Author: FRANCE. Henri III
Title: Lettres patentes du Roy, contenans la commission pour la saisie & vente des biens de ceux de la nouvelle opinion, & autres tenans leur party.
Description: Lyon: Michel Jove & Jean Pillehotte, 1577. 8vo. 13, [3]p. Modern marbled wrappers. **** This royal decree, dated 3 July 1577, was issued whilst the court was at Poitiers, shortly after the surrender of the Protestant stronghold of Issoire to royal forces (12 June). By it, Henri calls for the confiscation of Huguenot property: 'vous verrez la resolution que nous avons prinse sur le faict des biens meubles & immeubles de ceux de la nouvelle opinion, & autres ten‹s leur party, qui se sont notoiremet eslevez en armes c›tre nostre authorité & service, & se sont absentez hors cestuy nostre royaume, sans nostre c›gé & permission.' Not listed in Baudrier, Bibliographie lyonnaise; no copy in NUC or BL. For a Paris edition of the same year from the press of F. Morel, see Robert O. Lindsay & John Neu, French political pamphlets, 1547-1648: a catalogue of major collections in American libraries, no.916.

Keywords: French, political pamphlets, Huguenots, antiquarian


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