"* King Charles 11. granted letters of denization in council, under the great seal, and assured the exiles that, at the next meeting of Parliament, he would introduce a bill by which they should be naturalized ; relieved them at the momenf from importation duties and passport fees, and encouraged voluntary contributions for their support.''^ This order was issued on the 2Sth of July, 16SI, the same year in which the Huguenots of New Rochelle fled from Frnnce,c conclusive evidence that they constituted a portion of those exiles who accepted the royal offers, and afterward, under the patronage of the government, purchased and settled here in 1689. The Huguenots must have been "aided, in their escape from France, by the English vessels that lay for some time off the Island of Rhe, opposite La Rochelle, in which they were conveyed to England.''d Tradition says that they were subsequently transported to this place in one of the king's ships. The point on Davenport's Neck, called Bauffet's or Bonnefoy's Point, was the spot where they first landed.

Upon the 17th of April, 1695, we find letters of denization granted to Francis Le Count, under oaths appointed to be taken. ^

On the 6th of February. 1G95-6, letters of denization were issued, under the seal of the province, " to David de Bonrepos, Alexander Allaire, Henry Beignon, Esaye Valleau, Andrew Thaunet, David Bonnefoy, Louis Guion, and Louis Guion his son, Pierre Das, Pierre Palcot, Andrew Naudin, and Andrew and Louis Naudin his sons, Theophile Fourrestier, Cliarles Fourrestier, Ambroise Sycard, and Ambroise, Daniel, and Jacques, his sons^ Giulliamme Landrin, Guilliaume Latteneau, Isaaq Caillard,