The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

HUGUENOT STRUGGLES. 81
There were manifested in its deliberations no introd .
murmurings, lamentations, threatenings, repinings,
no compromises, and no giving up of
rights and privileges. Everything was dignified,
mild, and resolute.
Cardinal Mazarin broke the visible bond of
union of the French Reformed Church, and
left it to hold together as it had done a century
before by a common faith, a common worship,
a common discipline,
a common Catechism for
their youth, a common confession of sound
words, and a common Bible. And in a little Death of
tnore than a year afterwards, Mazarin himself Mazarin.
died.
The vetoing of the National Synod was to
the Huguenots ecclesiastically, what thcHuguenot
downfall of La Rochelle was to them politi- suffercally—
the beginning of the end of their Tell'.
religious rights in France. New Edicts soon
followed, which were intended to damage their
financial interests, and to impede the free
exercise of their religion. In 1662, they were
forbidden to bury their dead except at daybreak
or night-fall.
In 1663, new converts from the Reformed 1663.
Church were excused from payment of debts
previously contracted with their fellow-re-
ligionists. In 1665, their boys, at the age of 1665.
fourteen, and their girls at twelve years of age,
were allowed to declare themselves Roman
Catholics, and their parents were either to
provide for such apostates, or apportion them
a part of their possessions. In 1679, converts 1679.
who relapsed into Protestantism were to be
banished, and their property confiscated. In 1680.
1680, Huguenot clerks and notaries were
deprived of their employments; and marriages
of Protestants to Roman Catholics were