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From: "Sally Rolls Pavia" <>
Subject: [Genealogy Bits and Pieces] French refugees to England .. sorry if I've sent this before
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:35:38 -0700

French Refugees in Great Britain in the early 1700s

Introduction

Between the late 1500s and the early 1700s religious persecution in France
caused many French protestants to flee their homeland and some ended up in,
or passed through, Great Britain. These people were later referred to as
Huguenots but there was no reference to this term in the source publications
for this website.

In 1685, King Charles the Second declared 'That he held himself obliged, in
Honour and Conscience, to comfort and support all such distressed
Protestants, who, by reason of the Rigors and Severities, which were used
towards them upon the Account of their Religion, should be forced to quit
their native Country, and should desire to shelter themselves under his
Royal Protection'.

For more info, check the following site:

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~frpayments/Index.htm


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