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At the Synod of Castres,	1626	The same.
At the Second Synod of Charenton,	1631	The same.
At the Synod of Alencon,	1637	Lord de Saint-Marc.
At the Third Synod of Charenton,	1644-5	Du Cumont Lord de Boisgrollier.
At the Synod of Loudun,	1659	Lord de Magdelaine.

Note. &endash; Royal Commissioners (being Protestants) continued to sit in the provincial church courts after the abolition of National Synods. The King threatened to send Roman Catholic commissioners in their stead, on the pretext, “que l’on accusoit les Synodes de cacher une partie des resolutions, que la Cour avoit le plus d’interêt d’savoir.” The Messieurs Ruvigny suggested a compromise, namely, that there should still be the Protestant Commissioner, but that a Roman Catholic should be associated with him, which was first acted upon at the Synod of Rouen in 1682 (where the Protestant Commissioner was the Marquis de Heucourt). See the “Life of Du Bosc,” p. 119. The very last Provincial Synod was held at Lizy, in the diocese of Meaux, in 1683, when only one Royal Commissioner was named by the king, a Roman Catholic Nobleman, who was accompanied by a Romish Priest as an assistant-commissioner. See “Bulletin de la Societe de l’Hist. Prot.,” tom. 2, p. 458.

List of Lords Deputies-General of the Protestant Churches of France, who have resided at the Courts of Henri iv., Louis xiii., and louis xiv.

Reign of Henri IV.

Names.		Remarks.
1. Lord de St. Germains. 2. Josias Mercier, Lord des Bordes.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Elected in 1601, at Sainte-Foy, by a political assembly. They were re-elected in 1603, by the National Synod of Gap.
1. Odet La None, Lord de La Noue. 2. Lord Du Crois.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Probably elected in 1605, at Chatellerault, by a political assembly.
1. Jean de Jaucourt, Lord de Villarnoul. 2. Jean Bontemps, Lord de Mirande.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Nominated by the 18th National Synod (called the third Synod of La Rochelle), in 1607, the king having declared his resolution to refuse his royal licence to a political assembly.
Reign of Louis XIII.
1. Jacques de Jaucourt, Lord de Rouvray. 2. Etienne Chesneverd, Lord de la Miletière.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Elected in 1611, at Saumur, by a political assembly.
1. Lord de Bertreville. 2. Lord de Maniald.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Elected in 1614 at Grenoble, by a political assembly.
1. Lord de Maniald. 2. Jean, Lord de Chalas.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	In office in 1620, having been elected by a political assembly at Loudun.
1. Lord de Maniald. 2. Esaïïe Du Mas, Lord de Montmartyn. [On the death of the former, in 1626, Lord Hardy, one of his Majesty’s Secretaries, was nominated by the king.]	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	In office in 1623; these Deputies-General are named in the diplomatic papers concerning La Rochelle, and were probably elected by the political assembly that met in that city in 1621.
1. Henri de Clermont d’Amboise, Marquis de Gallerande, commonly called the Marquis de Clermont. 2. Lord Bazin.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	“The Synod of Castres, in 1626, yielded to the royal demand, that six names should be sent from which the king might select two Deputies-General. The other names were — (III.) Claude, Baron de Gabrias et de Beaufort; (IV.) Louis de Champagne, Comte de Suze; (V.) and (VI.) were from the tiers-etat. This Synod, by the king’s command, ordered that only laymen should sit in political assemblies.
1. Marquis de Clermont. 2. Lieutenant-General, Lord Galland, eldest son of the Lord Commissioner.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	These names, by the king’s desire, were deliberately proposed by the Second Synod of Charenton, in 1631, and accepted by his Majesty. The message was, “That it was his Majesty’s pleasure, that this assembly should agree with him in the choice of two persons acceptable to his Majesty, who might exercise the office of Deputies-General near his person, and attend the court at its progress and removals.”
1. Marquis de Clermont. 2. Lord Marbaud.	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Elected in 1637 by the Synod of Alencon.
Reign of Louis XIV.
deputies-general appointed by the king himself.
1644- Marquis d’Arzilliers.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	The office was vacant by the resignation of De Clermont.
1653. Marquis De Ruvigny.		On the death of d’Arzilliers.
1679. Henri De Ruvigny, eldest son of the above.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	The father had leave either to act alone, or to co-operate with his son, ad libitum.