Note 144 — Chapter XLVIII · CLARENDON AND TYRCONNEL, 1685-1686

Evelyn’s Diary, November 3, 1685. A newsletter to Colonel Grace from Dublin, November 11, in Clarendon’s Correspondence, notices the silence of the Gazette there about the French persecutions and the persistence of unauthorised sheets: ‘if it be a fiction, as certainly it is for the most part, why does not the Government take notice of it?... great concern that those of Geneva—Dublin have for their Calvinist brethren in France.’ The latest lights are in Lavisse’s 7th and 8th vols. and Rousset’s Hist. de Louvois, iii. chap. vii. For the dragonnades in Bearn, Henry IV.’s own country, see Sainte-Beuve’s article on the intendant Foucault, Nouveaux Lundis, vol. iii. In 1686 Avaux found there were 75,000 French refugees in Holland, Lavisse and Rambaut’s Hist. générale, vol. vi.