 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - History - 1819 - 442 pages
...their worship was suppressed, their churches demolished, and their ministers banished, the Protestant laity were forbidden, under the most rigorous penalties, to quit the kingdom, 1685. France, however, by this measure lost above 600,000 of her most industrious and useful subjects.;... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1840 - 684 pages
...their worship was suppressed, their churches demolished, and their ministers banished, the Protestant laity were forbidden, under the most rigorous penalties, to quit the kingdom, 1685. France, however, by this measure lost above 500,000 of her most industrious and useful subjects;... | |
 | William Keighley - Keighley (England) - 1858 - 222 pages
...Louis the 14th, consequent upon the revocation of the edict of Nantes, in 1685. Although the protestant laity were forbidden under the most rigorous penalties,...of Providence they finally settled in this country. The subject of this memoir was born at Hadley, in the year 1789. In early life he was marked by a sweet... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1862 - 650 pages
...their worship was suppressed, their churches demolished, and their ministers banished, the Protestant laity were forbidden, under the most rigorous penalties, to quit the kingdom (1685). France, however, by this measure lost at Madrid; and Philip V. had serious thoughts of abandoning... | |
 | William Swinton - Civilization - 1879 - 542 pages
...their worship was suppressed, their churches demolished, and their ministers banished, the Protestant laity were forbidden, under the most rigorous penalties, to quit the kingdom (1685). The government entered also on a most cruel persecution, employing dragonnades, as they were... | |
 | Alfred Barlow - Lace and lace making - 1878 - 470 pages
...Protestant worship was suppressed, their churches demolished, and thoir ministers banished. The Protestant laity were forbidden under the most rigorous penalties to quit the kingdom. But by this measure France lost above 500,000 of her most industrious and useful subjects, who eagerly... | |
 | William Swinton - World history - 1874 - 544 pages
...revokedtheir worship was suppressed, their churches demolished, and their ministers banished, the Protestant laity were forbidden, under the most rigorous penalties, to quit the kingdom (1685). The government entered also on a most cruel persecution, employing dragonnades, as they were... | |
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One of the weakest and most impolitic measures of Lewis XIV. was the revocation of the edict of Nantes, granted by Henry IV. for the toleration of the Protestants. While their worship was suppressed, their churches demolished, and their ministers banished,... 