Ethnoreligious group of French Calvinists

Edward VI granting letters, Strangers' Church in London

Île aux Bœufs, Loire: negotiations for the Pacification of Amboise in 1563 between the Queen Mother (regent for Charles IX), and the Huguenots, showing her receiving deputies at her tent. Etching attributed to J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.

Two floral designs, perhaps for woven silk fabric. Etching, c. 1760, after J. Pillement.

The massacre of Huguenots at Tours: men and women are shot by soldiers, slaughtered with swords or clubbed to death in the water by townsfolk. Woodcut by J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.

viii, 284 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (lithograph, woodcuts) ; 22 cm (8vo)

The history of the French, Walloon, Dutch, and other foreign Protestant refugees settled in England, from the reign of Henry VIII to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes : with notices of their trade and commerce, copious extracts from the registers, lists of the early settlers, ministers, &c., &c. and an appendix containing copies of the charter of Edward VI, &c / By John Southerden Burn.

11 leaves, [12]-33 pages, [34]-64 leaves, [65]-70 pages, [71]-74 leaves ; 21 cm

The statutes and by-laws of the Corporation of the Governor and Directors of the Hospital for Poor French Protestants and Their Descendants Residing in Great Britain = Statuts & reglemens pour la Corporation des gouverneur et directeurs de l'Hopital pour les pauvres françois protestants, et leurs descendants, residents dans la Grande-Bretagne.

Huguenot archives : a further catalogue of material held in the Huguenot library / compiled by Margaret Harcourt Williams.

A faithful account of the cruelties done to the Protestants On Board the French King's Gallies , on account of the reformed religion. Done out of French.

The French Hospital : a short history / by Jane Brown.

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Huguenot archives : a further catalogue of material held in the Huguenot library / compiled by Margaret Harcourt Williams.

A faithful account of the cruelties done to the Protestants On Board the French King's Gallies , on account of the reformed religion. Done out of French.

The French Hospital : a short history / by Jane Brown.

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Huguenot archives : a further catalogue of material held in the Huguenot library / compiled by Margaret Harcourt Williams.

A faithful account of the cruelties done to the Protestants On Board the French King's Gallies , on account of the reformed religion. Done out of French.

The French Hospital : a short history / by Jane Brown.

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