[95] Page 52.
[96] A more disgraceful peace to England than that of Utrecht was probably never made; and if its terms are considered to have been “hard” to France, most assuredly it must ever be acknowledged,—to use the words of Lord Mahon, in his admirable History of England (vol. i. p. 6, ed. 1853),—to have been “a sin against light; not the ignorance which is deluded, but the falsehood which deludes.”—Trans.
[98] Vol. v. pp. 953, 554.
[99] Essai sur l’Etablissement Monarchique de Louis XIV. p. 413.
[100] Insurgents in the reign of Louis XIV., who were so called.—Trans.
[101] Capefigue, Louis XIV. vol. ii. chap. 24, p. 258. The author is in error as to the number of pastors, or he has included in his list professors, students of theology, and other persons indirectly connected with ecclesiastical functions. Rulhières also speaks of two thousand ministers. Elie Bénoit, who was much better informed on the subject, since he was himself one of the refugee pastors, makes the number only seven hundred.
[102] See l’Histoire abrégé des souffrances du Sieur Elie Neau sur les galères et dans les cachots de Marseille: Rotterdam, 1701.
[103] Edition Lefevre, p. 33. Some of the verses have a very striking allusion:
On peut des plus grands rois surprendre la justice.