...popish powers, to regain the throne by force of arms. Victims of popish intolerance, driven from France by the persecutions which followed the revocation of the edict of Nantes, were still living in every protestant country. The frontier settlements of New England were not yet...

...respectable family; his father, a wealthy man, was a Protestant, and, along with many others, was obliged, by the persecutions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, to seek a shelter in a foreign land ; he accordingly removed and near friend. But thus it hath been,...

...the crown, which had been lost by force of arms. Victims of Romish intolerance, driven from France by the persecutions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, were still living in every Protestant Country, itinerant monuments of the cruelty of Romanism, and...

...respectable family; his father, a wealthy man, was a Protestant, and, along with many others, was obliged, by the persecutions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, to seek a shelter in a foreign land ; he accordingly removed with his family to London, and afterwards...

...hankering ambition. His ancestor, the head of an eminent Huguenot race, had been driven to America by the persecutions which followed the revocation of the edict of Nantes. The family had lived ever since in poverty and obscurity ; yet this fiery young democrat nourished...

...hankering ambition. His ancestor, the head of an eminent Huguenot race, had been driven to America by the. persecutions which followed the revocation of the edict of Nantes. The family had lived ever since in poverty and obscurity ; yet this fiery young democrat nourished...

...the mental aberrations of the Prophets or Shakers (Trembleurs) of the Cevennes (1686 to 1707) caused by the persecutions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes ; and the pseudo-miracles of the Convulsionists of St. Medard (1731 to 1741) at the tomb of the Abbe...

...mental aberrations of the Prophets or Shakers (Trembleurs) of the Cevennes, (1686 to 1707,) caused by the persecutions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes ; and the pseudo-miracles of the Convulsionists of St. Medard (1731 to 1741) at the tomb of the Abbe...

...family came from England, that of her mother from France ; being compelled to leave their native country by the persecutions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The subject of this memoir, after receiving the ordinary education of childhood, about 1783 and 1784...

...invading French army was about to send contingent after contingent to England, driven from their homes by the persecutions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes ; and in the suburb of St. Mary Spittle, afterwards known as the Spital Fields, a small colony had...