Note 119 — Chapter VI
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“The King of France uses the Huguenots with inexpressible severity, takes away very many of their children by force, and puts them into Popish convents, and has published an edict for taking away one half of their churches that remain throughout all the provinces, and has actually begun to execute it in Normandy.”—Morice’s Diary, December 2, 1679. For a minute record of proceedings against the French Protestants, see Histoire Chronologique de L’Eglise Protestante de France, par C. Drion, ii.