Y, says: l-I have it from a parishioner more than octogenerian (the deceased pious Vaultiere of Reade street, whose loneliness during the first months of my arrival among you I used frequently by the side of his bed to comfort with the words of the Lord), who related to me that he had seen here himself old men the fathers of whom had told them often that they had emigrated to this country after the capture (162S) of La Rochelle, by the Cardinal ministre, and by hundreds, hundreds, hundreds, under his successors, and before that monarch had repealed the Edict of Jfa ntes ; for already our poor brethren had settled churches and pastors at Narraganset and Boston, which is a /net shown by our correspondenc- wi*h them all then preserved to this day, in our archives, and the first minutes of our own old records, are, by several years, of a date anterior to that revocation. "The Hugenots." A discourse by Rev. Antonlne Verreu, D.I). Translated from the French by Rev. William Morris, LL.D. New Yor!' : George F. Nesbit & Co., printers, 1SC2.
THE TOWN OF NEW ROCHELLE.
Whoever bore this name were imprisoned, arraigned for their lives ; and adhering to their profession, were condemned by merciless judges to the flames. Some, of the name and character, were murdered in cold blood, and massacred without any legal forms of justice.
" It is a singular fact, (continues Mr. Disosway, to whom we are indebted for the materials of this sketch,) that the Reformation originated in France, upon her own soil, and its earliest seeds were germinated in the University of Paris, then a stronghold of Romanized faith, At this time, the University was the principal seat of European learning and Roman Catholic orthodoxy.