. Olde Ulster : an historical and genealogical magazine. tory of Ulster Countyfamilies and are becoming scarce. We also have a large line of *zs~ 5ouveoir Postal Cards ^^ showing local scenes, including the RevolutionaryBuildings. ii C??*^ OLDE VLSTER Vol. II MAY, 1906 No. 5 The Huguenots of Old Ulster ELIGIOUS differences had occasioned manyjf? disturbances in France, and civil war hadslain many thousands of her sons, whenHenry of Navarre ascended the throne in1589 and became Henry IV. of the 13th of April, 1598, he issued thefamous Edict of Nantes, by which therights of Protestants
. Olde Ulster : an historical and genealogical magazine. tory of Ulster Countyfamilies and are becoming scarce. We also have a large line of *zs~ 5ouveoir Postal Cards ^^ showing local scenes, including the RevolutionaryBuildings. ii C??*^ OLDE VLSTER Vol. II MAY, 1906 No. 5 The Huguenots of Old Ulster ELIGIOUS differences had occasioned manyjf? disturbances in France, and civil war hadslain many thousands of her sons, whenHenry of Navarre ascended the throne in1589 and became Henry IV. of the 13th of April, 1598, he issued thefamous Edict of Nantes, by which therights of Protestants were established, andFrance had troubles in France were not only religious butpolitical. Calvinism means freedom. In its politicalsense every man is a freeman, recognizing only thesovereignty of God. The introduction of Protestant-ism (then synonymous with Calvinism) meant the toler-ance in France of liberty of thought. The powers thatwere looked with indignation upon any system thatwould impair their privileges, and they rose to subvert 129. Olde Ulster and destroy these ideas. In the last years of LouisXIV. the march towards absolutism reached its goaland that monarchs declaration I am the Statebecame true. October 23rd, 1685, Louis revoked theEdict of Nantes and absolutism ruled in Church andState. During these eighty-seven years the Huguenots, asthe French Protestants were called, enjoyed a measureof comparative peace. This was especially true underthe ministries of those great French statesmen Sully,Richelieu and Mazarin. Still their tolerance was butrelative. In 1617 a royal edict of the governmentunder Mary de Medici, during the minority of LouisXIII., commanded the suppression of the Protestantfaith, and this was put into effect in 1620, and for afew years the Huguenots felt the force of the repres-sion and fled to the Palatinate of the Rhine and else-where. But when Richelieu became the head of affairsin 1624 he permitted them to enjoy peace. As early as 156
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