Article I.

We have said and declared , doe say and declare , by these presents signed by Us : We will , and Our pleasure is , That all Decrees , Orders , Ordinances , Commissions granted , or any thing else Acted by Our said Court of Parliament , the Court of Aldermen , or any other whatsoever done since the 6t . of January last past , are declared void and null ; as also the Acts , Treaties , Letters , Deeds , or any thing else whatsoever done concerning these present Troubles , untill the date of this present Declaration ; so that for any thing so acted , or done , none shall be troubled or molested , neither to make any use thereof against any Person whatsoever thereby to doe Us any prejudice , or to the disturbance of the State : Neverthelesse , it is agreed , that all such Judgments made , or given betwixt Partie and Partie , they being present , whether it be Civill or Criminall , or else , with Our Attourney Generall touching particular Causes : Likewise all the adjudicatories and admission of Officers , as also that concerning Officers created in the yeare , 1635. shall remaine in force .

Article II .

Likewise , shall remaine null and of none effect , all Decrees made in Our Counsell Table , as also any Declarations published by authority of the same , also Letters of the Signet granted about these present Troubles since the 6. of Jan : last unto the date of this present : And consequently We Ordain , that all Uniting , entring into League and Association , or whatsoever else may be done or negotiated touching the premises as well within as without Our Kingdome , whether those that are entred in such Confederacy have had any correspondency with Strangers , have given them any help or assistance , whether they have taken up Armes with them , or sided in any wise ; also have made Our Townes and Burroughs to take up Armes , and to receive them , and countenance them ; yea , those that have furnished them with provisions : and generally any manner of Person or Persons whatsoever that have had any hand , or participated to this businesse , whether they have Acted by the speciall Orders of Our most deare and welbeloved , Cosen the Prince of Conty , or any other Princes , Dukes , Peeres , Officers of the Crowne , Prelats , Lords , Gentlemen , Cities , Townes , and Country ; that neither Our aforesaid Cosen the Prince of Conty , or any other Prince , Duke , &c. or those by them employed in the said negotiations of what quality and condition whatsoever , shall not , and may not for time to come be molested or troubled in any wise ; but all things so acted and done to remaine void and of none effect , even as if it had never been done : also for any thing acted concerning Armies , raising of Men , taking up of Money , either of private Persons , or publique Treasury , the carrying away of moveable goods & selling them afterwards ; the like for Plate , Ordnance , Arms , Ammunition and Provision , no restitution to be made or sought for , but onely of such things as will be found in being and not yet sold : Assemblies and Private meetings as well within the Townes as in the Country , taking up Armes . Arresting and Imprisoning severall Persons , taking of Townes , Castles , Strongholds , whether it was by a speciall Order or otherwise ; and this to be till the day that Our Declaration be published in Paris , and for those that are more remote three daies after it is published in their respective places of abode . Furthermore , Our will and pleasure is , That Our aforesaid Cosen the Prince of Conty , and all other Princes , Dukes , Peeres , &c. without any exception whatsoever , who have in any waies Acted or Agitated in the businesse aforesaid , shall be restored into all their goods , honours , dignities , preheminencies , prerogatives , Places of trust , Governours of Townes , Offices , and Benefices , even in the same manner as they were the 6. of January last past : Likewise , that the Marquesse of Noirmonstier , Earle of Fiesque , de Laigne , Saint Ibar , la Sauvetat , and la Boulaye ; also that any one that hath taken up Arms by reason of these present Troubles shall be paid by us of any debts justly due to them , provided that the Prince of Conty , or any other whatsoever shall upon the publication thereof lay downe their Armes , as likewise renounce unto all Treaties , Associations , Confederacies made in or about these present Troubles , as well within as without our Kingdome .

Article III .

All Soldiers raised by Order of Our said Cosen the Prince of Conty , shall forthwith be Disbanded immediately after the publication hereof , onely those excepted that shall be kept for Our service , who shall receive our Commissions to that purpose .

Article IV .

All Prisoners ( whether they be of Warre , or otherwise ) shall be set at Liberty , and in particular Monsi ur Mangot Counsellour of State and Master of Requests in Ordinary of Our Houshold , as also Monsieur Tracy , and Brequigni , and generally all others that have been Arrested and Imprisoned since the 6. of Jan : last , by reason of this present Rising , in whatsoever Prison they are detained , shall without delay be set at liberty upon the publication hereof .

Article V.

And by reason that the first payments made of the Taxes and Farmes is not made unto Us , or paid into Our Exchequer ; but after four or five Months are expired of each yeare that is begun , and that Our present necessity forceth Us to seek some course for having present Monies , Therefore We Ordaine , that during the yeares 1649. & 1650. onely , there may be taken by way of Loane the summe of twelve Millions of Livers per annum , in case the present occasion and exigencie of our affaires doth so require it ; yet that none of Our Subjects shall be compelled thereunto , neither shall those Monies so taken up be turned to any other use then for the present occasion , none being put for the payment of those debts by Us formerly contracted : And for the raising of the Monies , that it shall be first upon the Cities and great Townes with the Country adjacent , there being good and sufficient security given by the Parties that pay the said Monies , to pay it into Our Exchequer , and a consideration of 8 percent . for the Use of their Monies , and to be punctually paid at the time agreed upon , they being appointed upon the generall receipt of the Taxes , which from henceforth shall not be put in the way of a Monopolie , neither shall any other receive it but such as are the KING's ordinary Officers .

Article VI .

We Ordaine , that the Towns & Counties of St John d'Angely , Xaintes , and Coignac , formerly depending of our Court of Exchequer at Paris , but since alienated & joyned to that of Guyenne , shall againe be re-united as they were formerly as before Our Proclamation to that effect .

Article VII .

Having well considered the excessive cost and charge that Our Subjects have been at , in , and about the City of Paris , by Billeting and Quartering of Soldiers : We are therefore resolved to give some remedy to it with all speed , and to ease each of them in matter of payments according as it shall be seen requisite after the Forces are Disbanded , and full notice is given us of their present condition , the same also to be for the other places farther off that depend from Paris every one respectively as it shall be thought fit .

Article VIII .

We will and declare , The Samestre being a creation of more Officers in that Court , and so make them that were before change every six Months . that Our Proclamation formerly made concerning the suppression or abolition of the Semestre in the Court of Parliament of Provence , shall be executed in every part and clause thereof , according to the conditions agreed upon betwixt us and them .

Article IX .

And having duely considered the many Remonstrances which have been made unto Us from time to time by our Parliament of Roan touching the abolition of the Semestre established therein , We have therefore by these presents , annulled , suppressed , and abolished the said Semestre by Us established according to Our Proclamation to that effect heretofore published , and consequently all Offices of Presidents or Counsellours so made formerly by our said Declaration to be void , and those first made to remaine onely , so that neither now , nor in time to come the said Offices shall againe be established or setled save onely one President and thirteen Counsellours , with two for the Court of Requests , that shall be united and incorporated to the body of Our said Court ; which Places shall be executed by those whom the Court shall name and make choice for that purpose , with all honours , dignities , priviledges , to them appertaining , as when they were first instituted , and the same pensions also to be paid unto them as is usuall . And Our said Court of Parliament of Roan is also hereby required to name and make choice of those Persons that are to be continued within the space of one Month after the publishing hereof ; and in case of default , and the time being expired , the said Officers shall and may enjoy , and execute their severall places , every one according to the course and order of their creation according to the number before specified , provided that those so named and chosen by Our said Court shall pay into Our private Treasury , that is to say , the President seventy thousand pounds , the thirteene Counsellours thirty thousand pounds ; each of them , and those two for the Court of Requests twenty thousand pounds , each one to be paid and distributed unto those Officers whose Places are abolished , and for overplus , in case those Monies doe not suffice to satisfie every one that is so put out , there shall be some speedy course by Us taken for the payment thereof , and Our said Court is hereby declared free and quit from any such payments ; neither shall they that sold the said Offices be troubled or molested under any colour or pretext whatsoever . We will and Ordaine , that all , and every such Officer so suppressed shall enjoy all priviledges , immunities , prerogatives , or any other benefit which they may have obtained during the time they have enjoyed the said Places , and that they shall be capable of enjoying other Places and employments as they shall be able to attaine thereunto without any further examination or search made at the time of their reception , and shall moreover enjoy their sallarie untill such time as they have received the full payment of such summes as was by them paid at the time of their creation , their bare Aquittance being a sufficient discharge for the same .

And We will and require , that Our Courts of Parliament of Paris and Roan cause this Declaration to be read , published , and Registred , and the Contents thereof to be kept and observed in every clause and branch thereof , all and every one in their Places respectively according to its true intent and meaning ; for such is Our pleasure : And that this may be a firme & constant thing , We have therefore sealed these presents with Our owne Seale .

¶ Given at St Germain in Laye , in the yeare of Our Lord , 1649. and of Our Reigne the 6. Signed LEWIS . And lower , By the KING , the QUEEN REGENT His Mother being present , De Guenegand , Secret : REgistred , heard and read at the request of the KING's Attourny-Generall , to be executed according to its tenour , and that Copies thereof shall be sent into all the Bailywicks and other inferiour Courts depending on this Parliament , that there the same may be read , published , and registred , and the Deputies of the KING's Attourny-Generall are required not to faile therein , but to use all care and diligence requisite for this same ; and thereof to certifie the Court within a Month accordingly . ¶ Done at Paris in the Parliament the 1. of April , 1649. Signed DU . TILLET .

Abstract of the Registers of Parliament .

THis day the Court , and all the Chambers being met , After they had seen His Majesties Letters Patents in forme of a DECLARATION , given at S. Germain in Laye , in March last , Signed LEWIS , &c. which are granted concerning these last Raisings and Troubles , concerning the Cessation and ending of them ; and are directed to this Court : And thereupon having heard the conclusions of the Attourny Generall , The Court hath Ordained , that the same shall be read , published , and registred in all places that are depending of this Court , severall Copies thereof being sent , and the KING's Attourny-Generall to Order His Substitutes to see it performed , and to certifie the Court within one Month . Done in Parliament &c.

It is moreover ordered , that a Thanksgiving day shall be appointed , and thanks likewise returned to their Majesties for that they were pleased to restore Their People to peace and quietnesse , that to this end Commissioners shall be sent from this Court to doe the same : And furthermore , that they shall most humbly beseech Their Majesties that they vouchsafe to honour this City with their Personall presence , and so to returne hither ; as also they shall move concerning the severall interests of their Generalls , and others herein concerned : And furthermore it is agreed , that the Forces lately raised shall be forthwith Disbanded .