is Rene Alain. 96. At Minhay and St. Aignan is Abel Amiraud. 97. At Le Muns and Ardenay is John Vigneux. 98. At Pringe is Abel Charles. 99. At Chasteau du Loir is Tricot. In this Colloquy liveth Mr. Anthony du Mont, a Minister without a Church, and unimployed.

The Fifth Province and Provincial Synod is the Province of Poitou, divided into three Colloquies, having forty seven Churches, and fifty one Pastors.

100. At Poyre and Belleville is Anthony Brail. 101. At St. Hillary and Foussey is Peter Mallett. 102. At Basanges and Manvilleron is Anne Savonnet. 103. At Montague is Samuel Fleury. 104. At Brevil, Bamett and Lezay, is Thomas Johnson. 105. At Vandore is Francis Savonnett. 106. At Chantannay and Puybeliard is Jozian Ollivier. 107. At la Chastaigneray is Louis la Varmiere. 108. At Mouschamp is Rene de Losses, Lord of la Tousche. 109. At la Chaise and Bournezeaux is Abraham des Portes. 110. At St. Fulgent and les Herbrieres is Gabriel Boucquet. 111. At Poupere and Ponzange is John de la Place. 112. At la Garnuche is Daniel Taillard Lord of Rosefleur. 113. At St. Giles Survie is Charles Malet. 114. At Talmond upon Jard is James Prunier. 115. At St. Benoist and le Giare is Daniel Guerman a Rocheller. 116. At Marevil is James Ranconnett. 117. At St. Hermine and la Chappelle is James Papin a Rocheller. 118. At Coulonges les Royaux is John Vatable. 119. At Fontenay le Conte is Peter de la Vallade.

2d Colloquy of Middle Poitou.

120. At Chandeniers is Peter Pasquier. 121. At St. Gelais and Cherveuy is Benjamin de Launay, Lord of Gravier. 122. At Mougon is John de la Blachiere. 123. At Chef Boutonne is John Chalmott. 124. At Melle is Mark Fossa. 125. At Murcillac and Aigre is Theophilus Lesnier. 126. At Niort are John Chauffepied and James de Longnac. 127. At St. Maixant is Samuel le Blanc. 128. At la Motte St. Heraye is Isaac de la Fourcade. 129. At Exoudun is Nathaniel Monastier. 130. At Chisay and Aulnay is James Chagneau.

3d Colloquy of Higher Poitou.

131. At Chauvigny is John Forand. 132. At le Vigean is Vincent Paure. 133. At Cuiray is John Masson. 134. At Lusignan is Isaac du Soul. 135. At Core is Isaac de Cuville. 136. At Montreuil Bonnin is Joshua de Artois. 137. At Partenay is Nicolas Belin. 138. At Touars is Paul Geslin Lord of la Pillaticre. 139. At Poitiers are James Clemenceau, and James Cottiby a Rocheller. 140. At Chastel-Heraud are John Carre and Daniel Pain. 141. At Aulbaine and Saubse is Isaac Vergnon. 142. At Champagne Mouton is Ferrand.

Churches destitute of Pastors in Poitou, which must be supplied.

143. Les Sable d' Olonne, and la Chaulme in Lower Poitou. 144. Bennet in the Middle Poitou. 145. Rochechouard in the Higher Poitou.

Churches interdicted.

146. Lusson in the Lower Poitou.

Pastors destitute of Churches in Poitou.

John Bomaud Pastor in the Church of Lusson, interdicted in Lower Poitou. James Artuys Lord of Villesaison, formerly Pastor of Bennet in the Middle Poitou.

Pastors discharged in Poitou.

Gourdery, alias de I'stang, herofore Pastor of Chisey and Aulnay, in the Middle Poitou, Emeritus, because of Sickness. John Brun.

The Sixth Province and Provincial Synod is that of Saintonge, Aunix, and Augoulmois, divided into five Collequies, having fifty four Churches, and fifty seven Pastors.

1. Colloquy of St. John d' Angely.

147. St. John d' Angely hath for Pastors John Guillelmy, and Japheth du Vigier Lord of Montier. 148. Talleburg, William Rivet Lord of Chamvernoun. 149. St. Savenian, William Lundy a Scots-man. 150. Tors, Fresneau and Mutas, Philip Pascard junior. 151. Soubize, Rene Chesneau a Rocheller. 152. Thomas Guyot a Rocheller. 153. Tonnay-Boutonnay, Peter Charron. 154. Mauze, Samuel de la Forest. 152. Fontenay-Labatu, Sebastian Baudouin. 156. Tonnay Charante, Abraham Joyeux.

2. Colloquy of the Islands:

157. Marennes hath Zacharias Crispin, Chabassolaye, Peter Richier, and Vandelincourt for Pastors. 158. St. Just, James Toulouze of Rochelle. 159. St. Denis in Meron, Isaac de la Jaille. 160. Le Chasteau D'olleron, Peter Moses. 161. St. Peters in Olleron is deprived of the Ministry of Mr. John Guillelmy, who is sent to St. John d' Angely. 162. Meschiers, John Gruell. 163. Saujon, John Perreau a Rocheller. 164. Mornac, Peter Poulinies. 165. St. John d' Angle, Leonard Thevenot. 166. Aruert, Olliver le Cercler, Lord of Lamonnerie. 167. Cozat, Claudius Heraud a Rocheller. 168. Royan, James Fountayne a Rocheller. 169. La Tremblade, James Papin.

3. Colloquy of Aunix.

170. Surgeres, John Tagaud. 171. Rochelle hath for Pastors Samuel L'hommeau, and Jerome Colomies of Béarn, Louis le Cercler, Lord of Chapeliere, John Salben a Rocheller, Peter Bosquillon, to whom by this National Synod was also added Philip Vincent, formerly Pastor of Isle Bouchard in Anjou. 172. Nieul and Laleu, Peter Menanceau a Rocheller. 173. St. Martins in the Isle of Re hath Louis Aubineau a Rocheller, and John du Cray of Nismes. 174. La Flotte in the Isle of Re, John le Chantre a Rocheller. 175. Ars and Lois in the Isle of Re are deprived of Daniel Chanet, who is sent to Marans. 176. La far, Sales and Tairel, Isaac Cotant of St. Martyns in the same Island. 177. Marans, Daniel Chanet a Rocheller. 178. Bourgnauf and Angoulins, Solomon le Feure.

4. Colloquy of Saintonge.

179. Xaintes, Theophilus Rossel. 180. Pons, John Constance. 181. Gemozat and Lions destitute. 182. Baigne, John Marcon. 183. St. Severin, Peter Chase. 184. St. Fort and Mortagne, John de Clave the Elder. 185. Clambois and Plassac, Charles Chocquett. 186. Jonzac Elisha Prioleau, Lord of Vienerie. 187. Barbezieux, Samuel de la Garie. 188. Archiac, Ezekiel Saget a Rocheller. 189. Roche and Chalais, David Bellot. 190. Ozillac, Montendre and Fontaynes, John Hamilton a Scotchman. 191. Mirambeau, vacant.

5. The Colloquy of Augoumois.

192. La Rochefoucaud and Aindois, Thomas Hog a Scotchman. 193. Angoulesm, Abraham Hyver. 194. Cognac, James Gaultier. 195. Villefagnan, Stephen Tixcul. 196. Vertueil and Ruffett, John Commarc. 197. La Rochebeaucourt and Sales, Isaac de Claux junior. 198. Segonsac and Limieres, Stephen de Boyenvall. 199. Jarnac and St. Mesmes, Isaac Patrus. 200. St. Clos, Champagne and Courteillas, John Ferrand.

The Seventh Province, and Provincial Synod.

The Province of Lower Guyenne, divided into five Colloquies, having seventy one Churches, and seventy five Pastors.

1. The Colloquy of Higher Agenois.

201. Tonneins hath for Pastor Monsieur Tinell. 202. Clariac hath Riccottier the Father. 203. La Fitte, Favieres. 204. Grateloup, Denis. 205. La Parade, de Betouille. 206. Montsanson and Lussac, Belon. 207. Puymirol, Lamoureux. 208. Castlemoron, Bout. 209. Montflanquin, Persy. 210. St. Berthommiou hath Renerville. 211. Montaud and Castlenaud, Maturin. 212. Govaudan, de la Maul. 213. Agen, John d' Alba. 214. Galapian, Decongueres. 215. Tournon, de la Fresnaye.

2d Colloquy of Lower Ageuois.

216. Eynuise, de Maulans. 217. St. Foy, Hesperian and Mizaubin. 218. La Souvelat, Claude. 219. Pujols, Dulou. 220. Pelegru, Augier. 221. Moncaret, Bessotis. 222. Saussignac, Planteau. 223. Castelmoron and Montsegur, Renaud. 224. Bourdeaux, Daniel Ferrant. 225. Courtras, Monceau. 226. Bazas, le Vineaux. 227. Teobon, Salettes. 228. Castillon, Privat. 229. Duras, James Bertolin. 230. Jensac, Pornezac. 231. Castels and Gironde, Ricottier the Son. 232. Miremont hath Bernardin. 233. La Rocquette St. Andre, Bauduell.

3d Colloquy of Perigord.

234. Bergerac hath for its Pastors, Messieurs, Pyneau and Beaujardin. 235. Pomport, Langlade. 236. Limeuil, Baisselance. 237. La Linde, Castabadie. 238. Aymett, Potet. 239. Langnay, David Hesperien. 240. Mussidan, Latane. 241. Sigoules, Chauveton. 242. La Forcy, du Puys. 243. Salignac, Debordat. 244. Baynac, Freron. 245. Ysfigeac, Goyon. 246. Berbignieres, Laffon. 247. Mont Passier, Bertau. 248. Figeac, Gast. 249. Cour and Montbazillac, Pagez.

4th Colloquy of Limousin.

250. Limoges, de Barte senior. 251. Chasteauneuf, de Barte junior. 252. Argentat, Batul. 253. Turenne, Vition. 254. Beaulieu, Perecy.

5th Colloquy of Condonnois.

255. Casteljaloux, Dubue. 256. Nerac hath these three, Monsieur Lanusse, and Charles, and D' Aubus. 257.