Note 649 — Chapter XIII · THE FESTIVAL OF BLOOD. [August and September, 1572.]
Reading edition
Mém. et Corresp. de Duplessis-Mornay (8vo. Paris, 1824–34), i. p. 45. He escaped to Rye, which, after suffering from a severe pestilence, had been “replenished by the French, who sheltered themselves here from the great massacre ...; so that, in 1582, were found inhabiting here 1534 persons of that nation.” Jeake (Sam.): Charters of the Cinque Ports (Lond. 1728), p. 108.