Footnote 14: Thumbscrews were used in the reign of James II. Louis and James borrowed from each other the means of converting heretics; but whether the origin of the thumbscrew be French or Scotch is not known.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 15: "Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon," Bayle St. John's Translation, iii. 259.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 16: See "The Huguenots: their Settlements, &c., in England and Ireland," chap. xvi.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 17: "Histoire de l'Édit de Nantes," par Elie Bénoît.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 18: "Histoire des Églises du Désert," par Charles Coquerel, i. 498.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 19: De Felice's "History of the Protestants of France," book iii. sect. 17.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 20: John Locke passed through Nismes about this time. "The Protestants at Nismes," he said, "have now but one temple, the other being pulled down by the King's order about four years since. The Protestants had built themselves an hospital for the sick, but that is taken from them; a chamber in it is left for the sick, but never used, because the priests trouble them when there. Notwithstanding these discouragements [this was in 1676, before the Revocation], I do not find many go over; one of them told me, when I asked them the question, that the Papists did nothing but by force or by money."—King's Life of Locke, i. 100.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 21: When released from prison, Gaultier escaped to Berlin and became minister of a large Protestant congregation there. Isaac Dubourdieu escaped to England, and was appointed one of the ministers of the Savoy Church in London.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 22: Claude Brousson, "Apologie du Projet des Réformés."[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 23: The grandfather of this Chamier drew up for Henry IV. the celebrated Edict of Nantes. The greater number of the Chamiers left France. Several were ministers in London and Maryland, U.S. Captain Chamier is descended from the family.[Back to Main Text]