The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)
P. Disostfay. S.?e Christian Intelligencer.
b There was an original medal in the possession of the late Rev. S. Farmer .larris, D.D., LL.l)., of Middletown, Conn., who obtained it at the mint in Rome. Electrotype copies of this medal are very numerous ; " and vet we are told that the Papa! Church is not answerable for its acts and deeds; but only for such words as it thinks proper at this time to acknowledge? That it is not answerable for the crusade which it proclaimed against the Alhigeuses? For the Marian Persecution ? For the tragedy of St. Bartholomew's Day? For the Inquisition? Forthe sufferings of the Vandois? For the Insh Massacre ? and for the Draggonnades of Louis XIV. ? Sir, it is to history that I look for what the papal religion has manifested itself to be. I tind its character 111 its' actions, " A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt true bring forth good fruit. Wherefore, by their fruits ye shall judge them."-- Vind. Eccles. Anglicamc, by Robert Southley, Esq., LL.D., London. John Murray, 1S26.
HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.
tached to the reformed interests, appears to have afforded (in 1572,) an asylum for the survivors of the bloody masssacre of St. Bartholomew. It was here they issued their famous declaration stating the affair to be one of unheard of cruelty, and bidding defiance to their enemies the house of Guise. " And it was here they armed and fortified themselves, trusting in a just cause and to the favor of Heaven. For nine months they fought most gallantly in defence of La Rochelle, killing 40,000 of their enemies, who besieged them with the strongest and mightiest army of France without success. It was however in 1627, that this city made its last and ever memorable stand for the cause of the Huguenots.