Note 1298 — Chapter XIII

The alarm of the government at this hour over Paris may be measured by two police regulations of the time. One ordered search to be made throughout the town twice a week, in all hostelries and other places, and forbade mechanics to leave their houses on certain days. The other allowed those of the religion who had been forbidden to leave their houses on certain days to appoint one of their servants to go about the town on their affairs. He was to have a certificate signed by the captain and commissaires of the quarter, and to be unarmed. The commissaires were to make a weekly search in the houses of those of the religion, to make procès-verbal of the names of all the domestics, signed by the master of the house, and to remove all arms found therein (ibid., No. 2,671, December 11; No. 2,684, December 23, 1568). Both ordinances were registered by the Parlement. During the Christmas season no Calvinist was permitted to stir out of doors (ibid., No. 2,688, §3, December 26, 1568).