James Fontaine Tale of the Huguenots, or Memoirs of a French Refugee Family

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In the friendly confidence growing out of paro chial relations, the existence of this manuscript be came known to the writer of this introduction. Curiosity led to its examination; the strange and interesting nature of the incidents it recorded, related as they were with unpretending simplicity, soon fixed his attention It struck him as being a vivid picture of by-gone times sketched by an honest eye witness and the page of past history thus illustrated was not the least interesting in the records of Protestantism.