Volume 2

A pattern of a well-constituted and well-governed hospital: or, a brief description of the building, and full relation of the establishment, constitution, discipline, oeconomy and ... government of the Royal Hospital of the Invalids. Near Paris / Partly translated from a large book printed in French [by Le Jeune de Boullencourt]; and partly extracted out of some other manuscript relations never before published. [By James Fraser. Anon].

  • Les Invalides
Date:
1695
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Credit: A pattern of a well-constituted and well-governed hospital: or, a brief description of the building, and full relation of the establishment, constitution, discipline, oeconomy and ... government of the Royal Hospital of the Invalids. Near Paris / Partly translated from a large book printed in French [by Le Jeune de Boullencourt]; and partly extracted out of some other manuscript relations never before published. [By James Fraser. Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    x ct ~— = Sena ee = & ve LES = eS + Re] ec nee Sen — — £ > or i I RE a ce The Preface to the Reader. Wars, andin the King's Service, tho they ferved but à day. But nowit ts quite otherwife, as to Liberty of Re- ligion, there being none admitted fince the open and violent Invafiow that was made upon the Editt of Nantes iz the year 1684. but [uch as are Roman Ca- tholicks ; for when that Book was wrtt, there were feveral Prote (tant \nvalids in the Houfe,both Offecers and Soldiers 5 for in An.1682. there were about Eighty Soldiers, and Four Officers, alt Proteftants, one of thofe laft by turns, leading twenty or thirty Soldiers every Sunday to Charenton fo Sermon, ava bringing them back in good Order and Difcipline. But upon the general perfe- cution raifed againft the Proteftants in France, many of them were forced to change their Religion, or to quit the Place; and asthe Manufcript Relation of the Government of the Invalids, whichI owe the communication of to the Favour and Kindnefs of the M.R. E. 1.G. The A.B. of C. fays, that all the five Englifh that were then in the Houfe chang’ d their Religion as others did;
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