Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... memoration of the two hundredth anniversary of the Revocaof the Edict of Nantes, contains reproductions by the aid ofphotography of portraits of Calvin and Jean Daille, and of old engravings of some of the more noted episodes in the history of the Reformed Church in France. There are eight illustrations in all exclusive of the frontispiece, and each of them is accompanied by a brief account of the person or the event represented. The Huguenot Pastor's Bride. By the Author of" The "Spanish Brothers.""--The Sunday at Home, February, 1886. This is a poem upon the marriage of a Huguenot pastor with a daughter of the martyred pastor Francois Benezet. The frontispiece of the magazine is a coloured print representing the marriage, and the number also contains a wood engraving of a Huguenot service in the Desert. The Edict of Nantes and its Revocation. By the Rev. R. G. Green, D.D.--The Religious Tract Society. London. 1885. This little treatise was issued just before the celebration of the Bi-centenary of the Revocation last October. Within the narrow limits of twenty-eight small pages, it sketches rapidly the history of Protestantism in France from the middle of the sixteenth century to the present time, dwelling especially on the events which cluster round the period of the Revocation. THE ROYAL BOUNTY.--PETITION OF THE FRENCH MINISTERS TO WILLIAM III. The following is a copy of a petition, presented by the refugee French ministers in England to King William III., in 1695, asking for a further grant from the Royal Bounty. It states the age of each minister, and what family he had, if any, as these matters were taken into consideration in fixing the amount of the yearly allowances, and it also sets out the sums which had been paid from..."
