Note 61 — Chapter II · THE HALT.
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The Walloons inhabited the southern Belgic provinces bordering on France. As they spoke the French language, “they were called Gallois, which was changed, in Low Dutch, into Waalsche, and in English into Walloon.” Many of them were Protestants, and being subject to relentless persecution by the Spanish government, they emigrated in great numbers into Holland, carrying with them a knowledge of the industrial arts. See Bradford’s Hist. Plym. Plantation, p. 20, note.