The Huguenots: Their Settlement, Churches, and Industries in England and Ireland

By Samuel Smiles

This book chronicles the re-settlement of the Huguenots in England and Ireland.

The Huguenots were Europeans, primarily French, who followed Protestant faiths during a time when the Roman Church dominated religious and political life in Europe. The migration was one of the most important movements of skilled workers and professionals out of mainland Europe due to religious persecution. There were two major movements of Huguenots. The first being mostly of Flemish and French Protestants during the latter half of the sixteenth century. The second major migration happened during the final decades of the seventeenth century. Many more Huguenots migrated individually or in small groups throughout the period. The final chapter deals with further migration of Huguenots to North America.

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Contents include:

• Invention of Printing - Rise of the Huguenots
• Episode in the Life of Bernard Palissy
• Persecutions of the Reformed in France and Flanders
• Relations of England with France and Spain
• Settlements and Industries of the Protestant Refugees in Britain 
• Early Walloon and French Churches in England
• Renewal of the Persecution in France - Revocation of the Edit of Nantes
• Renewed Flight of the Huguenots from France
• The Huguenots and the English Revolution of 1688
• Dumont De Bostaquet - His Escape from France into Holland
• De Bostaquet in England - The Irish Campaigns of 1689-90
• Huguenots Officers in the British Service
• Huguenots Settlers in England - Men of Science and Learning
• Huguenots Settlements in England - Men of Industry
• The Huguenot Churches in England
• Huguenot Settlements in Ireland
• Descendants of the Refugees
• Conclusion - The French Revolution
• Appendix - Early Settlement of Foreign Artisans in England
• Appendix - Registers of French Protestant Churches in England
• Appendix - Huguenot Refugees and Their Descendants
• The Huguenot in America
• Index

Details: 
448 pages 
6.25 X 9.25" 
Hardcover (dark blue with gilt stamping on front and spine) 
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Originally published by Samuel Smiles, New York, 1868 
This edition published by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 2006 
ISBN: 1-894571-78-9 (Hardcover)