EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
The first edition of this work was printed in 1866. Its predecessors were J. S. Burn’s “History of French, Walloon, Dutch, and other Foreign Protestant Refugees, settled in England” (1846); also, “The Witnesses in Sackcloth,” by a Descendant of the Refugees (1852), praised by the Edinburgh Review as an essay which deserves attention, especially on account of its literary and bibliographical Appendix. Professor Weiss’ “Histoire des Refugiés Protestants de France,” in two volumes, followed in 1854; it surveyed the globe in six books, the third being devoted to British Refugees. An English translation was published by Blackwood. It was the occasion of a well-informed and useful article in the Edinburgh Review for April 1854. The “Ulster Journal of Archæology” (vols, i. to vi., 1853 to 1858) has eight excellent Papers on the Refugees in Ireland. The Camden Society volume, entitled “Lists of Foreign Protestants and Aliens resident in England, 1618-1688,” was edited in 1862 by W. Durrant Cooper, F.S.A., who also contributed a Paper to the Sussex Archæological Collections, vol. xiii. The French Protestants, from the Reformation era to 1789, have their worthies faithfully and learnedly memorialized in alphabetical order in the Messrs. Haag’s “La France Protestante,” in nine volumes (15th March 1871).
A large number of the books and documents quoted in this work can be consulted in the library of the English Presbyterian College, Queen Square House, Guildford Street, London.
*⁎* The great-grandmother of the author of “Witnesses in Sackcloth,” was the daughter of a Huguenot exile in Canterbury, named Delamere, and thus entitled her great-grandson to call himself “a descendant of a refugee.” In his Life of Brousson he signs his name Henry S. Baynes.
