By this code Henry IV.

added a great deal to the rights of the Protestants and to the duties of the state towards them.

Their worship was authorized not only in the castles of the lords high-justiciary, who numbered thirty-five hundred, but also in the castles of simple noblemen who enjoyed no high-justiciary rights, provided that the number of those present did not exceed thirty.

Two towns or two boroughs, instead of one, had the same religious rights in each bailiwick or seneschalty of the kingdom.

The state was charged with the duty of providing for the salaries of the Protestant ministers and rectors in their colleges or schools, and an annual sum of one hundred and sixty-five thousand livres of those times (four hundred and ninety-five thousand francs of the present day) was allowed for that purpose.